Port aux Basques ferry terminal → Cape St. George
Port aux Basques ferry to Cape St. George and the Port au Port Peninsula
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 221.8 km
- Drive time
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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 →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
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Stephenville
The peninsula's service town, built around a runway. Harmon Air Force Base put an American town here in the 1940s, and the street names still say Texas and Georgia. Last full services before the French Shore's smaller communities.
Directions →Show on map: Stephenville ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Our Lady of Mercy Heritage Church
One of the largest wooden churches in Newfoundland, raised on Port au Port West's shore in the 1920s and mapped with its museum beside it. The parish and museum set their own hours in season; the building is visible from the road.
Stopping here adds 0.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Our Lady of Mercy Heritage Church ↑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 460 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 55 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 100% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Cape St. George. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Ferry info: Marine Atlantic →
221.8 km. Off the ferry at Port aux Basques to Cape St. George, on Routes 1, 490 and 460.
When you get to Cape St. George
- Where to eat near Cape St. George → — 1 place the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Sunrise and sunset at Cape St. George, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:13 am | 4:57 pm |
| February | 7:35 am | 5:47 pm |
| March | 7:41 am | 7:31 pm |
| April | 6:37 am | 8:16 pm |
| May | 5:46 am | 8:59 pm |
| June | 5:24 am | 9:29 pm |
| July | 5:40 am | 9:24 pm |
| August | 6:20 am | 8:43 pm |
| September | 7:02 am | 7:41 pm |
| October | 7:45 am | 6:39 pm |
| November | 7:34 am | 4:49 pm |
| December | 8:12 am | 4:32 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.
Places to eat on the way
11 near the start: where to eat in Port aux Basques →
1 near Cape St. George: where to eat near Cape St. George →
9 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 69 km — after Robin's Donuts, until Midway Motel and Lounge.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 5.3
- Robin's Donutsrestaurantkm 38.1
- Midway Motel and Loungepubkm 107.1
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 168.5 · 1099 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 168.7 · 1112 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 168.7 · 1339 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 169.1 · 915 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 169.1 · 914 m off the road
- NewfieBoy's Burger Busfast foodkm 169.2 · 843 m off the road
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 Cape St. George
Or any of these: nearest first, measured by road from Cape St. George.
- Boutte du Cap Parkstop3.9 km
The park at the end of the road, named in the Shore's French.
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, Stephenville km 169
- Longest stretch without one
- 104 km
- Port aux Basques → Robinsons, of 222 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Cape St. George
- 53.7 km
- by road, at Stephenville
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: 81% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 19%
- 34.1 km of 221.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 81%
- 145.4 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 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 221.8 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 change fast on this coast. Check before you set off.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is Cape St. George from the Port aux Basques ferry?＋
221.8 km from the ferry terminal to Cape St. George.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1, 490 and 460. 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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