Port aux Basques ferry terminal → Comfort Cove-Newstead
Port aux Basques ferry to Comfort Cove-Newstead
- Distance
- 569.9 km
- Drive time
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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: Lewisporte (542 km), Twillingate (627 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Mary March Provincial Museum (Beothuk Interpretation Centre), Grand Falls-Windsor
A few hundred metres off the Trans-Canada in Grand Falls-Windsor. It tells the story of the Beothuk and of central Newfoundland's interior. A natural break on a long cross-island run.
Stopping here adds 0.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Mary March Provincial Museum (Beothuk Interpretation Centre), Grand Falls-Windsor ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Loggers' Life Provincial MuseumDetour
A reconstructed 1920s logging camp just west of Grand Falls-Windsor, a short detour off the drive. Central Newfoundland ran on the woods for a century, and this museum keeps that story. It is seasonal; check before you count on it.
Stopping here adds 4.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Loggers' Life Provincial Museum ↑Other map apps
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Drive measured Oct 16, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Comfort Cove-Newstead. 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 →
569.9 km. Off the ferry at Port aux Basques, the Trans-Canada carries you almost the whole length of the island, past Corner Brook, Deer Lake and Grand Falls-Windsor, then Route 340 north and Route 343 to the Bay of Exploits.
Break it somewhere. Grand Falls-Windsor’s two museums are a natural stop late in the drive.
Places to eat on the way
66 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 128.9 km — after Tim Horton, until Eddies Restaurant.
All 66, in the order you pass them — open the list
- Shark Cove Restaurantrestaurantkm 0 · 1429 m off the road
- Shark Cove Restaurantrestaurantkm 0 · 1429 m off the road
- Port Clubpubkm 0.9 · 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
- Pinchgut Restaurant & Conveniencerestaurantkm 198.4
- Wendy'sfast foodkm 215.8
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 215.9 · 213 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 216.2 · 332 m off the road
- King Henry's Pubpubkm 216.9 · 1950 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 217 · 1878 m off the road
- Samuel's Sammiches and Sweetsrestaurantkm 217.1 · 1522 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 217.2 · 951 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 217.2 · 941 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 217.3 · 911 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 224.6
- Oasis Grill Houserestaurantkm 243 · 263 m off the road
- Cafe 59restaurantkm 243 · 845 m off the road
- Langerspubkm 264.5 · 541 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 264.6
- KFCfast foodkm 264.6
- Peter's Pizzafast foodkm 264.6
- Subwayfast foodkm 264.8 · 163 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 264.8 · 162 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 264.9 · 204 m off the road
- Pizza Delightrestaurantkm 265 · 212 m off the road
- Wingn' itrestaurantkm 265.6
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 266.1 · 192 m off the road
- Big Stop Restaurantrestaurantkm 266.5
- Tim Hortonfast foodkm 266.5 · 222 m off the road
- Eddies Restaurantrestaurantkm 395.4
- Red Hawk Dinerrestaurantkm 446.2
- Badger Diner & Motelrestaurantkm 446.4
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 475 · 858 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 475.2 · 731 m off the road
- Tai Sun Restaurantrestaurantkm 475.2 · 415 m off the road
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairrestaurantkm 475.2 · 434 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 475.2 · 279 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 475.3 · 420 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 475.3 · 531 m off the road
- Wing'n Itrestaurantkm 475.3 · 1257 m off the road
- War Wick'srestaurantkm 475.3 · 1349 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 475.3 · 389 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 475.5 · 980 m off the road
- Sarah's Dinerrestaurantkm 475.9 · 1158 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 476.1 · 474 m off the road
- Greco Pizzafast foodkm 476.1 · 369 m off the road
- Taiwanrestaurantkm 476.1 · 1229 m off the road
- Juniper Kitchen and Bistrorestaurantkm 476.1 · 1249 m off the road
- Furey's Trailway Take-Outfast foodkm 489.1 · 423 m off the road
- Irvingrestaurantkm 489.3
- Tim Hortonscafékm 489.3
- Greco Pizzarestaurantkm 536.4
- Tim Hortonscafékm 536.4
- Subwayfast foodkm 536.4
- KFCfast foodkm 536.5
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 536.7 · 165 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, swept 2026-10-16. How we measure · Add a missing place
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Short drives from Comfort Cove-Newstead
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- Summerford Lookoutstop58 km
A marked viewpoint on New World Island, on the road.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Farewell ferry terminaltown67 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Prime Berth Fishing Museumstop77 km
A fishing heritage site on the water just out of Twillingate, on the road.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Purcell's Harbour to Little Harbour Trailtrail · 4.6 km walk · moderate79 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - North Atlantic Aviation Museumstop87 km
On the Trans-Canada at 135, per the museum's own page: Gander's story from 1935 to 2001, the Second World War, the transatlantic crossroads years and 9/11.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Gandertown87 kmDirections →
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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, Lewisporte km 538
- Longest stretch without one
- 129 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 569 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Comfort Cove-Newstead
- 31.9 km
- by road, at Lewisporte
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-10): Deer Lake (km 271). 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
- none
- Mapped as paved
- 28%
- 139 km of 569.9 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 72%
- 360.5 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 one of the longest drives on the site, most of it unlit two-lane Trans-Canada. Plan to break it rather than finish after dark.
Check it now →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The Trans-Canada crosses the Long Range and the interior, with long unserviced stretches and winter weather that lingers. Check before you set off.
Check it now →
Onward from Comfort Cove-Newstead
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
The drive back
Measured the other way, Comfort Cove-Newstead back to Port aux Basques is the same distance: 569 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 Comfort Cove-Newstead from the Port aux Basques ferry?＋
569.9 km from the ferry terminal to the centre of the town.
What route do I take?＋
The Trans-Canada (Route 1) north and east past Corner Brook, Deer Lake and Grand Falls-Windsor, then north on Route 340 and Route 343 to the coast.
Is the Argentia ferry closer?＋
Yes. Argentia is 377.8 km from the town, 192.1 km less, but that crossing is seasonal and Port aux Basques runs all year. Marine Atlantic publishes both.
Should I do it in one day?＋
It is a long day. Corner Brook, Deer Lake and Grand Falls-Windsor are all on the way if you want to break it.
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