Port aux Basques ferry terminal → Clarke's Beach
Port aux Basques ferry to Clarke's Beach
- Distance
- 849.6 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Apple Maps · Google Maps · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeYou arrive by ferry — North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Port aux Basques
Port aux Basques is the island's year-round sea door, 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 →Faded lines are other drives from Port aux Basques ferry terminal into this area: St. John's (905 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
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Drive measured Oct 16, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Clarke's Beach. 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 →
849.6 km. Off the ferry at Port aux Basques to Clarke’s Beach, on Routes 1, 71 and 70.
Argentia ferry is closer (77.9 km). This drive suits a trip that starts at Port aux Basques.
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Short drives from Clarke's Beach
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- Cupids Legacy Centrestop8.9 km
A museum at Cupids.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Brigustown9.7 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Manuel's River Interpretation Centerstop59 km
The interpretation centre stands beside the river valley in Conception Bay South.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Bay Bulls harbourstop67 km
On screen: where Wade and Jerry head out at night from the marine base to harvest an iceberg.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Mickeleens Pathtrail · 7.2 km point to point, one way · moderate68 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Witless Baytown68 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Spout Pathtrail · 16.2 km point to point, one way · strenuous70 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Beaches Pathtrail · 7.1 km point to point, one way · easy70 kmDirections →
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More, up to 87 km (7)
OpenStreetMap records a viewpoint here, unnamed, just off the Southern Shore Highway south of Witless Bay.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Tinkers Point Pathtrail · 5 km point to point, one way · easy75 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Railway Coastal Museumstop86 km
The drive passes it at 495 Water Street: St. John's old railway station, now the Railway Coastal Museum, about the Newfoundland Railway and the coastal boats.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - St. John'stown86 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Trans-Canada Highway Zero Kmstop86 km
OpenStreetMap records a highway milestone here reading distance zero, named for the Trans-Canada Highway.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze A few hundred metres along Military Road: Parks Canada's register describes a massive stone cathedral built in the mid 19th century in the Lombard Romanesque Revival style, a national historic site since 1983.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Colonial Buildingstop87 km
On Military Road as the drive comes down into town.
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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, Corner Brook km 216, Deer Lake km 267, South Brook km 396, Bishop’s Falls km 488, Gander km 571, Glowertown km 637, Port Blandford km 685, Goobies km 743
- Longest stretch without one
- 129 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 848 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Clarke's Beach
- 27.7 km
- by road, at Carbonear
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-10): Deer Lake (km 271) and Gander (km 571) and Clarenville (km 717) and Whitbourne (km 816). Not counted until it opens.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported 2026-10-10. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- 6 km
- Hill Avenue Extension (1.07 km, 0.8 km from Clarke's Beach); Hodgewater Line (4.97 km, 9.7 km from Clarke's Beach)
- Mapped as paved
- 26%
- 196.9 km of 849.6 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 73%
- 556.4 km: surface not recorded
Why it matters: 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. The terms themselves. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-10-16. 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 849.6 km, much of it unlit two-lane highway; plan the drive for daylight where you can.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Conditions at one end of the island say little about the other. Check before you set off.
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The drive back
Clarke's Beach back to Port aux Basques measures 849 km.
Plan back from your boarding time. Give the planner your sailing time and it tells you when to set off.
How early to arrive depends on the vessel and the season: check Marine Atlantic →
Return measured 2026-10-16, the same way as the drive out. How we measure
Questions people actually ask
How far is Clarke's Beach from the Port aux Basques ferry?＋
849.6 km from the ferry terminal to the centre of Clarke's Beach.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1, 71 and 70. Your maps app has the turns.
Is there a closer way in to Clarke's Beach?＋
Argentia ferry is 77.9 km from Clarke's Beach, against 849.6 km from Port aux Basques.
Do I need a car?＋
Plan on one. Buses between these towns are few, and the drive is the way most people make it.
No recorded track yet.Drove it? Send yours →
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Run a place to stay, a tour or a town page on this drive? Add this map to your site. It answers how far from the airport? Free, no account, and we keep the figures current.
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