Fortune ferry to Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve
- ⛽ Route 210 has 105 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Electric: plan 356 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 383 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: Marystown
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.
Directions →Show on map: Marystown ↑Other map apps
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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 3: Castle Hill National Historic SiteDetour
A Parks Canada site on the hill above Placentia. Parks Canada's own page describes the remnants of a stone fort, and invites visitors to imagine "cannons and muskets blazing as British and French forces battled on the shores of Newfoundland, vying for control of a lucrative fishery" in the 18th century, a chapter it says "determined the fate of a continent". Check Parks Canada for what is open and when.
Stopping here adds 3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Castle Hill National Historic Site ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: O'Reilly House Museum
A house museum run by the Placentia Area Historical Society, a nonprofit and registered charity. The Society dates the area's occupation to the 1500s and records Placentia as the French capital in Newfoundland from 1662 to 1713, and later an English capital too. It says the museum opens for the summer tourist season and sometimes longer, so check with them before planning around a date.
Stopping here adds 0.4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: O'Reilly House Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Gooseberry Cove Provincial Park
A provincial park on the Cape Shore, about halfway down and barely off the road. OpenStreetMap records only the name and that it is a protected area. ParksNL publishes its season and what operates there.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Gooseberry Cove Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: St. Bride's
The town on Route 100 just before the turn for Cape St. Mary's. The province's tourism site says to follow the signs from here.
Directions →Show on map: St. Bride's ↑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 100 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 63 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Nov 1, 2026, Fortune ferry terminal to Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
383 km. Off the ferry at Fortune to Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve, on Routes 220, 210, 1 and 100.
Sunrise and sunset at Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:13 am | 7:47 am | 4:43 pm | 5:17 pm |
| Feb | 6:40 am | 7:11 am | 5:30 pm | 6:01 pm |
| Mar | 6:50 am | 7:20 am | 7:11 pm | 7:41 pm |
| Apr | 5:48 am | 6:20 am | 7:53 pm | 8:25 pm |
| May | 4:56 am | 5:32 am | 8:33 pm | 9:09 pm |
| Jun | 4:32 am | 5:11 am | 9:02 pm | 9:41 pm |
| Jul | 4:49 am | 5:27 am | 8:58 pm | 9:36 pm |
| Aug | 5:30 am | 6:03 am | 8:19 pm | 8:52 pm |
| Sep | 6:13 am | 6:43 am | 7:20 pm | 7:50 pm |
| Oct | 6:52 am | 7:23 am | 6:20 pm | 6:51 pm |
| Nov | 6:36 am | 7:09 am | 4:33 pm | 5:06 pm |
| Dec | 7:09 am | 7:45 am | 4:19 pm | 4:54 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
14 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 105.5 km, after The Tea Rose, until Breen's.
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
- Tim Hortonscafékm 60.1
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 60.3
- The Tea Roserestaurantkm 98.3
- Breen'srestaurantkm 203.8
- Robin's Donutscafékm 204.1
- Meghan's Restaurantrestaurantkm 228.4
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 275.5 · 835 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 275.5 · 225 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 275.5 · 182 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 275.5
- Atlantica Inn and Restaurantrestaurantkm 363.4
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.
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Access, as its own page says: Partly step-free: The interpretive centre, parking and washrooms only. The trail and Bird Rock are not wheelchair accessible. Service dogs are the only animals allowed in the reserve. Accessible travel, with the sources →
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Marystown km 60, Goobies km 204
- Longest stretch without one
- 178 km
- Goobies → Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, of 382 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve
- 111.9 km
- by road, at Whitbourne
No fast charger at Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve. From the last fast charger, in Goobies, it is 178 km there and the same back: plan on about 356 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Whitbourne, 111.9 km from Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve by road, off this drive's own road.
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) · WazeWhitbourne 111.9 km from Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve by road
Irving Oil 679 Whitbourne Road
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): Whitbourne (km 276; 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
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 17% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 83%
- 285.8 km of 383 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 17%
- 60.2 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 →Provincial parksSeasonal — typically late spring into the fall
Gooseberry Cove is a ParksNL site with dates that move year to year; ParksNL publishes them park by park.
gov.nl.ca →The reserveTypically the warmer months — the dates are the reserve's
Cape St. Mary's is a provincial ecological reserve with a staffed interpretive centre. Its own page gives the season. The reserve also tells visitors to check weather and trail conditions before setting out: it describes the cape as often foggy, windy and wet.
gov.nl.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 383 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 Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve from the Fortune ferry?＋
383 km from the ferry terminal to Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 220, 210, 1 and 100. 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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