Argentia ferry terminal → Comfort Cove-Newstead
Argentia ferry to Comfort Cove-Newstead
- Distance
- 377.8 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Apple Maps · Google Maps · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeYou 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: Lewisporte (350 km), Twillingate (402 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Joey's Lookout
A mapped viewpoint on the Trans-Canada east of Gander, effectively on the road. OpenStreetMap records only the name and that it is a viewpoint. It is easy to miss at highway speed.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Silent Witnesses MemorialDetour
A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, unveiled in 1990 for the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of 12 December 1985. An American soldier stands atop a rock holding the hands of a civilian boy and girl, each child carrying an olive branch for the Screaming Eagles' peacekeeping mission in the Sinai; they were going home for Christmas. The trio look toward Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where a similar statue looks back.
Stopping here adds 2.4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Silent Witnesses Memorial ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: North Atlantic Aviation Museum
An aviation museum in Gander. Gander exists because of transatlantic flight, and this is where that story is kept. The town's own airport is right here, and the rest of the drive from it is 90.7 km. Check current hours with the museum.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: North Atlantic Aviation Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Notre Dame Provincial ParkDetour
The one ParksNL park near the end of this drive, close to where Route 340 leaves the Trans-Canada. ParksNL publishes its season.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Notre Dame Provincial Park ↑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.
Drive measured Oct 16, 2026, Argentia ferry terminal to Comfort Cove-Newstead. 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 →
377.8 km. Off the ferry at Argentia, out to the Trans-Canada and west past Clarenville, through Terra Nova and Gander, then north on Route 340 and off on Route 343 to the Bay of Exploits.
Seasonal crossing. Confirm the sailing first: the year-round door, Port aux Basques, is on the far side of the island.
Places to eat on the way
61 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 61, 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 143.3
- Tim Hortonscafékm 143.3
- Brownings Pubpubkm 145 · 1212 m off the road
- Flannigans Pubpubkm 145 · 1229 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 145.1 · 1264 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 146.6 · 593 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 146.6 · 676 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 146.7 · 773 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 146.7 · 539 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 146.7 · 488 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 146.7 · 488 m off the road
- Rod's Restaurantrestaurantkm 146.9 · 508 m off the road
- Don Cherry's Sports Bar & Grillrestaurantkm 146.9 · 202 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 147 · 585 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 147 · 585 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 147.1 · 1142 m off the road
- Snack shack.fast foodkm 176.2 · 624 m off the road
- Happy Adventure Cafecafékm 214.8 · 1229 m off the road
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 222.9
- Family Pizzarestaurantkm 252.5 · 1870 m off the road
- Copper Kettle Restaurantrestaurantkm 259.3
- The Newfoundland Tea Co. Restaurant & Shoprestaurantkm 288.3 · 1906 m off the road
- Swiss Chaletrestaurantkm 288.5 · 870 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 288.5 · 845 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 288.6 · 816 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 288.6 · 1036 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 288.6 · 1045 m off the road
- Wing 'n Itrestaurantkm 288.6 · 1795 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 288.8 · 1104 m off the road
- Mystic Roomrestaurantkm 288.8 · 800 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 288.8 · 1480 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 288.8 · 1111 m off the road
- The Shawarma Stationrestaurantkm 288.9 · 1143 m off the road
- Ches's Fish & Chipsrestaurantkm 289 · 956 m off the road
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 289 · 1866 m off the road
- DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 289.1
- Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 289.3 · 986 m off the road
- Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 289.3 · 869 m off the road
- Grecofast foodkm 289.3 · 883 m off the road
- Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 289.4 · 974 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 289.4
- Louis Geesfast foodkm 289.4 · 809 m off the road
- New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 289.4 · 906 m off the road
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 289.4 · 954 m off the road
- East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 289.4 · 949 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 289.5
- A&Wfast foodkm 289.8
- Subwayfast foodkm 289.8
- Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 311.1 · 598 m off the road
- Greco Pizzarestaurantkm 345
- Tim Hortonscafékm 345
- Subwayfast foodkm 345
- KFCfast foodkm 345.1
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 345.3 · 165 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-10-16. How we measure · Add a missing place
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A marked viewpoint on New World Island, on the road.
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A fishing heritage site on the water just out of Twillingate, on the road.
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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 Blandford km 176, Glowertown km 224, Gander km 290, Lewisporte km 346
- Longest stretch without one
- 118 km
- the ARG door → Goobies, of 377 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Comfort Cove-Newstead
- 31.9 km
- by road, at Lewisporte
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-10): Whitbourne (km 45) and Clarenville (km 144) and Gander (km 290). Not counted until it opens.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-10. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 33%
- 105.8 km of 377.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 67%
- 217.2 km: surface not recorded
Why it matters: 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. The terms themselves. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-10-16. 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 door
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.
Check it now →Provincial parksSeasonal — typically late spring into the fall
Notre Dame is an operating provincial park with dates that move year to year; ParksNL publishes them park by park.
Check it now →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 377.8 km of mostly unlit two-lane highway after a long crossing.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Most of this is the Trans-Canada, paved and well travelled, across open country. Check before you set off.
Check it now →
Onward from Comfort Cove-Newstead
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
The drive back
Comfort Cove-Newstead back to Argentia measures 379 km — 0.8 km longer than the drive out.
Plan back from your boarding time. Give the planner your sailing time and it tells you when to set off.
How early to arrive depends on the vessel and the season: check Marine Atlantic →
Return measured 2026-10-16, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions people actually ask
How far is Comfort Cove-Newstead from the Argentia ferry?＋
377.8 km from the ferry terminal to the centre of the town.
What route do I take?＋
Out of Argentia to the Trans-Canada (Route 1), west through Clarenville and Gander, then north on Route 340 and Route 343 to the coast.
Argentia or Port aux Basques?＋
Argentia lands 192.1 km closer (377.8 km against 569.9), but it sails seasonally; Port aux Basques runs all year. Marine Atlantic publishes both.
Is there anywhere worth stopping on the way?＋
Most of the stops come late, around Gander: Joey's Lookout, the Silent Witnesses Memorial, the North Atlantic Aviation Museum, and Notre Dame Provincial Park near the end.
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Run a place to stay, a tour or a town page on this drive? Add this map to your site. It answers how far from the airport? Free, no account, and we keep the figures current.
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