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Driving from Argentia ferry terminal

You come off the boat with your own car, so the drive starts the moment the ramp goes down. (Yes, the site is called From the Airport. The boat counts.) Of the 69 places on this site, 8 are nearer Argentia than any airport or other ferry. The table below says where the rest are nearer from.

Heading to L'Anse aux Meadows? The Port aux Basques ferry lands 326 km closer. See Port aux Basques → or compare them all

On foot off the boat? We have not mapped buses or taxis from this terminal yet: every figure on this page is a drive.

When to come? Best months for icebergs, whales, puffins and warm weather →

Getting here is the long part

The crossing
16.5 hours
North Sydney, Nova Scotia, 518 km of water
When it runs
Mid-June to late September, up to three times per week
The other crossing
Port aux Basques is 7 hours — Year-round, daily service

That is 9.5 hours more at sea than the other crossing. The drives from here are shorter, but not by that much.

Port aux Basques · 7 h →St. John's136 km by roadNorth SydneyArgentia · 16.5 h
North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Argentia: Marine Atlantic gives it as about 16.5 hours over 518 km of water, mid-june to late september, up to three times per week. Off the ramp, Route 100 meets the Trans-Canada (Route 1) at Whitbourne, the green line. St. John's is 136 km by road from the terminal, measured start to finish. The grey line is the other crossing, to Port aux Basques (about 7 hours, year-round, daily service). Ferry lines and roads are as OpenStreetMap maps them (way/154560626; relation/1732843); the hours and the season are the operator's own figures, not ours.

Marine Atlantic's own published route figures, read 2026-10-02. No departure time or fare is copied here — those are theirs and they change. Their route page →

Sailings, fares and the season are Marine Atlantic's to state and change. Marine Atlantic →

Plan the whole trip from the ramp

The planner treats Argentia like any airport: arrive here, leave from any airport or ferry, with your days laid out on the road between.

Measured drives from this terminal

58 of them. Every other place reached from here is in the tables below, with the figure, whether or not it has a page of its own yet.

What Argentia is closest to

Measured from the terminal, the same way as every drive on this site, on 2026-10-10.

And where another airport or ferry is closer

Places another airport or ferry is closer to. The right-hand column is the distance that matters.

Eating before you drive: 1 place the open map records in Argentia →

Compare every destination from every airport and ferry · every measured drive

Why this crossing is worth its own page: it is nearer than any airport or other ferry to eight measured places, including Cape St. Mary's, where it beats St. John's by over 100 km. Landing here puts you on the Avalon already past the city, which is the opposite of how most arrivals work.What it is not is a shortcut. Sixteen and a half hours at sea buys anywhere from 7 to 147 km of driving, so this crossing earns its place when the crossing is part of the trip — a car you did not want to fly without, a seasonal plan built around the Avalon — and not when the point is to arrive quickly. The comparison table matters because the answer here is genuinely often Argentia. The box above it matters because the answer is never “and it is faster”.

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