Argentia ferry terminal → Placentia
Argentia ferry to Placentia and Castle Hill
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 7.4 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
- Roads
- 100
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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: Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve (71 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 0.2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: O'Reilly House Museum ↑Other map apps
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Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Argentia ferry terminal to Placentia. 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 →
7.4 km. Off the ferry at Argentia to Placentia, on Route 100.
When you get to Placentia
- Where to eat near Placentia → — 3 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Jeff Jones Memorial Soccer Pitch → · Unity PARC Arena → · Willard Hatfield Memorial Ball Field → — the venues here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at Placentia, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:48 am | 4:41 pm |
| February | 7:11 am | 5:28 pm |
| March | 7:20 am | 7:10 pm |
| April | 6:18 am | 7:53 pm |
| May | 5:29 am | 8:33 pm |
| June | 5:08 am | 9:03 pm |
| July | 5:24 am | 8:58 pm |
| August | 6:02 am | 8:19 pm |
| September | 6:42 am | 7:19 pm |
| October | 7:23 am | 6:19 pm |
| November | 7:09 am | 4:31 pm |
| December | 7:45 am | 4:16 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.
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 Placentia
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- Castle Hill National Historic Sitestop3.2 km
A Parks Canada site on the hill above Placentia, early in the drive.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Argentia ferry terminalstop7.8 km
Where the Marine Atlantic ferry from North Sydney, Nova Scotia comes in.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Fitzgerald's Pond Provincial Parkstop22 km
A Provincial Park Reserve, not a provincial park with a campground.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Gooseberry Cove Provincial Parkstop24 km
A provincial park on the Cape Shore, about halfway down and barely off the road.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - St. Bride'sstop47 km
The town on Route 100 just before the turn for Cape St. Mary's.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reservetown64 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Bellevue Beachstop73 km
A sandy beach on Route 201, in what the province's tourism site calls a popular summer cottage area.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cupids Legacy Centrestop75 km
A museum at Cupids.
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More, up to 87 km (6)
- Clarke's Beachtown75 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Brigustown75 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Shag Rock lookoutstop76 km
A viewpoint OpenStreetMap records beside Route 80, close enough to the driven line that stopping costs nothing.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Chance Cove Coastal Trailstop78 km
A trail through the forest to the far end of Chance Cove Beach, then uphill along the coast to hidden sandy beaches, lookouts and sea caves, per the province's tourism site.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Father Duffy's Wellstop86 km
A roadside spring right on the route, named for Father James Duffy, appointed first parish priest of St. Mary's in 1834, who spent the years after walking back and forth to the courthouse in St. John's over a dispute with the local merchant's agent.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Salmonier Nature Parktown87 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
- none
- Longest stretch without one
- 7 km
- Argentia → Placentia, of 7 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Placentia
- 48 km
- by road, at Whitbourne
No fast charger at Placentia. From Argentia it is 7 km there and the same back: plan on about 14 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Whitbourne, 48 km from Placentia by road, off this drive's own road.
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
- Mapped as paved
- 97%
- 6.8 km of 7.4 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 3%
- 0.2 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. 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 Placentia from the Argentia ferry?＋
7.4 km from the ferry terminal to Placentia.
What route do I take?＋
Route 100. 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 Placentia"></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 node/4209548504 — Placentia.