Exploring the Trans-Labrador Highway to Red Bay: Labrador’s Historic Coastal Route

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Date of publication: March 3, 2026

If you’re up for a true adventure, head to Labrador’s Trans-Labrador Highway, one of North America’s most remote and breathtaking road trips.

Driving into Labrador feels like entering another world. Along this stretch of the Trans-Labrador Highway, the road follows the windswept shoreline of the Strait of Belle Isle. Seabirds circle above rocky headlands, and small coastal communities sit quietly beside the North Atlantic. The route leads to Red Bay National Historic Site, once one of the world’s most important Basque whaling centres. It also leads to L’Anse Amour National Historic Site of Canada, home to a 7,500-year-old burial mound—one of the oldest known burial sites in North America—as well as Point Amour Lighthouse, one of the tallest in Atlantic Canada, rising above this dramatic coastline.