Fortune ferry to Burin
- Distance
- 67.2 km
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Art in and near Burin
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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: Fortune Head light stationDetour
The lighthouse on Fortune Head, inside the ecological reserve that protects the fossils, per the province's tourism site.
Stopping here adds 12.1 km to the drive.
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The town the Grand Banks schooner fishery built, with widow's-walk merchant houses that look more Lunenburg than Newfoundland. Its heritage is the schooner fleet's story.
Stopping here adds 0.5 km to the drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: George C. Harris House, Grand BankDetour
Grand Bank grew with the Grand Banks schooner fishery, and its Queen Anne-style houses carry widow's walks where skippers' wives watched for their return. The province's tourism site calls the Harris House a perfect example, with a widow's walk looking over the town.
Stopping here adds 0.5 km to the drive.
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The museum the province's tourism site names in Grand Bank, the town most tied to the schooner fishery.
Stopping here adds 0.8 km to the drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Frenchman's Cove Provincial ParkDetour
A provincial park. ParksNL publishes its season and what operates there.
Stopping here adds 8.2 km to the drive.
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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.
Drive measured Nov 2, 2026, Fortune ferry terminal to Burin. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
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67.2 km. From the Fortune ferry terminal to Burin, on Routes 220, 210, 222 and 221.
Burin is built along a series of high cliffs and sheltered coves on Route 221, and was once a haven for pirates and privateers, per the province’s tourism site. It suggests a stroll along the Oldest Colony Trust boardwalk in Burin Harbour. The drives from the Saint-Pierre boat cover the rest of the peninsula.
A day in France. Saint-Pierre et Miquelon is the boat from Fortune, 67 km by road from Burin. Getting there, the border both ways, and your car →
When you get to Burin
- Where to eat near Burin → 5 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Burin, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:17 am | 7:52 am | 4:46 pm | 5:21 pm |
| Feb | 6:44 am | 7:16 am | 5:33 pm | 6:05 pm |
| Mar | 6:54 am | 7:24 am | 7:15 pm | 7:45 pm |
| Apr | 5:51 am | 6:23 am | 7:57 pm | 8:29 pm |
| May | 4:59 am | 5:35 am | 8:38 pm | 9:14 pm |
| Jun | 4:34 am | 5:14 am | 9:07 pm | 9:46 pm |
| Jul | 4:51 am | 5:30 am | 9:02 pm | 9:41 pm |
| Aug | 5:33 am | 6:07 am | 8:23 pm | 8:57 pm |
| Sep | 6:16 am | 6:47 am | 7:24 pm | 7:54 pm |
| Oct | 6:56 am | 7:27 am | 6:24 pm | 6:55 pm |
| Nov | 6:40 am | 7:13 am | 4:37 pm | 5:10 pm |
| Dec | 7:14 am | 7:49 am | 4:22 pm | 4:57 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
Near Burin, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat near Burin →
3 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 59.7 km, after Sharon's Nook Coffee Shop.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- 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
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.
Short drives from Burin
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- Landing Place Pond Walking Trailtrail · 3.6 km walk · easy14 km
- Marystownstop18 km
The peninsula's largest town and its service centre, with a shipyard and fabrication plant for the offshore oil industry, per the province's tourism site.
- Chamber Cove Trail, St. Lawrencestop42 km
The Chamber Cove Heritage Walk follows the coast to a memorial for 1942, when two U.S.
- Lamalinestop75 km
Near the peninsula's southern tip.
Distances by road from Burin, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- none
- Longest stretch without one
- 67 km
- Fortune → Burin, of 67 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Burin
- 18.4 km
- by road, at Marystown
No fast charger at Burin. From Fortune it is 67 km there and the same back: plan on about 134 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or go by way of Marystown and charge there (60 km from the charger at Fortune): then it is 18.4 km to Burin and the same back, about 37 km on one charge.
The chargers
Marystown 18.4 km from Burin by road
Marystown Hotel and Convention Centre 180-190 Ville Marie Dr, Marystown, NL A0E 2M0
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
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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.
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
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 100%
- 47.8 km of 67.2 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 from a local Geofabrik extract (Overpass unreachable), checked 2026-11-01. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
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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 67.2 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 Burin from the Fortune ferry terminal?＋
67.2 km by road from the ferry terminal to Burin.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 220, 210, 222 and 221. Your maps app has the turns.
What is there to do in Burin?＋
The province's tourism site suggests a stroll along the Oldest Colony Trust boardwalk in Burin Harbour.
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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