Route 431, also known as Bonne Bay Road, is a short highway almost entirely within
Gros Morne National Park
Gros Morne National Park is a National Parks of Canada, Canadian national park and World Heritage Site located on the west coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland. At , it is the second largest national park in Atlantic Canada after To ...
on the island of
Newfoundland
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in the
Canadian province
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of
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
. It begins at a junction of Route 430 in
Wiltondale and terminates at
Trout River. It serves the town of
Woody Point on
Bonne Bay
Bonne Bay is a bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada. It is located on the western coast of Newfoundland and separates the Great Northern Peninsula from the rest of the island. It is a part of Gros Morne National Park.
It is s ...
and passes through the communities of
Glenburnie,
Birchy Head and Winter House Brook.
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Route description
Route 431 begins in
Trout River, along the banks of the river of the same name, at a Y-Intersection with Main Street just south of downtown and the coastline. It heads east to enter
Gros Morne National Park
Gros Morne National Park is a National Parks of Canada, Canadian national park and World Heritage Site located on the west coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland. At , it is the second largest national park in Atlantic Canada after To ...
and pass through
The Tablelands section of the park for several kilometres. The highway temporarily exits the park to pass through the town of
Woody Point, where it has a Y-Intersection with Back Road (which leads to downtown). Route 431 now winds its way southeast along the coastline of
Bonne Bay
Bonne Bay is a bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada. It is located on the western coast of Newfoundland and separates the Great Northern Peninsula from the rest of the island. It is a part of Gros Morne National Park.
It is s ...
as it passes through
Winter House Brook and
Glenburnie-Birchy Head-Shoal Brook
Glenburnie-Birchy Head-Shoal Brook is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 241 in the Canada 2021 Census.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gle ...
. The highway begins winding its eastward through the
Long Range Mountains
The Long Range Mountains are a series of mountains along the west coast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland. The long range mountains form the northernmost section of the Appalachian mountain chain on the eastern seaboard of North Amer ...
as it re-enters the National Park, where it meets a local road leading to
Lomond and crosses the
Lomond River Lomond can refer to any of the following:
Natural features
*Ben Lomond, a mountain in Scotland, and many places named for it
*Loch Lomond, a freshwater loch in Scotland
* Lake Lomond, a lake in Minnesota
Localities
*Lomond, Alberta, a village i ...
. Route 431 now enters
Wiltondale and it comes to an end at an intersection with
Route 430 (Great Northern Peninsula Highway/Viking Trail).
Major intersections
See also
*
List of Newfoundland and Labrador highways
This is a list of highways in Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland and Labrador is unusual among jurisdictions in Canada in that it exclusively uses highway marker signs that do not use either the province's name, symbols, or other official ins ...
References
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