Worth stopping for
Shallow Bay beach
On the way to…
The north end's surprise: a long, mapped sweep of sand just past Cow Head, with the campground on this route behind it — Parks Canada's, their season to state. The lighthouse peninsula and the beach make Cow Head a destination rather than a waypoint.
Stopping here adds about 10 min and 5.2 km to that drive (1h 36m door to door).
Drive it with your own nav:Organic Maps →OsmAnd →Apple →Google →Waze →The first two run on OpenStreetMap and don't track you — the same map this site is built from.
What the map knows
Mapped as attraction in OpenStreetMap.
While you're stopped here: Western Brook Pond trailhead (17.9 km away) · SS Ethie wreck site (20.1 km away) · The Arches Provincial Park (21.7 km away)
The map last touched this element on 2015-05-28 — an old date is not proof of closure, only of nobody updating the map; if you know better, edit OpenStreetMap and every site built on it learns.
All of it read from the cited element and this site's own measured stops (2026-09-05); nothing above is our endorsement — it is the map's record.
Where this pin comes from: OpenStreetMap node/3553804794 → — the same element every figure on this page is checked against.