Port aux Basques ferry terminal → L'Anse aux Meadows
Port aux Basques ferry to L'Anse aux Meadows
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 701.1 km
- Drive time
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You arrive by ferry — North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Port aux Basques
Port aux Basques is the island's year-round ferry terminal, and everyone who comes through it has their own car already ashore.
Operated by Marine Atlantic. The drive below starts where the boat lands.
Crossings & current schedule →Stop 1: Newfoundland Insectarium
An insect museum in Deer Lake. Check its hours before detouring with kids in the car.
Stopping here adds 0.2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Newfoundland Insectarium ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Gros Morne Visitor Information Centre
Parks Canada's visitor centre, on Route 430 a few kilometres before Rocky Harbour. Sort out park entry here and ask what is open and passable.
Stopping here adds 0.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Gros Morne Visitor Information Centre ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: SS Ethie wreck site
A mapped shipwreck site on the Gros Morne coast. The coastal steamer Ethie went ashore here in 1919, and the beach still shows her bones. Steps from the highway.
Stopping here adds 0.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: SS Ethie wreck site ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Western Brook Pond trailhead
The trailhead for the walk in to Gros Morne's most photographed water, a landlocked fjord. Parks Canada describes the walk and the operator the boat tour; the parking is right off the highway.
Stopping here adds 0.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Western Brook Pond trailhead ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Port au ChoixDetour
The one real spur on the Viking Trail. The town's national historic site holds thousands of years of burial and settlement archaeology; people fished this point for millennia before the Norse sailed. 29 km out and back, plus time at the site.
Stopping here adds 28.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Port au Choix ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Thrombolites at Flower's Cove
A walking trail to thrombolites: mound-building microbial structures of a kind that dominated Earth billions of years ago. The trail is just off the highway.
Stopping here adds 0.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Thrombolites at Flower's Cove ↑Other map apps
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Scan with your phone to open this page there. Then tap Keep for offline before you lose signal.
⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
- Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 430 →Whole road: 17 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 97 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 44% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 436 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 16 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to L'Anse aux Meadows. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Ferry info: Marine Atlantic →
701.1 km. Off the ferry at Port aux Basques to L’Anse aux Meadows, on Routes 1, 430 and 436.
When you get to L'Anse aux Meadows
- Where to eat near L'Anse aux Meadows → — 1 place the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at L'Anse aux Meadows, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:11 am | 4:30 pm |
| February | 7:27 am | 5:25 pm |
| March | 7:27 am | 7:15 pm |
| April | 6:17 am | 8:07 pm |
| May | 5:20 am | 8:56 pm |
| June | 4:53 am | 9:30 pm |
| July | 5:11 am | 9:24 pm |
| August | 5:56 am | 8:36 pm |
| September | 6:45 am | 7:28 pm |
| October | 7:35 am | 6:20 pm |
| November | 7:30 am | 4:23 pm |
| December | 8:11 am | 4:03 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.
Places to eat on the way
11 near the start: where to eat in Port aux Basques →
1 near L'Anse aux Meadows: where to eat near L'Anse aux Meadows →
45 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 122 km — after Whale‘s Back Grub Hub, until C&P Take-Out.
All 45, in the order you pass them — open the list
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 5.3
- Robin's Donutsrestaurantkm 38.1
- Midway Motel and Loungepubkm 107.1
- Pinchgut Restaurant & Conveniencerestaurantkm 198.4
- Wendy'sfast foodkm 215.8
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 216 · 213 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 216.2 · 332 m off the road
- King Henry's Pubpubkm 216.9 · 1950 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 217 · 1877 m off the road
- Samuel's Sammiches and Sweetsrestaurantkm 217.1 · 1522 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 217.2 · 951 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 217.2 · 941 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 217.3 · 911 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 224.6
- Oasis Grill Houserestaurantkm 243 · 263 m off the road
- Cafe 59restaurantkm 243 · 845 m off the road
- Langerspubkm 264.5 · 541 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 264.6
- Peter's Pizzafast foodkm 264.6
- KFCfast foodkm 264.7
- Subwayfast foodkm 264.8 · 163 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 264.8 · 162 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 264.9 · 204 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 265 · 212 m off the road
- Wingn' itrestaurantkm 265.6
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 266.1 · 192 m off the road
- Big Stop Restaurantrestaurantkm 266.5
- Tim Hortonfast foodkm 266.5 · 222 m off the road
- Funland Resortrestaurantkm 274.7 · 937 m off the road
- food truckfast foodkm 333.9 · 952 m off the road
- Fisherman's Landingrestaurantkm 334.3 · 577 m off the road
- Earle‘srestaurantkm 334.3 · 1940 m off the road
- SunSet Cafécafékm 334.3 · 635 m off the road
- Jackie‘sfast foodkm 334.3 · 1648 m off the road
- Anchor Pubpubkm 334.3 · 566 m off the road
- Oceansrestaurantkm 334.3 · 554 m off the road
- Buoy & Arrowrestaurantkm 334.3 · 348 m off the road
- Treasure Box Crafts & Cafecafékm 334.3 · 715 m off the road
- Whale‘s Back Grub Hubrestaurantkm 353.5
- C&P Take-Outfast foodkm 475.5
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 475.8
- GNP Dinerrestaurantkm 578.2 · 220 m off the road
- Dark Tickle Shop - Cafe Nymphecafékm 683.7
- The Daily Catchrestaurantkm 685.9
- Skipper Hot's Loungerestaurantkm 694.7
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-10-18. How we measure · Add a missing place
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Short drives from L'Anse aux Meadows
Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from L'Anse aux Meadows.
- Pistolet Bay Provincial Parkstop36 km
The ParksNL campground at the peninsula's top, off Route 437 just before the Norse site.
Directions →Other map apps
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Distances by road, measured on OpenStreetMap October 16, 2026, from where this route ends. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Port aux Basques km 3, Robinsons km 107, Corner Brook km 216, Deer Lake km 267, Rocky Harbour km 335, Cow Head km 380, Flowers Cove km 580
- Longest stretch without one
- 200 km
- Cow Head → Flowers Cove, of 700 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to L'Anse aux Meadows
- 39.7 km
- by road, at St. Anthony
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Deer Lake (km 268). Not counted until it opens.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-22. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 53% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 47%
- 308.1 km of 701.1 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 53%
- 341.1 km: surface not recorded
In a rental car: Hertz Canada’s terms say “use off paved roads or on roads which are not regularly maintained” voids the damage waiver. Check your own agreement. Hertz’s terms ↗. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-10-19. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province says the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is 701.1 km, much of it unlit two-lane highway; plan the drive for daylight where you can.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Conditions at one end of the island say little about the other. Check before you set off.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is L'Anse aux Meadows from the Port aux Basques ferry?＋
701.1 km from the ferry terminal to L'Anse aux Meadows.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1, 430 and 436. Your maps app has the turns.
Do I need a car?＋
You came off the ferry with one, so this is your own drive.
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