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St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Lewisporte

Distance
394.7 km
Roads
Route 40Route 1Route 340Route 341
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Downtown Lewisporte from above, the main street and the waterfront along Burnt Bay.
Downtown Lewisporte from above, the main street and the waterfront along Burnt Bay.Photo: Shhewitt · source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Places to stay in Lewisporte

From Best Kind Stays. Both sites are run by the same people. Listing is free and nothing paid changes the order.

  • Islands' Villa ↗Eight suites on the water in Lewisporte, six with full kitchens.Books on its own site

Every place to stay in Lewisporte on Best Kind Stays →

Driving route from St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Lewisporte: 394.7 km by road, via Routes 40 · 1 · 340 · 341.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line measured along OpenStreetMap's roads.

  1. Stop 1: Joey's Lookout

    A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada, about three-quarters of the way along and effectively on the road. OpenStreetMap records only the name and that it is a viewpoint. It is easy to miss at highway speed.

    Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Joey's Lookout ↑

  2. Stop 2: Silent Witnesses MemorialDetour

    A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, near the far end of this drive, unveiled in 1990 for the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of 12 December 1985. An American soldier stands atop a rock holding the hands of a civilian boy and girl, each child carrying an olive branch for the Screaming Eagles' peacekeeping mission in the Sinai; they were going home for Christmas. The trio look toward Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where a similar statue looks back.

    Stopping here adds 2.4 km to the drive.

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  3. Stop 3: North Atlantic Aviation Museum

    An aviation museum in Gander, late in this drive. Gander exists because of transatlantic flight, and this is where that story is kept. The town's own airport is right here, and the rest of the drive from it is about 60 km. Check current hours with the museum.

    Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.

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  4. Stop 4: Notre Dame Provincial ParkDetour

    A ParksNL operating park close enough to Lewisporte to be a stop at the end rather than a break in the middle. ParksNL publishes its season.

    Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.

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  5. Stop 5: Lewisporte Train Park

    The town's park on Main Street, with four preserved railway cars on a short length of the old narrow-gauge line. The Lewisporte Multiuse Trail runs beside it.

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⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
  • Route 40 →Whole road: 6 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 5.7 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 28% 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.
  • Route 340 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 44 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 88% has no surface tag, so unknown.
  • Route 341 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 24 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Campground 17 km from the end →

Drive measured Sep 17, 2026, St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Lewisporte, checked 2026-09-17, re-. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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394.7 km. St. John’s airport to Lewisporte: Route 40 out of the city, the Trans-Canada past Clarenville, through Terra Nova and Gander, then north on Routes 340 and 341 to the water.

Know this first. The same town is 63 km from the Gander terminal, and this drive passes through Gander about four-fifths of the way along. It suits a trip that starts on the Avalon and works west afterward.

When you get to Lewisporte

Sunrise and sunset at Lewisporte, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:23 am7:59 am4:38 pm5:14 pm
Feb6:47 am7:20 am5:28 pm6:01 pm
Mar6:53 am7:25 am7:14 pm7:46 pm
Apr5:45 am6:19 am8:01 pm8:34 pm
May4:48 am5:27 am8:45 pm9:23 pm
Jun4:20 am5:03 am9:16 pm9:59 pm
Jul4:39 am5:20 am9:11 pm9:52 pm
Aug5:26 am6:01 am8:28 pm9:03 pm
Sep6:13 am6:45 am7:25 pm7:57 pm
Oct6:57 am7:29 am6:21 pm6:53 pm
Nov6:45 am7:20 am4:29 pm5:04 pm
Dec7:21 am7:58 am4:12 pm4:49 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.

Short drives from Lewisporte

A day out from LewisporteTwillingate, down the Road to the Isles 92 km each wayOn the way: Loon Bay (25 km), Boyd's Cove Beothuk Interpretation Centre (53 km), Summerford Lookout (65 km), Dildo Run Provincial Park (69 km).Loon Bay is a drive along the ocean.Comfort Cove-Newstead is a turn off the road, about 35 km more there and back.Or the other way: Botwood, 59 km, where the transatlantic flying boats landed.Picked by someone from here, November 1, 2026. Distances by road from Lewisporte.Directions from where your phone is now:
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Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Lewisporte. Each one's page has directions.

