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SS Ethie wreck site

On the way to…

  1. YDF → Cow Head →

    The mapped historic wreck site of the coastal steamer that went ashore in 1919 — steps from the highway, on the way rather than out of it.

    Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.3 km to that drive (1h 36m door to door).

  2. YDF → L'Anse aux Meadows →

    A mapped shipwreck site on the Gros Morne coast — the coastal steamer Ethie went ashore here in 1919 and the beach still shows her bones. Steps from the highway.

    Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.3 km to that drive (5h 51m door to door).

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What the map knows

Mapped as attraction in OpenStreetMap.

While you're stopped here: Western Brook Pond trailhead (2.5 km away) · Shallow Bay beach (20.1 km away) · Gros Morne Visitor Information Centre (22.4 km away)

The map last touched this element on 2025-08-28 — 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/13103812349 → — the same element every figure on this page is checked against.

SS Ethie wreck site on the YDF → Cow Head drive — the nearest door is YDF, 1h 36m door to door.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

No photograph here yet, on purpose: pictures appear when a properly licensed one exists, and not before. The map is the argument.