Fogo Island Inn

Design Forward, Luxury Amenities, Polished

Find yourself at one of the four corners of the Earth

Set along the rocky North Atlantic Coast, “on an island off of an island,” Fogo Island Inn, in Newfoundland Canada is a Leader Hotel Member of Regenerative Resorts. Built on the principle of respect for nature and culture, the Inn offers a contemporary take on an authentic Newfoundland aesthetic all while striving to minimize impact on the surrounding environment and uplift the local community via its social business model.

Whether evident in the structure of the building, the handmade furniture, the lack of plastic onsite, or hand-lined cod served at dinner, Fogo Island Inn invites guests to partake in a new kind of stay where community and sense of place are honoured and respected. Every one of the Inn’s 29 one-of-a-kind guest rooms and suites has dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows that open onto the wildest and most powerful oceans on the planet.

Fogo Island Inn was ranked as the World’s 3^rd Best Hotel by Travel + Leisure in 2020 and has been the recipient of numerous accolades since its founding in 2013.

Amenities at Fogo Island Inn

29 unique individually decorated guest suites

Glass-walled dining room offering four-story views of the wild North Atlantic

Rooftop terrace with northern European saunas and outdoor hot tubs

Contemporary art gallery featuring internationally acclaimed artists

Wi-fi throughout the inn and free local and long-distance calls

37-seat cinema, a partnership with the National Film Board of Canada

Library with historic collections on the region

Complimentary bicycles

Gathering Hall for Meetings and Events with Ocean Views

Common lounge areas with six wood-burning fireplaces

What to know about Fogo Island Inn

hotel address

Fogo Island, Canada

closest airport

Gander, Newfoundland (YQX)

from airport

The hotel is a 1 hour drive to Ferry followed by a 1 hour Ferry Crossing

About the Location

Fogo Island is big and small – big enough to be interesting, yet small enough to know. Newfoundland’s outport communities, including Fogo Island, offer specific and pure forms of hospitality and social richness. The people of Fogo Island are deeply bound up in the nature and culture of their Island, and have continued to devise clever solutions to the wicked problems of modernity. They have worked with the ocean, with the land, and with one another, in order to continue to live, work, and thrive in one of Canada’s oldest European settled communities at the edge of the North American continent.

Highlights & Activities

Forage 20 varieties of Wild Berries

With over 20 types of edible berries on Fogo Island, keep an eye out for partridgeberries, marshberries, crowberries, whorts, bakeapples, and blueberries as you gather wood for a traditional Fogo Island boil up meal.

Craft a spoon with the woodworkers

Fogo Island Inn’s spoon-making workshop is an exercise in extraction; starting with just a block of wood, by the end of the day a beautiful spoon will materialize.

View 10,000 year old Icebergs

Each spring 10,000-year-old icebergs sail past Fogo Island’s shores before moving on to warmer waters. Enjoy a cocktail chilled by iceberg fragments while soaking in one of the rooftop hot tubs.

Fish and Ships

Hop onboard a docked crab fishing boat, meet with a local fisher, and explore Fogo Island’s fishing industry to deep dive it's fascinating past and present.

Learn to read a landscape

Explore the island’s unique and biodiverse ecosystem while learning how to read a landscape and identify local wildlife, using a trail with the Geologist in Residence at Fogo Island Inn.

Boat Building Workshop

Visit the Boat Building workshop to learn about the local boat builder’s special building techniques, and listen closely as he recounts compelling experiences of a life lived between wind and water.

Snowshoeing

Strap on a pair and begin your winter-land adventure

Hiking & Backpacking

Venture out, guided or unguided, on over 200 km of surrounding trails

Caribou Watching

Observe caribou in their natural environment as they graze and wonder the island

A Leader Hotel Member of Regenerative Resorts, Fogo Island Inn offers a contemporary take on an authentic Newfoundland aesthetic all while striving to minimize impact on the surrounding environment and uplift the local community via its social business model.

Fogo Island Inn has been a driving force in fortifying culture and place by catalyzing a renaissance of traditional building techniques. In partnership with local builders, Shorefast Foundation has created a heritage collection of wooden boats and has also begun a groundbreaking boatbuilding program with students and staff at the local high school to pass on the knowledge of the punts to future generations.

At Fogo Island Inn, guests can opt in to achieve carbon neutrality for their stay. The inn provides guests with an estimate of the carbon footprint of their visit and the option to purchase carbon offsets through the Newfoundland Climate and Ecosystems Conservancy Project. Other initiatives include collecting rainwater from the roof and storing and filtering it for various uses. Solar thermal panels on the roof supply hot water for radiant heating as well as for laundry and kitchen equipment.

The Inn aims for 80 percent of its ingredients to come from Fogo Island and local suppliers in the surrounding region. Dining options include berries that grow in barrens and bogs; edible plants plucked from shorelines and woodlands; and vegetables and rhubarb fresh from the garden or overwintered in grass-topped root cellars. The Inn also operates a zero-waste kitchen, using bottling, pickling and fermentation to preserve food surpluses.

Owned by a registered charity called Shorefast, Fogo Island Inn is a social business and 100% of operating surpluses are re-invested back into the community to stimulate local employment, sourcing, infrastructure investment, and support community programs.

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