Glovertown → Salvage
Kittiwake Coast: Road to the Beaches
- Distance
- 41.3 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
- Roads
- 310
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Apple Maps · Google Maps · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 1: Glovertown Museum, The Janes House
On the resettlement of the Bonavista Bay islands, boat building from 1930 to 1960, and the logging and lumber industry, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Show on map: Glovertown Museum, The Janes House ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Terra Nova National Park Visitor CentreDetour
Off the Trans-Canada south of Glovertown. The visitor centre has a touch tank of sea life, and the park was the province's first Dark Sky Preserve, per the province's tourism site.
Stopping here adds 23.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Terra Nova National Park Visitor Centre ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: BurnsideDetour
Where a small car ferry leaves for St. Brendan's, an island settled by Irish immigrants and named for the Irish monk said to have sailed the North Atlantic in a leather boat, per the province's tourism site.
Stopping here adds 16.6 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Burnside ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Beaches Arts & Heritage Centre, Eastport
The province's tourism site points here for what is on in Eastport's arts and culture. The town holds a literary festival and an accordion festival each summer.
Stopping here adds 0.7 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Beaches Arts & Heritage Centre, Eastport ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 5: Sandy Cove
Sandy Cove Beach, and the Old School House Trail, an easy 2-kilometre walk on to Happy Adventure, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Show on map: Sandy Cove ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 6: Happy Adventure
Boat and kayak tours leave here for resettled communities, sea caves and a puffin colony, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Show on map: Happy Adventure ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 7: Eastport Beach
The main beach on the peninsula, joined to Northside Beach by boardwalks and a nature trail, per the province's tourism site.
Directions →Show on map: Eastport Beach ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 8: High Tide Trail, Eastport
Starts at Northside Beach and is part of the Damnable Trail network, per the province's tourism site.
Stopping here adds 0.9 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: High Tide Trail, Eastport ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 9: Salvage
Said with a long "a", as in "age". The province's tourism site calls it the oldest European settlement on this part of the coast: a classic outport of wharves, stages and fishing boats.
Directions →Show on map: Salvage ↑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 20, 2026, Glovertown to Salvage. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
41.3 km, Glovertown to Salvage. The province’s Road to the Beaches leaves the Trans-Canada at Glovertown on Route 310 and runs out the Eastport Peninsula: the beaches at Eastport and Sandy Cove, the Damnable Trail network, Happy Adventure, and Salvage at the road’s end.
Two side trips are on the stops: Terra Nova National Park back on the Trans-Canada, and the ferry to St. Brendan’s from Burnside. See the Road to the Shore and the Road to the Isles for the rest of this coast.
Places to eat on the way
7 places to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 21 km — after timber and twine, until Chico's Drive B'y & Takeout.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Robin's Donutscafékm 0.1
- Greccorestaurantkm 0.6
- Captain Subrestaurantkm 0.6
- Whitecaps Caferestaurantkm 0.6
- timber and twinecafékm 2.1
- Chico's Drive B'y & Takeoutrestaurantkm 23.1 · 404 m off the road
- Salvaje Brewing Companypubkm 41.2 · 206 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.
Doing it electric
- Fast chargers on this drive
- Glowertown km 6
- Longest stretch without one
- 35 km
- Glowertown → Salvage, of 41 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Salvage
- 28.8 km
- by road, at Glowertown
No fast charger at Salvage. From Glowertown it is 35 km there and the same back: plan on about 70 km on one charge, more in cold weather or with the heat on. Or charge at Glowertown, 28.8 km from Salvage by road, off this drive's own road.
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
- 0.1 km
- a residential road (0.08 km, 10.3 km from Salvage)
- Mapped as paved
- 100%
- 37.3 km of 41.3 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 0%
- 0 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 2026-10-20. Today's road conditions: 511.
Before you go
These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.
St. Brendan's ferryThe province publishes the schedule
The car ferry from Burnside is small. Check the schedule and vehicle space before you plan on it.
gov.nl.ca →MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn
The province states the likelihood of injury in a moose collision is twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daytime. Terra Nova and the Trans-Canada either side of Glovertown are moose country, unlit for long stretches.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
Route 310 out the Eastport Peninsula ends at Salvage. A closure on it means turning back.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is the Road to the Beaches?＋
41.3 km, measured on Route 310 from Glovertown by Traytown, Eastport, Sandy Cove and Happy Adventure to Salvage. Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, which names the drive, gives about 90 km. The province does not say what its figure includes. This page measures the side trips to Burnside and Terra Nova with their stops, and does not count the drive back.
Where does it start, and which way round?＋
The province starts it at Glovertown or Traytown. This page starts at Glovertown and ends at Salvage, at the end of Route 310. Driving it the other way is the same distance.
Is this the whole Kittiwake Coast?＋
No. The province names four Kittiwake Coast drives. The Road to the Shore and the Road to the Isles have their own pages here.
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