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Fortune ferry to Ferryland and the Colony of Avalon

Distance
386 km
Roads
Route 220Route 210Route 1Route 13Route 10
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The excavated stone foundations of the 17th-century Colony of Avalon at Ferryland, laid out along the harbour with the village behind.
The excavated stone foundations of the 17th-century Colony of Avalon at Ferryland, laid out along the harbour with the village behind.Photo: Nilfanion · source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Places to stay in Ferryland

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Art in and near Ferryland

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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 Ferryland: 386 km by road, via Routes 220 · 210 · 1 · 13 · 10.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line measured along OpenStreetMap's roads.

  1. Stop 1: 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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    Show on map: Provincial Seamen's Museum, Grand Bank ↑

  2. Stop 2: 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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  3. Stop 3: 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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  4. Stop 4: Viewpoint on Route 10, south of Witless BayDetour

    OpenStreetMap records a viewpoint here, unnamed, just off the Southern Shore Highway south of Witless Bay. Route 10 is what the province calls the Irish Loop Drive, and the communities it strings together are the ones nearest the islands of Witless Bay Ecological Reserve: the province says those islands hold North America's largest Atlantic Puffin colony and, after Baccalieu Island, the world's second-largest Leach's Storm-petrel colony. Landing takes a permit, so people watch the birds from licensed tour boats that leave from these communities.

    Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.

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  5. Stop 5: La Manche Provincial ParkDetour

    The headquarters of La Manche Provincial Park, beside Route 10. The province's tourism site points here for the East Coast Trail and its suspension bridge at La Manche. ParksNL publishes the park's season.

    Stopping here adds 1.7 km to the drive.

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  6. Stop 6: Colony of Avalon, FerrylandDetour

    Ferryland's 17th-century colony, founded in the 1620s by Lord Baltimore, whose family later founded Maryland, as the province's tourism site tells it. Archaeologists still work the site, uncovering house foundations and a cobblestone street.

    Stopping here adds 1.2 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 13 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 20 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 100% has no surface tag, so unknown.
  • Route 10 →Whole road: 7 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 91 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 77% has no surface tag, so unknown.

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

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386 km. Off the ferry at Fortune to Ferryland, on Routes 220, 210, 1, 13 and 10.

When you get to Ferryland

Sunrise and sunset at Ferryland, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:08 am7:42 am4:37 pm5:12 pm
Feb6:35 am7:07 am5:24 pm5:55 pm
Mar6:45 am7:15 am7:06 pm7:36 pm
Apr5:42 am6:14 am7:48 pm8:20 pm
May4:50 am5:26 am8:28 pm9:04 pm
Jun4:25 am5:05 am8:57 pm9:37 pm
Jul4:42 am5:21 am8:53 pm9:31 pm
Aug5:24 am5:58 am8:14 pm8:47 pm
Sep6:07 am6:38 am7:15 pm7:45 pm
Oct6:47 am7:18 am6:15 pm6:46 pm
Nov6:31 am7:04 am4:28 pm5:01 pm
Dec7:05 am7:40 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

Near Ferryland, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat near Ferryland →

16 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
  • Tim Hortonscafékm 341
  • The Captain's Tablerestaurantkm 345.1
  • Riverside Restaurant and Loungerestaurantkm 372.7

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.

Doing it electric

Fast chargers on this drive
Marystown km 60, Goobies km 204
Longest stretch without one
181 km
Goobies → Ferryland, of 385 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Ferryland
13.2 km
by road, at Fermeuse

No fast charger at Ferryland. From the last fast charger, in Goobies, it is 181 km there and the same back: plan on about 362 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Fermeuse, 13.2 km from Ferryland 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

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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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  • Fermeuse 13.2 km from Ferryland by road

    In Da Loop Restaurant 410 412 Main Hwy, Fermeuse, NL A0A 2G0

    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
0.3 km
a residential road (0.3 km, 0.1 km from Ferryland)
Mapped as paved
62%
212.6 km of 386 km driven
No surface tag on the map
38%
131.5 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 386 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 Ferryland from the Fortune ferry?＋

386 km from the ferry terminal to Ferryland.

What route do I take?＋

Routes 220, 210, 1, 13 and 10. 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/470764410 — Ferryland. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms