How to get here:
Marine
Atlantic provides year-round vehicle and passenger ferry service between North
Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. Crossing time is
approximately 6 hours. Your journey from Port Aux Basques to the Route 480
intersection on the Trans Canada Highway is 154 km. A few km before the Route
480 intersection is the Barachois Pond Provincial Park, one of the lovely parks
on the southwest coast. This park has a lot of recreational activities and is worth
a visit. Route 480 is 148 km long, with no service stations, so be sure to check
your fuel. This highway is named The Caribou Trail. It will take you through the
forests and barrens of the rugged interior to the south coast community of Burgeo. This is an excellent area to see some of the 60,000 woodland caribou
that inhabit Newfoundland. Burgeo is located on an island connected to the main
portion of Newfoundland by a short causeway. Settled by Europeans in the 1700s,
it has grown into a major service and transportation centre for the western half
of the south coast. From here you can get a coastal boat west to Grand Bruit, La
Poile and Rose Blanche, and east to Ramea, Grey River, Francois, Macallum and
Gaultois.
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