Gander, grown together
How three small Newfoundland projects can help Gander’s cabin owners, the town, the region and the province, and how anyone can help them do it. October 2026.
#12 of 12 towns
Unseat the current Newfoundland and Labrador Town Champ: Port aux Basques. ’Tis not right.
0 of Gander’s 39 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 0 of 100 · 7.7 behind #11.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
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0 of Gander’s 39 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 0 of 100 · 7.7 behind #11.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Lead Gander’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 Gander moves up.
Hosting in Gander? Take bookings direct with Best Kind Stays →
292 km from Argentia ferry305 km from Deer Lake airport336 km from St. John's airport571 km from Port aux Basques ferry39 places to eat within 6 km59 drives measured from here
Where is Gander?
Gander (in red) with every airport (✈) and ferry (⛴) into Newfoundland. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
How the three fit together
From the AirportFree. Every drive to Gander 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 Gander 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 292 km drive from Argentia ferry terminal 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
- The island’s door: 59 drives are measured from Gander International Airport here, for everyone who arrives: Twillingate 114 km, Lewisporte 63 km, Fogo Island 86 km, St. John's 335 km.
- Every route into Gander 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 Gander 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 Gander the best town on the map
Confirm a place in 2 minutes
These places to eat in Gander 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.
- A&W · 118 Trans-Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Big Stop Restaurant · 300 Trans-Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Bistro On Roe · 110 Roe Ave · Add it on the map
- Country Kitchen · 132 Bennett Dr · Add it on the map
- Dairy Queen Grill & Chill · 100 Trans-Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Dunphy’s Pub · 10 McCurdy Dr · Add it on the map
- East Ocean Restaurant · 67 Elizabeth Dr · Add it on the map
- Fraser's Pub · 230 Airport Blvd · Add it on the map
- Greco Pizza · 83 Elizabeth Dr · Add it on the map
- Harvey's · 92 Laurel Road · Add it on the map
- Highlight Restaurant · 77 Elizabeth Dr #77 · Add it on the map
- Highway Tims · TCH · Add it on the map
- Jumping Bean Coffee · 200 Airport Blvd · Add it on the map
- Jungle Jim's Eatery · 112A Trans-Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- KFC · 285 Airport Road · Add it on the map
- Lilly's Landing · 210 Airport Blvd · Add it on the map
- Little Caesars Pizza · 29 Roe Ave · Add it on the map
- Louis Gee's Pizza · 94 Elizabeth Dr · Add it on the map
- Mary Brown's · 110 Trans-Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- McCafé · 320 Airport Blvd. · Add it on the map
- McDonald's · (Wal-Mart) 55 Roe Avenue · Add it on the map
- McDonald's · (Wal-Mart) 55 Roe Avenue · Add it on the map
- Mystic Dining Room · 133 Bennett Dr · Add it on the map
- Peters's Pizza Gander · 142 Bennett Dr · Add it on the map
- Pizza Delight · 132 Bennett Drive · Add it on the map
- Pizza Hut · 5 Roe Ave · Add it on the map
- Rosie's Restaurant and Bakery · 135 Roe Ave · Add it on the map
- Snows Cones · 10 Catalina Dr · Add it on the map
- Subway · 318 Airport Blvd · Add it on the map
- Subway · 318 Airport Blvd · Add it on the map
- Swiss Chalet · 92 Laurel Rd · Add it on the map
- Tai Sun Restaurant · 298 Airport Blvd · Add it on the map
- The Gander Bread Box · 136 Bennett Dr · Add it on the map
- The Goose · 300 Trans-Canada Hwy · Add it on the map
- Tim Hortons · 10 Cooper Blvd · Add it on the map
- Tim Hortons · 10 Cooper Blvd · Add it on the map
- Tim Hortons · 10 Cooper Blvd · Add it on the map
- Union East & Drinks · 1000 James Blvd · Add it on the map
- Wing 'n It · 50 Roe Ave · Add it on the map
Things only people who know Gander can do. Each takes a few minutes, and your name goes on it.
- Confirm the places to eat. 39 of the 39 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
- Know a trail near Gander? 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 Gander cabin listed. No Gander 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 Gander page. fromtheairport.xyz/eat/gander: 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 Gander? 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.