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Mike Austin Arena

Mike Austin Arena, and the 5 eateries whose position two independent maps agree on. The rest are listed below with their street addresses — we will not pin a place we cannot corroborate.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

Eating, from here

Everything the open map data records within fifteen minutes' drive of this door — measured by road, not in a straight line, and ordered by nothing but how long it takes to get there. Not a recommendation; see what this is not, below.

Ten to fifteen minutes out: Chelsea's Fish & Chips (12 min).

Staying in town rather than dashing between games? Everywhere to eat in Lewisporte → — the same places, listed alphabetically with addresses and phone numbers.

The afternoon between games

Measured stops within 45 minutes' drive of this door. Each is a place this site has already measured on a route, with its coordinate sourced and its reason written — ordered by how long it takes to get here from, and by nothing else.

The seasons do not line up. Hockey runs roughly October to April and a good many of these keep a summer season — parks, lighthouses and interpretation centres above all. We do not hold opening seasons as data, so nothing here is filtered by month: open the stop's own page for what it says, and ring ahead in winter.

What the people here have told us

Canteen
“There is a canteen. Whether it takes cards or is cash only is not known — bring some cash and you are covered either way.”
Local knowledge, told to us directly. The half that is not known is left unknown rather than filled in, 2026-09-14.
The story
“The Town of Lewisporte says the arena is named for Mike Austin of Lewisporte, known locally as ‘Awesome Mike’ — an athlete who, living with permanent physical and intellectual disabilities, has won over 200 medals at local, provincial and national level. The Town lists three golds at the 2003 Special Olympic Winter Games in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, a gold and a silver at the 2010 Special Olympic Games in London, Ontario, and a gold and a bronze at the 2014 Vancouver Special Olympics. It says he is a fixture at hockey games here, a fiercely competitive slo-pitch, mixed bowling and floor hockey player, and the holder of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the key to the town.”
Town of Lewisporte, its own Sports Facilities page, 2026-09-14.

What we do not know about this place

None of the following is in any open dataset, and every one of them decides whether somebody makes the trip. If you know, tell us and it goes on the page with the date you told us — credited as local knowledge, not by name. We do not put contributors' names on venue facts:

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Here, but not on the map

These are published by Town of Lewisporte. OpenStreetMap does not hold them, so this site can give you no distance, no drive time and no line on a map for any of them — only what the town itself says, and a link to it. Within the town box, OpenStreetMap holds the Mike Austin Arena, the Notre Dame Rod & Gun Club and three unnamed parks. Nothing below is in it.

  • Lewisporte Recreation ComplexBowater Avenue, the same street as the arena

    The Town lists a regulation size soccer pitch, two softball fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, a skate park, a running and walking track, a playground and a dog park, and says the Mussel Bed Soiree concert is held here.

    Not on the open map. OpenStreetMap holds no pitch, court, track, skate park, playground or dog park anywhere in Lewisporte. A query for every leisure value on 2026-09-15 returned five elements for the whole town.

    Town of Lewisporte, read 2026-09-15.

  • Ski and snowshoe trailsBehind the recreation complex, and at Notre Dame Park

    The Town says there are more than 10 km of marked and groomed ski and snowshoe trails at nearby Notre Dame Park and a 2 km trail in town behind the recreation complex, and that trail passes are picked up at the Lewisporte Town Hall.

    Not on the open map. No piste or ski route is mapped in OpenStreetMap anywhere in the area, so this site cannot measure a length, draw a line or publish a trail page for either. A trail page here needs a recorded track, not a figure copied from a brochure.

    Town of Lewisporte, read 2026-09-15.

  • Winter Game Lanes14 Bowater Avenue

    The Town runs a six-lane five-pin bowling centre with an event room, and says it closes from the middle of May until September — which makes it a winter-season thing in a town whose rink runs the same months.

    Not on the open map. No bowling alley is mapped in Lewisporte in OpenStreetMap.

    Town of Lewisporte, read 2026-09-15.

If you know these well enough to put them on the open map, that is the most useful thing anyone can do for this town's pages — everything here measures from what the map holds, so mapping it once fixes it for every site, not just ours.

Every year in Lewisporte

These recur. Where a date is shown it is either the one the organiser has published, said so, or the one the pattern puts it on, said so — and the organiser is the authority either way. Admission and times are theirs to publish and are not copied here.

  • ☀︎Mussel Bed Soiree

    Annually in early August

    5–9 August 2027 expected — that is where it has fallen each year we have seen it. Confirm with Town of Lewisporte before you travel.

    The town's festival, which the Town says has run for forty years. Held at the Lewisporte Recreation Complex on Bowater Avenue, the same street as the arena.

    Town of Lewisporte’s page for it·Know a date this fell on? Send it

  • ❀Craft and Trade Show

    Annually in September, over a Thursday to Saturday

    9–11 September 2027 expected — that is where it has fallen each year we have seen it. Confirm with Town of Lewisporte before you travel.

    The Town says over 80 exhibitors selling handmade crafts, woodworking, jewellery, paintings and home improvement. There is an admission charge, with weekend and daily passes; what it is this year is the Town's to publish, not ours to copy.

    Town of Lewisporte’s page for it·Know a date this fell on? Send it

  • ❀Trunk or Treat and the Haunted Hike

    Annually in October

    Next in October. We have seen it once, which is not enough to say which day, so Town of Lewisporte is the only answer.

    A night walk at Woolfrey's Pond Campground, which is the nearest measured stop to the Mike Austin Arena — six minutes by road.

    Town of Lewisporte keeps no page for it that will still be there next year·Know a date, or a page for it? Send both

  • ❄︎Winter Carnival

    Every February, over several days

    Next in February. We have seen it once, which is not enough to say which day, so Town of Lewisporte is the only answer.

    The Town describes a multi-day festival of affordable winter activities. February is the middle of the rink season, so it lands in the same months a travelling hockey family is already in town.

    Town of Lewisporte keeps no page for it that will still be there next year·Know a date, or a page for it? Send both

Town of Lewisporte, read 2026-09-15 — the authority on when any of these actually falls.

What this page is not

  • Not a schedule. Ice times, field bookings and whether the season has started belong to the town's rec department. We publish none of it, because we cannot keep it true.
  • Not a recommendation. The eateries are listed by drive time and nothing else. No one can pay to appear.
  • Not complete. Somewhere unmapped does not appear here.
  • Not open hours. We hold none, for anywhere.

Venue from OpenStreetMap, eateries from Overture Maps, drive times from OSRM. Measured 2026-09-11.

Not every entry here is confirmed. 5 of 11 here are confirmed by two independent maps agreeing to within 150 m; the rest exist in one source only, so we list them with their address but will not map-pin or navigate to a point nobody has checked. One source means exactly that — the name, the position and in one case tonight the existence of the place all rest on a single record. Adding a place to the open map is what turns one of these into the other — it takes about two minutes.