Chance Cove → Chapel Arm
Osprey Trail
- Distance
- 37.1 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
- Roads
- 201
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Stop 1: Arnold's CoveDetour
A side trip for the Drake Heritage House. Its owner refused to leave Haystack when it was resettled in the 1960s, and the house later came here by barge. Inside it is a time capsule of the era and now the community museum, per the province's tourism site.
Stopping here adds 57.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Arnold's Cove ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Chance Cove Coastal Trail
A trail through the forest to the far end of Chance Cove Beach, then uphill along the coast to hidden sandy beaches, lookouts and sea caves, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Show on map: Chance Cove Coastal Trail ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Bellevue Beach
A sandy beach on Route 201, in what the province's tourism site calls a popular summer cottage area.
Stopping here adds 0.9 km to the drive.
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Drive measured Oct 20, 2026, Chance Cove to Chapel Arm. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
37.1 km on Route 201. The province’s Osprey Trail leaves the Trans-Canada at Chance Cove and follows the south coast of Trinity Bay through Bellevue and Thornlea to Chapel Arm. The province calls it a popular summer cottage area, and a good place to see ospreys.
The Chance Cove Coastal Trail is at the start. Arnold’s Cove, for the Drake Heritage House, is a side trip west on the Trans-Canada.
Places to eat on the way
1 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 32 km — from the start of the drive, until Charlottes Take Out.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Charlottes Take Outrestaurantkm 32
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-10-18. How we measure · Add a missing place
New place to eat, or one that's missing? This list comes from OpenStreetMap, so nobody can pay to be on it. Add it to the map yourself (about twenty minutes on a phone), or email us the details and we'll put it on the map.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- none
- Longest stretch without one
- 37 km
- the start → Chapel Arm, of 37 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Chapel Arm
- 20.4 km
- by road, at Whitbourne
No fast charger at Chapel Arm. From the start it is 37 km there and the same back: plan on about 74 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Whitbourne, 20.4 km from Chapel Arm by road, off this drive's own road.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-22. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 28% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 72%
- 24.8 km of 37.1 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 28%
- 9.5 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 via Overpass, checked 2026-10-20. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Route 201 is unlit two-lane road for nearly all of it.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 201 is a two-lane shore road with the Trans-Canada inland as the way round if it closes.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is the Osprey Trail?＋
37.1 km on Route 201 from Chance Cove to Chapel Arm, measured on the OSRM driving profile. Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, which names the drive, gives about 70 km. It does not publish its line, and its figure likely counts the side trip to Arnold's Cove, which is measured with that stop here.
Where do I start, and which way round?＋
The province starts it at Chance Cove, at the western end of Route 201, and says its drives can be taken in either direction. This page runs east from Chance Cove to Chapel Arm, where the road meets the Trans-Canada again.
Why is it called the Osprey Trail?＋
The province's tourism site says the south coast of Trinity Bay is a good place to see ospreys, the fish hawks the drive is named for.
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title="Driving route: Chance Cove to Chapel Arm"></iframe>?lat=&lon=&label= to the URL to pin your own property on the map.Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on October 20, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap node/1639310018 — Chance Cove. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/1452535373 — Chapel Arm.