Wabush Airport (YWK) → Forteau
Wabush Airport (YWK) to Forteau
The drive from every airport and ferry ↓
- Distance
- 1110 km
- Drive time
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Faded lines are other drives from Wabush into this area: Point Amour Lighthouse (1106 km), Pinware (1077 km), Red Bay (1048 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.
Stop 1: Mary's HarbourDetour
Battle Harbour, the restored fishing village on Battle Island, gives Mary's Harbour as its address. How to get across is on their page.
Stopping here adds 5.4 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Mary's Harbour ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 2: Red BayDetour
The mid-16th-century Basque whaling port on the Strait of Belle Isle, a Parks Canada national historic site and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Stopping here adds 3.3 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Red Bay ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 3: Pinware
A hamlet on Route 510 between Point Amour and Red Bay.
Directions →Show on map: Pinware ↑Other map apps
Apple · Google · Organic Maps · OsmAnd (both work offline, no tracking) · WazeStop 4: Point Amour LighthouseDetour
Completed in 1857 to guide steamships down the Strait of Belle Isle, with 132 steps to the top. A Provincial Historic Site.
Stopping here adds 10.1 km to the drive.
Directions →Show on map: Point Amour Lighthouse ↑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 24, 2026, Wabush Airport (YWK) to Forteau. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure
1110 km. Wabush airport to Forteau on Routes 503, 500 and 510.
A village on Route 510, the Labrador Straits road.
Sunrise and sunset at Forteau, by month
| Month (the 15th) | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8:16 am | 4:36 pm |
| February | 7:32 am | 5:31 pm |
| March | 7:33 am | 7:21 pm |
| April | 6:22 am | 8:12 pm |
| May | 5:26 am | 9:01 pm |
| June | 4:59 am | 9:36 pm |
| July | 5:17 am | 9:29 pm |
| August | 6:02 am | 8:42 pm |
| September | 6:51 am | 7:34 pm |
| October | 7:40 am | 6:26 pm |
| November | 7:35 am | 4:29 pm |
| December | 8:16 am | 4:09 pm |
Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.
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Paved or not, per the map
- Mapped as unpaved
- 0.1 km
- Southern Labrador Highway (0.07 km, 2.4 km from Forteau); Southern Labrador Highway (0.06 km, 113.6 km from Forteau)
- Mapped as paved
- 89%
- 894.9 km of 1110 km driven
- No surface tag on the map
- 11%
- 110.7 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 2026-10-24. 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 puts the likelihood of injury in a moose collision at twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daylight.
gov.nl.ca →Road conditionsYear round, most of all November to April
Check 511 before you set out on Routes 503, 500 and 510, and again before the drive back.
511nl.ca →
Questions
How far is Forteau from Wabush airport?＋
1110 km by road, on Routes 503, 500 and 510. Your maps app gives the time on the day.
What do I pass on the way?＋
Mary's Harbour (a 5.4 km detour), Red Bay (a 3.3 km detour), Pinware, Point Amour Lighthouse (a 10.1 km detour), numbered on the map in the order you reach them.
What is at Forteau?＋
A village on Route 510, the Labrador Straits road.
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title="Driving route: Wabush Airport (YWK) to Forteau"></iframe>?lat=&lon=&label= to the URL to pin your own property on the map.Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on October 24, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap way/424770424. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/1848886552 — Forteau.