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Fortune ferry terminal → Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre

Fortune ferry to Mistaken Point

Distance
435.5 km
Roads
Route 220Route 210Route 1Route 90Route 10
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The Edge of Avalon Interpretive Centre at Portugal Cove South, the building visitors check in at before the guided walk to the Mistaken Point fossils.
The Edge of Avalon Interpretive Centre at Portugal Cove South, the building visitors check in at before the guided walk to the Mistaken Point fossils.Photo: Tracyanne · source · CC BY-SA 4.0

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 →
Driving route from Fortune ferry terminal to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre: 435.5 km by road, via Routes 220 · 210 · 1 · 90 · 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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  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: Father Duffy's Well

    A roadside stop on the Salmonier Line. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography calls it the resting place of James W. Duffy on his many journeys between St. Mary's and St. John's. An Irish priest brought over by Bishop Fleming, Duffy built a church at St. Mary's in the 1830s on ground the merchant company's agent objected to. After a crowd burned the fish flake blocking the way, he was charged, and the case dragged through the St. John's courts until the crown gave up.

    Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.

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  5. Stop 5: Salmonier Nature Park

    Run by the province's wildlife division on the Salmonier Line. By its own account it opened in 1978 as an environmental education centre and grew into a tourist destination. The animals live in large natural enclosures along a boardwalk trail, among them the Newfoundland marten, for which staff built a captive-breeding enclosure while it was designated endangered. The province coordinates its wildlife rehabilitation from here, and most of the animals arrived injured and unreleasable.

    Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.

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  6. Stop 6: St. Vincent's

    Route 10 runs beside the beach here, where the province's tourism site says whales come close enough to shore that you can smell their breath.

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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 90 →Whole road: 4 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 34 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 55% 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 Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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435.5 km. Off the ferry at Fortune to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre, on Routes 220, 210, 1, 90 and 10.

When you get to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre

Sunrise and sunset at Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:09 am7:43 am4:40 pm5:14 pm
Feb6:36 am7:07 am5:26 pm5:57 pm
Mar6:47 am7:17 am7:07 pm7:38 pm
Apr5:44 am6:16 am7:49 pm8:21 pm
May4:53 am5:28 am8:29 pm9:05 pm
Jun4:28 am5:08 am8:58 pm9:37 pm
Jul4:45 am5:23 am8:54 pm9:31 pm
Aug5:27 am6:00 am8:15 pm8:48 pm
Sep6:09 am6:39 am7:16 pm7:46 pm
Oct6:49 am7:19 am6:17 pm6:47 pm
Nov6:32 am7:05 am4:30 pm5:03 pm
Dec7:05 am7:40 am4:15 pm4:50 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

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
  • Celtic Knot Pub and Restaurantrestaurantkm 367.7
  • Trepassey Motel & Restaurantrestaurantkm 422.3
  • Earhart Pubpubkm 422.3

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, St. Mary’s km 368, Trepassey km 423
Longest stretch without one
164 km
Goobies → St. Mary’s, of 435 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre
11.7 km
by road, at Trepassey

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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  • St. Mary’s km 368 of the drive

    Ryan’s Value Foods Main Road, St. Mary’s

    CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger

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  • Trepassey km 423 of the drive

    Trepassey Variety 110 Main Rd, Trepassey, NL A0A 4B0

    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

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: 35% has no surface tag.
Mapped as paved
65%
250.8 km of 435.5 km driven
No surface tag on the map
35%
133.3 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 435.5 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 Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre from the Fortune ferry?＋

435.5 km from the ferry terminal to Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre.

What route do I take?＋

Routes 220, 210, 1, 90 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 way/125041120 — Information Center Mistaken Point. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms