Trans-Labrador Highway

This is an adventure in your own backyard. If you're crazy, have a decent off-road vehicle, live in New England, and are really bored, this one is actually pretty doable. It doesn't entail the extreme financial hardship of some of the others. College road trip, anyone?

The traditional way to do this is to drive to Quebec City..... and keep on going. You take Quebec Route 138 to Baie-Comeau, and then Quebec Route 389 all the way into Labrador. This is not a highway, it is a shockingly dangerous accident prone stretch of gravel. Once in Labrador, it is only going to get worse as the road becomes Route 500, the Trans-Labrador Highway. You can drive it all the way to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Google "middle of nowhere" and that should be somewhere in the top 10.

But the story gets better. I've written another guide about driving to the top of Newfoundland, whereupon you can take a ferry into Labrador. You will start driving on Route 510, the southerly section of the Trans-Labrador Highway. Currently (if conditions are perfect and you are skilled enough), you can drive from Blanc Sablon to Red Bay all the way to Cartwright, Labrador. And there is currently a road under construction from Cartwright to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, said to be completed in DECEMBER 2009.

Meaning you can make a round trip affair of it: drive from Boston to Quebec to Labrador City to the absolute terminus of civilization on the East Coast, back down along the Labrador Coast, into Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and back home.

Just don't try this in February, boys and girls. I disavow all knowledge.