Port aux Basques ferry terminal → King's Point
Port aux Basques ferry to King's Point
- Distance
- 399.4 km
- Drive time
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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: Pilley's Island ferry terminal (438 km), Baie Verte (426 km), Triton (441 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: Codroy Valley Provincial ParkDetour
The mapped reserve on the Grand Codroy estuary, the sheltered river mouth that makes this valley the west coast's great bird water. Waterfowl gather in the wetlands with the Long Range mountains behind. ParksNL publishes what operates and when.
Stopping here adds 17.2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Codroy Valley Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Joe Butts LookoutDetour
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 4: Newfoundland InsectariumDetour
An insect museum in Deer Lake. Check its hours before detouring with kids in the car.
Stopping here adds 2.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Newfoundland Insectarium ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: 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
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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 390 →Whole road: 5 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 6.3 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
- Route 391 →Whole road: 1 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 25 km. Unpaved mapped: 20 km; 0% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to King's Point. 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 →
399.4 km. Off the ferry at Port aux Basques to King’s Point, on Routes 1, 390 and 391.
When you get to King's Point
- Where to eat near King's Point → — 1 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
39 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 131.3 km — after Tim Horton, to King's Point.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- 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
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 King's Point
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- Alexander Murray Trailtrail · 6.2 km loop · moderate1.9 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Caribou Trailtrail · 5.2 km out and back · moderate6.8 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze Follows the river estuary to a waterfall and salmon ladder at the trail's end, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeThe Hazelnut Hiking and Adventure Trail, which the province's tourism site says is brightest in the fall.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze- Trail to Morry's Covetrail · 3.6 km walk · easy56 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Pilley's Islandstop63 km
Waterfront views and the Pilley's Island Heritage Museum, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Pilley's Island Lookout Trailtrail · 4.6 km out and back · easy64 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Triton Sperm Whale Pavilionstop70 km
A 13-metre sperm whale skeleton, seen on a guided tour, and the story of a 12-foot giant squid that washed up in Badger Bay, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
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More, up to 74 km (2)
- Pilley's Island ferry terminaltown70 kmDirections →
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Tritontown74 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
- Longest stretch without one
- 132 km
- Deer Lake → King's Point, of 399 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to King's Point
- 29.1 km
- by road, at South Brook
No fast charger at King's Point. From Deer Lake it is 132 km there and the same back: plan on about 264 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at South Brook, 29.1 km from King's Point 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
- 0.2 km
- Gillingham Lane (0.2 km, 0 km from King's Point)
- Mapped as paved
- 27%
- 94.6 km of 399.4 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 73%
- 260.3 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 399.4 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 King's Point from the Port aux Basques ferry?＋
399.4 km from the ferry terminal to King's Point.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1, 390 and 391. 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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