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St. John's International Airport (YYT) → Brigus

St. John's Airport (YYT) to Brigus

Drive time
1h 9m
Distance
75 km
Routes
40 · 1 · 2 · 60

Conservative model estimate, St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Brigus — 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, St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Brigus, checked 2026-09-05, re-confirmed 2026-09-06.

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This is one of the shorter routes on the site: about 75 km and 69 minutes from the airport to Brigus, on Routes 40, 1, 2 and 60. It leaves the airport on Route 40, picks up the Trans-Canada, turns off onto Route 2, and then runs the rest of the way on Route 60 — the Conception Bay Highway — through Conception Bay South and along the bay into Brigus.

Brigus is a historic town, and Hawthorne Cottage sits in it as a Parks Canada National Historic Site: the family homestead of Arctic explorer Captain Bob Bartlett. Earlier on the drive, the Manuels River Interpretation Centre in Conception Bay South is kept by a local non-profit, Manuels River Community Inc., alongside community walking trails through the river valley.

Driving route from St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Brigus: 75 km, about 1h 9m, via Routes 40 · 1 · 2 · 60.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

Faded on the map: the other measured drives from St. John's International into this same region, each its own page — Harbour Grace (1h 24m), Portugal Cove ferry terminal (15 min), Salmonier Nature Park (57 min), Heart's Content (1h 49m), Witless Bay (46 min), Cape Spear (34 min). Where a faded line leaves the solid one is where that drive forks from this one.

Worth stopping for

  1. Manuel's River Interpretation Center

    The interpretation centre stands beside the river valley in Conception Bay South, on the Conception Bay Highway stretch of this drive. Manuels River Community Inc., the non-profit that keeps the site, runs it alongside community walking trails along the river. Hours and admission are the operator's to state, so check their own site before you plan around it.

    Stopping here adds about 4 min and 1.2 km to the drive.

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  2. Cupids Legacy CentreDetour

    A museum at Cupids, twelve minutes off this drive. The centre's own page says it was built to mark the four hundredth anniversary of what it calls Canada's oldest English settlement, founded by John Guy in 1610, and that the centre itself opened in 2010. It describes a museum, a rooftop garden and a shop. It publishes no season or hours that we could read, so those are the centre's to give.

    Stopping here adds about 12 min and 7.4 km to the drive.

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  3. Hawthorne Cottage

    Hawthorne Cottage is a Parks Canada National Historic Site in Brigus itself — the family homestead of Captain Bob Bartlett, whom Parks Canada credits with commanding Arctic voyages in the twentieth century. Parks Canada's page describes rare artefacts from his expeditions, period furnishings, and the cottage's heritage gardens. It keeps a season rather than year-round hours, so the dates and passes are Parks Canada's to state, not this page's.

    Stopping here adds about 0 min and 0 km to the drive.

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What has been recorded near here

Species reported within 50 km of Brigus and shared to GBIF, the international record of species occurrences. The useful column is when — the months the reports cluster in.

  • Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in July, June, August5,138 reports on record
  • Atlantic puffinseabirdFratercula arcticaReports cluster in July, August, June4,077 reports on record
  • Humpback whalewhaleMegaptera novaeangliaeReports cluster in July, June, August3,755 reports on record
  • Minke whalewhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataReports cluster in June, July, May266 reports on record
  • Fin whalewhaleBalaenoptera physalusReports cluster in July, May, June36 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 Brigus

Doing it electric

Fast chargers on this drive
St. John’s km 17, Paradise km 18, Holyrood km 46
Longest stretch without one
29 km
Holyrood → Brigus, of 75 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Brigus
29 km
29 min by road, at Holyrood

NL Hydro lists an ultra-fast site coming in 2026 at St. John’s (km 17) — 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.

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Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
none
Mapped as paved
17%
11.5 km of 75 km driven
No surface tag on the map
83%
57.9 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 2026-09-13. 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

154 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 14.9 km — after Home of Rumors, until E&E Drive-In. That is the figure worth planning around.

