Lewisporte, grown together
How three small Newfoundland projects can help Lewisporte’s cabin owners, the town, the region and the province, and how anyone can help them do it. October 2026.
#2 of 12 towns
Unseat the current Newfoundland and Labrador Town Champ: Port aux Basques. ’Tis not right.
Number two? Nobody remembers number two. Port aux Basques is Town Champ. 5 of Lewisporte’s 11 places to eat are confirmed, and every one you confirm moves the town up. Score 45.5 of 100 · 0.7 behind #1.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Help get Lewisporte to #1 ↓Confirm a place in 2 minutes ↓
Number two? Nobody remembers number two. Port aux Basques is Town Champ. 5 of Lewisporte’s 11 places to eat are confirmed, and every one you confirm moves the town up. Score 45.5 of 100 · 0.7 behind #1.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Lead Lewisporte’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 Lewisporte moves up.
Hosting in Lewisporte? Take bookings direct with Best Kind Stays →
63 km from Gander airport276 km from Deer Lake airport350 km from Argentia ferry395 km from St. John's airport542 km from Port aux Basques ferry11 places to eat within 6 km3 trails on the town page
Where is Lewisporte?
Lewisporte (in red) with every airport (✈) and ferry (⛴) into Newfoundland. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
How the three fit together
From the AirportFree. Every drive to Lewisporte 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 Lewisporte 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 63 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
- Measured routes beyond the airports: Comfort Cove-Newstead to Lewisporte, Farewell ferry terminal to Lewisporte, Lewisporte to Boyd's Cove, Twillingate to Lewisporte.
- The money a visitor spends stays with local owners, cafés and photographers.
The province
- Someone from away can see where Lewisporte 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 Lewisporte the best town on the map
Confirm a place in 2 minutes
These places to eat in Lewisporte 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.
- Chelsea's Fish & Chips · 351 NL-340 · Add it on the map
- Kinden's Bakery and Cafe · 151 Main St · Add it on the map
- Li’s Restaurant · 496 Main St · Add it on the map
- Mary Brown's Chicken and Taters · 490 Main St · Add it on the map
- Norma's Take-out · 191 Main St · Add it on the map
- Wing'n It Restaurants · 516 Main Street · Add it on the map
Things only people who know Lewisporte can do. Each takes a few minutes, and your name goes on it.
- Confirm the places to eat. 6 of the 11 places to eat on the town’s page have only one source so far. Still to confirm: Chelsea's Fish & Chips, Kinden's Bakery and Cafe, Li’s Restaurant, Mary Brown's Chicken and Taters, Norma's Take-out, Wing'n It Restaurants. 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
- Walk a trail with your phone recording. 3 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 Lewisporte cabin listed. No Lewisporte place is on the Best Kind Stays list yet. The first owner puts the town on it. Get a booking page
Wanted right now
You knows you wants the credit, b’y. Missing from the map. Whoever fills one is named on the page: “Photograph: your name” on a photo, your name on a place or a walk.
- Lewisporte to Glenwood on the rail bed — one recorded ride. The rail bed is on the open map in pieces that no router can use. One recorded ride lets the gaps be tagged and the whole leg measured. Send the GPX · See the page
- Woolfrey's Pond campground mapped in Lewisporte. The park is drawn, the campground isn't. Add it to the map · See the page
- Lewisporte's marina, tagged on the open map. There is no marina element for Lewisporte, so the harbours guide can't list it. One tagged area or node with the name fixes that. Add it to the map · See the page
- Jungle Jim's Eatery in Lewisporte, on the map. It was asked for, and neither map our eat pages come from has it. Add it to OpenStreetMap at the right building and it appears at the next sweep. Add it to the map · See the page
Ways anyone can help it grow
- Share the Lewisporte page. fromtheairport.xyz/towns/lewisporte: 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 Lewisporte? 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.