Clarenville, grown together
How three small Newfoundland projects can help Clarenville’s cabin owners, the town, the region and the province, and how anyone can help them do it. October 2026.
#8 of 12 towns
Unseat the current Newfoundland and Labrador Town Champ: Port aux Basques. ’Tis not right.
5 of Clarenville’s 38 places to eat are confirmed. Every one you confirm moves the town up. Top 3: #1 Port aux Basques, #2 Lewisporte, #3 St. John's. Score 13.2 of 100 · 4.4 behind #7.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
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5 of Clarenville’s 38 places to eat are confirmed. Every one you confirm moves the town up. Top 3: #1 Port aux Basques, #2 Lewisporte, #3 St. John's. Score 13.2 of 100 · 4.4 behind #7.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Lead Clarenville’s push
For a council, tourism or business group. Email us who’s leading, and we’ll send what’s still missing and tell you each time Clarenville moves up.
Hosting in Clarenville? Take bookings direct with Best Kind Stays →
147 km from Gander airport147 km from Argentia ferry191 km from St. John's airport450 km from Deer Lake airport717 km from Port aux Basques ferry38 places to eat within 6 km2 trails on the town page
Where is Clarenville?
Clarenville (in red) with every airport (✈) and ferry (⛴) into Newfoundland. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
How the three fit together
From the AirportFree. Every drive to Clarenville from the island’s airports and ferries, measured, with the stops, trails and places to eat.
→The drive from the airport and where to eat sit on every owner’s booking page
Best Kind StaysA guest books a Clarenville cabin straight from its owner. The guest’s money never passes through us.
→Local photographers credited on the guide; visitors who’ve stood there
Print the PlaceA visitor takes home a local photographer’s print of the place.
Nobody can pay to be listed on the guide, or to be first in the cabin list. That’s what keeps it worth trusting.
Why it’s good for…
The cabin owner
- Guests book with you and pay you directly. Their money never passes through us.
- A flat fee only on stays paid through your page, never more than half of what Airbnb would have taken on that stay, and capped each month. No stays, no bill.
- Your calendar syncs with the big booking sites every 30 minutes, so a night is never sold twice.
- Guests arrive knowing the 147 km drive from Gander airport and where to eat.
The town
- Every place to eat, trail and sight is listed free, from public sources. No business can buy a better spot.
- Visitors can see what’s here before they arrive, and plan more than a stop on the way through.
- Corrections and photos from locals go straight in, through one form.
The region
- Every route into Clarenville is measured from each airport and ferry, so a visitor sees the whole island’s distances at once.
- The money a visitor spends stays with local owners, cafés and photographers.
The province
- Someone from away can see where Clarenville is and how to get there from every airport and ferry.
- Bookings are paid straight to Newfoundland owners.
- Local photographers get credit, and a way to sell prints of their own places.
- Free and open, so any town, business or tourism group can use it.
Make Clarenville the best town on the map
Confirm a place in 2 minutes
These places to eat in Clarenville have only one source so far. Put one on OpenStreetMap at its real door and it counts at the next update. Easiest on a phone: Every Door (iPhone and Android) or StreetComplete (Android). Free, no experience needed.
- Bakery '56 · 8 Hillary Ter · Add it on the map
- Bare Mountain Coffee House · 53 Memorial Drive · Add it on the map
- Bella's Casual Dining · 247 Trans Canada Hwy, Clarenville, NL A5A 1Y4, Canada · Add it on the map
- Big Stop Restaurant · 130 Trans Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Big Stop Restaurant · 130 Trans Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Cabin Six Pizza · 18 Trinity Drive Clarenville, 18 Trinity Dr Route 230 A · Add it on the map
- Clarenville Big Stop · 130 Trans Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairs · 248 Memorial Dr · Add it on the map
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairs · 248 Memorial Dr · Add it on the map
- Easy Street Pub · Manitoba Dr · Add it on the map
- Galley Restaurant · Lower Lobby Entrance, 262B Memorial Dr · Add it on the map
- In Da Shed Cafe · 246 Memorial Dr · Add it on the map
- Jack's Pizza & Donair · 86 Manitoba Dr · Add it on the map
- Jungle Jim's Eatery · 64 Manitoba Dr · Add it on the map
- Little Caesars · 132 Trans Canada Hwy, Clarenville, NL A5A 1Y3, Canada · Add it on the map
- Mary Brown's · 78 Manitoba Drive, Clarenville, NL A5A 1K6, Canada · Add it on the map
- Mary Brown's Chicken and Taters · 78 Manitoba Dr · Add it on the map
- McCafé · 68 Manitoba Drive · Add it on the map
- McDonald's · 11 Shoal Harbour Drive · Add it on the map
- Morley's Shed & Harbourside Eatery · Add it on the map
- Oceanic Cannabis & Coffee · 242 Memorial Dr · Add it on the map
- Pizza Delight · 130 Trans-Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Pizza Delight · 130 Trans-Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Quiznos · 132 Trans Canada Highway · Add it on the map
- Shamrock City · 64 Manitoba Dr · Add it on the map
- Stellar Kitchen · 134 Trans-Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Subway · 76 D Manitoba Dr · Add it on the map
- Sweet Pea Treats · 70 Memorial Dr · Add it on the map
- Tai-Hong Restaurant · 2 Tilleys Rd · Add it on the map
- The Hub · 248 Memorial Dr · Add it on the map
- The Wheelhouse Pub · Adjacent to Main Lobby, 262A Memorial Dr · Add it on the map
- Uncle Li restaurant · 3 Coish Pl · Add it on the map
- Wing'n It · 32 Shoal Harbour Dr · Add it on the map
Things only people who know Clarenville can do. Each takes a few minutes, and your name goes on it.
- Confirm the places to eat. 33 of the 38 places to eat on the town’s page have only one source so far. Tell us which are open, their season, and whether they do takeout. See the list · Send a fix
- Walk a trail with your phone recording. 2 trails are on the town page, and no one has sent a recorded walk yet. The GPX from your phone or watch puts the real path on the map. How to send it
- Share a photo of a place you love. Credited to you, wherever it shows. Share a photo
- Tell us what’s on. Festivals, suppers, concerts, shows and tournaments. Send an event
- Is your rink, field or hall on the map? Check the rinks, fields and clubs page, and tell us what’s missing. Tell us
- Be the first Clarenville cabin listed. No Clarenville place is on the Best Kind Stays list yet. The first owner puts the town on it. Get a booking page
Ways anyone can help it grow
- Share the Clarenville page. fromtheairport.xyz/towns/clarenville: on your website, in booking confirmations, on social media. A link costs nothing and needs no sign-up.
- Put the map on your own site. One line of code shows the drive and the day trips. How: fromtheairport.xyz/partners.
- Own a cabin or vacation home? Get your own booking page at bestkindstays.ca/owners. If another owner sent you, say so: you both get a thank-you.
- Run a business, know the town, or have a walk worth sharing? Check your listing, or send a correction, a photo, or the GPX of a walk or ride at fromtheairport.xyz/contribute.
- Take photographs of Clarenville? Print the Place turns your folder into your own site with prints, always credited to you. Ask at [email protected].
Scan with your phone camera.
Feedback, from anyone
Owners, the town, businesses, visitors: anything that’s wrong, missing or could be better. Email [email protected]. A person reads every message and writes back with what changed.
Distances are measured by road and published on fromtheairport.xyz. Counts are the town and eating pages’ own, read 24 October 2026.
On a phone, “Send to my computer” opens the share sheet. Pick AirDrop, or a message to yourself.