Argentia ferry terminal → New-Wes-Valley
Argentia ferry to New-Wes-Valley and the Barbour coast
- Distance
- 324.7 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: Greenspond (331 km), Dover (279 km), Musgrave Harbour (382 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
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One of the park's officially designated observing sites under its Dark-Sky Preserve status: the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada designated Terra Nova on 26 February 2018, and Parks Canada's own night-sky page calls Sandy Pond the darkest skies in the park. RASC notes the designated sites have paved parking with a walk to the observing spot. The pond also has a beach and a trail for daytime. After dark, the drive back to the highway is moose country.
Stopping here adds 4.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Sandy Pond ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Square PondDetour
A pond-side stop beside the Trans-Canada that OpenStreetMap still carries under its old park name. The province no longer lists it. The pond is still there for a leg-stretch.
Stopping here adds 9.8 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: Joey's Lookout (Gambo)Detour
The viewpoint above Gambo, on every drive out this way.
Stopping here adds 3.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout (Gambo) ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Barbour Tickle Bridge (Newtown)Detour
Newtown, past Wesleyville, is built across small islands joined by bridges, with tickles running between the houses. Newtown is also home to the Barbour family's heritage property, which is not yet mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Stopping here adds 26.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Barbour Tickle Bridge (Newtown) ↑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 320 →Whole road: 6 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 39 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 72% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Argentia ferry terminal to New-Wes-Valley. 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 →
324.7 km. Off the ferry at Argentia to New-Wes-Valley, on Routes 100, 1 and 320.
When you get to New-Wes-Valley
- Where to eat near New-Wes-Valley → — 2 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
31 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.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- 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 253.9
- Washed Ashorecafékm 290.1
- Sunset Grillrestaurantkm 294.6
- Aunt Hannah's Cafe and Gallerycafékm 294.6
- Silver Fox Loungecafékm 295.4
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 New-Wes-Valley
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- Newtown Boardwalk Walktrail · 3.4 km walk · easy13 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Windmill Bight Park Reservestop20 km
Three kilometres from Lumsden off Route 330.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Freelsstop21 km
A beach on a coast BirdLife International has designated an Important Bird Area for nesting seabirds, among them common eiders, murres, razorbills and Arctic terns, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Lumsden Beachstop23 km
The beach the province's tourism site calls the most popular on the Kittiwake Coast.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Greenspond Courthousestop25 km
Mapped as a museum: the island's 19th-century courthouse, kept as a heritage site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Greenspondtown25 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Greenspond Island Walktrail · 6 km loop · moderate25 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Deadman's Bay beachstop31 km
A beach of fine beige sand a few minutes from Lumsden, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
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More, up to 57 km (2)
- Offer Wadham Lighthouselighthouse57 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Musgrave Harbourtown57 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
- Goobies km 118, Port Blandford km 176, Glowertown km 224
- Longest stretch without one
- 118 km
- Argentia → Goobies, of 324 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to New-Wes-Valley
- 100.8 km
- by road, at Glowertown
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: 61% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 39%
- 120.6 km of 324.7 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 61%
- 185.8 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 324.7 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 at one end of the island say little about the other. Check before you set off.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is New-Wes-Valley from the Argentia ferry?＋
324.7 km from the ferry terminal to New-Wes-Valley.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 100, 1 and 320. 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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