Gros Morne National Park is undoubtedly one of the most impressive natural features in eastern Canada, a magnificent landscape of fiords and mountains, partly covered with dense forest, and with wildlife and plant life adapted to cold conditions which are found scarcely anywhere else so far south.

The slopes of the Gros Morne (French for "big bleak hill") end in a plateau at about 600 m (1970 ft), with cliffs dropping down to the deep fiords (750 m (2460 ft)) of the Gulf of St Lawrence.

The park clearly shows the results of 400 million years of continental drift followed by successive ice ages which ended 12,000 years ago. The Long Range Mountains are amongst the oldest mountains on earth and have been shaped by advancing ice and the forces of erosion.

Over 1000 items are on display in the historical little Trinity Museum and Archives, built in 1880 and open every day in summer; these include models of ships and items connected with whale-catching and with handicrafts such as shoe-making and barrel-making.

The museum is laid out in chronological order beginning with the war years and creation of the airport, through to commercial flying and technological advances.

Roads 430 and 436 from the TransCanada Highway, Deer Lake turn-off, about 400 km (250 mi.) north of Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park, a green plain with some moorland, lies at the northern tip of the Newfoundland Great Northern Peninsula. Here were discovered six houses made of grass sods, probably built by the Vikings around the year 1000. Since 1978 it has been the first of its kind to be included in the UNESCO World List of Protected Cultural Monuments.

Back in 1962 a small Viking settlement dating from around ad 1000 was discovered here. It is the oldest known European settlement in North America and to date is the only authentic trace of Viking settlements in the New World. Probably L'Anse aux Meadows is the "Vinland" discovered by Leif Erikson.