St. John's Airport (YYT) to Salmonier Nature Park
- Distance
- 68.1 km
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Stop 1: Father Duffy's Well
A roadside spring right on the route, named for Father James Duffy, appointed first parish priest of St. Mary's in 1834, who spent the years after walking back and forth to the courthouse in St. John's over a dispute with the local merchant's agent. The legend, as Product of Newfoundland tells it, is that on one of those walks he tapped a rock with a branch and water rose from dry ground. It has run ever since. The Knights of Columbus made it a roadside grotto in the 1930s.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Father Duffy's Well ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Butter Pot Provincial ParkDetour
The drive runs along this park's boundary, but the park reaches well inland. ParksNL calls Butter Pot one of the most popular provincial parks in Newfoundland and Labrador. Its page lists ponds to swim, fish and paddle, sandy beaches, a campground, trails, and a view over the water from the top of Butter Pot Hill. A place to spend time, not a quick stop.
Stopping here adds 6.3 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 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 90 →Whole road: 4 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 34 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 55% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 5, 2026, St. John's International Airport (YYT) to Salmonier Nature Park. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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68.1 km. St. John’s airport on Route 40 and the Trans-Canada, then south on Route 90, the Salmonier Line, on paved road. Father Duffy’s Well, the one heritage stop, sits right on it.
Why people come. A boardwalk trail past large natural enclosures, most of the animals having arrived injured and unreleasable. The park says it cannot promise every animal will be visible on a given visit. Butter Pot Provincial Park, back along the Trans-Canada, makes it a longer day.
When you get to Salmonier Nature Park
- Where to eat near Salmonier Nature Park → 1 place, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Salmonier Nature Park, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:10 am | 7:45 am | 4:38 pm | 5:13 pm |
| Feb | 6:37 am | 7:09 am | 5:25 pm | 5:57 pm |
| Mar | 6:46 am | 7:17 am | 7:07 pm | 7:38 pm |
| Apr | 5:43 am | 6:15 am | 7:50 pm | 8:22 pm |
| May | 4:50 am | 5:27 am | 8:31 pm | 9:07 pm |
| Jun | 4:25 am | 5:05 am | 9:00 pm | 9:40 pm |
| Jul | 4:43 am | 5:21 am | 8:56 pm | 9:34 pm |
| Aug | 5:25 am | 5:59 am | 8:16 pm | 8:50 pm |
| Sep | 6:08 am | 6:39 am | 7:16 pm | 7:47 pm |
| Oct | 6:49 am | 7:20 am | 6:16 pm | 6:47 pm |
| Nov | 6:33 am | 7:07 am | 4:29 pm | 5:02 pm |
| Dec | 7:07 am | 7:43 am | 4:13 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 the start, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat in St. John's →
57 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 50.6 km, after Costco Food Court.
Show all 57
- 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
- Canteenrestaurantkm 16.9 · 1756 m off the road
- Starbuckscafékm 17.1 · 1642 m off the road
- Pizza Hutrestaurantkm 17.1 · 1773 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 17.1 · 1941 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 17.1 · 1885 m off the road
- Costco Food Courtfast foodkm 17.2 · 1456 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.
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Places to stay on this site come from Best Kind Stays, run by the same people: places that book with their owner, never a booking platform. Listing is free and nothing paid changes the order.
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Access, as its own page says: Step-free: The 3 km boardwalk trail and the interpretation centre's main-floor washroom. Some areas can close for repairs. Touch displays in the visitor centre. No pets; the page does not mention service dogs, so ask. Accessible travel, with the sources →
Short drives from Salmonier Nature Park
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- Father Duffy's Wellstop1.4 km
A roadside spring right on the route, named for Father James Duffy, appointed first parish priest of St. Mary's in 1834, who spent the years after walking back and forth to the courthouse in St. John's over a dispute with the local merchant's agent.
- Brigustown40 km
- Cupids Legacy Centrestop42 km
A museum at Cupids.
- Clarke's Beachtown43 km
- Bay Bulls harbourstop47 km
On screen: where Wade and Jerry head out at night from the marine base to harvest an iceberg.
- Mickeleens Pathtrail · 7.2 km point to point, one way · moderate47 km
- Witless Baytown47 km
- Spout Pathtrail · 16.2 km point to point, one way · strenuous49 km
More, up to 68 km (10)
- Beaches Pathtrail · 7.1 km point to point, one way · easy49 km
OpenStreetMap records a viewpoint here, unnamed, just off the Southern Shore Highway south of Witless Bay.
- Tinkers Point Pathtrail · 5 km point to point, one way · easy55 km
- Spirit of Harbour Gracestop58 km
A 1943 Douglas DC-3 that served in North Africa in the war and later flew freight between Stephenville and Goose Bay until 1988; Air Labrador's owner donated it to the town in 1993 as the Spirit of Harbour Grace, for the town's part in early transatlantic flight (explorenewfoundlandandlabrador.com).
- Danny Cleary Lookoutstop59 km
The 1884 Harbour Grace railway station, kept as a museum.
- Harbour Gracetown62 km
- Fitzgerald's Pond Provincial Parkstop66 km
A Provincial Park Reserve, not a provincial park with a campground.
- Railway Station Museumstop66 km
Carbonear's station was built in 1917-18 by the Reid Newfoundland Company, replacing an earlier station destroyed by fire, and stayed the northern terminus of the Brigus Junction to Carbonear branch line until passenger trains ceased in 1984.
- North Head Trailtrail · 1.6 km point to point, one way · easy68 km
Distances by road from Salmonier Nature Park, 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
- Paradise km 16, St. John’s km 17
- Longest stretch without one
- 51 km
- St. John’s → Salmonier Nature Park, of 68 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Salmonier Nature Park
- 19.7 km
- by road, at Holyrood
No fast charger at Salmonier Nature Park. From the last fast charger, in St. John’s, it is 51 km there and the same back: plan on about 102 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Holyrood, 19.7 km from Salmonier Nature Park by road, off this drive's own road.
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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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeSt. 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
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeHolyrood 19.7 km from Salmonier Nature Park by road
Orangestore 3 Liam Hickey Drive
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). 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: 49% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 51%
- 32.1 km of 68.1 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 49%
- 30.3 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 2026-09-13. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
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, and that a driver can expect to encounter moose on any section of the Trans-Canada or on any secondary road. Watch most on Route 90, the Salmonier Line, the two-lane stretch through wooded country.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
After city and highway driving around St. John's, Route 90 runs through wooded country well away from the city. Check 511 before you leave, especially outside summer.
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 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.
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
Measured the other way, Salmonier Nature Park back to St. John's is the same distance: 69 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 St. John's International Airport →
Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions
How far is Salmonier Nature Park from St. John's airport?＋
About 68 km. Route 40 out of the airport, the Trans-Canada southwest, then Route 90, the Salmonier Line, south across the Avalon Peninsula.
Should I fly into St. John's, Gander or Deer Lake for Salmonier Nature Park?＋
St. John's, easily. The drive from St. John's airport is 68 km; from Gander it is 291 km, and from Deer Lake 595 km. The province describes the park as an Avalon Peninsula destination.
Is the drive difficult?＋
No. It is paved the whole way, and the first leg is ordinary suburban St. John's road. Take care on Route 90, which OpenStreetMap maps as a two-lane road through wooded country (see the moose note above).
Is Father Duffy's Well worth stopping for?＋
For a short roadside pause, yes: it sits right on Route 90 and costs almost no detour. Butter Pot Provincial Park, back along the Trans-Canada, is a real side trip, worth it only if you plan to spend time in the park.
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