Gander International Airport (YQX) → Twillingate
Gander Airport (YQX) to Twillingate
Icebergs: book late May and early June →
In season this is Fantastic: a viewing spot the province names (source).
- Distance
- 113.8 km
- Drive time
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Faded lines are other drives from Gander International into this area: Farewell ferry terminal (86 km), Comfort Cove-Newstead (91 km), Lewisporte (63 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Long Point LighthouseDetour
The headland most berg-watchers stand on: the lighthouse at Long Point, past Crow Head at the island's tip, with a historical exhibit alongside. The best lookout on a given day depends on where the ice is.
Stopping here adds 6.7 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Long Point Lighthouse ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Dildo Run Provincial Park
A ParksNL provincial park on the causeway stretch through Dildo Run, and the campground on this route closest to the archipelago. ParksNL publishes the season and sites.
Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Dildo Run Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Boyd's Cove Beothuk Interpretation CentreDetour
A provincial interpretation centre on the site of a Beothuk winter settlement, about two thirds of the way up, on a turn off the highway. It opens seasonally; confirm hours with the site before you count on it.
Stopping here adds 4.2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Boyd's Cove Beothuk Interpretation Centre ↑Other map apps
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West off Route 340 onto Route 345, out along the shore. A detour, for when you have time and there is something in the bay to see.
Stopping here adds 20.7 km to the drive.
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Drive measured Aug 27, 2026, terminal to town centre. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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113.8 km. Gander airport to Twillingate on Routes 330, 331 and 340. The road is good. People come to see the ice that drifts down the Labrador Current and grounds in the bays north of the airport.
Or go through Lewisporte. The Trans-Canada west to Notre Dame Junction, then Route 340 north: airport to Lewisporte at 63 km plus Lewisporte to Twillingate at 92 km, about 155 km. 41 km longer, but through a full-service town for fuel, food or shelter from the weather.
The ice is half the season. Between May and September what the province calls the world’s largest population of humpback whales — ten thousand of them, on its own count — moves through these waters, and Twillingate is one of the shore-viewing spots the province names. You can watch from the same headlands; the boats go closer.
When you get to Twillingate
- Staying in Twillingate? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Twillingate → — 16 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
43 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 48.4 km — after Little Caesars, until Angie's Restaurant.
All 43, in the order you pass them — open the list
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2 · 1310 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 2 · 314 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 2
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 2
- A&Wfast foodkm 2 · 1553 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 2 · 1394 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 2 · 1527 m off the road
- Mystic Roomrestaurantkm 2 · 423 m off the road
- DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 2 · 1164 m off the road
- Swiss Chaletrestaurantkm 2 · 235 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 2 · 264 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 2.2 · 204 m off the road
- Ches's Fish & Chipsrestaurantkm 2.2 · 483 m off the road
- The Shawarma Stationrestaurantkm 2.2 · 250 m off the road
- Louis Geesfast foodkm 2.2 · 712 m off the road
- Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 2.2 · 640 m off the road
- New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 2.2 · 620 m off the road
- Grecofast foodkm 2.2 · 632 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2.2 · 227 m off the road
- Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 2.3 · 583 m off the road
- Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 2.3 · 547 m off the road
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 2.3 · 595 m off the road
- East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 2.3 · 598 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 2.4
- The Newfoundland Tea Co. Restaurant & Shoprestaurantkm 2.6 · 627 m off the road
- Wing 'n Itrestaurantkm 2.7 · 312 m off the road
- Rosie's Restaurant & Bakeryrestaurantkm 2.7 · 779 m off the road
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 2.8
- Angie's Restaurantrestaurantkm 51.2
- Greco Pizzarestaurantkm 86.4
- Doyle Sansome & Sons Lobster Poolrestaurantkm 97.5 · 614 m off the road
- The Orchid Cafecafékm 110.2
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 112.6
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 113
- Twillingate-NWI Dinner Theatrerestaurantkm 113.2 · 460 m off the road
- D&T Restaurantrestaurantkm 113.2 · 162 m off the road
- Annie'srestaurantkm 113.3 · 704 m off the road
- R&J Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 113.3 · 463 m off the road
- Canvas Cove Bistrorestaurantkm 113.3 · 443 m off the road
- Golden Restaurantrestaurantkm 113.3 · 271 m off the road
- Blue Barrel Cafecafékm 113.3 · 1231 m off the road
- Pier 39restaurantkm 113.3 · 608 m off the road
- Tasty Thai & Pizzarestaurantkm 113.3 · 543 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-09-12. How we measure · Add a missing place
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Places to stay
Every place to stay OpenStreetMap records near Twillingate, with the drive from Gander International Airport (YQX). Not ranked or rated.
- Alphabet Fleet Innguest house113 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Home in Twillingateguest house116 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Anchor Inn Hotel & Suiteshotel116 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - North 99motel116 kmDirections →
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If a place is missing, it's missing from the map, not left out by us. The map above can also carry your pin on your own site.
Know a place to stay that's missing?
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Want directions on your own booking page? That's a separate, private service and never appears here. How it works
A listing shows the name, the type of place and the measured drive from the airport. There are no stars, prices, descriptions or booking links.
