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Tilting and Oliver’s Cove. People up and down the Kittiwake
In 1967, island residents had to decide Coast opened their homes and hearts to
whether or not to leave their home to these strangers from all over the world,
resettle. Instead, the community-based providing warm beds and home-cooked Central
Fogo Island Co-operative Society Limited meals during a truly terrifying time. The
was formed to build a sustainable kindness and hospitality shown to these
economy around the sea and its natural visitors has become the basis for the Tony
resources. They built more boats, took Award-winning Broadway musical Come
over abandoned processing facilities, and From Away. When you’re in Gander, take
sought new markets. the Beyond Words Tour and learn more Road Trips
As you might expect from a place so in about the events and the people who
touch with its heritage, there’s no inspired the play.
shortage of festivals here. Soak up the Gander, known as the Crossroads of
music at the Brimstone Head Folk Festival the World because of its role in post-war
and the Etheridge’s Point Seaside Festival, transatlantic aviation, was a transhipment
or indulge your sweet tooth at the Fogo point for aircraft being flown to Britain
Island Partridgeberry Harvest Festival. A during WWII. Today it’s a modern service
number of museums, such as the Bleak town, but its air history is vividly
House Museum and the Marconi Wireless remembered in the town’s aviation
Interpretation Centre, amongst others, museum, and in the town’s street names.
celebrate Fogo Island’s unique history. For a breath of fresh air, head to the
Coastal hiking trails will lead you to Thomas Howe Demonstration Forest
resettled communities and scenic lookouts and Cobb’s Pond Rotary Park. At the
– you may even catch a glimpse of the Gander Heritage Memorial Park, visitors For more road trip information, visit NewfoundlandLabrador.com/road-trips
island’s caribou herd. The Brimstone Head can view various monuments reflecting
Hiking Trail leads you to a place identified the aviation and military history of
by the Flat Earth Society as one of the flat Gander. In the winter months, the
earth’s four corners. For an easier walk, Airport Nordic Ski Club provides
stroll the Joe Batt’s Point Walking Trail to cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.
see the Great Auk statue commemorating Follow Route 330 north to Gander Bay,
the now extinct bird species. a scenic area known for its great salmon
fishing. Then it’s onward to the
Kittiwake Coast: Carmanville Wetlands Interpretation
Road to the Shore Centre and Nature Trail, which offers 4
Start: Gander or Gambo km of walking trails paired with
Length: About 307 km birdwatching opportunities for songbirds
and waterfowl.
There are three popular sandy beaches
along this route, at Musgrave Harbour,
Deadman’s Bay, Lumsden, and Cape Freels.
First up is Musgrave Harbour, where you
Gander is an airport town. As one of a can follow up a beach stroll with a visit to
few airports capable of handling the The Fishermen’s Museum. Originally built
traffic when US air space closed on in 1910 by Sir William Coaker, the museum
September 11, 2001, Gander was perfectly displays artifacts from the fishery over the
positioned to welcome 38 airplanes and years, and features a beautifully-painted
close to 7,000 stranded passengers, mural on its exterior.
almost outnumbering the locals. Lumsden Beach is the most popular

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