  • Starbuckscafékm 0.1 · 1631 m off the road
  • Wing'N Itrestaurantkm 0.1 · 1419 m off the road
  • Mr. Subfast foodkm 0.1 · 1607 m off the road
  • Corarestaurantkm 0.1 · 1486 m off the road
  • Pita Pitfast foodkm 0.1 · 1620 m off the road
  • Parkside Pizzafast foodkm 0.1 · 1506 m off the road
  • Jade Gardensrestaurantkm 0.1 · 1899 m off the road
  • Sun Sushirestaurantkm 0.1 · 1888 m off the road
  • YellowBelly Brewery and Public Housepubkm 0.1 · 202 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 0.1
  • Newfoundland Chocolate Companycafékm 0.1 · 173 m off the road
  • Booster Juicefast foodkm 0.1 · 165 m off the road
  • Freshiirestaurantkm 0.1
  • Quesadafast foodkm 0.1 · 1497 m off the road
  • McDonald'sfast foodkm 0.1 · 1835 m off the road
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 0.1 · 1582 m off the road
  • Second Cupcafékm 0.1 · 1739 m off the road
  • Montana'srestaurantkm 0.1 · 1800 m off the road
  • Starbuckscafékm 0.1 · 1733 m off the road
  • Harvey'sfast foodkm 0.1 · 1599 m off the road
  • Milestonesrestaurantkm 0.1 · 1570 m off the road
  • KFCfast foodkm 0.1 · 1671 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 0.1 · 1882 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 0.8
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 0.8
  • The Rockrestaurantkm 0.8
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 2.6 · 1639 m off the road
  • Greco Pizzafast foodkm 2.6 · 1623 m off the road
  • Booster Juicefast foodkm 2.6 · 1644 m off the road
  • Rustler'srestaurantkm 2.6 · 1653 m off the road
  • Ches's Fish and Chipsrestaurantkm 2.6 · 1546 m off the road
  • Pizza Houserestaurantkm 2.6 · 1393 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 2.6 · 1524 m off the road
  • Mr. Subfast foodkm 2.9 · 1723 m off the road
  • Pizza Expertsfast foodkm 2.9 · 1716 m off the road
  • Wendy'sfast foodkm 2.9 · 1679 m off the road
  • Domino'sfast foodkm 2.9 · 1657 m off the road
  • Peter's Pizza Restaurant & Loungerestaurantkm 2.9 · 1712 m off the road
  • Mustang Sally'srestaurantkm 2.9 · 1662 m off the road
  • Sun Sushirestaurantkm 2.9 · 1715 m off the road
  • Old Town Pizzeriarestaurantkm 3 · 691 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 3 · 744 m off the road
  • Dairy Queenfast foodkm 3 · 775 m off the road
  • East Side Mario'srestaurantkm 3.1 · 1448 m off the road
  • Big Bite Pitafast foodkm 4.6 · 1842 m off the road
  • MajesTeacafékm 4.6 · 1829 m off the road
  • Donati'sfast foodkm 4.6 · 1949 m off the road
  • Bitterspubkm 4.7 · 1224 m off the road
  • Ziggy Peelgoodfast foodkm 4.7 · 1837 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 4.7 · 1936 m off the road
  • Pop's Dinerrestaurantkm 4.7 · 1935 m off the road
  • NJ's Kitchenrestaurantkm 4.7 · 1983 m off the road
  • Smitty'srestaurantkm 4.7 · 1935 m off the road
  • Noodle Namirestaurantkm 4.7 · 1948 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 4.7 · 1804 m off the road
  • Quintana'srestaurantkm 4.7 · 1806 m off the road
  • Big Ben's Pubpubkm 4.7 · 1818 m off the road
  • Breezewaypubkm 5 · 1246 m off the road
  • Jumping Beancafékm 5 · 1435 m off the road
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 5 · 1275 m off the road
  • Booster Juicefast foodkm 5 · 1282 m off the road
  • Manchu Wokfast foodkm 5 · 1290 m off the road
  • Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 5 · 1304 m off the road
  • Just Friesfast foodkm 5 · 1309 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 5.1 · 1539 m off the road
  • The Pantry (Autism Society Foundation Room)restaurantkm 5.2 · 764 m off the road
  • McDonald'sfast foodkm 5.3 · 1855 m off the road
  • The Guv'nor Pubpubkm 5.3 · 1851 m off the road
  • Domino'sfast foodkm 5.4 · 1922 m off the road
  • The Bigs Ultimate Sports Grillrestaurantkm 5.5 · 1892 m off the road
  • Old Town Pizzafast foodkm 5.6 · 1911 m off the road
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 5.6 · 1920 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 6.1 · 1819 m off the road
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 6.1 · 1784 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 6.1 · 1803 m off the road
  • Dairy Queenfast foodkm 6.1 · 1831 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 6.1 · 1797 m off the road
