Gander International Airport (YQX) → Trinity
Gander Airport (YQX) to Trinity
- Drive time
- 2h 50m
- Distance
- 200.3 km
Conservative model estimate, Gander International Airport (YQX) to Trinity — no stops, dry roads. Many of Newfoundland's provincial routes carry no speed limit in the open map data, so the router assumes a slow default: a driver who knows the road will beat this. Source: OSRM driving profile, terminal door to town, checked 2026-09-04.
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The terminal side — parking, arrivals, ground transport — is the airport's own information: Gander International Airport →
Trinity is the town every guidebook agrees on, which is exactly why this page keeps to what it can certify: 200.3 measured kilometres from the YQX door, three mapped stops inside a streetscape where the whole town is effectively the exhibit, and the honest geometry that pairs it with Cape Bonavista — Trinity’s turnoff first, the lighthouse fifty minutes on, one full day, one peninsula.
The stops stay in their lanes: the museum captions the town, the Green Family Forge still rings on working days, Fort Point hands you the whole waterfront in one look, and the Rising Tide’s summer stage is its own institution with its own calendar. The drive ends the way few do — the 239 comes off the ridge and Trinity is suddenly below you, whole. Slow down for that.
Faded on the map: the other measured drives from Gander International into this same region, each its own page — Salvage (1h 21m), Cape Bonavista Lighthouse (3h 45m), Terra Nova National Park Visitor Centre (1h 3m), Burnside ferry terminal (1h 19m). Where a faded line leaves the solid one is where that drive forks from this one.
Worth stopping for
Trinity Museum
The town's own museum, steps from everything — in a place where every second building is a heritage structure, this is where the story gets its captions. Hours are the museum's.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeGreen Family Forge
A working blacksmith museum in the forge the Green family ran for generations — mapped, walkable, and the rare heritage stop that smells like its subject.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeFort Point viewpointDetour
The mapped bench at Fort Point, across the harbour mouth — the view back at Trinity's whole waterfront at once, and the old gun battery's ground beneath you.
Stopping here adds about 9 min and 3.8 km to the drive.
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What has been recorded near here
Species reported within 50 km of Trinity and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.
- Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, August, June2,466 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June1,358 reports on record
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in August, July, June1,137 reports on record
- Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in June, May, August636 reports on record
- Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in June, July, August198 reports on record
What this is not
- Not how many there are. A report means somebody looked, saw and wrote it down. A busy harbour with tour boats reports more than an empty coast with the same animals in it.
- Not a sighting you are promised. Nothing here says you will see one.
- Not complete. Only species we ask GBIF about appear, and only where somebody reported them.
From GBIF, queried 2026-09-14 — their record, not a copy of it.
When you get to Trinity
- Where to eat in Trinity → — 11 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 3, Glowertown km 68, Port Blandford km 116, Port Rexton km 196
- Longest stretch without one
- 80 km
- Port Blandford → Port Rexton, of 200 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Trinity
- 8.7 km
- 10 min by road, at Port Rexton
NL Hydro lists an ultra-fast site coming in 2026 at Gander (km 2) — not counted above until it opens.
Source: NL Hydro's published fast-charging network map, exported 2026-09-13 — sites within 3 km of this route's measured line, the km read along it, the drive to the nearest site priced by OSRM. NL Hydro lists these as 62.5 kW DC with CCS and CHAdeMO plugs on a ChargePoint account; whether one is free or working right now is the app's to say. Level 2 chargers in towns are not counted.
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 49%
- 86.2 km of 200.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 51%
- 90.6 km the map does not describe either way
Why it matters: Hertz Canada’s published rental terms — the one set of Canadian rental terms we could read in full, quoted not recommended — list “use off paved roads or on roads which are not regularly maintained” as misconduct that voids the damage waiver. Read the agreement you sign before leaving the lot. The terms themselves. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-09-06. A road with no tag is unknown, not paved; what any road is like today is on 511.
Eating on the way — measured, not recommended
39 places to eat that the open map data records within 2 km of this drive, in the order you would pass them. No stars, no prices, no opinions, and no opening hours — distance along the road is the one thing measured here that a directory cannot give you.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 39.4 km — after Dunrovin, until The Galley. That is the figure worth planning around.
