Twillingate, grown together
How three small Newfoundland projects can help Twillingate’s cabin owners, the town, Notre Dame Bay and the province, and how anyone can help them do it. October 2026.
#9 of 12 towns
Unseat the current Newfoundland and Labrador Town Champ: Port aux Basques. ’Tis not right.
2 of Twillingate’s 16 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 12.5 of 100 · 0.7 behind #8.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Help get Twillingate into the Top 3 ↓Confirm a place in 2 minutes ↓
2 of Twillingate’s 16 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 12.5 of 100 · 0.7 behind #8.
The full ranking and rules: towns.fromtheairport.xyz/ranking
Lead Twillingate’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 Twillingate moves up.
Hosting in Twillingate? Take bookings direct with Best Kind Stays →
114 km from Gander airport
360 km from Deer Lake airport
447 km from St. John’s airport
402 km from the Argentia ferry
627 km from the Port aux Basques ferry
16 places to eat within 6 km
Where is Twillingate?
Twillingate (in red) with every airport (✈) and ferry (⛴) into Newfoundland. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
How the three fit together
From the AirportFree. Every drive to Twillingate from all 6 doors to the island, measured, with the stops, trails, icebergs 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 Twillingate 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 114 km drive from Gander 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 there is more than a day trip here: Long Point Lighthouse, the trails, the museum, the hangar-turned-arena that won Hockeyville.
- The Gate arts centre is on the venues page, measured from the building, so a show night comes with where to eat.
- Corrections and photos from locals go straight in, through one form.
Notre Dame Bay and the region
- Measured routes tie Twillingate to Lewisporte and Comfort Cove–Newstead, and reach it from Gros Morne.
- A loop from Gander through Twillingate and Lewisporte, measured end to end.
- Twillingate sits on the island’s Iceberg Alley page with every other viewing spot, each with its own drive.
- The money a visitor spends stays with local owners, cafés and photographers.
The province
- Someone from away can see where Twillingate is and how to get there from all 3 airports and 3 ferries.
- 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 Twillingate the best town on the map
Confirm a place in 2 minutes
These places to eat in Twillingate 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.
- Annie's Harbour Restaurant · 128 Main St · Add it on the map
- Blue Barrel Gallery Cafe · 18 Path End · Add it on the map
- Burgie's Seaside Eatery · 110a Main St · Add it on the map
- Crow's Nest Twillingate · 127 Main St · Add it on the map
- D&T Restaurant · 68 Main St · Add it on the map
- D&T Seafood Restaurant · 78 Main St · Add it on the map
- Greco Pizza · 110 Main St · Add it on the map
- Lickety Split · 128 Main St · Add it on the map
- Mary Brown's Chicken & Taters · 28 Toulinquet St · Add it on the map
- Pier 39 Restaurant & Pub · 39 Main St · Add it on the map
- R & J Restaurant · 110 Main St · Add it on the map
- Robin's · 12a Toulinquet Rd · Add it on the map
- Stage Head Pub · 119 Main St · Add it on the map
- TastyThai & Pizza · 120 Main St · Add it on the map
Six things only people who know Twillingate can do. Each takes a few minutes, and your name goes on it.
- Confirm the places to eat. 14 of the 16 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. Six trails are on the town page, and no one has sent a recorded walk of any of them 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. The lighthouse, a cove, the harbour, a trail. Credited to you, wherever it shows. Share a photo
- Tell us what’s on. The Fish, Fun & Folk Festival and the Rockcut trail races are listed. Shows at The Gate, suppers, concerts and tournaments aren’t yet. Send an event
- Put the arena on the rinks page. The George Hawkins Memorial Arena, the Hockeyville hangar, is on the map but not yet on the rinks and fields page. Tell us what’s played there and when. Tell us
- Be the first Twillingate cabin listed. No Twillingate 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.
- The Rock Cut Trails, mapped in Twillingate. One of Twillingate's best-known walks, and the open map holds none of it. One recorded walk, or an afternoon of mapping, makes the pages. Add it to the map · See the page
Ways anyone can help it grow
- Share the Twillingate page. fromtheairport.xyz/towns/twillingate: 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 drive 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 Twillingate? 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. The eating count is the town page’s own, from OpenStreetMap.
On a phone, “Send to my computer” opens the share sheet. Pick AirDrop, or a message to yourself.