Port aux Basques ferry terminal → Rose Blanche ferry wharf
Port aux Basques ferry to La Poile
- Distance
- 43.9 km
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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.
Marine Atlantic: crossings & current schedule →Then a ferry to La Poile
Passengers and freight only: no vehicles. The province gives the crossing as 1 hour 30 minutes and posts summer and winter schedules.
Operated by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Current schedule →Stop 1: J.T. Cheeseman Provincial ParkDetour
South of the start, toward Port aux Basques. With Grand Bay West, one of two nesting sites of the piping plover, an endangered shore bird, per the province's tourism site. Keep out of areas marked by the exclusion signs.
Stopping here adds 23.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: J.T. Cheeseman Provincial Park ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Cape Ray lighthouseDetour
The province's tourism site suggests the Cape Ray Lightkeepers House, on the lighthouse's history, before heading to the wetlands. It is south of the start, off the Trans-Canada.
Stopping here adds 36.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Cape Ray lighthouse ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Isle aux Morts
Two 17th-century astrolabes were recovered just off this coast, per the province's tourism site. The town also tells of Hairyman, a Newfoundland dog said to have rescued 163 shipwreck survivors in 1828.
Directions →Show on map: Isle aux Morts ↑Other map apps
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Drive measured Nov 6, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Rose Blanche ferry wharf. Your maps app gives the time on the day. The ferry after it is not included. How we measure
Then the ferry to La Poile — sailings & schedule →
Add to a trip →Staying here? Days out ↓Keep for offline ↓Ferry info: Marine Atlantic →
43.9 km. From the Port aux Basques ferry terminal to the wharf at Rose Blanche, for the boat to La Poile, on Routes 1 and 470.
No road reaches La Poile. The province’s ferry page gives the crossing from Rose Blanche as 1 hour 30 minutes, on the MV Challenge One: passenger and freight, no vehicles, 26 passengers. It posts a summer and a winter schedule; open the current one before you drive.
Sunrise and sunset at Rose Blanche, by month
| The 15th | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7:33 am | 8:08 am | 4:58 pm | 5:33 pm |
| Feb | 6:59 am | 7:31 am | 5:46 pm | 6:18 pm |
| Mar | 7:08 am | 7:39 am | 7:29 pm | 8:00 pm |
| Apr | 6:04 am | 6:36 am | 8:12 pm | 8:45 pm |
| May | 5:11 am | 5:47 am | 8:54 pm | 9:30 pm |
| Jun | 4:45 am | 5:26 am | 9:23 pm | 10:04 pm |
| Jul | 5:03 am | 5:41 am | 9:19 pm | 9:58 pm |
| Aug | 5:46 am | 6:20 am | 8:38 pm | 9:12 pm |
| Sep | 6:30 am | 7:01 am | 7:38 pm | 8:09 pm |
| Oct | 7:11 am | 7:42 am | 6:38 pm | 7:09 pm |
| Nov | 6:56 am | 7:29 am | 4:49 pm | 5:23 pm |
| Dec | 7:30 am | 8:06 am | 4:33 pm | 5:09 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. First and last light are when the sun is 6° below the horizon: light enough to see and shoot by. The weather line at the top has today's.
Places to eat on the way
Near the start, the places are on the town's own list: where to eat in Port aux Basques →
1 place to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them. The longest stretch with none is 25.1 km, after Port Club.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Burnt Islands Coffee Shopcafékm 26.1 · 1341 m off the road
Not ranked or complete, and nobody pays to be here. No opening hours: phone ahead. Open map data, read 2026-11-07 (how we measure). Missing one? Add it to the map or email us the details.
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Short drives from Rose Blanche
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- Smokey Cape Trailtrail · 2.4 km walk · easy54 km
- Wreckhousestop64 km
A named place on the map, not a building, and the Trans-Canada runs straight through it.
- Starlight Trailtrail · 4.8 km out and back · challenging75 km
- Searstonstop80 km
One end of the 5.5 km Coastangs Trail, a moderate coastal walk with mountains behind, per the province's tourism site.
- Codroy Valleytown82 km
- Grand Codroy River Estuarystop83 km
Part of the Codroy Valley International Wetlands, on a flyway for migrating birds.
- Point Roseehistoric site83 kmDirections →
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Distances by road from Rose Blanche, measured on OpenStreetMap November 7, 2026. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
More about this drive
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Port aux Basques km 1
- Longest stretch without one
- 43 km
- Port aux Basques → Rose Blanche ferry wharf, of 44 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Rose Blanche ferry wharf
- 44.6 km
- by road, at Port aux Basques
No fast charger at Rose Blanche ferry wharf. From the last fast charger, in Port aux Basques, it is 43 km there and the same back: plan on about 86 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Port aux Basques, 44.6 km from Rose Blanche ferry wharf by road, off this drive's own road.
The chargers
Port aux Basques km 1 of the drive, 1.5 km off it
Irving Oil 1 High Street
CCS and CHAdeMO plugs · 62.5 kW DC fast charger
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Charging: about 100 km of range every 15 minutes, and most EVs to 80% in less than an hour. You start it with a free ChargePoint account, with the ChargePoint app or card. NL Hydro, read November 1, 2026.
NL Hydro fast chargers within 3 km of the drive. Check the app for one that's working. Exported October 22, 2026. How we measure
Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- 0.2 km
- Water Bottom Road (0.2 km, 0.1 km from Rose Blanche ferry wharf)
- Mapped as paved
- 5%
- 2.3 km of 43.9 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 94%
- 40.8 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 from a local Geofabrik extract (Overpass unreachable), checked 2026-11-06. 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 43.9 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 change fast on this coast. Check before you set off.
511nl.ca →
Onward from Rose Blanche ferry wharf
The drives that continue from here, measured the same way you arrived.
Questions
How far is the La Poile boat from the Port aux Basques ferry terminal?＋
43.9 km by road from the ferry terminal to the wharf at Rose Blanche.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1 and 470. Your maps app has the turns.
Can I take my car to La Poile?＋
No. The province lists its vessel, the MV Challenge One, as passenger and freight, no vehicles. Leave the car at Rose Blanche.
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