Deer Lake - Home for the next 7 days

We left Woolfrey’s Pond RV Park a little before 9 a.m., drove to the dump station and got on the Trans Canada Hiway (#1) heading west. Our destination today is Gateway to the North RV Park in Deer Lake.  As the story goes, this place is called Deer Lake because, the locals saw what they believed to be a herd of deer swimming across the lake. It was later determined they were caribou, as there is a large herd in this area.

It was another beautiful, sunny day with a high of 23C and actually felt warmer than that by the time we arrived at Gateway to the North RV Park in Deer Lake, around 1 p.m.  We noticed the scenery in the central region of Newfoundland is different from the Eastern and Avalon Regions. Vegetation along this section of the Trans Canada seemed to be thicker and greener with a lot more deciduous trees.  There is also a lot more up and down as we approached the Long Range Mountains.

The campground isn’t much to look at. It is right beside Route 430, The Viking Trail to Gros Morne National Park and L’Ans-aux Meadows. Sites are gravel, mostly pull-thrus and ours was long enough for us to park our car behind our rig and still have room. There are some low shrubs and unkept grass/weeds between the sites. Most sites have a picnic table and fire ring. We do have 50 amp and we have pretty good wi-fi, still not good enough to make Skype calls but fast enough for everything else we want to do. We are staying for 7 nights and they only charged us for 6 and gave us the 7^th night free. It is a Passport America park but they do not accept it in the summer months. They did give us an additional discount for our Good Sam membership. 

Once we were settled, we spent the rest of the day enjoying the weather.  We drove into Deer Lake to check it out and see what was in town. We found the local Foodland grocery store. They said there are 9 restaurants but we didn’t find them. We did find the Tim Horton's, the KFC with a sit down area; a Chinese Food restaurant, Pizza Delight and as we were driving back, realized we missed a section of town that may have more on it.