Cow Head, grown together
How three small Newfoundland projects can help Cow Head’s cabin owners, the town, the region and the province, and how anyone can help them do it. October 2026.
Cow Head goes on the board at 10 places to eat on its list. It has 4, so 6 more to go. Know a café, a takeout or a restaurant that’s missing? Send it in. Top 3 today: #1 Port aux Basques, #2 Lewisporte, #3 St. John's.
The ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
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Where is Cow Head?
Cow Head (in red) with every airport (✈) and ferry (⛴) into Newfoundland. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
How the three fit together
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 118 km drive from Deer Lake 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 Cow Head 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 Cow Head 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 Cow Head the best town on the map
Confirm a place in 2 minutes
These places to eat in Cow Head 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.
- Back Cove Café · Cow Head, Gros Morne National Park · Add it on the map
- Greco Pizza · 193 Main St · Add it on the map
- Greco Pizza · 193 Main St · Add it on the map
- Neddy's Pub & Eatery · Add it on the map
Things only people who know Cow Head can do. Each takes a few minutes, and your name goes on it.
- Confirm the places to eat. 4 of the 4 places to eat on the town’s page have only one source so far. Still to confirm: Back Cove Café, Greco Pizza, Greco Pizza, Neddy's Pub & Eatery. Each one needs adding to OpenStreetMap at its real door, or a fix sent to us. Tell us which are open, their season, and whether they do takeout. See the list · Send a fix
- Know a trail near Cow Head? Send the one you walk most. Walk it with your phone recording and send the GPX. 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 Cow Head cabin listed. No Cow Head 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 Cow Head page. fromtheairport.xyz/eat/cow-head: 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 Cow Head? 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.