Planning a Newfoundland trip.

grampscamper wrote:

Little Kopit wrote:
When you call the provincial tourism offices, tell them of your special interests.

St. Mary's Bird Sanctuary should be top of your list. There are also boat trips for things like bird islands, whale watching, and trips up fjords of Western Brook Pond and Trout River Ponds. Summer theatre has plays on local history at Cow Head. Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador, Gros Morne, Cow Head

Look for Festivals.

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Thanks. I did contact Newfoundland tourism and they’re sending me some information. Should be an amazing trip!

We often would go to local dinner theatres and would ask we could stay overnight in their parking lot. We were never turned down. You will have an amazing time.

Little Kopit wrote:
When you call the provincial tourism offices, tell them of your special interests.

St. Mary's Bird Sanctuary should be top of your list. There are also boat trips for things like bird islands, whale watching, and trips up fjords of Western Brook Pond and Trout River Ponds. Summer theatre has plays on local history at Cow Head. Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador, Gros Morne, Cow Head

Look for Festivals.

:C

Thanks. I did contact Newfoundland tourism and they’re sending me some information. Should be an amazing trip!

When you call the provincial tourism offices, tell them of your special interests.

St. Mary's Bird Sanctuary should be top of your list. There are also boat trips for things like bird islands, whale watching, and trips up fjords of Western Brook Pond and Trout River Ponds. Summer theatre has plays on local history at Cow Head. Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador, Gros Morne, Cow Head

Look for Festivals.

:C

Our interests are mostly wildlife, scenery and historic attractions.

Even June might be a little early. Quite often we have "capelin weather", in June. This means, rain, drizzle and fog(locally known as RDF. Weather in July and August is usually much better.

Campgrounds usually open on May long weekend as well as tourist attractions.

What types of things do you like? We loads of summer festivals, historic attractions, scenery around every corner, national parks....

Thanks NCWriter & Little Kopit. I’ll check out the links.

I lived in Newfoundland for 24.5 years and left in mid 2008.

There is boondocking year round in places off the road.

There are some year round cgs, including some in Federal Parks.

You can access each and every province via Canadian google, i.e. https://www.google.ca/ Enter as search term: 'name of province tourism'. All have visitors guides. & given my cross country trip in 2015 all have provincial maps, which give you more information than the commercial gas station ones.

So, you are passing through or by the following provinces to get to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and maybe Quebec if you take in Labrador.

Weather via Environment CanadaTo find out if is a good or a bad year keep watch via google on the word, 'ice'. Gulf of St. Lawrence and Strait of Belle Isle are useful areas to check. As is the Marine Atlantic Ferry. Check that periodically over the winter http://www.marineatlantic.ca/en/ Once a week would be lots more reliable than once a month. You're looking to find out if the ferry runs are cancelled much over the winter. This can be a very good indication of slow melt and lots of ice.

In my time the bad weather comes down from Iceland rather than central Canada (& dominant wind pattern is from west to east), thus, weather from the opposite way is opposite the norm.

Iceberg Finder http://www.icebergfinder.com/ opens in late April or early May.

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Article from 2013 trip

This might be of interest, though a bit dated and kind of a whirlwind around the island. We're planning a return next year for a more relaxed trip.

grampscamper wrote:

accsys wrote:
You can check our 2010 blog to see what we did and if any of it would apply to you. Some campground info is also available at the beginning of each post. The Canadian portion of the trip starts on Page 3.

Thanks so much for the link to the detailed trip report and wonderful pictures. This will be very helpful.

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accsys wrote:
You can check our 2010 blog to see what we did and if any of it would apply to you. Some campground info is also available at the beginning of each post. The Canadian portion of the trip starts on Page 3.

Thanks so much for the link to the detailed trip report and wonderful pictures. This will be very helpful.