Worth stopping for
Joey's Lookout
On the way to…
A viewpoint roughly halfway along, effectively on the road. Easy to miss at highway speed, which is the usual reason people drive past it.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to that drive (1h 3m door to door).
The mapped viewpoint above Gambo — on this drive it is more than scenery, it is a preview: the bay below sits in the same ancient suture zone the road is heading for.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to that drive (1h 15m door to door).
A viewpoint roughly a fifth of the way along, effectively on the road. Easy to miss at highway speed.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to that drive (1h 19m door to door).
The mapped viewpoint above Gambo, right off the highway. The name is the town's nod to its most famous son — Joey Smallwood, the premier who brought Newfoundland into Canada — and the view down Freshwater Bay is the first big water of the drive.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to that drive (1h 21m door to door).
The mapped viewpoint above Gambo — the shared first act of every drive out this way.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to that drive (1h 56m door to door).
A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada, a little under a third 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 that drive (1h 57m door to door).
The mapped viewpoint above Gambo, effectively on the driven line — a two-minute stop for the bay below, half an hour out of Gander.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to that drive (2h door to door).
The mapped viewpoint above Joey Smallwood's hometown, right off the highway — the standard first stretch of every drive down this side of the island.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to that drive (2h 6m door to door).
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 that drive (5h 8m door to door).
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What the map knows
Mapped as viewpoint in OpenStreetMap.
While you're stopped here: Square Pond (6.7 km away) · Dover Fault Interpretation Centre (23.5 km away)
The map last touched this element on 2012-06-09 — an old date is not proof of closure, only of nobody updating the map; if you know better, edit OpenStreetMap and every site built on it learns.
All of it read from the cited element and this site's own measured stops (2026-09-05); nothing above is our endorsement — it is the map's record.
Where this pin comes from: OpenStreetMap node/1781093150 → — the same element every figure on this page is checked against.