- The Newfoundland Tea Co. Restaurant & Shoprestaurantkm 1.8 · 782 m off the road
- Rosie's Restaurant & Bakeryrestaurantkm 1.8 · 898 m off the road
- Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 2 · 661 m off the road
- Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 2 · 619 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 2 · 248 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 2
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 2
- Ches's Fish & Chipsrestaurantkm 2 · 518 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 2 · 1553 m off the road
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 2 · 894 m off the road
- Wing 'n Itrestaurantkm 2 · 704 m off the road
- The Shawarma Stationrestaurantkm 2 · 349 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2 · 418 m off the road
- Louis Geesfast foodkm 2 · 743 m off the road
- Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 2 · 676 m off the road
- New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 2 · 668 m off the road
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 2 · 664 m off the road
- East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 2 · 665 m off the road
- Grecofast foodkm 2 · 672 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2 · 290 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 2.1 · 1526 m off the road
- Mystic Roomrestaurantkm 2.1 · 417 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 2.2 · 276 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 2.2 · 1377 m off the road
- Swiss Chaletrestaurantkm 2.2
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 2.2
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2.4 · 1265 m off the road
- DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 2.5 · 1054 m off the road
- Copper Kettle Restaurantrestaurantkm 31.9
- Family Pizzarestaurantkm 38.7 · 1870 m off the road
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 68.3
- Happy Adventure Cafecafékm 76.4 · 1229 m off the road
- Snack shack.fast foodkm 115 · 624 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 153.7 · 152 m off the road
- Dunrovinrestaurantkm 155 · 173 m off the road
- The Galleyrestaurantkm 194.4 · 1918 m off the road
- Twine Loft Diningrestaurantkm 199.3
- The Vintage Grindcafékm 199.3
- Dock Marina restaurantrestaurantkm 199.6 · 289 m off the road
What this list is not
- Not a recommendation. Nothing here is endorsed, reviewed or rated. It is in the order you drive past it.
- Not complete. Somewhere unmapped does not appear. This is never "all of them".
- Not open hours. We publish none, because the open data holds none. Never assume a kitchen is serving.
- Not necessarily still trading. A place that closed stays in the data until somebody removes it.
- Not for sale. No one can pay to appear here, to rank higher, or to have a rival removed.
Open map data is incomplete — somewhere unmapped does not appear here, and this is never "all of them" or "the good ones". A place that closed is also still on the map until somebody removes it, which is why no hours are shown and nothing here says a kitchen is open. From OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps (which includes data from Meta, Foursquare and AllThePlaces); swept 2026-09-12. Map the one that is missing → and every site built on the open map gains it, this one included.
Before you go
These change. We link the people who keep them current rather than copying numbers that go stale here.
WhalesMay–September, the province's stated window
Trinity is one of the twelve shore spots the province itself names for whale watching — Fort Point's bench is the obvious seat. The window is theirs; the sea keeps its own schedule.
Check it now →Theatre seasonSummer — the company's calendar, not ours
Trinity is also a stage: the Rising Tide Theatre's season, pageant and schedule are the company's own to announce, and they are mapped in OpenStreetMap a minute's walk from the museum.
Check it now →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states that the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Route 230's long middle is exactly that road.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The peninsula takes weather from two bays; check before the drive back especially.
Check it now →
Arriving without a car
Every distance and time on this page is a drive. If you are not renting, here is what Gander International Airport Authority lists at this door — operators and numbers, not fares: a tariff is theirs to change, so it is linked and not copied.
No rideshare here.
No rideshare service is named anywhere on the Airport Authority's transport page. That is an absence read off the page on 2026-09-15, not an assumption — but it is the Authority's page, not a licensing register, so it says what the airport lists rather than what is legal.
Taxi
Busy Bee Cabs, which the Airport Authority says runs a 24-hour service available curbside in the Domestic Arrivals area.
Coach
DRL Coachlines runs a scheduled coach service across Newfoundland. The Airport Authority says a wheelchair-accessible bus needs 48 hours' notice.
Limousine
Nobel Limousines, listed by the Airport Authority.
Avis, Budget, National and Enterprise are listed at the airport. The Authority says accessible vehicles with wheelchair accommodation or hand controls are limited and need 48 hours' notice.
Gander International Airport Authority, read 2026-09-15 — the authority on what operates at this kerb, and the only place a current fare or timetable should come from.
Questions people actually ask
Should I fly into Gander or Deer Lake for Trinity?＋
Gander: about 2h50 against 6h38 from Deer Lake. St. John's is closer still — but from central Newfoundland's doors, this page is the measured answer.
Trinity or Bonavista — or both?＋
Both, and the road agrees: Trinity's turnoff comes first on Route 230, the cape is 50 minutes further on, and together they make the peninsula a full measured day from the YQX door. The Bonavista page carries the lighthouse leg.
What is Trinity actually like?＋
The best-kept streetscape of saltbox houses, churches and merchant premises on the island, walked in an hour, photographed for three. What's open, staged or served in any given week belongs to the town's own operators — the map and the drive are what this page certifies.
What is the drive actually like?＋
The same Route 230 spine as the Bonavista drive for most of its length, then the 239 drops off the ridge into Trinity Bight and the town appears below you all at once — the arrival is genuinely part of the attraction.
Put this map on your site
If you run a place to stay, a tour, or a town page along this drive, this map answers the question your guests already email you: how far are you from the airport? Free, no account, and the measured figures stay current because they are ours to maintain.
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