More, up to 69 km (8)

Distances by road from Lewisporte, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

Doing it electric

Fast chargers on this drive
Paradise km 16, St. John’s km 17, Goobies km 162, Port Blandford km 221, Glovertown km 268, Gander km 334, Lewisporte km 391
Longest stretch without one
145 km
St. John’s → Goobies, of 394 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Lewisporte
at Lewisporte

The chargers

  • Paradise km 16 of the drive, 1.9 km off it

    Paradise Town Hall 28 McNamara Dr, Paradise, NL A1L 1Y5

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • St. John’s km 17 of the drive, 1.8 km off it

    The Shoppes at Galway 42 Danny Drive, St. John’s

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Goobies km 162 of the drive

    Irving Oil 162 Trans Canada

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Port Blandford km 221 of the drive

    Rudy’s Restaurant & Gas Bar 42 Blackmore’s Road

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Glovertown km 268 of the drive

    Splash N Putt Resort Traytown, NL A0G 4K0

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Gander km 334 of the drive

    Orangestore 100 Trans-Canada Highway

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Lewisporte km 391 of the drive

    Brittany Inns Hotel 373 Main St, Lewisporte, NL A0G 3A0

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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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): St. John’s, a second site in the same town (km 17; CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · ultra-fast, up to 175 kW to one car, 350 kW where a site has two or more chargers) and Whitbourne (km 89; CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · ultra-fast, up to 175 kW to one car, 350 kW where a site has two or more chargers) and Clarenville (km 188; CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · ultra-fast, up to 175 kW to one car, 350 kW where a site has two or more chargers) and Gander, a second site in the same town (km 334; 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

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Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
none
Not proof it is all paved: 72% has no surface tag.
Mapped as paved
28%
95.5 km of 394.7 km driven
No surface tag on the map
72%
250.9 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 from a local Geofabrik extract (Overpass unreachable), checked 2026-09-21. Today's road conditions: 511.

Before you go

These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.

  • Provincial parksSeasonal — typically late spring into the fall

    Notre Dame is an operating provincial park with dates that move year to year; ParksNL publishes them park by park.

    gov.nl.ca →

  • MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn

    The province says the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is 395 km of mostly unlit two-lane highway, so an afternoon landing can finish in the dark in any season.

    gov.nl.ca →

  • Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April

    Most of this is the Trans-Canada, paved and well travelled. But it crosses 395 km of open country with real winter weather, and conditions at one end say little about the other. Check before leaving the airport.

    511nl.ca →

Onward from Lewisporte

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 BNN Bloomberg reported St. John's airport agencies booked for nearly all of summer.

Both checked October 7, 2026.

Rental counters at St. John's, with numbers →

Arriving without a car

Not renting? Here's who St. John's International Airport Authority lists at the terminal.

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 are true. The Authority's pages 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.

    (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.

Source: St. John's International Airport Authority,2026-09-15. Check there for fares and times.

The drive back

Lewisporte back to St. John's measures 396 km — 1.6 km longer than the drive out.

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 St. John's International Airport →

Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure

Questions

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

About 395 km. Route 40 takes you out of St. John's to the Trans-Canada Highway (Route 1), which carries most of the drive, and Routes 340 and 341 bring you the last of the way into Lewisporte.

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

Gander, by far. Lewisporte is 63 km from the Gander terminal, against 395 km from St. John's and 276 km from Deer Lake. Fly into St. John's for Lewisporte only if you are starting on the Avalon Peninsula anyway and working your way west.

Is the drive from St. John's to Lewisporte a hard one?＋

Not difficult, but long. It is paved the whole way and mostly Trans-Canada. The length is the problem, and finishing in the dark: see the moose note above.

Is there anywhere worth stopping on the way?＋

Four places, and three of them come in the last stretch near Gander: Joey's Lookout on the Trans-Canada, the Silent Witnesses Memorial outside Gander, the North Atlantic Aviation Museum in the town itself, and Notre Dame Provincial Park near the end.

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Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on September 21, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/279110348 — St. John's International Airport. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/107362425 — Lewisporte. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms