Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Brewed Awakening
(see 1)
5
Gitano's
A2
Thistle's Place
(see 5)
Shopping
Sights & Activities
Captain James Cook Monument
MONUMENT
(Crow Hill Rd)
While this clifftop monument is admirable - a tribute to James Cook for his
work in surveying the region in the mid-1760s - it's the panoramic view over the Bay of
Islands that is the real payoff. Cook's names for many of the islands, ports and water-
ways you'll see, such as the Humber Arm and Hawke's Bay, remain today.
The site is northwest of downtown via a convoluted route. Ready? Take Caribou Rd to
Poplar Rd to Country Rd, then go right on Atlantic Ave, left on Mayfair Ave and follow
the signs.
Railway Society of Newfoundland
MUSEUM
( 709-634-2720; Station Rd, off Humber Rd; admission $2; 9am-8pm Jun-Aug)
Within his-
toric Humbermouth Station, the Railway Society of Newfoundland has a good-looking
steam locomotive and some narrow-gauge rolling stock that chugged across the province
from 1921 to 1939.
Marble Mountain
SKIING
( 709-637-7616;
www.skimarble.com
;
Hwy 1; day pass adult/child $59/32; 10am-4:30pm Sat-
Thu, 9am-9:30pm Fri Dec-Apr)
Marble Mountain is the lofty reason most visitors come to
Corner Brook. With 35 trails, four lifts, a 488m vertical drop and annual snowfall of 5m,
it offers Atlantic Canada's best skiing. There are snowboarding and tubing parks, as well
as night skiing on Friday, plus there's Oh My Jesus (you'll say it when you see the
slope).
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