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The Arches Provincial Park

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To The Arches Provincial Park from every airport and ferry, measured by road.

The rock arches at The Arches Provincial Park, a grass-topped limestone formation with sea showing through its openings above a cobble beach.
The rock arches at The Arches Provincial Park, a grass-topped limestone formation with sea showing through its openings above a cobble beach.Photo: David W Enstrom · source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sunrise and sunset at The Arches Provincial Park, by month
Month (the 15th)SunriseSunset
January8:13 am4:45 pm
February7:32 am5:37 pm
March7:35 am7:24 pm
April6:28 am8:13 pm
May5:34 am8:58 pm
June5:09 am9:31 pm
July5:27 am9:25 pm
August6:09 am8:41 pm
September6:55 am7:36 pm
October7:41 am6:30 pm
November7:33 am4:37 pm
December8:13 am4:18 pm

Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.

On the way to…

  1. YDF → Port au Choix →

    Sea-carved limestone arches in the surf right beside Route 430. The map holds the park as a reserve and names the rock formation. A ten-minute leg-stretch. ParksNL lists it as day use; keep back from the sea.

    Stopping here adds about 0.4 km to that drive (236 km start to finish).

  2. YDF → Roddickton →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (352 km start to finish).

  3. Port aux Basques → Port au Choix →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (501 km start to finish).

  4. YQX → Port au Choix →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (539 km start to finish).

  5. Port aux Basques → St. Barbe ferry →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (564 km start to finish).

  6. Port aux Basques → Roddickton →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (616 km start to finish).

  7. YQX → Roddickton →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (655 km start to finish).

  8. Argentia → Port au Choix →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (826 km start to finish).

  9. YYT → Port au Choix →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (871 km start to finish).

  10. Argentia → Roddickton →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (942 km start to finish).

  11. YYT → Roddickton →

    Stopping here adds about 0 km to that drive (986 km start to finish).

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What the map knows

Mapped as nature reserve in OpenStreetMap.

While you're stopped here: Shallow Bay beach (21.7 km away)

From OpenStreetMap, 2026-09-05 (last edited 2011-12-14). Listed, not recommended. How we measure

Access: step-free or not isn't recorded. Ask before you go.

Pin and figures from OpenStreetMap node/1546465380 →

The Arches Provincial Park on the YDF → Port au Choix drive, 236 km from Deer Lake, start to finish.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.
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