Fortune ferry to Botwood
- ⛽ Route 210 has 105 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Distance
- 465.4 km
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You arrive by ferry — Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon to Fortune
The boat from Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon lands at Fortune, on the Burin Peninsula. It is an international crossing: passports, and the rules for bringing a car, are the operator's and the border's to state. SPM Ferries publishes sailings and fares.
SPM Ferries: crossings & current schedule →Stop 1: Swift Current
The first community down Route 210, long a favourite for sport fishing, per the province's tourism site. It also names Vernon's Antique Car Museum here.
Directions →Show on map: Swift Current ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Square PondDetour
A pond-side stop beside the Trans-Canada that OpenStreetMap still carries under its old park name. The province no longer lists it. The pond is still there for a leg-stretch.
Stopping here adds 9.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Square Pond ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Joey's LookoutDetour
A two-minute stop for the bay below.
Stopping here adds 11 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joey's Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Silent Witnesses MemorialDetour
A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, unveiled in 1990 for the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of 12 December 1985. An American soldier stands atop a rock holding the hands of a civilian boy and girl, each child carrying an olive branch for the Screaming Eagles' peacekeeping mission in the Sinai; they were going home for Christmas. The trio look toward Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where a similar statue looks back.
Stopping here adds 2.4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Silent Witnesses Memorial ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: North Atlantic Aviation Museum
An aviation museum in Gander. Gander exists because of transatlantic flight, and this is where that story is kept. Check current hours with the museum.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: North Atlantic Aviation Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Upper Falls LookoutDetour
It is the upper waterfall lookout on the Eel Brook Trail, a short walk past Eel Brook's falls: AllTrails lists it at about 1.3 miles out and back, with Lower Falls Lookout as the other viewpoint.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Upper Falls Lookout ↑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 220 →Whole road: 7 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 35 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 210 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 105 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 350 →Whole road: 2 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 48 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 95% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Nov 1, 2026, Fortune ferry terminal to Botwood. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
465.4 km. Off the ferry at Fortune to Botwood, on Routes 220, 210, 1 and 350.
When you get to Botwood
- Where to eat near Botwood → 6 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Harry Ivany Arena → · Soccor Field, Botwood → · Softball Field, Botwood → — the venues here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Sunrise and sunset at Botwood, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:24 am | 8:00 am | 4:39 pm | 5:16 pm |
| Feb | 6:48 am | 7:21 am | 5:30 pm | 6:03 pm |
| Mar | 6:54 am | 7:26 am | 7:15 pm | 7:47 pm |
| Apr | 5:47 am | 6:20 am | 8:02 pm | 8:35 pm |
| May | 4:50 am | 5:29 am | 8:46 pm | 9:24 pm |
| Jun | 4:22 am | 5:05 am | 9:17 pm | 10:00 pm |
| Jul | 4:41 am | 5:22 am | 9:12 pm | 9:53 pm |
| Aug | 5:27 am | 6:03 am | 8:29 pm | 9:04 pm |
| Sep | 6:14 am | 6:46 am | 7:26 pm | 7:58 pm |
| Oct | 6:59 am | 7:31 am | 6:22 pm | 6:54 pm |
| Nov | 6:46 am | 7:21 am | 4:31 pm | 5:06 pm |
| Dec | 7:22 am | 7:59 am | 4:14 pm | 4:51 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. First and last light are when the sun is 6° below the horizon: light enough to see and shoot by. The weather line at the top has today's.
Places to eat on the way
57 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 104.9 km, after The Tea Rose, until Breen's.
