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Staying in Port Rexton
Everything this site has measured for someone sleeping in Port Rexton: how you get here, what is a short drive away, and where to eat.
Getting here
- Gander airport199 km →
- Deer Lake airport502 km →
- St. John's airport260 km →
- Port aux Basques ferry terminal769 km →
- Argentia ferry terminal215 km →
Each figure is measured by road, from the terminal to Port Rexton. Your maps app gives the time on the day.
Where is Port Rexton?
Short drives from Port Rexton
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- Skerwink Trailtrail · 5.1 km loop · moderate1.6 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Lockston Path Provincial Parkstop6.9 km
The peninsula's ParksNL campground, just off Route 236 near Port Rexton, and the campground on this route.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Trinitytown9.1 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Fort Point viewpointstop14 km
The mapped bench at Fort Point, across the harbour mouth, on the old gun battery's ground.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Random Passagestop21 km
The set of the TV miniseries Random Passage at New Bonaventure, a replica of an early 1800s fishing village, per the province's tourism site.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Port Unionstop25 km
A town built by a union and founded by the fishermen's leader Sir William Coaker, as the province's tourism site tells it.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Green Island (Catalina) Lighthouselighthouse29 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze Opened at Elliston in June 2014, a hundred years after the disaster it exists for.
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More, up to 68 km (7)
- Ryan Premises National Historic Sitestop43 km
The Parks Canada site on Bonavista's waterfront tells five centuries of the salt-fish trade in the merchant premises where it ran.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mathew (ship) Replicamuseum44 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mockbeggar Plantationstop45 km
A provincial historic site and the legacy of F.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Elliston Puffin Viewing Pointstop45 km
The viewpoint facing the Elliston puffin colony, close enough to watch from land in season.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Dungeon Provincial Parkstop46 km
A ParksNL day-use park around a collapsed sea cave, with two ocean windows in a sheep pasture, just before the cape.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Bonavista Lighthousetown50 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Clarenvilletown68 kmDirections →
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Distances by road, measured on OpenStreetMap October 16, 2026, from where this route ends. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Plan days from here
The planner lays out days with Port Rexton as your base, arriving and leaving through Gander.
Plan days from Port Rexton →Guides with places near Port Rexton
- Provincial parks 2 places nearby
- Harbours 1 place nearby
- Icebergs near Gander 1 place nearby
When you get to Port Rexton
- Where to eat near Port Rexton → — 11 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
This site does not name places to sleep. The town is Port Rexton as OpenStreetMap places it (node/1446542917). Other towns: every town start page →