Worth stopping for
Trans-Canada Highway Zero Km
On the way to…
The first thing on this drive worth slowing for, and the map is unambiguous about what it is: OpenStreetMap records a highway milestone here reading distance zero, named for the Trans-Canada Highway. This route does not use the Trans-Canada — it turns south instead — but the marker stands in downtown St. John's, on the line this drive already takes.
Stopping here adds about 0 min and 0 km to that drive (46 min door to door).
A milestone downtown, beside St. John's City Hall — OpenStreetMap gives the City Hall building a New Gower Street address, and tags New Gower Street itself old_ref=1, the old Trans-Canada. The marker is tagged highway=milestone with distance=0: the zero end of that road. It sits on the driven line out of the city, before the route turns south for the Irish Loop.
Stopping here adds about 0 min and 0 km to that drive (1h 24m door to door).
A roadside marker that OpenStreetMap tags highway=milestone with distance=0, names Trans-Canada Highway Zero Km, and records as a tourism attraction — kilometre zero, where the Trans-Canada is measured from. The driven line for this route runs right past it on the way down through town. OpenStreetMap maps it as a single point — a marker to photograph, not a site to spend time at.
Stopping here adds about 0 min and 0 km to that drive (2h 17m door to door).
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What the map knows
While you're stopped here: Railway Coastal Museum (0.8 km away) · Trans-Canada Trail Mile Zero Km (0.8 km away) · Blackhead One Room Church and School Museum (5.8 km away)
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/9278918620 → — the same element every figure on this page is checked against.