Argentia ferry terminal → Grand Falls-Windsor
Argentia ferry to Grand Falls-Windsor
- Distance
- 385.5 km
- Drive time
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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: Botwood (379 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: Square Pond
A pond-side stop beside the Trans-Canada. OpenStreetMap still uses its old provincial-park name; the province no longer lists it. A place to stretch your legs.
Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Square Pond ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: North Atlantic Aviation Museum
On the Trans-Canada at 135, per the museum's own page: Gander's story from 1935 to 2001, the Second World War, the transatlantic crossroads years and 9/11. Hours are linked below.
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: Upper Falls Lookout
One of three viewpoints mapped together beside the Trans-Canada at the Norris Arm junction. It is the upper waterfall lookout on the Eel Brook Trail, a short walk past Eel Brook's falls: AllTrails lists it at about 1.3 miles out and back, with Lower Falls Lookout as the other viewpoint.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Upper Falls Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: The nordic trails east of townDetour
6.7 km of mapped cross-country ski trail in the woods off the Trans-Canada, just east of Grand Falls-Windsor. The club running them is not named on the map; ask locally about grooming and season. The weather strip above says whether there is snow.
Stopping here adds 3.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: The nordic trails east of town ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Joe Byrne Memorial StadiumDetour
Grand Falls-Windsor's indoor rink, just off the route (OpenStreetMap mislabels its sport as field hockey). Check with the town for public skate times and ice rentals.
Stopping here adds 3.4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium ↑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.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Argentia ferry terminal to Grand Falls-Windsor. 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 →
385.5 km. Off the ferry at Argentia to Grand Falls-Windsor, on Routes 100 and 1.
When you get to Grand Falls-Windsor
- Staying in Grand Falls-Windsor? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Grand Falls-Windsor → — 48 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Curling Rink, Grand Falls-Windsor → · Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium → · Classic Theater → · Queen Street Dinner Theater → — the venues here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Places to eat on the way
75 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 58.5 km — after Riverside Diner, until Irving.
All 75, 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 · 200 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 · 869 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 · 1110 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 · 600 m off the road
- Irvingrestaurantkm 369.6
- Tim Hortonscafékm 369.6
- Furey's Trailway Take-Outfast foodkm 369.7 · 425 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 382.7 · 488 m off the road
- Greco Pizzafast foodkm 382.8 · 383 m off the road
- Taiwanrestaurantkm 382.8 · 1240 m off the road
- Juniper Kitchen and Bistrorestaurantkm 382.8 · 1259 m off the road
- Sarah's Dinerrestaurantkm 382.9 · 1171 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 383.7 · 224 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 383.7 · 336 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 383.7 · 544 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 383.7 · 706 m off the road
- Wing'n Itrestaurantkm 383.7 · 1061 m off the road
- War Wick'srestaurantkm 383.7 · 1154 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 383.7 · 197 m off the road
- Tai Sun Restaurantrestaurantkm 383.7 · 222 m off the road
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairrestaurantkm 383.7 · 241 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 383.7
- A&Wfast foodkm 383.9 · 785 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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Short drives from Grand Falls-Windsor
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A town trail the province's tourism site names, with a Nature Centre on the wetlands and their plants and animals.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Corduroy Brook Nature Reservestop2.7 km
A network of walking trails and boardwalks along Corduroy Brook, mapped inside Grand Falls-Windsor itself.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Loggers' Life Provincial Museumstop4.2 km
A reconstructed 1920s logging camp on the edge of Grand Falls-Windsor, mapped right beside the driven line.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze On the Exploits, the island's longest river, where as many as 30,000 salmon run upstream to spawn each year, per the province's tourism site.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Bishop’s Falls Heritage Centrestop16 km
A small heritage centre in Bishop's Falls, just off the Trans-Canada.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Peter's River Hiking Trailtrail · 5 km walk · easy31 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Botwoodtown33 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Botwood Flying Boat Museumstop37 km
In a former WWII anti-submarine base at the Botwood Heritage Park.
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More, up to 79 km (8)
- Eelbrook Hiking Trailtrail · 2.5 km loop · easy43 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Notre Dame Provincial Parkstop52 km
The one ParksNL park on this drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Gill's Point Trailtrail · 8.2 km walk · moderate55 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze A climb to the summit for a view over the whole area, per the province's tourism site.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Point Leamingtonstop60 km
The working town halfway up the peninsula.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Lewisportetown66 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Woolfrey's Pond Lookoutstop67 km
The town's pondside park at the edge of Lewisporte, with a lookout and boardwalk loops above the water.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Glenwood Provincial Parkstop79 km
A campground just off the Trans-Canada.
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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, Bishop’s Falls km 373
- Longest stretch without one
- 118 km
- Argentia → Goobies, of 385 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Grand Falls-Windsor
- 12.6 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): 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 2026-10-22. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 64% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 36%
- 126.2 km of 385.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 64%
- 219.6 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 2026-10-19. 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 385.5 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 at one end of the island say little about the other. Check before you set off.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is Grand Falls-Windsor from the Argentia ferry?＋
385.5 km from the ferry terminal to Grand Falls-Windsor.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 100 and 1. 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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