Port aux Basques ferry terminal → Codroy Valley
Port aux Basques ferry terminal to the Codroy Valley
- Drive time
- 34 min
- Distance
- 40.2 km
Conservative model estimate, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Codroy Valley — no stops, dry roads. Many of Newfoundland's provincial routes carry no speed limit in the open map data, so the router assumes a slow default: a driver who knows the road will beat this. Source: OSRM driving profile, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Codroy Valley, checked 2026-09-21.
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There is one road out of Port aux Basques and this is the first half-hour of it: the Trans-Canada north along the bottom of the west coast, then Route 407 into the valley where the Grand Codroy reaches the sea.
The reason this page exists is that it is the only short drive from that dock. Stephenville is over two hours away, Corner Brook nearly three, Gros Morne over four. The Codroy Valley is thirty-four minutes — and from the nearest airport it is three hours and ten. That gap is the whole argument for treating a ferry terminal as a door: the boat does not just bring people to the island, it brings them ashore somewhere specific, with a car, and the map of what is near looks nothing like it does from an airport.
Between the two is Wreckhouse, where the Long Range funnels down onto the highway. Nothing there asks you to stop; the road-conditions link above is what that stretch is for.
One thing the map says about the last part of this drive, which the panel below sets out properly: Route 407 into the valley is not paved for all of its length. It is about a kilometre in four short pieces, and it matters less for the driving than for the paperwork — some rental agreements treat unpaved road as a breach, and that is a question for the rental counter rather than for this page.
You 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 →Worth stopping for
Wreckhouse
A named place on the map rather than a building, and the Trans-Canada runs straight through it. There is nothing to stop for and that is rather the point: this is the stretch of road whose weather decides itself, and the conditions link in the seasons block is the thing to read before driving it rather than anything this page could print.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.2 km to the drive.
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Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Port aux Basques km 3
- Longest stretch without one
- 37 km
- Port aux Basques → Codroy Valley, of 40 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Codroy Valley
- 37.1 km
- 32 min by road, at Port aux Basques
Source: NL Hydro's published fast-charging network map, exported 2026-09-13 — sites within 3 km of this route's measured line, the km read along it, the drive to the nearest site priced by OSRM. NL Hydro lists these as 62.5 kW DC with CCS and CHAdeMO plugs on a ChargePoint account; whether one is free or working right now is the app's to say. Level 2 chargers in towns are not counted.
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- 1.1 km
- 407-9 (0.36 km, 8.7 km from Codroy Valley); 407-9 (0.06 km, 8.9 km from Codroy Valley); 407-9 (0.35 km, 9 km from Codroy Valley)
- Mapped as paved
- 63%
- 20.1 km of 40.2 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 34%
- 10.9 km the map does not describe either way
Why it matters: Hertz Canada’s published rental terms — the one set of Canadian rental terms we could read in full, quoted not recommended — list “use off paved roads or on roads which are not regularly maintained” as misconduct that voids the damage waiver. Read the agreement you sign before leaving the lot. The terms themselves. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags from a local Geofabrik extract (Overpass unreachable), checked 2026-09-21. A road with no tag is unknown, not paved; what any road is like today is on 511.
Before you go
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Provincial parksSeasonal — typically late spring into the fall
Codroy Valley is a ParksNL site and its dates move year to year; ParksNL publishes them park by park.
Check it now →Road conditions and windYear round, and wind matters here in any season
This drive crosses Wreckhouse, where the Long Range meets the Trans-Canada, and the provincial conditions service is where that road's state is published. Read it before leaving the terminal rather than after — there is one road out of Port aux Basques and this is it.
Check it now →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states it plainly: the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. A crossing that docks at night puts you straight onto unlit highway.
Check it now →
Questions people actually ask
How far is the Codroy Valley from the Port aux Basques ferry terminal?＋
About 40 km — roughly 34 minutes, on the Trans-Canada and then Route 407.
Which door is nearest to the Codroy Valley?＋
Port aux Basques, by a very wide margin. It is 34 minutes from the ferry terminal, 3 hours 10 from Deer Lake airport, 6 hours 58 from Gander and 11 hours 13 from St. John's. This is a place the boat puts within half an hour and no aircraft puts within three.
What else is near the ferry terminal?＋
Not much, and that is worth knowing before you plan around it. Stephenville is about 2 hours 12 from the dock, Corner Brook 2 hours 48, Deer Lake airport 3 hours 25 and Rocky Harbour in Gros Morne 4 hours 11. The Codroy Valley is the only short drive from this door.
Is the drive from Port aux Basques to the Codroy Valley a hard one?＋
It is short, and it is not paved the whole way. The open map records about a kilometre of unpaved road on Route 407 near the valley end — the surface panel on this page has the measured breakdown. It is worth knowing before you set out because some rental agreements treat driving off paved roads as a breach, so it is a question for the counter rather than for us. The other thing this drive is not is sheltered: it crosses Wreckhouse, and the road-conditions link above is what to check, particularly in something high-sided.
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