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Fortune ferry to Placentia and Castle Hill

Distance
319.2 km
Roads
Route 220Route 210Route 1Route 100
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St. Luke's Anglican Church at Placentia, white clapboard with a steeple, above the town and the harbour.
St. Luke's Anglican Church at Placentia, white clapboard with a steeple, above the town and the harbour.Photo: Jeremy Thoms Hetzel · source · CC BY-SA 3.0

Places to stay in Placentia

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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 Placentia: 319.2 km by road, via Routes 220 · 210 · 1 · 100.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: 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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  3. Stop 3: 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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  4. Stop 4: 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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  5. Stop 5: Fitzgerald's Pond Provincial Park

    A Provincial Park Reserve, not a provincial park with a campground. ParksNL defines these as pre-1997 parks whose campground area was deproclaimed and privatised, with the rest kept to protect natural features. It states that park reserves have no visitor services, so there is no washroom.

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  6. Stop 6: 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.

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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 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 Placentia. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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319.2 km. Off the ferry at Fortune to Placentia, on Routes 220, 210, 1 and 100.

When you get to Placentia

Sunrise and sunset at Placentia, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:13 am7:48 am4:41 pm5:15 pm
Feb6:40 am7:11 am5:28 pm6:00 pm
Mar6:49 am7:20 am7:10 pm7:41 pm
Apr5:46 am6:18 am7:53 pm8:25 pm
May4:53 am5:29 am8:33 pm9:10 pm
Jun4:28 am5:08 am9:03 pm9:43 pm
Jul4:46 am5:24 am8:58 pm9:37 pm
Aug5:28 am6:02 am8:19 pm8:52 pm
Sep6:11 am6:42 am7:19 pm7:50 pm
Oct6:52 am7:23 am6:19 pm6:50 pm
Nov6:36 am7:09 am4:31 pm5:05 pm
Dec7:10 am7:45 am4:16 pm4:52 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

13 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

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
144 km
Marystown → Goobies, of 319 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Placentia
48 km
by road, at Whitbourne

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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  • Whitbourne 48 km from Placentia by road

    Irving Oil 679 Whitbourne Road

    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 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

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Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
none
Not proof it is all paved: 21% has no surface tag.
Mapped as paved
79%
222.4 km of 319.2 km driven
No surface tag on the map
21%
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 →

  • 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 319.2 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 Placentia from the Fortune ferry?＋

319.2 km from the ferry terminal to Placentia.

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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Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on November 1, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap node/7740476043 — Fortune. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/4209548504 — Placentia. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms