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Fortune ferry to Clarke's Beach

Distance
309.2 km
Roads
Route 220Route 210Route 1Route 71Route 70
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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 →
Driving route from Fortune ferry terminal to Clarke's Beach: 309.2 km by road, via Routes 220 · 210 · 1 · 71 · 70.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line measured along OpenStreetMap's roads.

  1. Stop 1: Grand BankDetour

    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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  2. Stop 2: 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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  3. Stop 3: Provincial Seamen's Museum, Grand BankDetour

    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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  4. Stop 4: 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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  5. Stop 5: 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.

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  6. Stop 6: 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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⛽ 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 71 →Whole road: 0 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 13 km. Unpaved mapped: 5 km; 61% has no surface tag, so unknown.
  • Route 70 →Whole road: 13 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 48 km. Unpaved mapped: 0.3 km; 100% has no surface tag, so unknown.

Drive measured Nov 1, 2026, Fortune ferry terminal to Clarke's Beach. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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309.2 km. Off the ferry at Fortune to Clarke’s Beach, on Routes 220, 210, 1, 71 and 70.

Sunrise and sunset at Clarke's Beach, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:11 am7:46 am4:37 pm5:12 pm
Feb6:37 am7:09 am5:25 pm5:57 pm
Mar6:46 am7:17 am7:07 pm7:38 pm
Apr5:43 am6:15 am7:51 pm8:23 pm
May4:49 am5:26 am8:32 pm9:08 pm
Jun4:24 am5:04 am9:01 pm9:42 pm
Jul4:41 am5:20 am8:57 pm9:36 pm
Aug5:24 am5:58 am8:17 pm8:51 pm
Sep6:08 am6:39 am7:17 pm7:48 pm
Oct6:49 am7:20 am6:16 pm6:47 pm
Nov6:34 am7:08 am4:28 pm5:01 pm
Dec7:08 am7:44 am4:12 pm4:48 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
  • A&Wfast foodkm 275.6
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 275.7
  • Subwayfast foodkm 275.7
  • Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 276.3
  • Silver Wood Innrestaurantkm 306.7 · 1841 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.

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Places to stay on this site come from Best Kind Stays, run by the same people: places that book with their owner, never a booking platform. Listing is free and nothing paid changes the order.

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Doing it electric

Fast chargers on this drive
Marystown km 60, Goobies km 204
Longest stretch without one
144 km
Marystown → Goobies, of 309 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Clarke's Beach
27.7 km
by road, at Carbonear

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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  • Carbonear 27.7 km from Clarke's Beach by road

    Shell Gas Station 74 Powell Dr, Carbonear, NL A1Y 1A5

    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): Whitbourne (km 277; 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

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Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
6 km
Hill Avenue Extension (1.07 km, 0.8 km from Clarke's Beach); Hodgewater Line (4.97 km, 9.7 km from Clarke's Beach)
Mapped as paved
70%
189 km of 309.2 km driven
No surface tag on the map
27%
73.9 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 309.2 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 Clarke's Beach from the Fortune ferry?＋

309.2 km from the ferry terminal to Clarke's Beach.

What route do I take?＋

Routes 220, 210, 1, 71 and 70. 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 relation/2829375 — Clarke's Beach. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms