Worth stopping for
Pistolet Bay Provincial Park
On the way to…
The ParksNL campground at the peninsula's top, off Route 437 minutes before the Norse site — the campground on this route, and the closest mapped pitch to the meadow where the sagas landed. Season and sites are ParksNL's.
Stopping here adds about 26 min and 20.4 km to that drive (5h 51m door to door).
When it is open
“The Pistolet Bay campground opens 29 May 2026 and closes 14 September 2026 for the 2026 camping season. All dates are subject to change, depending on weather conditions.”
camping season 2026 — a day-use area may be reachable outside it.Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (ParksNL), read 2026-09-14 — their page, not a copy of it. Dates and hours stay theirs to change.
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What the map knows
Mapped as nature reserve in OpenStreetMap.
Its own site (from the OSM element) →
The map last touched this element on 2025-05-20 — 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 relation/13426027 → — the same element every figure on this page is checked against.