Show all 57
- Sage Head Cafecafékm 0.3
- Sarah Rays Placerestaurantkm 6.2 · 710 m off the road
- Sharon's Nook Coffee Shoprestaurantkm 6.3 · 878 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 60.1
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 60.3
- The Tea Roserestaurantkm 98.3
- Breen'srestaurantkm 203.2 · 485 m off the road
- Robin's Donutscafékm 203.2 · 865 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 229.2
- Tim Hortonscafékm 229.2
- Brownings Pubpubkm 230.9 · 1212 m off the road
- Flannigans Pubpubkm 230.9 · 1229 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 231 · 1264 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 232.4 · 676 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 232.5 · 593 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 232.5 · 773 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 232.5 · 539 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 232.5 · 488 m off the road
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 232.5 · 488 m off the road
- Rod's Restaurantrestaurantkm 232.8 · 508 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 232.8 · 585 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 232.8 · 585 m off the road
- Don Cherry's Sports Bar & Grillrestaurantkm 232.8 · 200 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 233 · 1142 m off the road
- Snack shack.fast foodkm 262.1 · 624 m off the road
- Happy Adventure Cafecafékm 300.7 · 1229 m off the road
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 308.7
- Family Pizzarestaurantkm 338.4 · 1870 m off the road
- Copper Kettle Restaurantrestaurantkm 345.2
- The Newfoundland Tea Co. Restaurant & Shoprestaurantkm 374.2 · 1906 m off the road
- Swiss Chaletrestaurantkm 374.4 · 869 m off the road
- Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 374.4 · 845 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 374.5 · 816 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 374.5 · 1036 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 374.5 · 1045 m off the road
- Wing 'n Itrestaurantkm 374.5 · 1795 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 374.6 · 1104 m off the road
- Mystic Roomrestaurantkm 374.6 · 800 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 374.6 · 1480 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 374.6 · 1110 m off the road
- The Shawarma Stationrestaurantkm 374.8 · 1143 m off the road
- Ches's Fish & Chipsrestaurantkm 374.9 · 956 m off the road
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 374.9 · 1866 m off the road
- DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 374.9
- Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 375.2 · 974 m off the road
- Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 375.2 · 986 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 375.2
- Louis Geesfast foodkm 375.2 · 809 m off the road
- Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 375.2 · 869 m off the road
- New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 375.2 · 906 m off the road
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 375.2 · 954 m off the road
- East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 375.2 · 949 m off the road
- Grecofast foodkm 375.2 · 883 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 375.4
- A&Wfast foodkm 375.7
- Subwayfast foodkm 375.7
- Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 397 · 600 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, read 2026-10-18 (how we measure). Missing one? Add it to the map or email us the details.
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Marystown km 60, Goobies km 204, Port Blandford km 262, Glovertown km 310, Gander km 376
- Longest stretch without one
- 144 km
- Marystown → Goobies, of 465 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Botwood
- 22.1 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
The chargers
Marystown km 60 of the drive
Marystown Hotel and Convention Centre 180-190 Ville Marie Dr, Marystown, NL A0E 2M0
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeGoobies km 204 of the drive
Irving Oil 162 Trans Canada
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazePort Blandford km 262 of the drive
Rudy’s Restaurant & Gas Bar 42 Blackmore’s Road
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeGlovertown km 310 of the drive
Splash N Putt Resort Traytown, NL A0G 4K0
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeGander km 376 of the drive
Orangestore 100 Trans-Canada Highway
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeBishop’s Falls 22.1 km from Botwood by road
Irving Oil 62 Main St
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
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Charging: about 100 km of range every 15 minutes, and most EVs to 80% in less than an hour. You start it with a free ChargePoint account, with the ChargePoint app or card. NL Hydro, read November 1, 2026.
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, October 22, 2026): Clarenville (km 230; CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · ultra-fast, up to 175 kW to one car, 350 kW where a site has two or more chargers) and Gander, a second site in the same town (km 376; CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · ultra-fast, up to 175 kW to one car, 350 kW where a site has two or more chargers). Not counted until it opens.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported October 22, 2026. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- 0.4 km
- Pump House Road (0.38 km, 0.2 km from Botwood)
- Mapped as paved
- 60%
- 236.7 km of 465.4 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 40%
- 157.6 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 from a local Geofabrik extract (Overpass unreachable), checked 2026-11-01. 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 onCheck the operator; the season matters
SPM Ferries sails between Saint-Pierre and Fortune. Confirm the sailing, and what you can bring across, before you plan the drive.
spm-ferries.fr →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 465.4 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 Botwood from the Fortune ferry?＋
465.4 km from the ferry terminal to Botwood.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 220, 210, 1 and 350. Your maps app has the turns.
Can I bring a car on the boat?＋
That is SPM Ferries' and the border's to state: read the operator's page before you set off.
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