Newfoundland Trip

[SeaDawg]

@Sully, thanks so much for sharing your wonderful photos and  comments. Its been a great joy, "traveling" along with you!

[skalywag]

Sully, your pictures make it look like everyday is sunny there.

Thank you for sharing them and have a safe trip.

Cheers,

[Jim and Frances]

Just love all your pictures!  Thank you for taking the time to share.

[rich.dev]

5 hours ago, Sully said:

I would also recommend getting mud flaps

Dave what mud flaps did you get, can you post some pics please? 

[Sully]

We bought them from the Audi dealership in St John’s, they had them on several cars in the showroom.

[Sully]

Grand Codroy RV camping - Very nice private park, would recommend staying 2 or 3 nights to see the area.

Sandbanks Provincial Park - The road from Hwy 1 to Burgeo has a lot of pot holes and takes a long hour.  This was our first real excursion off Hwy 1, it doesn’t seem so bad now that we have experienced a wide variety of the roads in Newfoundland, it’s not hard to find worse roads. The campground and surrounding area is very nice especially if you like sandy beaches.  We stayed 3 nights which was the right amount of time for us.

Blow Me Down Provincial Park - We stayed 4 nights at the park, for us it was the right amount of time we like to hike and there are several nice hikes in the area

Gros Morne National Park, Berry Hill Campground - We stayed 7 nights here, there is a lot see in the Gros Morne area.

Pistolet Bay Provincial Park - We booked 7 nights but departed after four.  The park is very remote with no services, but nice enough campground.  There is a nice little beach to swim at.  We enjoyed L’Anse aux Meadows and the town of St Anthony.

Mountain Waters Resort - We stayed one night here to recharge our batteries.  We visited Port au Choix which is  worth seeing, there is a private campground on the ocean I think I would stay at if I did  this again,  It’s much closer to Port au Choix and far fewer bugs.

Sir Richards Squires Memorial Provincial Park - We stayed 2 nights which was plenty unless you are an avid fly fisherman. It is a nice campground like all the Provincial Parks we stayed at.  There are two roads to the park, 422 west of Deer Lake is a partially paved long road with many pot holes.  We didn’t enjoy that drive so tried the other “road” out that intersects with 420 just north of Hwy 1.  I strongly recommend not using that “road” it’s more like an off road trail in many spots.

Crescent Lake RV Park - We stayed 3 nights here at this top notch private park. Very nice trail around the lake it’s on.  The owners are very friendly and helpful.

***** Run Provincial Park - This is a beautiful park, the only downside is it’s about a 15 minute drive to Twillingate which we really enjoyed. We stayed 7 nights here there is a lot to see in this area.  We  took a day trip to Fogo Island the main attraction are the historic buildings on the island.

Tera Nova National Park - Newman Sound Campground - We ended up canceling this reservation due to electrical issues at the park and our batteries were low after a week in ***** Run without any hookups and not much sun. We stayed at Shriners RV park which had full hookups, good cell and WIFI service.  We  spent 4 nights at this campground which was adequate to see the area.

Lockston Path Provincial Park - Long 5k gravel road to get to the park entrance.  Once there the park is nice similar to a lot of other provincial parks.  The Bonavista Peninsula covers a large area, the highlights were Trinity, Cape Bonavista and Tickle Cove.  Four nights gave us enough time to see the sights but does require a fair amount of driving.

Butter Pot Provincial Park - Decent campground very similar to other provincial parks, clean, well maintained, nice sites.  We stayed 4 nights which was plenty for me.  I am not a big fan of cities and crowds.  Most of St. Johns is like any other large city, except for the downtown area.

Heading Home from St John’s we stayed at:

Notre Dame Provincial Park - Beautiful provincial park with sites backing up to a very nice lake, good cell service, sites have electrical hookups.

Barachois Pond Provincial Park - Another beautiful park, one of my favorites

There is a lot to see in Newfoundland, highlights I wouldn’t miss are the Gros Morne National Park, Twillingate area, Bonavista Peninsula and St. John’s downtown area and signal hill.  There are many other very nice places to visit if you have the time, just not quite as spectacular as the above, depending on what you like to see and do.  There is much of Newfoundland we didn’t see.

There are many RV campgrounds not on any maps I had, plus boon docking opportunities.  We did not have any issues making last minute modifications to our schedule and finding places to stay.  I reserved all of our camping for the entire trip, if I had to do it over I would probably have a less rigid schedule of reservations.  We never found any campgrounds to be completely full, but you will need reservations for the prime sites.

[Dennis and Melissa]

@Sully We are planning to visit Newfoundland in about a year (sometime late aug to early oct)
 

@rich.dev was nice enough to refer me to this thread, which I read immediately.

Great pictures! And I especially appreciate the campground descriptions in the last post.