Newfoundland and Labrador Route 90


Route 90, also known as Salmonier Line and St. Mary’s Bay Highway, is a north-south Highway on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. It connects the communities along the eastern side of St. Mary’s Bay with the Trans Canada Highway and Holyrood. The entire length of Route 90 also forms the western half of Irish Loop Drive.

Route description

Route 90 begins in St. Vincent's-St. Stephen's-Peter's River at a bridge along the beach, which straddles a narrow isthmus between the ocean and a large lagoon, with the road continuing east as Route 10. It turns north to pass through the St. Vincent's portion of town before leaving town and heading more inland along the shoreline of Holyrood Pond. The highway then turns west to pass through Gaskiers-Point La Haye and follow the coastline again to pass through the towns of St. Mary's and Riverhead, where it has an intersection with a local road leading to Mall Bay. Route 90 then turns inland again as it travels up a narrow valley centered along a small stream for several kilometres before crossing the river and passing northwest through rural wooded and hilly terrain for the next several kilometres. It now passes through St. Joseph's, where it has an intersection with Route 94, Forest Field-New Bridge, and Mount Carmel-Mitchells Brook-St. Catherines, where it crosses the Salmonier River and has intersections with Route 93 and Route 91 in the St. Catherine’s portion of town. The highway winds its way northeast through rural wooded areas for several kilometres, where it passes by Salmonier Nature Park, before entering Holyrood at an interchange with Route 1. Route 90 passes through neighbourhoods and crosses over the Daniels River before entering a business district and coming to an end at an intersection with Route 60 near the coastline of Conception Bay.

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Attractions along Route 90