Worth stopping for
Information Center Mistaken Point
On the way to…
The building this drive ends at. OpenStreetMap tags it as a tourism information office; the province calls it the Mistaken Point Interpretation Centre and says the official guided tours to Mistaken Point depart from it, adjacent to Route 10 in Portugal Cove South. The province also states that access to view the fossils is by guided tour or permit only, that reservations for the guided tours are mandatory, and that the tours are often fully booked in advance — it points bookings to mistakenpoint.ca. See the seasons notes on this page.
Stopping here adds about 0 min and 0 km to that drive (2h 17m door to door).
The province says the official guided tours to Mistaken Point depart from this building, that it sits adjacent to Route 10 in Portugal Cove South, and that provincial Natural Areas staff keep their offices in it; the centre itself is owned and operated by the not-for-profit Mistaken Point Cape Race Heritage Inc. The reserve it serves protects fossils of the Ediacara biota — in the province's words the oldest large, complex life-forms found anywhere on Earth, which lived from 580 to 541 million years ago — and Mistaken Point was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016. Access to view the fossils is by guided tour or permit only.
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