Port aux Basques ferry terminal → Burgeo
Port aux Basques ferry to Burgeo and the Sandbanks
- ⛽ Route 480 has 148 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Electric: plan 396 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 305.8 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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You arrive by ferry — North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Port aux Basques
Port aux Basques is the island's year-round ferry terminal, and everyone who comes through it has their own car already ashore.
Operated by Marine Atlantic. The drive below starts where the boat lands.
Crossings & current schedule →Then a ferry to Ramea
Burgeo is also the south coast's ferry gate: the Ramea crossing is mapped in both directions (relations 13094354/13094355), and a second service reaches Grey River and François, outports with no road. The provincial schedule has sailings and fares.
Operated by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Current schedule →Stop 1: Wreckhouse
The most famous stretch of wind in Newfoundland. The Long Range funnels southeasterlies here hard enough that a man was once employed to decide whether trains could pass: Lauchie MacDougall, the human wind gauge. The Trans-Canada runs straight through it, and high-sided vehicles still get held when it blows. Check the forecast for your timing.
Stopping here adds 0.2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Wreckhouse ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Codroy Valley Provincial ParkDetour
The mapped reserve on the Grand Codroy estuary, the sheltered river mouth that makes this valley the west coast's great bird water. Waterfowl gather in the wetlands with the Long Range mountains behind. ParksNL publishes what operates and when.
Stopping here adds 17.2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Codroy Valley Provincial Park ↑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 1 →Whole road: 54 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 119 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 68% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 480 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 148 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Burgeo. Your maps app gives the time on the day. The ferry after it is not included. How we measure
Then the ferry to Ramea — sailings & schedule →
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Ferry info: Marine Atlantic →
305.8 km. Off the ferry at Port aux Basques to Burgeo, on Routes 1 and 480.
Places to eat on the way
14 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 197.4 km — after Midway Motel and Lounge, to Burgeo.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Shark Cove Restaurantrestaurantkm 0 · 1429 m off the road
- Shark Cove Restaurantrestaurantkm 0 · 1427 m off the road
- Port Clubpubkm 1 · 289 m off the road
- Tai-Hong Restaurantrestaurantkm 2.4
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 2.6
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 3
- Bob's Chicken Coopfast foodkm 3
- Tim Hortonscafékm 3.1
- Robin‘sfast foodkm 3.2 · 823 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 3.2
- Alma‘s Restaurantrestaurantkm 3.3 · 452 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 5.3
- Robin's Donutsrestaurantkm 38.1
- Midway Motel and Loungepubkm 107.1
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.
Short drives from Burgeo
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- Sandbanks Beaches Looptrail · 4.5 km loop · easy4 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Aaron's Arm Trailtrail · 5.2 km walk · moderate4.1 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Sandbanks Beaches Loop trailheadstop4.2 km
The mapped walking loop through the Sandbanks at Burgeo's edge — kilometres of dune-backed sand on the province's south coast, reached by a short spur just before town.
Directions →Other map apps
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Distances by road, measured on OpenStreetMap October 16, 2026, from where this route ends. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Port aux Basques km 3, Robinsons km 107
- Longest stretch without one
- 198 km
- Robinsons → Burgeo, of 305 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Burgeo
- 182.1 km
- by road, at Stephenville
No fast charger at Burgeo. From Robinsons it is 198 km there and the same back: plan on about 396 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Stephenville, 182.1 km from Burgeo 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: 35% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 65%
- 180.2 km of 305.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 35%
- 95.3 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 via Overpass, checked 2026-10-19. 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 says the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. This is 305.8 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 at one end of the island say little about the other. Check before you set off.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is Burgeo from the Port aux Basques ferry?＋
305.8 km from the ferry terminal to Burgeo.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1 and 480. Your maps app has the turns.
Do I need a car?＋
You came off the ferry with one, so this is your own drive.
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title="Driving route: Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Burgeo"></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 19, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/215300568 — Port aux Basques Ferry Terminal. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/4314598365 — Burgeo place node.