Gander International Airport (YQX) → White Hills Resort
Gander Airport (YQX) to White Hills
- Distance
- 148 km
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Places to stay in Clarenville
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Stop 1: Joey's Lookout
A viewpoint above Gambo, on the driven line, early in the drive from Gander. A two-minute stop for the bay below.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout ↑Other map apps
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A pond-side stop beside the Trans-Canada that OpenStreetMap still carries under its old park name. The province no longer lists it. The pond is still there for a leg-stretch.
Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.
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Scan with your phone to open this page there. Then tap Keep for offline before you lose signal.
⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
- Route 330 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 42 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 70% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 9, 2026, terminal to the resort. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Download GPX (offline, Garmin)Airport info: Gander International Airport →
148 km. Gander airport down the Trans-Canada, the last of it climbing away from Clarenville to the hill. Gander is the nearer airport, by 50 km over St. John’s.
Check before you drive. Whether the hill is turning depends on snow and on the resort’s call. Its link is above.
When you get to White Hills Resort
- Where to eat near White Hills Resort → 29 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at White Hills Resort, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:16 am | 7:51 am | 4:38 pm | 5:13 pm |
| Feb | 6:41 am | 7:13 am | 5:26 pm | 5:59 pm |
| Mar | 6:49 am | 7:20 am | 7:10 pm | 7:41 pm |
| Apr | 5:44 am | 6:17 am | 7:55 pm | 8:28 pm |
| May | 4:49 am | 5:27 am | 8:37 pm | 9:14 pm |
| Jun | 4:23 am | 5:04 am | 9:07 pm | 9:49 pm |
| Jul | 4:41 am | 5:21 am | 9:02 pm | 9:42 pm |
| Aug | 5:25 am | 6:00 am | 8:21 pm | 8:56 pm |
| Sep | 6:10 am | 6:42 am | 7:20 pm | 7:51 pm |
| Oct | 6:53 am | 7:24 am | 6:18 pm | 6:50 pm |
| Nov | 6:38 am | 7:12 am | 4:29 pm | 5:03 pm |
| Dec | 7:13 am | 7:50 am | 4:12 pm | 4:49 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. First and last light are when the sun is 6° below the horizon: light enough to see and shoot by. The weather line at the top has today's.
Places to eat on the way
Near either end, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat in Gander → · where to eat near White Hills Resort →
5 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 38.6 km, after Happy Adventure Cafe.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- 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
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, read 2026-09-12 (how we measure). Missing one? Add it to the map or email us the details.
Short drives from White Hills Resort
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- Clarenvilletown8.8 km
- Shoal Harbour Trailtrail · 2.3 km loop · easy9.6 km
- Swift Currentstop58 km
The first community down Route 210, long a favourite for sport fishing, per the province's tourism site.
- Arnold's Covestop59 km
A side trip for the Drake Heritage House.
- Coastal Trail (Terra Nova)trail · 8.4 km out and back · moderate73 km
- Mount Stamford Look-off Trailtrail · 2.2 km out and back · easy73 km
- Goowiddy Pathtrail · 8 km loop · moderate73 km
- Louil Hill Trailtrail · 3.7 km loop · easy80 km
More, up to 84 km (4)
- Chance Cove Coastal Trailstop81 km
A trail through the forest to the far end of Chance Cove Beach, then uphill along the coast to hidden sandy beaches, lookouts and sea caves, per the province's tourism site.
- Mill Cove Lookout Trailtrail · 1.6 km out and back · easy81 km
- Bellevue Beachstop83 km
A sandy beach on Route 201, in what the province's tourism site calls a popular summer cottage area.
- Malady Head Trailtrail · 3.8 km out and back · easy84 km
Distances by road from White Hills Resort, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Gander km 3, Glovertown km 68, Port Blandford km 116
- Longest stretch without one
- 65 km
- Gander → Glovertown, of 148 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to White Hills Resort
- 32.2 km
- by road, at Port Blandford
The chargers
Gander km 3 of the drive, 1 km off it
Orangestore 100 Trans-Canada Highway
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeGlovertown km 68 of the drive
Splash N Putt Resort Traytown, NL A0G 4K0
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazePort Blandford km 116 of the drive
Rudy’s Restaurant & Gas Bar 42 Blackmore’s Road
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
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Charging: about 100 km of range every 15 minutes, and most EVs to 80% in less than an hour. You start it with a free ChargePoint account, with the ChargePoint app or card. NL Hydro, read November 1, 2026.
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, October 22, 2026): Gander, a second site in the same town (km 2; CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · ultra-fast, up to 175 kW to one car, 350 kW where a site has two or more chargers). Not counted until it opens.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported October 22, 2026. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 68% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 32%
- 44.1 km of 148 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 68%
- 92.2 km: surface not recorded
In a rental car: 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. Hertz’s terms ↗. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-09-09. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
Ski seasonWinter; the resort sets its own dates, and they move with the snow
White Hills is a community-owned, not-for-profit resort. It publishes its opening, what runs, ticket prices and whether the hill is turning. In January 2026 it delayed opening to the 23rd because the snow had not come.
whitehillsresort.com →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. A ski day ends in the dark for most of the season, and the drive back is 148 km of Trans-Canada.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
A drive to a ski hill is the one most likely to be closed. Check in both directions; the weather at Gander is not the weather at Clarenville.
511nl.ca →
Renting a car? Book the car when you book the flight.
Summer rentals sell out, says NL Tourism, and in June 2026 BNN Bloomberg reported St. John's airport agencies booked for nearly all of summer.
Both checked October 7, 2026.
Rental counters at Gander, with numbers →Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who Gander International Airport Authority lists at the terminal.
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, White Hills Resort back to Gander is the same distance: 148 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
How far is White Hills from Gander?＋
148 km, terminal to the resort, on the OSRM driving profile. In winter, check the road conditions link above.
Is Gander really closer than St. John's?＋
Yes, by 50 km: 148 km from Gander against 198 km from St. John's, both measured to the resort on the same profile. Deer Lake is 451 km and not a sensible start for this. The resort calls itself the closest ski and snowboard resort to St. John's. That is also true: it is the nearest hill to the city, and Gander is still the nearer airport.
Is the hill open?＋
Not in summer. The resort announces its winter dates, and its opening moves with the snow. Check its page, linked above.
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