Colliers → Paradise
Admiral's Coast
Getting to the start from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 52.8 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
- Roads
- 60
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Stop 1: Seal Cove
The western end of Conception Bay South, which the province's tourism site describes as a string of shoreline communities from Seal Cove to Topsail.
Directions →Show on map: Seal Cove ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Kelligrews
The community of the song Kelligrews Soirée, which also names the town's yearly folk festival, per the province's tourism site.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Long Pond
Where the province's tourism site sends divers first. The wrecks are ore carriers sunk by U-boats off Bell Island in the Second World War, and boat tours here go whale watching, cod fishing and sea kayaking.
Directions →Show on map: Long Pond ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Manuels River Interpretation Centre
A fossil bed and walking trail on Manuels River, with guided walks back to when trilobites ruled the seas. The centre covers the area's history and conservation, per the province's tourism site.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Topsail Beach
A beach on Route 60 where people picnic, gather round beach fires and watch boats sail to and from the Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club. The province's tourism site rates its sunsets on a clear day among the island's best.
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Drive measured Oct 20, 2026, Colliers to Paradise. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
52.8 km on Route 60. The province’s Admiral’s Coast follows the western and southern shore of Conception Bay, from Colliers through Holyrood and Conception Bay South to Paradise. Small towns give way to the suburbs of St. John’s.
The stops are close together near the end: Kelligrews, Long Pond, the Manuels River trail and Topsail Beach sit within 12 km of each other.
Sunrise and sunset at Paradise, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:44 am | 4:35 pm |
| February | 7:07 am | 5:23 pm |
| March | 7:15 am | 7:06 pm |
| April | 6:13 am | 7:49 pm |
| May | 5:24 am | 8:30 pm |
| June | 5:03 am | 9:00 pm |
| July | 5:18 am | 8:55 pm |
| August | 5:57 am | 8:15 pm |
| September | 6:37 am | 7:15 pm |
| October | 7:19 am | 6:14 pm |
| November | 7:06 am | 4:26 pm |
| December | 7:42 am | 4:10 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
46 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 15 km — after Mary Brown's, until Denvers Fine Foods Ltd..
All 46, in the order you pass them — open the list
- Home of Rumorspubkm 6.4
- Tim Hortonscafékm 19.4
- Mama's Lunch Pizzeriarestaurantkm 19.5
- Subwayfast foodkm 19.7
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 19.8
- Denvers Fine Foods Ltd.restaurantkm 34.8
- Tim Hortonscafékm 35.6
- Subwayfast foodkm 35.6
- Tim Hortonscafékm 35.7 · 1382 m off the road
- Wing 'N' Itrestaurantkm 35.7 · 1439 m off the road
- Mary Browns Chickenfast foodkm 36.1
- Tinys Bar and Grillfast foodkm 36.5
- Bernard Stanley Gastropubrestaurantkm 38.3
- Bernard Stanley Gastropubrestaurantkm 38.3
- Dragon 88restaurantkm 41.6
- Jungle Jimsrestaurantkm 41.8
- Tim Hortonscafékm 41.8
- Starbuckscafékm 41.9
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 41.9
- Starbuckscafékm 41.9
- Subwayfast foodkm 42
- Peter's Pizzarestaurantkm 42
- KFCfast foodkm 42
- A&Wfast foodkm 42.3
- A&Wfast foodkm 42.3
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 42.3
- Domino'sfast foodkm 42.7
- Hometown Pizzeriarestaurantkm 43.2
- Hometown Pizzeriarestaurantkm 43.2
- Seaside Restaurantrestaurantkm 44.6
- Topsail Breeze Restaurantrestaurantkm 46.5
- Woodstock Colonial Innrestaurantkm 49.4
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 51.6
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 52.2
- Pür & Simplerestaurantkm 52.3
- Starbuckscafékm 52.3
- Coffee Matters Paradisecafékm 52.5 · 1427 m off the road
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 52.5 · 352 m off the road
- Domino'sfast foodkm 52.5 · 1032 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 52.5 · 971 m off the road
- Cojonesrestaurantkm 52.5 · 1052 m off the road
- Ye's Wokrestaurantkm 52.5 · 1512 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 52.5 · 1473 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 52.5 · 1481 m off the road
- Tiny's Bar and Grillrestaurantkm 52.5 · 1939 m off the road
- Canteenrestaurantkm 52.6 · 422 m off the road
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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Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Holyrood km 19, Paradise km 53
- Longest stretch without one
- 34 km
- Holyrood → Paradise, of 53 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Paradise
- at Paradise
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: 70% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 30%
- 13.8 km of 52.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 70%
- 31.6 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 2026-10-20. 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 states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Route 60 runs through towns most of the way, but the stretch past Colliers and Holyrood is rural road.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 60 is the shore road the whole way. Near Paradise it carries the traffic of the St. John's suburbs.
511nl.ca →
Onward from Paradise
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
Questions
How far is the Admiral's Coast?＋
52.8 km on Route 60 from Colliers to Paradise, measured on the OSRM driving profile. Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, which names the drive, gives about 90 km. It calls its distances estimates and does not publish the line it measured, so this page gives the road distance between the two ends it names.
Where do I start, and which way round?＋
The province gives Colliers, Conception Bay South or Paradise as starts, and says its drives can be taken in either direction. This page runs from Colliers east to Paradise. The distance is the same the other way.
Is there diving or a boat trip on this drive?＋
Yes, per the province's tourism site. Divers go to the ore carriers sunk off Bell Island in the Second World War, and boat tours run whale watching, cod fishing and sea kayaking. Long Pond is where the province points divers first.
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