Argentia ferry terminal → Salvage
Argentia ferry to Salvage and the Eastport beaches
- Distance
- 251.5 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: Burnside ferry terminal (248 km), Terra Nova National Park Visitor Centre (217 km), Dover (279 km), Port Rexton (215 km), Cape Bonavista Lighthouse (264 km), Trinity (217 km), Greenspond (331 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: Sandy PondDetour
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: Eastport North Arm Provincial Park
A green space near Eastport, essentially on the driven line. Despite the name it is not on ParksNL's list, so check who runs it and whether it is open.
Stopping here adds 1.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Eastport North Arm Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Eastport Beach
A named sandy beach; the road to Salvage runs right past the sand. This is the beach the Eastport peninsula is known for.
Directions →Show on map: Eastport Beach ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Sandy Cove beachDetour
A second mapped beach, at Sandy Cove, a short spur south of Eastport. OpenStreetMap draws the beach but gives it no name.
Stopping here adds 4.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Sandy Cove beach ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Salvage Fisherman's Museum
In the village, no detour: a fisherman's museum in one of the coast's oldest outports. Check the museum's hours before planning the day around it.
Directions →Show on map: Salvage Fisherman's 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 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 310 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 19 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Argentia ferry terminal to Salvage. 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 →
251.5 km. Off the ferry at Argentia to Salvage, on Routes 100, 1 and 310.
Places to eat on the way
28 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 222.4 · 657 m off the road
- Chico's Drive B'y & Takeoutrestaurantkm 240.4
- Salvaje Brewing Companypubkm 250.4 · 206 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
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Short drives from Salvage
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- High Tide Trail (Eastport)trail · 2.6 km out and back · easy9.7 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze The province's tourism site points here for what is on in Eastport's arts and culture.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Happy Adventurestop12 km
Boat and kayak tours leave here for resettled communities, sea caves and a puffin colony, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Burnside ferry terminaltown19 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Glovertown Museum, The Janes Housestop34 km
On the resettlement of the Bonavista Bay islands, boat building from 1930 to 1960, and the logging and lumber industry, per the province's tourism site.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Joey's Lookoutstop56 km
The viewpoint above Gambo.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Square Pondstop65 km
A campground a little under halfway along, right on the Trans-Canada.
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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 223
- Longest stretch without one
- 118 km
- Argentia → Goobies, of 251 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Salvage
- 28.8 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: 48% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 52%
- 121.9 km of 251.5 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 48%
- 114.7 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 251.5 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 change fast on this coast. Check before you set off.
511nl.ca →
Onward from Salvage
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
Questions
How far is Salvage from the Argentia ferry?＋
251.5 km from the ferry terminal to Salvage.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 100, 1 and 310. 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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