Route 360, also known as Bay d'Espoir Highway, is a provincial highway in

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. It runs from the

Bishop's Falls Bishop's Falls is a town in the north-central part of the island of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, with a population of 3,082 at the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census. Geography It is in D ...

area to

Bay d'Espoir Bay d'Espoir ( ) is an arm of Hermitage Bay in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, located on the south coast of Newfoundland. Communities in Bay d'Espoir include: Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir, Morrisville, St. Alban's, St. Joseph's Cove, St. Veron ...

and

Harbour Breton Harbour Breton is a small fishing community on the Connaigre Peninsula in Fortune Bay, on the south coast of the island of Newfoundland in Canada. It is the largest center on the Connaigre Peninsula and was long considered the unofficial capital o ...

. The road is very isolated for at least , where there are no communities or stops to refuel. Bishop's Falls and Harbour Breton are the only two settlements of any size along the entire length of Route 360, with other towns and communities being along the other highways it intersects.

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along Route 360 is severely limited. In 2022, Route 360 was voted the second Worst Road in Atlantic Canada by the

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's Worst Roads list.

Route description

Route 360 begins as Southside Drive in

at a dead end along the coast of

Fortune Bay Fortune Bay () is a fairly large natural bay located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada.Connaigre Peninsula to have an intersection with Route 364 (Hermitage River Road). Route 360 heads up the Hermitage River Valley to pass by Hardy's Cove and have an intersection with Route 362 (

Belleoram Belleoram () is a village on the shores of Fortune Bay in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The community sits on a narrow strip of land hemmed in between the bay and steep hills that rise behind it. Belleoram has a large harbour ...

Road) before winding its way through remote, scenic, and hilly terrain for the next several kilometres. The highway now passes by Jipujijkuei Kuespem Provincial Park and has intersections with Route 365 (Conne River Road) and Route 361 ( St. Alban's Road), where it crosses the

Conne River Miawpukek First Nation is a Mi'kmaq First Nations band government in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with a registered population of 834 living on-reserve as of September 2019, with another 2,223 living off-reserve. They control the reserve ...

before heading through remote wilderness for the next , where the highway crosses the

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. Route 360 now enters the outskirts of

, where the comes to an end at an intersection with Route 1 (

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Major intersections

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Route description

Major intersections

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