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Fortune ferry terminal → Farewell ferry terminal

Fortune ferry to Change Islands

Distance
460.8 km
Roads
Route 220Route 210Route 1Route 330Route 331Route 335
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Saltbox houses and fishing stages scattered over green headlands on Change Islands, with the tickle winding between them.
Saltbox houses and fishing stages scattered over green headlands on Change Islands, with the tickle winding between them.Photo: Stephen Booth · source · CC0 1.0

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 →

Then a ferry to Change Islands

Not every Fogo-bound boat stops here. The province publishes separate schedules for separate vessels, and some Farewell–Fogo sailings go straight to Fogo. Find a sailing that stops here in the current schedule before you plan around it.

Operated by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Current schedule →
Driving route from Fortune ferry terminal to Farewell ferry terminal: 460.8 km by road, via Routes 220 · 210 · 1 · 330 · 331 · 335.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line measured along OpenStreetMap's roads.

  1. 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.

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    Show on map: Swift Current ↑

  2. Stop 2: Sandy PondDetour

    One of the park's officially designated observing sites under its Dark-Sky Preserve status: the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada designated Terra Nova on 26 February 2018, and Parks Canada's own night-sky page calls Sandy Pond the darkest skies in the park. RASC notes the designated sites have paved parking with a walk to the observing spot. The pond also has a beach and a trail for daytime.

    Stopping here adds 4.8 km to the drive.

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    Show on map: Sandy Pond ↑

  3. Stop 3: 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.

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    Show on map: Square Pond ↑

  4. Stop 4: Joey's LookoutDetour

    A two-minute stop for the bay below.

    Stopping here adds 11 km to the drive.

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  5. Stop 5: 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.

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  6. Stop 6: Jonathan's Pond Provincial Park ReserveDetour

    A Provincial Park Reserve on Route 330. ParksNL uses that name for a former camping park whose campground was privatised; it is kept for nature and has no visitor services.

    Stopping here adds 1.3 km to the drive.

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⛽ 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 330 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 42 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 70% has no surface tag, so unknown.
  • Route 331 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 19 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 100% has no surface tag, so unknown.
  • Route 335 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 16 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.

Drive measured Nov 1, 2026, Fortune ferry terminal to Farewell ferry terminal. Your maps app gives the time on the day. The ferry after it is not included. How we measure

Then the ferry to Change Islands — sailings & schedule →

Add to a trip →Ferry info: SPM Ferries →

460.8 km. Off the ferry at Fortune to Farewell ferry terminal, on Routes 220, 210, 1, 330, 331 and 335.

Sunrise and sunset at Farewell, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:22 am7:58 am4:34 pm5:11 pm
Feb6:45 am7:18 am5:25 pm5:58 pm
Mar6:50 am7:22 am7:12 pm7:43 pm
Apr5:42 am6:16 am7:59 pm8:33 pm
May4:45 am5:23 am8:44 pm9:22 pm
Jun4:16 am5:00 am9:16 pm9:59 pm
Jul4:35 am5:16 am9:10 pm9:52 pm
Aug5:22 am5:58 am8:27 pm9:02 pm
Sep6:10 am6:43 am7:23 pm7:55 pm
Oct6:55 am7:28 am6:18 pm6:51 pm
Nov6:43 am7:19 am4:26 pm5:01 pm
Dec7:19 am7:57 am4:08 pm4:46 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

58 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 58
  • 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
  • DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 374.5 · 1054 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 374.7 · 1265 m off the road
  • Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 374.9 · 276 m off the road
  • Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 374.9 · 1377 m off the road
  • Swiss Chaletrestaurantkm 374.9
  • Robin's Donutsfast foodkm 374.9
  • A&Wfast foodkm 375 · 1553 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 375 · 1526 m off the road
  • Mystic Roomrestaurantkm 375 · 417 m off the road
  • Subwayfast foodkm 375.1
  • McDonald'sfast foodkm 375.1
  • Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 375.3 · 583 m off the road
  • Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 375.3 · 547 m off the road
  • KFCfast foodkm 375.3 · 204 m off the road
  • Ches's Fish & Chipsrestaurantkm 375.3 · 483 m off the road
  • The Shawarma Stationrestaurantkm 375.3 · 250 m off the road
  • Louis Geesfast foodkm 375.3 · 712 m off the road
  • Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 375.3 · 640 m off the road
  • New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 375.3 · 620 m off the road
  • Pizza Housefast foodkm 375.3 · 595 m off the road
  • East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 375.3 · 598 m off the road
  • Grecofast foodkm 375.3 · 632 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 375.3 · 230 m off the road
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 375.5
  • The Newfoundland Tea Co. Restaurant & Shoprestaurantkm 375.6 · 627 m off the road
  • Wing 'n Itrestaurantkm 375.7 · 312 m off the road
  • Rosie's Restaurant & Bakeryrestaurantkm 375.7 · 779 m off the road
  • Little Caesarsfast foodkm 375.9
  • Angie's Restaurantrestaurantkm 424.3

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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Doing it electric

Fast chargers on this drive
Marystown km 60, Goobies km 204, Port Blandford km 262, Glovertown km 310, Gander km 375
Longest stretch without one
144 km
Marystown → Goobies, of 460 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Farewell ferry terminal
71.1 km
by road, at Lewisporte

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

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  • Goobies km 204 of the drive

    Irving Oil 162 Trans Canada

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Port 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

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  • Glovertown km 310 of the drive

    Splash N Putt Resort Traytown, NL A0G 4K0

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Gander km 375 of the drive, 1 km off it

    Orangestore 100 Trans-Canada Highway

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Lewisporte 71.1 km from Farewell ferry terminal by road

    Brittany Inns Hotel 373 Main St, Lewisporte, NL A0G 3A0

    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.

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

Every route compared →NL Hydro: plan your road trip →

Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
none
Not proof it is all paved: 32% has no surface tag.
Mapped as paved
68%
271.4 km of 460.8 km driven
No surface tag on the map
32%
130 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 →

  • Is the boat actually running today?Check on the day, every time

    A schedule says when a sailing is meant to go, not whether it is going. Wind, ice and mechanical trouble cancel these runs. The province publishes live ferry status separately; open it the morning you travel.

    511nl.ca →

  • Ferry sailingsChange through the year

    Which vessel is running, and which sailings call here, both change. Confirm a sailing that stops at Change Islands, then plan the drive back from it.

    gov.nl.ca →

  • Getting on the boatStanding advice from the province

    The province's notice on the ferry page states that vehicles travelling to Change Islands are loaded first, and encourages them to arrive thirty minutes before departure. The deck fills, and the next sailing may not call at Change Islands.

    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 460.8 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 →

Onward from Farewell ferry terminal

The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.

Questions

How far is Farewell ferry terminal from the Fortune ferry?＋

460.8 km from the ferry terminal to Farewell ferry terminal.

What route do I take?＋

Routes 220, 210, 1, 330, 331 and 335. 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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Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on November 1, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap node/7740476043 — Fortune. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/1598423285. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms