Worth stopping for
Wreckhouse
On the way to…
Port aux Basques → Codroy Valley →
A named place on the map rather than a building, and the Trans-Canada runs straight through it. There is nothing to stop for and that is rather the point: this is the stretch of road whose weather decides itself, and the conditions link in the seasons block is the thing to read before driving it rather than anything this page could print.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.2 km to that drive (34 min door to door).
The most famous stretch of wind in Newfoundland, named on the map like the warning it is: here the Long Range funnels southeasterlies hard enough that they once employed a man — Lauchie MacDougall, the human wind gauge — to decide whether trains could pass. The Trans-Canada runs straight through it; high-sided vehicles still get held when it blows. The forecast decides your timing, not this page.
Stopping here adds about 1 min and 0.1 km to that drive (3h 28m 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 place: village in OpenStreetMap.
While you're stopped here: J.T. Cheeseman Provincial Park (9.5 km away) · Cape Ray Lighthouse (9.9 km away) · Codroy Valley Provincial Park (13.9 km away)
The map last touched this element on 2010-10-18 — 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/33952817 → — the same element every figure on this page is checked against.