Where can I get to?
Two airports serve this region, nearly four hours apart. Every destination below is measured from both, so the question "which one do I fly into" has an answer rather than an opinion.
Sorted by the nearer airport. Pick one to re-sort by that airport alone.
Lewisporte
Gander (YQX) is nearer by 2h 40m
On the water, and the usual suggestion for a base on this coast.
- Gander (YQX)
- 53 min · 63 km — directions
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 3h 33m · 275.7 km
Rocky Harbour
Deer Lake (YDF) is nearer by 3h 48m
The base most Gros Morne visitors use.
- Gander (YQX)
- 4h 43m · 375.3 km
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 55 min · 72 km — directions
Woody Point (south Gros Morne)
Deer Lake (YDF) is nearer by 3h 48m
The Tablelands side of the park — a different turn at Wiltondale, and no closer from Rocky Harbour.
- Gander (YQX)
- 4h 46m · 370.5 km
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 58 min · 67.2 km — directions
Terra Nova National Park
Gander (YQX) is nearer by 3h 48m
The closest national park to any airport here — an hour from Gander, and no season to plan around.
- Gander (YQX)
- 1h 3m · 77.8 km — directions
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 4h 51m · 380.9 km
Botwood
Gander (YQX) is nearer by 1h 53m
Where the transatlantic flying boats landed — the half of Gander's story that predates the runway.
- Gander (YQX)
- 1h 15m · 92.1 km — directions
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 3h 8m · 242.2 km
Grand Falls-Windsor
Gander (YQX) is nearer by 1h 25m
The largest town between the two airports, and the one place you can assume is open.
- Gander (YQX)
- 1h 17m · 98.3 km — directions
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 2h 42m · 211.2 km
St. Brendan's
Gander (YQX) is nearer by 3h 48m
Nearer to Gander than Twillingate is, and reached by the longest crossing on the site.
- Gander (YQX)
- 1h 19m · 94.3 km · then a ferry — directions
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 5h 7m · 397.4 km
Fogo Island
Gander (YQX) is nearer by 3h 14m
Reached by ferry from the Farewell terminal.
- Gander (YQX)
- 1h 21m · 86.3 km · then a ferry — directions
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 4h 35m · 342.4 km
Change Islands
Gander (YQX) is nearer by 3h 14m
Reached by ferry from the Farewell terminal; the nearer call.
- Gander (YQX)
- 1h 21m · 86.3 km · then a ferry — directions
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 4h 35m · 342.4 km
King's Point
Deer Lake (YDF) is nearer by 57 min
The closest call on this list — under an hour between the two airports.
- Gander (YQX)
- 2h 42m · 207.2 km
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 1h 45m · 132.7 km — directions
Twillingate
Gander (YQX) is nearer by 3h 4m
The iceberg headline, and the shortest drive from Gander.
- Gander (YQX)
- 1h 48m · 113.8 km — directions
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 4h 52m · 360.3 km
Baie Verte
Deer Lake (YDF) is nearer by 1h 27m
Sits between the two airports, which is why the question comes up.
- Gander (YQX)
- 3h 43m · 274.7 km
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 2h 16m · 159.3 km — directions
Long Island (Green Bay)
Deer Lake (YDF) is nearer by 37 min
The quietest crossing on the site — a sixteen-car boat over a kilometre of water.
- Gander (YQX)
- 2h 59m · 220.2 km
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 2h 22m · 171 km · then a ferry — directions
La Scie
Deer Lake (YDF) is nearer by 1h 27m
Out on the Baie Verte Peninsula; one of the province's named iceberg viewing spots.
- Gander (YQX)
- 4h 28m · 323.7 km
- Deer Lake (YDF)
- 3h 1m · 208.3 km — directions
Between the destinations
The drives people make after the thing they flew in for. The airport is not on the way between two places on this coast, and treating it as a hub costs an hour every time.
Twillingate ↔ Lewisporte
The drive nobody writes down: 91.7 km and about 1h26 between the icebergs and the bay, across the New World Island causeways.
1h 26m · 91.7 km · Routes 340, 341 · same both ways
Rocky Harbour ↔ Twillingate
Coast to coast across Newfoundland: 427.6 km and 5h38 between the two headline destinations — an hour and three quarters longer than the airport pair people assume covers it.
5h 38m · 427.6 km · Routes 430, 1, 340 · same both ways
Baie Verte ↔ La Scie
An hour and a kilometre count between the two ends of the Baie Verte Peninsula: 60.1 km on Routes 410 and 414.
1h 1m · 60.1 km · Routes 410, 414 · same both ways
Drive times are OSRM driving-profile measurements between the airport terminal and the destination, checked on the date each directions page states. Where a destination has a directions page, these figures come from that page — there is only ever one copy of a number on this site. Routing and place data derive from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.