Argentia ferry terminal → Salmonier Nature Park
Argentia ferry to Salmonier Nature Park
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 89.6 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: Clarke's Beach (78 km), Brigus (78 km), Witless Bay (114 km), Ferryland (155 km), Harbour Grace (96 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: Father Duffy's Well
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. The legend, as Product of Newfoundland tells it, is that on one of those walks he tapped a rock with a branch and water rose from dry ground. It has run ever since. The Knights of Columbus made it a roadside grotto in the 1930s.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Father Duffy's Well ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Salmonier Nature Park
Run by the province's wildlife division on the Salmonier Line. By its own account it opened in 1978 as an environmental education centre and grew into a tourist destination. The animals live in large natural enclosures along a boardwalk trail, among them the Newfoundland marten, for which staff built a captive-breeding enclosure while it was designated endangered. The province coordinates its wildlife rehabilitation from here, and most of the animals arrived injured and unreleasable.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Salmonier Nature Park ↑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 90 →Whole road: 4 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 34 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 55% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Argentia ferry terminal to Salmonier Nature Park. 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 →
89.6 km. Off the ferry at Argentia to Salmonier Nature Park, on Routes 100, 1 and 90.
When you get to Salmonier Nature Park
- Where to eat near Salmonier Nature Park → — 1 place the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Salmonier Nature Park, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:45 am | 4:38 pm |
| February | 7:09 am | 5:25 pm |
| March | 7:17 am | 7:07 pm |
| April | 6:15 am | 7:50 pm |
| May | 5:27 am | 8:31 pm |
| June | 5:05 am | 9:00 pm |
| July | 5:21 am | 8:56 pm |
| August | 5:59 am | 8:16 pm |
| September | 6:39 am | 7:16 pm |
| October | 7:20 am | 6:16 pm |
| November | 7:07 am | 4:29 pm |
| December | 7:43 am | 4:13 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
4 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 45 km — from the start of the drive, until A&W.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- A&Wfast foodkm 45
- Tim Hortonscafékm 45.3
- Subwayfast foodkm 45.3
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 45.9
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 Salmonier Nature Park
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- Butter Pot Provincial Parkstop30 km
The drive runs along this park's boundary, but the park reaches well inland.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Seal Covestop30 km
The western end of Conception Bay South, which the province's tourism site describes as a string of shoreline communities from Seal Cove to Topsail.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Kelligrewsstop35 km
The community of the song Kelligrews Soirée, which also names the town's yearly folk festival, per the province's tourism site.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Brigustown40 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Long Pondstop40 km
Where the province's tourism site sends divers first.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Manuels River Interpretation Centrestop42 km
A fossil bed and walking trail on Manuels River, with guided walks back to when trilobites ruled the seas.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cupids Legacy Centrestop42 km
A museum at Cupids.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Clarke's Beachtown43 kmDirections →
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More, up to 59 km (10)
- Topsail Beachstop46 km
A beach on Route 60 where people picnic, gather round beach fires and watch boats sail to and from the Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Bay Bulls harbourstop47 km
On screen: where Wade and Jerry head out at night from the marine base to harvest an iceberg.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mickeleens Pathtrail · 7.2 km point to point, one way · moderate47 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Witless Baytown47 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Spout Pathtrail · 16.2 km point to point, one way · strenuous49 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Beaches Pathtrail · 7.1 km point to point, one way · easy49 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze OpenStreetMap records a viewpoint here, unnamed, just off the Southern Shore Highway south of Witless Bay.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Tinkers Point Pathtrail · 5 km point to point, one way · easy55 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Spirit of Harbour Gracestop58 km
A 1943 Douglas DC-3 that served in North Africa in the war and later flew freight between Stephenville and Goose Bay until 1988; Air Labrador's owner donated it to the town in 1993 as the Spirit of Harbour Grace, for the town's part in early transatlantic flight (explorenewfoundlandandlabrador.com).
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Danny Cleary Lookoutstop59 km
A viewpoint OpenStreetMap records on the way into town.
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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
- 89 km
- Argentia → Salmonier Nature Park, of 89 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Salmonier Nature Park
- 19.7 km
- by road, at Holyrood
No fast charger at Salmonier Nature Park. From Argentia it is 89 km there and the same back: plan on about 178 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Holyrood, 19.7 km from Salmonier Nature Park by road, off this drive's own road.
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Whitbourne (km 46). 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: 10% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 90%
- 75.9 km of 89.6 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 10%
- 8.4 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 Salmonier Nature Park from the Argentia ferry?＋
89.6 km from the ferry terminal to Salmonier Nature Park.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 100, 1 and 90. 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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