Route 410 at the Trans-Canada → La Scie
The Dorset Trail
- Electric: plan 422 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 211.4 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Stop 1: Baie Verte
The town of the Baie Verte Peninsula Miners' Museum, on the gold, copper and other minerals the peninsula's mines produced in the 19th and 20th centuries, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Show on map: Baie Verte ↑Other map apps
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The end of Route 410 and the Dorset Soapstone Quarry, a National Historic Site with an interpretation centre. The Dorset Pre-Inuit cut cooking pots and lamps from its rock more than 1,600 years before Europeans arrived, and the Maritime Archaic people quarried here 4,000 years ago, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Show on map: Fleur de Lys ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Ocean View Hiking Trail, Pacquet
A walk the province's tourism site names as one of the best places on the drive to watch for whales and icebergs.
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A town of four people, per the province's tourism site. In 2015 the film Ant-Man used it to promote the movie with a one-foot-high billboard.
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The Outport Museum and Tea Room is a two-storey 1940s house you can tour, with a replica 16th-century Basque fishing boat. The French Shore Lookout and the Lookout Trail are the province's picks for whales and icebergs here.
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⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
- Route 410 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 59 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 414 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 52 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 20, 2026, Route 410 at the Trans-Canada to La Scie. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
211.4 km, the Trans-Canada to La Scie. The province’s Dorset Trail runs up the Baie Verte Peninsula on Route 410, past Baie Verte to the soapstone quarry at Fleur de Lys. Then it turns back to Route 414 for Pacquet, Tilt Cove and La Scie.
Every road here ends at the sea. The province’s tourism site calls the peninsula’s trails some of the best places to look for whales and icebergs.
When you get to La Scie
- Where to eat near La Scie → — 1 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
5 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 146.8 km — after Samy's Chinese Restaurant, until Critch's.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Roma's Pizzarestaurantkm 58.6
- Friends & Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 61.1 · 165 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 61.1
- Samy's Chinese Restaurantrestaurantkm 62.2
- Critch'srestaurantkm 209 · 178 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
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.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- none
- Longest stretch without one
- 211 km
- the start → La Scie, of 211 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to La Scie
- 145.7 km
- by road, at South Brook
No fast charger at La Scie. From the start it is 211 km there and the same back: plan on about 422 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at South Brook, 145.7 km from La Scie 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
- 19.4 km
- Tilt Cove Road (5.7 km, 7.7 km from La Scie); Snook's Arm Road (5.26 km, 12.8 km from La Scie); Round Harbour Road (2.4 km, 13.5 km from La Scie)
- Mapped as paved
- 88%
- 141.4 km of 211.4 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 0%
- 0 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 2026-10-20. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
Whales and icebergsPresence varies year to year
The province's tourism site names the trails at La Scie and Pacquet as places to watch for both. Check current sightings before you plan a day around them.
icebergfinder.com →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Route 410 up the peninsula is a long unlit run, and you drive the Fleur de Lys end of it twice.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The roads to Fleur de Lys, Pacquet, Tilt Cove and La Scie all end at the sea. A closure on any of them means turning back.
511nl.ca →
Onward from La Scie
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
Questions
How far is the Dorset Trail?＋
211.4 km, measured from where Route 410 leaves the Trans-Canada, north through Baie Verte to Fleur de Lys, back to Route 414, then out to Pacquet and Tilt Cove and on to La Scie. Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, which names the drive, gives about 300 km. The province does not say what its figure includes. This one-way page does not count the drive back down the peninsula.
Where does it start, and which way round?＋
The province starts it on Route 410, and so does this page, at the Trans-Canada. It ends at La Scie. The province says it can be driven in reverse.
Do I have to go to Fleur de Lys first?＋
No. Fleur de Lys is at the end of Route 410, so it costs an out-and-back whenever you do it. This page does it first, in the order the province describes.
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