Codroy Pond → Flat Bay
Three Rivers and Sandy Point Lookout
Getting to the start from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 111.7 km
- Drive time
- In your maps app ↗
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Stop 1: Crabbes River
One of the salmon streams the province's tourism site names on this drive.
Stopping here adds 1.2 km to the drive.
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At the end of Route 405. One of the names Scottish settlers brought here, per the province's tourism site, along with Loch Leven.
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Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Robinsons River
The other salmon stream the province's tourism site names, crossed on the way to Heatherton.
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Drive measured Oct 20, 2026, Codroy Pond to Flat Bay. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
111.7 km off the main highway. From Codroy Pond the drive leaves the Trans-Canada for Routes 405 and 404, through the communities along Bay St. George South, and ends at Flat Bay.
What the province names: salmon in the Crabbes and Robinsons rivers, sandy trails along coastal meadows with lookouts over the bay, ATV tours of the backcountry, and more fishing further north at Flat Bay Brook.
Sunrise and sunset at Flat Bay, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:10 am | 4:55 pm |
| February | 7:32 am | 5:44 pm |
| March | 7:38 am | 7:28 pm |
| April | 6:35 am | 8:13 pm |
| May | 5:44 am | 8:56 pm |
| June | 5:22 am | 9:26 pm |
| July | 5:38 am | 9:22 pm |
| August | 6:17 am | 8:40 pm |
| September | 7:00 am | 7:38 pm |
| October | 7:43 am | 6:36 pm |
| November | 7:31 am | 4:46 pm |
| December | 8:09 am | 4:30 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.
Places to eat on the way
1 place to eat within 2 km of this drive, in the order you pass them.
The longest stretch with nothing mapped on it is 74.6 km — from the start of the drive, until Midway Motel and Lounge.
Every one of them, in the order you pass them
- Midway Motel and Loungepubkm 74.6
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
- Robinsons km 75
- Longest stretch without one
- 75 km
- the start → Robinsons, of 111 km driven
- Nearest fast charger to Flat Bay
- 36.8 km
- by road, at Robinsons
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
- none
- Not proof it is all paved: 58% has no surface tag.
- Mapped as paved
- 42%
- 30.8 km of 111.7 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 58%
- 43 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.
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. Routes 405 and 404 are unlit two-lane road through quiet communities.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, matters most November–April
The coast roads leave and rejoin the Trans-Canada. Check before winter driving.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is the drive?＋
111.7 km from Codroy Pond to Flat Bay, measured on the roads: the Trans-Canada, Route 405 out to Highlands, Route 404 through Jeffrey's, Robinsons and Heatherton, then Route 403. Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, which names the drive, gives about 129 km. Theirs is an estimate and may take in more of the side roads.
Where is Sandy Point?＋
Out in the bay, about 9 km north-east of Flat Bay in a straight line, per OpenStreetMap, which maps no road to it.
Which way should I drive it?＋
The province starts at Codroy Pond and says the drive can be taken in reverse. The distance is the same either way.
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