St. John's International Airport (YYT) → Lewisporte
St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Lewisporte
- Drive time
- 5h 8m
- Distance
- 394.7 km
Conservative model estimate, St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Lewisporte — 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 Lewisporte, checked 2026-09-17, re-checked 2026-09-21.
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Route 40 takes you off the airport and out of the city, and the Trans-Canada takes almost everything after that. The first part is metro, then barrens and highway across the neck of land that carries the road off the Avalon Peninsula. From there it is the spine of the island: past Clarenville, through Terra Nova, on to Gander. Only at the very end does the road turn north off the Trans-Canada, onto Routes 340 and 341, and run down to the water at Lewisporte.
The honest thing to say about this drive is that it is the wrong door. The same town is 53 minutes from the Gander terminal, and this page exists so that gap is a measured number rather than an impression — five hours and eight minutes, against fifty-three. The drive itself makes the argument better than the arithmetic does: about four-fifths of the way along you pass through Gander, and everything after that is the drive you could have started with. What makes the page worth having is the trip that begins on the Avalon and works west afterward, where St. John’s was always the right place to land.
Worth stopping for
Joey's Lookout
A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada, about three-quarters of the way along and effectively on the road. OpenStreetMap records the name and the fact that it is a viewpoint, and nothing else — it is easy to miss at highway speed.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeSilent Witnesses MemorialDetour
A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, near the far end of this drive. The province's own tourism listing calls it a tranquil park, unveiled in 1990, dedicated to the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of December 12, 1985. It describes an American soldier standing atop a massive rock holding the hands of a civilian boy and girl, each child holding an olive branch for the peacekeeping mission of the Screaming Eagles in the Sinai, who were going home for Christmas; the trio look to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where a similar statue looks back. That listing also carries a season for the site — those dates are the province's to state, not this page's.
Stopping here adds about 8 min and 2.4 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeNorth Atlantic Aviation Museum
An aviation museum in Gander, and on this drive it arrives late rather than early. Gander exists because of transatlantic flight, and this is where that story is kept. It is also the moment this route makes its own argument better than any sentence can: the airport whose runway built the town is right here, and the rest of the drive from it is under an hour. Check current hours with the museum.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to the drive.
navigate: Organic · OsmAnd · Apple · Google · WazeNotre 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 about 5 min and 2 km to the drive.
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When you get to Lewisporte
- Where to eat in Lewisporte → — 12 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Mike Austin Arena → — the venue here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Paradise km 16, St. John’s km 17, Goobies km 162, Port Blandford km 221, Glowertown 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
NL Hydro lists an ultra-fast site coming in 2026 at St. John’s (km 17) and Whitbourne (km 89) and Clarenville (km 188) and Gander (km 334) — 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
- 28%
- 95.5 km of 394.7 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 72%
- 250.9 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 from a local Geofabrik extract (Overpass unreachable), checked 2026-09-21. A road with no tag is unknown, not paved; what any road is like today is on 511.
Before you go
These change. We link the people who keep them current rather than copying numbers that go stale here.
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.
Check it now →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states it plainly: the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is five hours of driving and almost all of it is unlit two-lane highway, which means an afternoon landing can easily finish in the dark whatever the season.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Most of this is the Trans-Canada, the main road across the island, so it is paved and well travelled — but five hours of it crosses open country that gets real winter weather, and conditions at one end say little about the other. Check before leaving the airport.
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Onward from Lewisporte
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
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.
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 Lewisporte from St. John's Airport?＋
About 395 km — roughly 5 hours 8 minutes. 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, and it is not close. Lewisporte is 53 minutes from the Gander terminal door, against 5 hours 8 minutes from St. John's and 3 hours 33 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 it is long. It is paved the whole way and the Trans-Canada carries most of it, so the road is never the problem — five hours in one sitting is. The thing worth planning around is 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. On a drive this length the stops matter more than they would on a short one.
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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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