Port aux Basques ferry terminal → Grand Falls-Windsor
Port aux Basques ferry to Grand Falls-Windsor
- Distance
- 477.8 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
- Roads
- 1
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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 →Faded lines are other drives from Port aux Basques ferry terminal into this area: Botwood (509 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
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: Joe Butts LookoutDetour
A mapped viewpoint just off the highway near Deer Lake.
Stopping here adds 2.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joe Butts Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Indian River
A green space mapped essentially on the driven line. OpenStreetMap records it as a nature reserve but not who runs it, and it is not on ParksNL's list. Treat it as a place to pull over, not somewhere with facilities.
Stopping here adds 0.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Indian River ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Loggers' Life Provincial MuseumDetour
A reconstructed 1920s logging camp on the west side of Grand Falls-Windsor, mapped right beside the driven line. Central Newfoundland ran on the woods for a century, and the museum shows that work.
Stopping here adds 4.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Loggers' Life Provincial Museum ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Joe Byrne Memorial StadiumDetour
Grand Falls-Windsor's indoor rink, just off the route (OpenStreetMap mislabels its sport as field hockey). Check with the town for public skate times and ice rentals.
Stopping here adds 3.4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: 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.
Stopping here adds 0.5 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Mary March Provincial Museum (Beothuk Interpretation Centre), Grand Falls-Windsor ↑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.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Grand Falls-Windsor. 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 →
477.8 km. Off the ferry at Port aux Basques to Grand Falls-Windsor, on Route 1.
When you get to Grand Falls-Windsor
- Staying in Grand Falls-Windsor? → — the start page: short drives from town, food, and a planner that starts here.
- Where to eat near Grand Falls-Windsor → — 48 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
- Curling Rink, Grand Falls-Windsor → · Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium → · Classic Theater → · Queen Street Dinner Theater → — the venues here, with what you can reach and be back from between games.
Places to eat on the way
58 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 58, in the order you pass them — open the list
- 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
- Pinchgut Restaurant & Conveniencerestaurantkm 198.4
- Wendy'sfast foodkm 215.8
- Jungle Jim'srestaurantkm 216 · 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 · 1877 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
- Peter's Pizzafast foodkm 264.6
- KFCfast foodkm 264.7
- 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
- Sarah's Dinerrestaurantkm 475.3 · 1253 m off the road
- Taiwanrestaurantkm 475.3 · 1461 m off the road
- Juniper Kitchen and Bistrorestaurantkm 475.3 · 1504 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 475.6 · 336 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 475.6 · 544 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 475.6 · 706 m off the road
- Wing'n Itrestaurantkm 475.6 · 1061 m off the road
- War Wick'srestaurantkm 475.6 · 1154 m off the road
- Tai Sun Restaurantrestaurantkm 475.6 · 222 m off the road
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairrestaurantkm 475.6 · 241 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 475.6
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 475.7 · 224 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 475.7 · 197 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 475.8 · 785 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 475.9 · 894 m off the road
- Greco Pizzafast foodkm 475.9 · 793 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 Grand Falls-Windsor
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A town trail the province's tourism site names, with a Nature Centre on the wetlands and their plants and animals.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Corduroy Brook Nature Reservestop2.7 km
A network of walking trails and boardwalks along Corduroy Brook, mapped inside Grand Falls-Windsor itself.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - The nordic trails east of townstop4.2 km
6.7 km of mapped cross-country ski trail in the woods off the Trans-Canada, just east of Grand Falls-Windsor.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze On the Exploits, the island's longest river, where as many as 30,000 salmon run upstream to spawn each year, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Bishop’s Falls Heritage Centrestop16 km
A small heritage centre in Bishop's Falls, just off the Trans-Canada.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Peter's River Hiking Trailtrail · 5 km walk · easy31 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Botwoodtown33 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Botwood Flying Boat Museumstop37 km
In a former WWII anti-submarine base at the Botwood Heritage Park.
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More, up to 79 km (8)
- Eelbrook Hiking Trailtrail · 2.5 km loop · easy43 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Notre Dame Provincial Parkstop52 km
The one ParksNL park on this drive.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Gill's Point Trailtrail · 8.2 km walk · moderate55 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze A climb to the summit for a view over the whole area, per the province's tourism site.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Point Leamingtonstop60 km
The working town halfway up the peninsula.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Lewisportetown66 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Woolfrey's Pond Lookoutstop67 km
The town's pondside park at the edge of Lewisporte, with a lookout and boardwalk loops above the water.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Glenwood Provincial Parkstop79 km
A campground just off the Trans-Canada.
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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
- Longest stretch without one
- 129 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 477 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Grand Falls-Windsor
- 12.6 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): 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 2026-10-22. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 76% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 24%
- 103.8 km of 477.8 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 76%
- 326.1 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 477.8 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 Grand Falls-Windsor from the Port aux Basques ferry?＋
477.8 km from the ferry terminal to Grand Falls-Windsor.
What route do I take?＋
Route 1. 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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