Places to Explore In Avalon Peninsula

Brigus

This compact historic village on Conception Bay is wonderfully walkable, with a public garden, winding lanes, and a teahouse. Brigus is best known as the...

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Brigus and Cupids

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Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve

The third-largest nesting colony of gannets in North America resides here, at the most accessible seabird colony on the continent. A paved road takes you...

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Cupids

Cupids is the oldest English colony in Canada, founded in 1610 by John Guy, to whom the town erected a monument in 1910. Nearby is...

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Ferryland

The main road into Ferryland hugs the coastline, where tiny bay houses dot the steep hills. Ferryland is one of the oldest European settlements in...

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Harbour Grace

Harbour Grace, once the headquarters of 17th-century pirate Peter Easton, was a major commercial town in the 18th and 19th centuries. Beginning in 1919, the...

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Placentia

Placentia was first settled by 16th-century Basque fishermen and was Newfoundland's French capital in the 1600s. The remains of an old fort built on a...

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Salmonier Nature Park

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Witless Bay Ecological Reserve

Four small islands and the water surrounding them make up the reserve, the summer home of millions of seabirds—puffins, murres, kittiwakes, razorbills, and guillemots. The...

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