Argentia ferry terminal → Leading Tickles
Argentia ferry to Leading Tickles and the Bay of Exploits
- Distance
- 435.5 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: Triton (511 km), Pilley's Island ferry terminal (507 km), Lewisporte (350 km), Botwood (379 km), Comfort Cove-Newstead (378 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: 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 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: 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) · Waze
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 350 →Whole road: 2 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 48 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 95% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Argentia ferry terminal to Leading Tickles. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Keep for offline ↓Ferry info: Marine Atlantic →
435.5 km. Off the ferry at Argentia to Leading Tickles, on Routes 100, 1 and 350.
Places to eat on the way
62 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 68.7 km — after Riverside Diner, until Dockside Restaurant.
All 62, 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
- Dockside Restaurantrestaurantkm 379.8 · 1506 m off the road
- Donninis Express and Railway Caferestaurantkm 379.9 · 1523 m off the road
- The Landing Pubpubkm 380 · 1612 m off the road
- James Restaurantrestaurantkm 380.1 · 1361 m off the road
- Mary Brownsrestaurantkm 380.1 · 1278 m off the road
- Daisy's Dinerrestaurantkm 380.2 · 1662 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
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.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Goobies km 118, Port Blandford km 176, Glowertown km 224, Gander km 290
- Longest stretch without one
- 145 km
- Gander → Leading Tickles, of 435 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Leading Tickles
- 78.4 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
No fast charger at Leading Tickles. From Gander it is 145 km there and the same back: plan on about 290 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Bishop’s Falls, 78.4 km from Leading Tickles by road, off this drive's own road.
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: 69% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 31%
- 119.4 km of 435.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 69%
- 267.8 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 435.5 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 Leading Tickles from the Argentia ferry?＋
435.5 km from the ferry terminal to Leading Tickles.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 100, 1 and 350. 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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