Gander International Airport (YQX) → Fortune
Gander Airport (YQX) to Fortune and the France ferry
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- ⛽ Route 210 has 105 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Distance
- 378.5 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Then a ferry to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
The boat at Fortune sails to France: Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, about forty-two kilometres offshore as the crow flies. It is an international crossing, so bring a passport. Check the operator for sailings and fares; the season matters.
Operated by SPM Ferries.
Current schedule →Faded lines are other drives from Gander International into this area: Harbour Breton (280 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Frenchman's Cove Provincial ParkDetour
The ParksNL campground on this route, behind a barachois beach two-thirds of the way down the peninsula, with Fortune Bay in front. A good overnight on a drive this long. ParksNL publishes the season and sites.
Stopping here adds 4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Frenchman's Cove Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Marystown
The Burin Peninsula's service centre and shipbuilding town at the head of Mortier Bay. It is the fuel, food and hardware stop for the outports around it, and the last big one before Fortune.
Stopping here adds 1.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Marystown ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Grand Bank
The town the Grand Banks schooner fishery built, just before Fortune, with widow's-walk merchant houses that look more Lunenburg than Newfoundland. Its heritage is the schooner fleet's story.
Stopping here adds 0.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Grand Bank ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Fortune Head Geology Centre and light stationDetour
The start of the Cambrian, when complex life took over the rock record, is formally defined at Fortune Head, the headland past the ferry wharf. The centre in town explains it. Half a billion years, a lighthouse, and France on the horizon, all on one gravel road.
Stopping here adds 2.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Fortune Head Geology Centre and light station ↑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 330 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 42 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 70% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 210 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 105 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 220 →Whole road: 7 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 35 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Sep 5, 2026, terminal to the town. Your maps app gives the time on the day. The ferry after it is not included. How we measure
Then the ferry to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon — sailings & schedule →
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Download GPX (offline, Garmin)Airport info: Gander International Airport →
378 km. Gander airport to Fortune: the Trans-Canada, then Route 210 down the Burin Peninsula and Route 220 to the wharf. Where to break it. Marystown has fuel and food. Frenchman’s Cove has a barachois beach and a mapped campground if you want to stay the night. Why people come. A ferry leaves Fortune for Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, France, about forty-two kilometres offshore. Nearby Fortune Head is where geologists fixed the start of the Cambrian period in the rock record.
When you get to Fortune
- Where to eat near Fortune → — 5 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Fortune Arena → — the venue here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at Fortune, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:54 am | 4:49 pm |
| February | 7:18 am | 5:36 pm |
| March | 7:27 am | 7:18 pm |
| April | 6:26 am | 8:00 pm |
| May | 5:37 am | 8:40 pm |
| June | 5:17 am | 9:09 pm |
| July | 5:32 am | 9:05 pm |
| August | 6:09 am | 8:26 pm |
| September | 6:49 am | 7:26 pm |
| October | 7:30 am | 6:27 pm |
| November | 7:16 am | 4:39 pm |
| December | 7:52 am | 4:24 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
28 near the start: where to eat in Gander →
1 near Fortune: where to eat near Fortune →
28 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 104.9 km — after Robin's Donuts, until The Tea Rose.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Copper Kettle Restaurantrestaurantkm 31.9
- Family Pizzarestaurantkm 38.7 · 1870 m off the road
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 68.3
- Happy Adventure Cafecafékm 76.4 · 1230 m off the road
- Snack shack.fast foodkm 115 · 624 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 144.1 · 1142 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 144.2 · 585 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 144.2 · 585 m off the road
- Rod's Restaurantrestaurantkm 144.3 · 508 m off the road
- Don Cherry's Sports Bar & Grillrestaurantkm 144.3 · 202 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 144.5 · 773 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 144.5 · 489 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 144.5 · 488 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 144.6 · 593 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 144.6 · 539 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 144.6 · 676 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 146.1 · 1264 m off the road
- Brownings Pubpubkm 146.2 · 1212 m off the road
- Flannigans Pubpubkm 146.2 · 1229 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 147.9
- Tim Hortonscafékm 147.9
- Breen'srestaurantkm 173.8 · 485 m off the road
- Robin's Donutscafékm 173.8 · 864 m off the road
- The Tea Roserestaurantkm 278.7
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 316.8
- Tim Hortonscafékm 316.9
- Sharon's Nook Coffee Shoprestaurantkm 370.8 · 877 m off the road
- Sarah Rays Placerestaurantkm 370.9 · 710 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-09-12. How we measure · Add a missing place
New place to eat, or one that's missing? This list comes from OpenStreetMap, so nobody can pay to be on it. Add it to the map yourself (about twenty minutes on a phone), or email us the details and we'll put it on the map.
What has been recorded near here
Wildlife people have reported within 10 km of Fortune, and the months they saw it. Tap a name for everywhere else on our drives it turns up.
- Northern gannetseabirdMorus bassanusReports cluster in August, July, October37 reports on record
Reports, not counts: busy harbours report more. No sighting is promised, and the list covers only the species we look up. Source: GBIF, the international record of wildlife sightings, checked 2026-10-07.