  • Mr. Souvlakifast foodkm 6.1 · 1790 m off the road
  • Peters Pizzarestaurantkm 6.1 · 1740 m off the road
  • Burger Kingfast foodkm 6.1 · 1998 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 6.9 · 1231 m off the road
  • Red Pepper Restaurantrestaurantkm 6.9 · 1894 m off the road
  • Cora'srestaurantkm 6.9 · 1961 m off the road
  • Scamper's Snack Barrestaurantkm 6.9 · 1806 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 6.9 · 1236 m off the road
  • Montana'srestaurantkm 6.9 · 1975 m off the road
  • McDonald'sfast foodkm 8.2 · 1855 m off the road
  • Dairy Queenfast foodkm 14.7 · 254 m off the road
  • Kozy Kitchenrestaurantkm 14.7
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 14.7 · 206 m off the road
  • Mr. G's Loungepubkm 14.7 · 338 m off the road
  • Ocean Sushirestaurantkm 14.7 · 331 m off the road
  • Peter's Pizzafast foodkm 14.7 · 345 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 14.7 · 285 m off the road
  • Tiny's Bar and Grillrestaurantkm 14.7 · 329 m off the road
  • McDonald'sfast foodkm 14.8 · 536 m off the road
  • Ye's Wokrestaurantkm 14.9 · 654 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 14.9 · 727 m off the road
  • Coffee Matters Paradisecafékm 15 · 726 m off the road
  • Domino'sfast foodkm 15.2 · 1097 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 15.2 · 1173 m off the road
  • Cojonesrestaurantkm 15.2 · 1069 m off the road
  • Pizza Housefast foodkm 15.3 · 1855 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 15.3 · 535 m off the road
  • Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 15.7 · 450 m off the road
  • Donovan's Irvingrestaurantkm 15.9 · 622 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 16.5 · 1700 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 16.5 · 1700 m off the road
  • Starbuckscafékm 17 · 1650 m off the road
  • Pizza Hutrestaurantkm 17 · 1781 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 17 · 1949 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 17 · 1892 m off the road
  • Costco Food Courtfast foodkm 17.1 · 1479 m off the road
  • Canteenrestaurantkm 18.3 · 1398 m off the road
  • Pür & Simplerestaurantkm 18.3 · 1935 m off the road
  • Starbuckscafékm 18.3 · 1999 m off the road
  • Burger Kingfast foodkm 18.3 · 1947 m off the road
  • Hometown Pizzeriarestaurantkm 24.6 · 936 m off the road
  • Hometown Pizzeriarestaurantkm 24.6 · 936 m off the road
  • Domino'sfast foodkm 24.8 · 865 m off the road
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 24.9 · 746 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 24.9 · 812 m off the road
  • A&Wfast foodkm 24.9 · 810 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 25 · 872 m off the road
  • Peter's Pizzarestaurantkm 25 · 748 m off the road
  • KFCfast foodkm 25 · 820 m off the road
  • Starbuckscafékm 25.1 · 763 m off the road
  • Jungle Jimsrestaurantkm 25.1 · 881 m off the road
  • McDonald'sfast foodkm 25.1 · 861 m off the road
  • Starbuckscafékm 25.1 · 770 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 25.2 · 801 m off the road
  • Dragon 88restaurantkm 25.2 · 917 m off the road
  • Bernard Stanley Gastropubrestaurantkm 30.1 · 1539 m off the road
  • Bernard Stanley Gastropubrestaurantkm 30.1 · 1540 m off the road
  • Tinys Bar and Grillfast foodkm 30.7 · 860 m off the road
  • Mary Browns Chickenfast foodkm 30.9 · 771 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 31 · 928 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 31.1 · 942 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 31.9 · 213 m off the road
  • Wing 'N' Itrestaurantkm 31.9 · 269 m off the road
  • Denvers Fine Foods Ltd.restaurantkm 32.8 · 904 m off the road
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 45.7
  • Subwayfast foodkm 45.8
  • Mama's Lunch Pizzeriarestaurantkm 46
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 46.1
  • Home of Rumorspubkm 58.4
  • E&E Drive-Infast foodkm 73.3 · 1683 m off the road
  • The Convent B&Brestaurantkm 74.4 · 172 m off the road
  • The Convent Cafe and Barcafékm 74.4 · 166 m off the road
  • Vindicator Press Incorporatedcafékm 74.4
  • The Quayrestaurantkm 74.7
  • Skipper Ben's Dining Roomrestaurantkm 74.7 · 1853 m off the road
  • North Street Cafecafékm 74.7
  • Born and Bread Bakery and Caferestaurantkm 74.7

