Argentia ferry terminal → Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre
Argentia ferry to Mistaken Point
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 159.7 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: Trepassey (148 km), Ferryland (155 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: O'Reilly House Museum
A house museum run by the Placentia Area Historical Society, a nonprofit and registered charity. The Society dates the area's occupation to the 1500s and records Placentia as the French capital in Newfoundland from 1662 to 1713, and later an English capital too. It says the museum opens for the summer tourist season and sometimes longer, so check with them before planning around a date.
Stopping here adds 0.4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: O'Reilly House Museum ↑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 91 →Whole road: 2 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 49 km. Unpaved mapped: 24 km; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 90 →Whole road: 4 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 34 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 55% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 10 →Whole road: 7 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 91 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 77% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Argentia ferry terminal to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre. 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 →
159.7 km. Off the ferry at Argentia to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre, on Routes 100, 91, 90 and 10.
When you get to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre
- Where to eat near Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre → — 1 place the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:43 am | 4:40 pm |
| February | 7:07 am | 5:26 pm |
| March | 7:17 am | 7:07 pm |
| April | 6:16 am | 7:49 pm |
| May | 5:28 am | 8:29 pm |
| June | 5:08 am | 8:58 pm |
| July | 5:23 am | 8:54 pm |
| August | 6:00 am | 8:15 pm |
| September | 6:39 am | 7:16 pm |
| October | 7:19 am | 6:17 pm |
| November | 7:05 am | 4:30 pm |
| December | 7:40 am | 4:15 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
3 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 93 km — from the start of the drive, until Celtic Knot Pub and Restaurant.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Celtic Knot Pub and Restaurantrestaurantkm 93
- Trepassey Motel & Restaurantrestaurantkm 147.6
- Earhart Pubpubkm 147.6
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 Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre
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- Trepasseytown12 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Race Lighthousestop21 km
A lighthouse built in 1856 on one of the first points of land westbound sailors sighted, and a coast that wrecked hundreds of ships, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Pine Lighthouselighthouse40 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Bear Cove Point Pathtrail · 11.9 km point to point, one way · moderate43 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Ferrylandtown59 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Colony of Avalon, Ferrylandstop60 km
A 17th-century archaeological site at Ferryland, a National Historic Site since 1953 as the site of the house of Sir George Calvert, later Lord Baltimore, who founded the plantation here in 1621.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Broyle Head Pathtrail · 19.4 km point to point, one way · difficult to strenuous70 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Brigus Head Pathtrail · 6.4 km point to point, one way · moderate75 kmDirections →
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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
- St. Mary’s km 92, Trepassey km 148
- Longest stretch without one
- 92 km
- Argentia → St. Mary’s, of 159 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre
- 11.7 km
- by road, at Trepassey
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
- 24.2 km
- Old Placentia Bay Highway (24.16 km, 66.4 km from Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre)
- Mapped as paved
- 41%
- 63.4 km of 159.7 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 43%
- 65.2 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 159.7 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 Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre from the Argentia ferry?＋
159.7 km from the ferry terminal to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 100, 91, 90 and 10. 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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title="Driving route: Argentia ferry terminal to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre"></iframe>?lat=&lon=&label= to the URL to pin your own property on the map.Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on October 19, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap node/605220569 — Argentia. Destination: OpenStreetMap way/125041120 — Information Center Mistaken Point.