Harbour Grace, grown together
How three small Newfoundland projects can help Harbour Grace’s cabin owners, the town, the region and the province, and how anyone can help them do it. October 2026.
#7 of 12 towns
Unseat the current Newfoundland and Labrador Town Champ: Port aux Basques. ’Tis not right.
6 of Harbour Grace’s 34 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 17.6 of 100 · 0.6 behind #6.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Help get Harbour Grace into the Top 3 ↓Confirm a place in 2 minutes ↓
6 of Harbour Grace’s 34 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 17.6 of 100 · 0.6 behind #6.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Lead Harbour Grace’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 Harbour Grace moves up.
Hosting in Harbour Grace? Take bookings direct with Best Kind Stays →
96 km from Argentia ferry108 km from St. John's airport298 km from Gander airport601 km from Deer Lake airport868 km from Port aux Basques ferry34 places to eat within 6 km2 trails on the town page
Where is Harbour Grace?
Harbour Grace (in red) with every airport (✈) and ferry (⛴) into Newfoundland. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
How the three fit together
From the AirportFree. Every drive to Harbour Grace 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 Harbour Grace 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 96 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
- Every route into Harbour Grace 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 Harbour Grace 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 Harbour Grace the best town on the map
Confirm a place in 2 minutes
These places to eat in Harbour Grace 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 · 120 Columbus Drive · Add it on the map
- Chalk & Cheese - A Social Enterprise · 4 Pikes Ln · Add it on the map
- ColdWater Restaurant · 218 Water St W · Add it on the map
- Country Style · 139 Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- Crooked Phil's Cafe · 125b Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- Dairy Queen Grill & Chill · 95 Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- Daltonian Club K of C · 73 Harvey St · Add it on the map
- DQ Grill & Chill · 95 Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- Easton 1602 Pub · 110 Water St W · Add it on the map
- Fong's Restaurant · 143 Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- Golden Crust Bakery · 95 Harvey St · Add it on the map
- Greco Pizza Xpress · 74 Powell Dr · Add it on the map
- Kay's Restaurant and Takeout · 312 Harvey St · Add it on the map
- Keneally Manor Heritage Inn · 8 Patrick St · Add it on the map
- Kylin Restaurant and Buffet · 68-70 Harvey St · Add it on the map
- Mary Brown's Chicken & Taters · 80 Powell Dr · Add it on the map
- Mary Brown's Fried Chicken · 123 Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- McCafé · 229 Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- My Place Restaurant · 120 Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- North Alantic Gas Carbonear Country Style · 139 Columbus Drive, North Atlantic Refinery Carbonear, NL A1Y 1A6 · Add it on the map
- Peter’s Pizza Carbonear · 115 Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- Rock&Rise Sourdough · 46 Powell Dr · Add it on the map
- Route 66 Diner and Pub · 180 Water St W · Add it on the map
- Sharon's Drive-In · NL-70 · Add it on the map
- Starbucks · 123 Columbus Dr · Add it on the map
- Taste and Sea · 187 Water St · Add it on the map
- The Old Courthouse, Harbour Grace · Add it on the map
- The Roost Cafe · 195 Water St · Add it on the map
Things only people who know Harbour Grace can do. Each takes a few minutes, and your name goes on it.
- Confirm the places to eat. 28 of the 34 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 Harbour Grace cabin listed. No Harbour Grace 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 Harbour Grace page. fromtheairport.xyz/towns/harbour-grace: 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 Harbour Grace? 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.