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Fortune ferry to Salvage and the Eastport beaches

Distance
337.6 km
Roads
Route 220Route 210Route 1Route 310
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Salvage harbour in evening sun: church, red stages and houses across the water, longliner and lobster pots in foreground.
Salvage harbour in evening sun: church, red stages and houses across the water, longliner and lobster pots in foreground.Photo: Maciej · source · CC BY-SA 2.0

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 Salvage: 337.6 km by road, via Routes 220 · 210 · 1 · 310.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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  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: Eastport North Arm Provincial ParkDetour

    Despite the name it is not on ParksNL's list, so check who runs it and whether it is open.

    Stopping here adds 1.9 km to the drive.

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  4. Stop 4: Eastport Beach

    A named sandy beach; the road to Salvage runs right past the sand. This is the beach the Eastport peninsula is known for.

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  5. Stop 5: Sandy Cove beachDetour

    A second mapped beach, at Sandy Cove, a short spur south of Eastport. OpenStreetMap draws the beach but gives it no name.

    Stopping here adds 4.5 km to the drive.

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  6. Stop 6: Salvage Fisherman's Museum

    In the village, no detour: a fisherman's museum in one of the coast's oldest outports. Check the museum's hours before planning the day around it.

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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 310 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 19 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.

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

Add to a trip →Ferry info: SPM Ferries →

337.6 km. Off the ferry at Fortune to Salvage, on Routes 220, 210, 1 and 310.

Sunrise and sunset at Salvage, by month
The 15thFirst lightSunriseSunsetLast light
Jan7:16 am7:52 am4:34 pm5:10 pm
Feb6:40 am7:13 am5:24 pm5:56 pm
Mar6:47 am7:19 am7:08 pm7:40 pm
Apr5:41 am6:14 am7:54 pm8:27 pm
May4:45 am5:23 am8:37 pm9:15 pm
Jun4:18 am5:00 am9:08 pm9:50 pm
Jul4:37 am5:17 am9:03 pm9:43 pm
Aug5:22 am5:57 am8:21 pm8:56 pm
Sep6:08 am6:40 am7:19 pm7:50 pm
Oct6:51 am7:23 am6:16 pm6:48 pm
Nov6:38 am7:12 am4:26 pm5:00 pm
Dec7:13 am7:50 am4:09 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

29 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.

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 203.2 · 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 308.2 · 657 m off the road
  • Chico's Drive B'y & Takeoutrestaurantkm 326.2
  • Salvaje Brewing Companypubkm 336.3 · 206 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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Doing it electric

Fast chargers on this drive
Marystown km 60, Goobies km 204, Port Blandford km 262, Glovertown km 309
Longest stretch without one
144 km
Marystown → Goobies, of 337 km driven
Nearest fast charger to Salvage
28.8 km
by road, at Glovertown

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 309 of the drive, 0.7 km off it

    Splash N Putt Resort Traytown, NL A0G 4K0

    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). 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: 18% has no surface tag.
Mapped as paved
82%
244.8 km of 337.6 km driven
No surface tag on the map
18%
53.5 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 337.6 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 Salvage

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

Questions

How far is Salvage from the Fortune ferry?＋

337.6 km from the ferry terminal to Salvage.

What route do I take?＋

Routes 220, 210, 1 and 310. 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/1459449165 — Salvage place node. Planning only: not live and not for navigation; roads and conditions change. Terms