Fortune ferry to Witless Bay and Bay Bulls
- ⛽ Route 210 has 105 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Distance
- 345.7 km
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Places to stay in Witless Bay
No place to stay in Witless Bay is listed on Best Kind Stays yet. Every place it lists →
A place listed in Witless Bay shows on 11 pages here: the town page, 6 drives to Witless Bay and 4 trails nearby.
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Out on the water
Boat tours that leave from here. The sea and the season decide what you see: ask them what is about. Times and prices are on each one's page.
From Witless Bay
Molly Bawn Whale & Puffin Tours ↗
Gus O'Reilly's Road, Mobile
Cruise our beautiful, rugged coastline and the islands of the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, departing from the most natural setting in the area.
From Bay Bulls
Newfoundland Puffin & Whale Boat Tour ↗
Gatherall's Puffin and Whale Watch · Bay Bulls
Experience puffins, whales, icebergs + incredible coastal scenery.
O'Brien's Whale & Bird Tours ↗
22 Lower Road, Bay Bulls
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 →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.
Directions →Show on map: Grand Bank ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 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.
Directions →Show on map: George C. Harris House, Grand Bank ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 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.
Directions →Show on map: Provincial Seamen's Museum, Grand Bank ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 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.
Directions →Show on map: Frenchman's Cove Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 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.
Directions →Show on map: Marystown ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 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.
Directions →Show on map: Swift Current ↑Other map apps
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Scan with your phone to open this page there. Then tap Keep for offline before you lose signal.
⛽ 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 Witless Bay. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
345.7 km. Off the ferry at Fortune to Witless Bay, on Routes 220, 210, 1, 13 and 10.
When you get to Witless Bay
- Staying in Witless Bay? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Witless Bay → 11 places, A to Z, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Witless Bay, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:09 am | 7:43 am | 4:36 pm | 5:11 pm |
| Feb | 6:35 am | 7:07 am | 5:23 pm | 5:55 pm |
| Mar | 6:45 am | 7:15 am | 7:06 pm | 7:36 pm |
| Apr | 5:41 am | 6:13 am | 7:48 pm | 8:21 pm |
| May | 4:49 am | 5:25 am | 8:29 pm | 9:05 pm |
| Jun | 4:24 am | 5:04 am | 8:58 pm | 9:38 pm |
| Jul | 4:41 am | 5:19 am | 8:54 pm | 9:32 pm |
| Aug | 5:23 am | 5:57 am | 8:14 pm | 8:48 pm |
| Sep | 6:07 am | 6:37 am | 7:15 pm | 7:45 pm |
| Oct | 6:47 am | 7:18 am | 6:15 pm | 6:45 pm |
| Nov | 6:32 am | 7:05 am | 4:27 pm | 5:00 pm |
| Dec | 7:05 am | 7:41 am | 4:11 pm | 4:47 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 Witless Bay, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat near Witless Bay →
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
- A&Wfast foodkm 275.6
- Tim Hortonscafékm 275.7
- Subwayfast foodkm 275.7
- Mary Brown'srestaurantkm 276.3
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.
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Marystown km 60, Goobies km 204
- Longest stretch without one
- 144 km
- Marystown → Goobies, of 345 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Witless Bay
- 31.7 km
- by road, at St. John’s
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
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeGoobies km 204 of the drive
Irving Oil 162 Trans Canada
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeSt. John’s 31.7 km from Witless Bay by road
The Shoppes at Galway 42 Danny Drive, St. John’s
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
Directions →Other map apps
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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
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 31% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 69%
- 211.2 km of 345.7 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 31%
- 93.4 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 345.7 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 Witless Bay from the Fortune ferry?＋
345.7 km from the ferry terminal to Witless Bay.
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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