Port aux Basques ferry terminal → Musgrave Harbour
Port aux Basques ferry to Musgrave Harbour and the Straight Shore
- Distance
- 661.4 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: Farewell ferry terminal (609 km), New-Wes-Valley (688 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: 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 2: 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 3: The nordic trails east of townDetour
6.7 km of mapped cross-country ski trail in the woods off the Trans-Canada, just east of Grand Falls-Windsor. The club running them is not named on the map; ask locally about grooming and season. The weather strip above says whether there is snow.
Stopping here adds 2.8 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: The nordic trails east of town ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Upper Falls Lookout
One of three viewpoints mapped together beside the Trans-Canada at the Norris Arm junction. It is the upper waterfall lookout on the Eel Brook Trail, a short walk past Eel Brook's falls: AllTrails lists it at about 1.3 miles out and back, with Lower Falls Lookout as the other viewpoint.
Stopping here adds 2 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Upper Falls Lookout ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Jonathan's Pond Provincial Park Reserve
A Provincial Park Reserve on Route 330. ParksNL uses that name for a former camping park whose campground was privatised; it is kept for nature and has no visitor services.
Stopping here adds 1.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Jonathan's Pond Provincial Park Reserve ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Carmanville Wetlands Interpretation Center
Carmanville's wetlands interpretation site, beside Route 330 as it rounds Hamilton Sound. Its boardwalk is this shore's birdwatching stop; OSM maps a 'Birdingwatching Trail' in its own spelling.
Directions →Show on map: Carmanville Wetlands Interpretation Center ↑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 330 →Whole road: 8 fuel stations mapped, longest gap 42 km. Unpaved mapped: none; 70% has no surface tag, so unknown.
Drive measured Oct 19, 2026, Port aux Basques ferry terminal to Musgrave Harbour. 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 →
661.4 km. Off the ferry at Port aux Basques to Musgrave Harbour, on Routes 1 and 330.
When you get to Musgrave Harbour
- Where to eat near Musgrave Harbour → — 3 places the open map records, alphabetically, with addresses and phone numbers.
Places to eat on the way
77 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 77, 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 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 · 278 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 · 978 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 · 1247 m off the road
- Furey's Trailway Take-Outfast foodkm 489.1 · 425 m off the road
- Irvingrestaurantkm 489.3
- Tim Hortonscafékm 489.3
- Riverside Dinerfast foodkm 547.7 · 600 m off the road
- Tim Hortonscafékm 567.9 · 1603 m off the road
- A&Wfast foodkm 567.9 · 1167 m off the road
- Mary Brown'sfast foodkm 567.9 · 1435 m off the road
- Subwayfast foodkm 567.9 · 1211 m off the road
- Louis Geesfast foodkm 567.9 · 1822 m off the road
- Jade Garden Restaurantrestaurantkm 567.9 · 1889 m off the road
- Grecofast foodkm 567.9 · 1893 m off the road
- DQ Grill & Chillfast foodkm 567.9 · 1861 m off the road
- Jumping Bean Coffee Companycafékm 569.6 · 1858 m off the road
- Lilly's Landing Family Restaurantrestaurantkm 569.6 · 1895 m off the road
- New Highlight Restaurantrestaurantkm 569.6 · 1894 m off the road
- Pizza Housefast foodkm 569.6 · 1866 m off the road
- East Ocean Restaurantfast foodkm 569.6 · 1869 m off the road
- Little Caesarsfast foodkm 569.8 · 1870 m off the road
- Rocky Ridge Dinerrestaurantkm 658.5 · 324 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 Musgrave Harbour
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- Windmill Bight Park Reservestop39 km
Three kilometres from Lumsden off Route 330.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Cape Freelsstop45 km
A beach on a coast BirdLife International has designated an Important Bird Area for nesting seabirds, among them common eiders, murres, razorbills and Arctic terns, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · Waze - Newtown Boardwalk Walktrail · 3.4 km walk · easy49 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, Gander km 569
- Longest stretch without one
- 129 km
- Deer Lake → South Brook, of 660 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Musgrave Harbour
- 93.4 km
- by road, at Gander
Coming in 2026 (NL Hydro, 2026-10-22): Deer Lake (km 271) and Gander (km 569). 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
- 0.4 km
- Burt's Drive (0.42 km, 0.3 km from Musgrave Harbour)
- Mapped as paved
- 28%
- 166.2 km of 661.4 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 72%
- 422.2 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 661.4 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 Musgrave Harbour from the Port aux Basques ferry?＋
661.4 km from the ferry terminal to Musgrave Harbour.
What route do I take?＋
Routes 1 and 330. 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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