Burgeo is home to Sandbanks Provincial Park, named for its sand dunes and long expanses of flat, sandy beaches.

[12] Burgeo has a subarctic climate (Dfc) with long, cold winters and short, cool summers.

[15] The famed Canadian nature writer and naturalist Farley Mowat lived in Burgeo for five years during his time in Newfoundland.

[18] Route 480, also referred to as the Burgeo road, was a frequent subject for famed Canadian painter Christopher Pratt, who depicted it on several occasions and began his book Thoughts on Driving to Venus there in 1999.

I always remember these "Car Books" began on this road—intended to be a short-hand, stream of consciousness, trigger-happy sort of thing, a sequence of responses, not considered efforts at insights or forced philosophies.'