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.

  • MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn

    The province states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is about twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is one of the shorter drives on the site, and it runs through settled parts of the Avalon rather than across the interior — but the province's figure applies here as everywhere else on the island, so mind your timing if you land after dark.

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  • Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April

    This is a short drive, and Routes 40, 1, 2 and 60 carry you almost door to door, but winter conditions on the Avalon are the province's to report, not this page's. Check them before you leave the airport.

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Arriving without a car

Every distance and time on this page is a drive. If you are not renting, here is what St. John's 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.

Rideshare: it depends who you ask.

The Airport Authority's own ground-transportation pages name City Wide Taxi as “the exclusive provider of ground transportation services for the public” and do not mention rideshare anywhere. Uber publishes pickup instructions for YYT, and the Airport's own account welcomed Uber in 2024. Both things are true and this page will not pretend they resolve: the Authority's pages are what govern the kerb, so check them on the day.

  • Taxi

    City Wide Taxi, which the Airport Authority names as the exclusive provider for the public. Cabs queue outside the Arrivals area and a dispatcher is there to help. The Authority publishes preset fares to named hotels and a meter-plus-surcharge rate everywhere else; what those are is theirs to publish and change.

    (709) 722-7777

  • Public transit

    Metrobus route 14 runs between the airport and the St. John's metro region, including Memorial University. There are two stops at the airport: one near the arrivals area, and one on World Parkway by the Holiday Inn Express. The Authority says Metrobus has committed to a wheelchair-accessible service on this route and can take large, non-folding mobility aids. Schedule and fares are Metrobus's.

St. John's 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

How far is Brigus from St. John's International Airport?＋

About 75 km and 69 minutes, on Routes 40, 1, 2 and 60 — out of the airport, a stretch of the Trans-Canada, then Route 2 and Route 60 along Conception Bay into Brigus.

Should I fly into St. John's, Gander or Deer Lake for Brigus?＋

St. John's, by a wide margin. Door to door it's about 69 minutes from St. John's, against roughly 3 hours 47 minutes from Gander and about 7 hours 35 minutes from Deer Lake. Brigus sits on the Avalon, close to St. John's, so there's no real case for routing through the other two.

Is Brigus a hard drive from the airport?＋

No — it's one of the shorter routes on this site, numbered highway for nearly all of it. The one thing worth planning around is timing if you're driving the last stretch after dark; see the moose note above.

What is there to see on the way to Brigus?＋

Hawthorne Cottage, a Parks Canada National Historic Site and the family homestead of Arctic explorer Captain Bob Bartlett, is in Brigus itself. Earlier on, the Manuels River Interpretation Centre in Conception Bay South sits beside the river valley, with the community's walking trails along it.

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Every distance, drive time and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on September 6, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/279110348 — St. John's International Airport. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/475374276 — Brigus.