Badger → Norris Arm
The Exploits Valley
- Electric: plan 538 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 457.4 km
- Drive time
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Apple Maps · Google Maps · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 1: Buchans
The end of Route 370, beside Red Indian Lake, the island's second-largest lake. The province's tourism site says this was winter territory for the Beothuk, and that guides here arrange backcountry trips.
Directions →Show on map: Buchans ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Salmonid Interpretation Centre, Grand Falls-WindsorDetour
On the Exploits, the island's longest river, where as many as 30,000 salmon run upstream to spawn each year, per the province's tourism site. The centre tells their story.
Stopping here adds 9.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Salmonid Interpretation Centre, Grand Falls-Windsor ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Demasduit Regional Museum, Grand Falls-Windsor
The area's 5,000 years of human history, the Beothuk included, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Show on map: Demasduit Regional Museum, Grand Falls-Windsor ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Corduroy Brook Nature Trail, Grand Falls-WindsorDetour
A town trail the province's tourism site names, with a Nature Centre on the wetlands and their plants and animals.
Stopping here adds 3.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Corduroy Brook Nature Trail, Grand Falls-Windsor ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Fallsview Municipal Park, Bishop's Falls
A riverbank park with a wide view of the Exploits, per the province's tourism site. Bishop's Falls was a railway hub, and its old trestle, almost 300 metres long, now carries hikers and ATVs across the river.
Directions →Show on map: Fallsview Municipal Park, Bishop's Falls ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Botwood Flying Boat MuseumDetour
In a former WWII anti-submarine base at the Botwood Heritage Park. In the 1930s Botwood was a refuelling stop for the first transatlantic air passenger service, per the province's tourism site. The town also has 19 murals.
Stopping here adds 2.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Botwood Flying Boat Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 7: Killick Island Walking Trail, BotwoodDetour
A seaside walk where the province's tourism site says you will see WWII bunkers.
Stopping here adds 2.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Killick Island Walking Trail, Botwood ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 8: Rowsell's Hill Nature Trail, Point Leamington
A climb to the summit for a view over the whole area, per the province's tourism site.
Stopping here adds 0.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Rowsell's Hill Nature Trail, Point Leamington ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 9: Fortune Harbour
The end of Route 352, which follows the Bay of Exploits. The province's tourism site names kayak tours from here, including a paddle to resettled Exploits Island.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Fortune Harbour ↑Other map apps
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⛽ Fuel and gravel, road by road ▾
- Route 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 350 →Whole road: 2 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 48 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 95% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 20, 2026, Badger to Norris Arm. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
457.4 km, Badger to Norris Arm. The province’s Exploits Valley follows the island’s longest river from Badger down to the Bay of Exploits. Route 370 runs out to Buchans and Red Indian Lake. The Trans-Canada takes you through Grand Falls-Windsor and Bishop’s Falls, then Routes 350 and 352 go up both sides of the bay.
Three roads end at the water. Buchans, Leading Tickles and Fortune Harbour are each driven out and back, which is why the figure is higher than the province’s. Norris Arm, at the end, has the Fox Moth Museum and the Norris Arm Heritage & Arts Centre, per the province’s tourism site.
Places to eat on the way
27 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 242.2 km — after Mary Browns, to Norris Arm.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Red Hawk Dinerrestaurantkm 146.4 · 258 m off the road
- Badger Diner & Motelrestaurantkm 146.6
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 175.8
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 175.9
- Tim Hortonscafékm 175.9
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 175.9 · 366 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 175.9 · 538 m off the road
- Tai Sun Restaurantrestaurantkm 175.9
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairrestaurantkm 175.9
- Wing'n Itrestaurantkm 176 · 858 m off the road
- War Wick'srestaurantkm 176 · 949 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 176
- A&Wfast foodkm 176 · 586 m off the road
- Sarah's Dinerrestaurantkm 177.3 · 1158 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 177.5 · 474 m off the road
- Greco Pizzafast foodkm 177.5 · 369 m off the road
- Taiwanrestaurantkm 177.5 · 1229 m off the road
- Juniper Kitchen and Bistrorestaurantkm 177.5 · 1247 m off the road
- Furey's Trailway Take-Outfast foodkm 190.5 · 425 m off the road
- Irvingrestaurantkm 190.7
- Tim Hortonscafékm 190.7
- Dockside Restaurantrestaurantkm 212.8 · 223 m off the road
- Daisy's Dinerrestaurantkm 213.4 · 847 m off the road
- James Restaurantrestaurantkm 213.4 · 551 m off the road
- Donninis Express and Railway Caferestaurantkm 213.4 · 406 m off the road
- The Landing Pubpubkm 213.4 · 525 m off the road
- Mary Brownsrestaurantkm 213.4 · 416 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
- Bishop’s Falls km 188
- Longest stretch without one
- 269 km
- Bishop’s Falls → Norris Arm, of 457 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Norris Arm
- 26.7 km
- by road, at Lewisporte
No fast charger at Norris Arm. From Bishop’s Falls it is 269 km there and the same back: plan on about 538 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Lewisporte, 26.7 km from Norris Arm 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
- 0.2 km
- a path road (0.14 km, 18.5 km from Norris Arm); a residential road (0.08 km, 47.6 km from Norris Arm)
- Mapped as paved
- 51%
- 118.6 km of 457.4 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 48%
- 111.5 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.
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 370 to Buchans and back is unlit two-lane road through woods, driven twice.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Routes 370, 350 and 352 all end at the water or the lake, with no road joining them. A closure on any of them means turning back.
511nl.ca →Exploits River raftingOperators publish their own dates
The province's tourism site names rafting at Badger Chute and on the Exploits Canyon rapids. Water levels and seasons are the operators' to set.
newfoundlandlabrador.com →
Questions
How far is the Exploits Valley drive?＋
457.4 km, measured from Badger out to Buchans and back, along the Trans-Canada to Grand Falls-Windsor and Bishop's Falls, up Route 350 to Botwood and Leading Tickles, out Route 352 to Fortune Harbour and back, then Route 351 to Norris Arm. Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, which names the drive, gives about 386 km. Most of the gap is the three dead-end roads, which this page drives to their ends and back.
Where does it start, and which way round?＋
The province starts it at Badger, on the Trans-Canada, and so does this page. It ends at Norris Arm, back on the Trans-Canada further east. The province says it can be driven in reverse, and the distance is the same.
Do I have to drive every branch?＋
No. Buchans, Leading Tickles and Fortune Harbour are each at the end of a road. Skip one and you save its out-and-back. The stops say how far each one is off the line.
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