Argentia ferry terminal → Witless Bay
Argentia ferry to Witless Bay and Bay Bulls
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 114.4 km
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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: Ferryland (155 km), Cape Spear (144 km), St. John's (133 km), Salmonier Nature Park (90 km), Signal Hill (Cabot Tower) (136 km), Portugal Cove ferry terminal (136 km), Brigus (78 km), Clarke's Beach (78 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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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 13 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 20 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 100% 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 Witless Bay. 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 →
114.4 km. Off the ferry at Argentia to Witless Bay, on Routes 100, 1, 13 and 10.
When you get to Witless Bay
- Staying in Witless Bay? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Witless Bay → — 11 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Witless Bay, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7:43 am | 4:36 pm |
| February | 7:07 am | 5:23 pm |
| March | 7:15 am | 7:06 pm |
| April | 6:13 am | 7:48 pm |
| May | 5:25 am | 8:29 pm |
| June | 5:04 am | 8:58 pm |
| July | 5:19 am | 8:54 pm |
| August | 5:57 am | 8:14 pm |
| September | 6:37 am | 7:15 pm |
| October | 7:18 am | 6:15 pm |
| November | 7:05 am | 4:27 pm |
| December | 7:41 am | 4:11 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
2 near Witless Bay: where to eat near Witless Bay →
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 64.7 km — after Mary Brown's, until Tim Hortons.
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 Witless Bay
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- Beaches Pathtrail · 7.1 km point to point, one way · easy2.1 kmDirections →
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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 · moderate3.7 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- Bay Bulls harbourstop6.3 km
On screen: where Wade and Jerry head out at night from the marine base to harvest an iceberg.
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 · easy7.5 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 · strenuous8.6 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - La Manche Provincial Parkstop18 km
The headquarters of La Manche Provincial Park, beside Route 10.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Flamber Head Pathtrail · 11.5 km point to point, one way · moderate to difficult22 kmDirections →
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More, up to 41 km (10)
- Motion Pathtrail · 13.8 km point to point, one way · moderate to difficult29 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 · moderate30 kmDirections →
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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 strenuous30 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Railway Coastal Museumstop37 km
The drive passes it at 495 Water Street: St. John's old railway station, now the Railway Coastal Museum, about the Newfoundland Railway and the coastal boats.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Trans-Canada Highway Zero Kmstop38 km
OpenStreetMap records a highway milestone here reading distance zero, named for the Trans-Canada Highway.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - St. John'stown38 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze A few hundred metres along Military Road: Parks Canada's register describes a massive stone cathedral built in the mid 19th century in the Lombard Romanesque Revival style, a national historic site since 1983.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Colonial Buildingstop39 km
On Military Road as the drive comes down into town.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Colony of Avalon, Ferrylandstop40 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 - Manuels River Interpretation Centrestop41 km
A fossil bed and walking trail on Manuels River, with guided walks back to when trilobites ruled the seas.
Directions →Other map apps
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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
- 114 km
- Argentia → Witless Bay, of 114 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Witless Bay
- 31.7 km
- by road, at St. John’s
No fast charger at Witless Bay. From Argentia it is 114 km there and the same back: plan on about 228 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at St. John’s, 31.7 km from Witless Bay 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: 31% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 69%
- 75.4 km of 114.4 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 31%
- 33.4 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. This is 114.4 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 Witless Bay from the Argentia ferry?＋
114.4 km from the ferry terminal to Witless Bay.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 100, 1, 13 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.
No recorded track yet.Drove it? Send yours →
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