Visiting

My husband and I want to visit Newfoundland next year probably in July
or August 2009. We love the outdoors, hiking, biking, kayaking...etc.
We're planning on Journeying up to Gros Morne Park. I'd like to know
what else is around as well like towns and such to hang out in and
relax maybe get a drink, see a movie, dinner. Whats a good town near
Gros Morne Park?

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My husband and I want to visit Newfoundland next year probably in July
or August 2009. We love the outdoors, hiking, biking, kayaking...etc.
We're planning on Journeying up to Gros Morne Park. I'd like to know
what else is around as well like towns and such to hang out in and
relax maybe get a drink, see a movie, dinner. Whats a good town near
Gros Morne Park?

Um St John's!

You haven't researched this very well have you?

AIH the second nearest town to the park, Corner Brook, is the second largest
settlement in Newfoundland. With a population of 20,000 I guess it has the
things that you seek, but it doesn't score very highly on "tourist
attractions".

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rner-Brook.jpg

This is 50 miles (or if you are Canadian and use those funny kilometre
things, 80) from Gros Morne.

St John's (arguably the only town in Newfoundland with any tourist
interest) is a day's drive away.

HTH

tim

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:45:01 -0700 (PDT),
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My husband and I want to visit Newfoundland next year probably in July
or August 2009. We love the outdoors, hiking, biking, kayaking...etc.
We're planning on Journeying up to Gros Morne Park. I'd like to know
what else is around as well like towns and such to hang out in and
relax maybe get a drink, see a movie, dinner. Whats a good town near
Gros Morne Park?

We toured NFLD, NS and PEI summer 2007. We had great weather and
enjoyed it very much. Gros Morne is well worth the visit. As for
towns, St. John's is about it ,-)

If you like remote places and watching whales from "terra firma" (and
don't mind spending some extra $$) you might also like Quirpon Island
(north of St. Anthony). If I recall correctly maximum number of people
who can stay on the island is about 20, when we were there we arrived
with 7 people, 2 went back the next morning so we had the whole island
between us and 2 American ladies.

There's a diary on my website (see below for link).


Bye Maurice
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