Argentia ferry terminal → Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
Argentia ferry to the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
- Distance
- 264.3 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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You arrive by ferry — North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Argentia
Marine Atlantic runs this crossing seasonally, against year-round sailings into Port aux Basques. People choose it for where it lands. Marine Atlantic publishes sailings and fares.
Operated by Marine Atlantic. The drive below starts where the boat lands.
Crossings & current schedule →Faded lines are other drives from Argentia ferry terminal into this area: Port Rexton (215 km), Salvage (252 km), Trinity (217 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Fitzgerald's Pond Provincial Park
A Provincial Park Reserve, not a provincial park with a campground. ParksNL defines these as pre-1997 parks whose campground area was deproclaimed and privatised, with the rest kept to protect natural features. It states that park reserves have no visitor services, so there is no washroom. It sits on the driven line and costs no extra driving.
Directions →Show on map: Fitzgerald's Pond Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Elliston Puffin Viewing PointDetour
The viewpoint facing the Elliston puffin colony, close enough to watch from land in season. The birds keep their own calendar. The spur adds some driving.
Stopping here adds 9.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Elliston Puffin Viewing Point ↑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 100 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 63 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% 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 230 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 45 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 4% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 238 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 12 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 36% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 235 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 33 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 2% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Argentia ferry terminal to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse. 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 →
264.3 km. Off the ferry at Argentia to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse, on Routes 100, 1, 230, 238 and 235.
When you get to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
- Where to eat near Cape Bonavista Lighthouse → — 16 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
44 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 47.2 km — after Subway, until Meghan's Restaurant.
All 44, in the order you pass them — open the list
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 45 · 835 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 45
- Tim Hortonscafékm 45.1 · 224 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 45.1 · 180 m off the road
- Meghan's Restaurantrestaurantkm 92.3
- Robin's Donutscafékm 116.5
- Breen'srestaurantkm 116.8
- Tim Hortonscafékm 143.4
- Tim Hortonscafékm 143.4
- Brownings Pubpubkm 145.4
- Flannigans Pubpubkm 145.4
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 145.5
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 145.6 · 939 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 145.7 · 1039 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 145.7 · 900 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 145.7 · 1105 m off the road
- Rod's Restaurantrestaurantkm 145.7 · 1410 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 145.7 · 1425 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 145.7 · 1160 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 145.7 · 1161 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 145.7 · 1423 m off the road
- Don Cherry's Sports Bar & Grillrestaurantkm 145.7 · 1615 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 148.3 · 1136 m off the road
- The Curtain Call Cafecafékm 153.6
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 170.1 · 153 m off the road
- Dunrovinrestaurantkm 171.4 · 173 m off the road
- The Galleyrestaurantkm 212.8
- Port Rexton Brewerypubkm 214 · 714 m off the road
- Oh my Cheesesfast foodkm 214 · 726 m off the road
- 2 Whales cafecafékm 214.5
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 255.4
- Neil's Yardcafékm 257 · 1196 m off the road
- Mifflin's Tea Roomcafékm 257 · 515 m off the road
- PK's Restaurant and Take-Outrestaurantkm 257 · 686 m off the road
- Bonavista Bicycle Picnics and Cafecafékm 257 · 1142 m off the road
- The Quintal Cafécafékm 257 · 561 m off the road
- Ragged Rocks Gastropubpubkm 257 · 618 m off the road
- The Boreal Dinerrestaurantkm 257 · 549 m off the road
- Walkham's Gate Pub & Cafepubkm 257 · 620 m off the road
- Mifflin's Tea Roomcafékm 257 · 515 m off the road
- Bonavista Brewing Taproompubkm 257 · 517 m off the road
- Marsh's Snack Barrestaurantkm 257 · 440 m off the road
- Oceanview Restaurantrestaurantkm 259.3
- Restaurant glace take outrestaurantkm 261.5
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
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.
Short drives from Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Cape Bonavista Lighthouse.
- Dungeon Provincial Parkstop5.1 km
A ParksNL day-use park around a collapsed sea cave, with two ocean windows in a sheep pasture, just before the cape.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mathew (ship) Replicamuseum6.8 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mockbeggar Plantationstop6.8 km
A provincial historic site and the legacy of F.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Ryan Premises National Historic Sitestop7.1 km
The Parks Canada site on Bonavista's waterfront tells five centuries of the salt-fish trade in the merchant premises where it ran.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze Opened at Elliston in June 2014, a hundred years after the disaster it exists for.
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
- Goobies km 118, Port Rexton km 214, Bonavista km 256
- Longest stretch without one
- 118 km
- Argentia → Goobies, of 264 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
- 7.9 km
- by road, at Bonavista
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Whitbourne (km 45) and Clarenville (km 144). 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: 39% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 61%
- 146.9 km of 264.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 39%
- 94.2 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.
The crossing you arrive onSeasonal — Argentia is not the year-round crossing
Port aux Basques runs through the winter; Argentia does not. Confirm the sailing first, because the other landing is on the far side of the island.
marineatlantic.ca →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 264.3 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 change fast on this coast. Check before you set off.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is Cape Bonavista Lighthouse from the Argentia ferry?＋
264.3 km from the ferry terminal to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 100, 1, 230, 238 and 235. 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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