Icebergs recorded here, not at 48°N
The odds on this site come from the count of bergs crossing 48°N, out in the shipping lanes. These are the ones the same patrol recorded near Twillingate itself, across 19 seasons (2002–2021), counted as distinct icebergs rather than sightings.
At least one was recorded within 50 km in 19 of those 19 seasons. The middling season brought 57; the heaviest, 242 in 2011. Widen to 100 km and the middling season is 173.
This is not what you would see from the shore. It is where a patrol whose job is shipping recorded ice, so where they looked shapes it, and a berg 50 km out to sea is not a berg in the harbour. The record runs to 2021 and stops there. From the International Ice Patrol Iceberg Sightings Database (NSIDC G00807), built 2026-10-07.
What has been recorded near here
Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Twillingate, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in June, July, October206 reports on record
- Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, August, June47 reports on record
- Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in October, July, August26 reports on record
Reports, not counts: busy harbours report more. No sighting is promised, and the list covers only the species we look up. Source: GBIF, the international record of wildlife sightings, checked 2026-10-07.
Short drives from Twillingate
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- Minty's Farm Trailtrail · 4.6 km walk · easy2.3 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Back Bay Trailtrail · 3.6 km out and back · easy3 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Codjacks Cove Trailtrail · 3.2 km walk · easy4.1 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Lower Little Harbour Trailtrail · 2.4 km loop · easy4.6 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Purcell's Harbour to Little Harbour Trailtrail · 4.6 km walk · moderate6.2 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Black Rock Trail (Twillingate)trail · 1.1 km loop · easy6.9 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Prime Berth Fishing Museumstop8.2 km
A fishing heritage site on the water just out of Twillingate, on the road.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Farewell ferry terminaltown68 kmDirections →
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Distances by road, measured on OpenStreetMap October 16, 2026, from where this route ends. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 2
- Longest stretch without one
- 112 km
- Gander → Twillingate, of 114 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Twillingate
- 89 km
- by road, at Lewisporte
No fast charger at Twillingate. From Gander it is 112 km there and the same back: plan on about 224 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Lewisporte, 89 km from Twillingate by road, off this drive's own road.
Doing Fogo Island too? It is its own round trip, about 168 km from Gander. Charge at Gander between the two days; neither Twillingate nor Fogo Island has a fast charger. Fogo Island, doing it electric →
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-10): Gander (km 2). Not counted until it opens.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-10. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 38%
- 39.6 km of 113.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 62%
- 65.2 km: surface not recorded
Why it matters: Hertz Canada’s terms say “use off paved roads or on roads which are not regularly maintained” voids the damage waiver. Check your own agreement. 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. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
IcebergsTypically late spring into early summer
Iceberg presence varies year to year and week to week. Check current sightings before you drive; do not plan around a date.
Check it now →Boyd's Cove Beothuk Interpretation CentreSeasonal — the operator publishes the dates
The only stop on this drive with opening hours to check. The provincial historic sites service publishes the current season.
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. Almost all of this drive is unlit two-lane road through Gander Bay, and people often drive it back in the evening after a boat tour.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Routes 330 and 340 are two-lane highway with long unserviced stretches. Check conditions before leaving the airport in winter.
Check it now →
Onward from Twillingate
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
Renting a car? Book the car when you book the flight.
Summer rentals sell out, says NL Tourism, and in June 2026 CTV reported St. John's airport agencies booked for nearly all of summer.
Both read 2026-10-07.
Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who Gander International Airport Authority lists at the door. Fares change, so we link to them instead.
No rideshare here.
The Airport Authority's transport page lists no rideshare service (checked 2026-09-15).
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 the island's one scheduled coach, once a day each way, between St. John's and the Marine Atlantic terminal at Port aux Basques. It stops at Gander Airport itself (the restaurant), and at Lewisporte, Grand Falls-Windsor, Deer Lake and Corner Brook among others. It reaches no island and no national park. Tickets are bought on the bus, cash only. The Airport Authority says a wheelchair-accessible bus needs 48 hours' notice. Times and fares are DRL's: drl-lr.com.
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.
Source: Gander International Airport Authority,2026-09-15. Check there for fares and times.
The drive back
Measured the other way, Twillingate back to Gander is the same distance: 114 km.
Plan back from your check-in time. Give the planner your flight time and it tells you when to set off.
How early to arrive depends on the carrier and the season: check Gander International Airport →
Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions people actually ask
How far is the drive from Gander Airport to Twillingate?＋
113.8 km from the airport terminal to Twillingate town centre. Add time for Boyd's Cove, for winter, and for the views of the bay.
What route do I take from YQX to Twillingate?＋
Leave the airport onto Route 330 north, follow it along Gander Bay, then take Route 331 west and Route 340 north across the causeways onto the Twillingate islands. No ferries. Route 330 carries on north toward the Straight Shore if you stay on it, so watch for the turn onto 331.
Do I need a rental car?＋
Plan on one. This is 114 km of rural two-lane highway, and public transport is sparse and seasonal at best. Arrange a car or a confirmed transfer before you fly; do not trust the transit options booking sites list for this pair.
Can I see icebergs from Twillingate?＋
Twillingate sits on Iceberg Alley and is one of the most reliable land-based viewing points in Newfoundland, but there is no date you can book against. Check Iceberg Finder for live sightings before you drive.
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