Short drives from Fortune
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- Grand Bank Cape Trailtrail · 7.4 km walk · moderate3.8 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Lighthouse Coastal Trailtrail · 3.2 km walk · easy6 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Grand Bankstop6.8 km
The town the Grand Banks schooner fishery built, just before Fortune, with widow's-walk merchant houses that look more Lunenburg than Newfoundland.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Great Dansik Cove Trailtrail · 8.2 km out and back · moderate13 kmDirections →
Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Frenchman's Cove Provincial Parkstop41 km
The ParksNL campground on this route.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Marystownstop60 km
The peninsula's largest town and its service centre, with a shipyard and fabrication plant for the offshore oil industry, per the province's tourism 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
- Gander km 3, Glowertown km 68, Port Blandford km 116, Goobies km 174, Marystown km 318
- Longest stretch without one
- 144 km
- Goobies → Marystown, of 378 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Fortune
- 60.6 km
- by road, at Marystown
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Gander (km 2) and Clarenville (km 148). 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: 32% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 68%
- 224.9 km of 378.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 32%
- 107.1 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, origin to destination, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-09-06. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
The France crossingSeasonal service levels; check the operator's schedule
SPM Ferries publishes sailings from Fortune. Frequency drops outside summer, and weather holds happen in all seasons. Confirm the boat before you commit to 378 km of driving.
spm-ferries.fr →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 210 runs over high, open barrens down the peninsula's spine, known for wind and fog. Check the cameras and plow reports.
511nl.ca →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states that the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is the site's longest Gander drive, the kind that ends after dark.
gov.nl.ca →
The trails
- Lighthouse Trail5.4 km walk · moderate · about 196 m of climbing · profile, 3D flyover and the drive to the trailhead →
- Grand Bank Cape Trail7.4 km walk · moderate · about 146 m of climbing · profile, 3D flyover and the drive to the trailhead →
- Great Dansik Cove Trail8.2 km out and back · moderate · about 140 m of climbing · profile, 3D flyover and the drive to the trailhead →
- Lighthouse Coastal Trail3.2 km walk · easy · about 28 m of climbing · profile, 3D flyover and the drive to the trailhead →
Renting a car? Book the car when you book the flight.
Summer rentals sell out, says NL Tourism, and in June 2026 BNN Bloomberg reported St. John's airport agencies booked for nearly all of summer.
Both checked October 7, 2026.
Rental counters at Gander, with numbers →Arriving without a car
Not renting? Here's who Gander International Airport Authority lists at the terminal.
No rideshare here.
The Airport Authority's transport page lists no rideshare service (checked 2026-09-15).
Taxi
Busy Bee Cabs, which the Airport Authority says runs a 24-hour service available curbside in the Domestic Arrivals area.
Coach
DRL Coachlines runs the island's one scheduled coach, once a day each way, between St. John's and the Marine Atlantic terminal at Port aux Basques. It stops at Gander Airport itself (the restaurant), and at Lewisporte, Grand Falls-Windsor, Deer Lake and Corner Brook among others. It reaches no island and no national park. Tickets are bought on the bus, cash only. The Airport Authority says a wheelchair-accessible bus needs 48 hours' notice. Times and fares are DRL's: drl-lr.com.
Limousine
Nobel Limousines, listed by the Airport Authority.
Avis, Budget, National and Enterprise are listed at the airport. The Authority says accessible vehicles with wheelchair accommodation or hand controls are limited and need 48 hours' notice.
Source: Gander International Airport Authority,2026-09-15. Check there for fares and times.
The drive back
Measured the other way, Fortune back to Gander is the same distance: 378 km.
Plan back from your check-in time. Going home, the ferry comes first: confirm the sailing, then count back. Give the planner your flight time and it tells you when to set off.
How early to arrive depends on the carrier and the season: check Gander International Airport →
Return measured 2026-09-29, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions
Can I really take a ferry to France from here?＋
Yes. Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is France: French passport control, euro prices, and clocks half an hour ahead of Newfoundland's. The crossing from Fortune takes about an hour with SPM Ferries; check their schedule. Bring your passport.
Why is Fortune Head a big deal?＋
The world's geologists fixed the global reference section for the base of the Cambrian, where complex animal life shows up in the rock, at this headland. The Geology Centre in town explains it. The cliffs are a protected reserve, so look but do not hammer.
Is this drivable as a day trip?＋
No. It is 757 km of driving around whatever you came for. Frenchman's Cove is the overnight on the way down, and Grand Bank and Fortune are worth an evening. The ferry, if you take it, makes it three days.
Gander or St. John's for the Burin Peninsula?＋
By road St. John's is slightly nearer, 366 km against 378 km from Gander, and the Argentia ferry nearer still, at 322 km. From Gander you get Terra Nova's park corridor and the 210 down the whole peninsula, and central Newfoundland's icebergs and trails on the same trip as France.
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