Port aux Basques ferry terminal → Hermitage-Sandyville
Port aux Basques ferry to Hermitage and the Gaultois ferry
- ⛽ Route 360 has 129 km with no fuel. Where to fill up →
- Electric: plan 558 km on a charge. Chargers ↓
- Distance
- 676.1 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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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 →Then a ferry to Gaultois
The Hermitage–Gaultois crossing is mapped in OpenStreetMap in both directions (relations 13094369/13094370), and Gaultois has no road at all: the boat is the town's street. Sailings, fares and the McCallum connection change with season and vessel; check the provincial schedule pages.
Operated by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Current schedule →Faded lines are other drives from Port aux Basques ferry terminal into this area: Harbour Breton (680 km), St. Alban's (635 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
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A mapped viewpoint just off the highway near Deer Lake.
Stopping here adds 2.3 km to the drive.
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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.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: 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 1 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 6: Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium
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 0.4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium ↑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 360 →Whole road: 3 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 129 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 364 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 21 km. Unpaved mapped: 1.5 km; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Hermitage-Sandyville. Your maps app gives the time on the day. The ferry after it is not included. How we measure
Then the ferry to Gaultois — sailings & schedule →
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Ferry info: Marine Atlantic →
676.1 km. Off the ferry at Port aux Basques to Hermitage-Sandyville, on Routes 1, 360 and 364.
When you get to Hermitage-Sandyville
- Where to eat near Hermitage-Sandyville → — 1 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
60 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 60, 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
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 474.4 · 1098 m off the road
- McDonald'sfast foodkm 474.8 · 836 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 474.8 · 911 m off the road
- Burger Kingfast foodkm 474.8 · 1026 m off the road
- Wing'n Itrestaurantkm 474.8 · 1559 m off the road
- War Wick'srestaurantkm 474.8 · 1650 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 474.8 · 835 m off the road
- Tai Sun Restaurantrestaurantkm 474.8 · 781 m off the road
- Donnini's Pizza & Donairrestaurantkm 474.8 · 797 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 474.8 · 1384 m off the road
- Dairy Queenfast foodkm 474.8 · 666 m off the road
- KFCfast foodkm 476.1 · 703 m off the road
- Greco Pizzafast foodkm 476.1 · 760 m off the road
- Sarah's Dinerrestaurantkm 476.4
- Taiwanrestaurantkm 476.9 · 236 m off the road
- Juniper Kitchen and Bistrorestaurantkm 476.9 · 254 m off the road
- Dashwoods Dinerrestaurantkm 602.9
- Sophie's Kitchenrestaurantkm 673.3 · 231 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
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Short drives from Hermitage-Sandyville
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- Hermitage ferrystop1.2 km
At the end of Route 364.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Traditional Trail to Piccairetrail · 4.4 km out and back · easy8.7 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Harbour Bretontown48 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Dead Man's Cove Trailtrail · 6.2 km out and back · moderate50 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze A well-kept Queen Anne-style house built in 1907 by a local merchant.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Elliott Premises, Harbour Bretonstop50 km
Harbour Breton, at the end of Route 360, was settled first by French fishermen and later by the English.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze Pool's Cove marks the entrance to the Bay du Nord River, a Canadian Heritage River that runs through the Bay du Nord Wilderness Reserve.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- St. Jacquesstop66 km
The first of the small communities on Route 363 that the province's tourism site suggests taking slowly, with stops for the views and the beaches.
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More, up to 80 km (3)
- St. Jacques Island Lighthouselighthouse67 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Belleoramstop70 km
Under Iron Skull Mountain, whose name the annual Iron Skull Folk Festival carries.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Hydro Generation Info.stop80 km
The mapped interpretation stop for the Bay d'Espoir hydro development, near the head of the bay.
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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
- 279 km
- South Brook → Hermitage-Sandyville, of 675 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Hermitage-Sandyville
- 209.1 km
- by road, at Bishop’s Falls
No fast charger at Hermitage-Sandyville. From South Brook it is 279 km there and the same back: plan on about 558 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Bishop’s Falls, 209.1 km from Hermitage-Sandyville by road, off this drive's own road.
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
- 13 km
- a tertiary road (0.62 km, 153.7 km from Hermitage-Sandyville); South Side Resource Road (4.31 km, 153.8 km from Hermitage-Sandyville); a tertiary road (2.77 km, 154.2 km from Hermitage-Sandyville)
- Mapped as paved
- 46%
- 283.6 km of 676.1 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 52%
- 326.4 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
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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 676.1 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 Hermitage-Sandyville from the Port aux Basques ferry?＋
676.1 km from the ferry terminal to Hermitage-Sandyville.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1, 360 and 364. 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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