{"id":7678,"date":"2025-11-01T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/?p=7678"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:48:55","slug":"st-johns-to-burin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/st-johns-to-burin\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s to Burin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro wp-block-paragraph\">Newfoundland and Labrador | 313 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Begin your ride at Rugged Rock Harley-Davidson in Mount Pearl in the Waterford Valley. Ride along the Trans Canada Highway through the boreal forest of Butter Pot Provincial Park and past an extensive series of ponds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Goobies, take the 210 down into the Burin Peninsula, known as \u201cThe Boot\u201d because of its unique shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you travel south, you\u2019ll ride through areas of exposed bedrock and heath-covered barrens spotted with massive boulders left behind from retreating glaciers 10,000 years ago. Keep your eyes peeled for the caribou that feed on the low-growing plants here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After riding through several scenic small towns, pause at the Mortier Bay Lookout for a view over one of the largest ice-free harbours in eastern North America, a shipbuilding hub for more than 400 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carry on through Marystown to end your ride in the coastal community of Burin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wet Your Whistle<br><\/strong>This route ends at Smugglers Cove, where you can have a good meal at Tom\u2019s Roadhouse and explore the old west Frontier Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.harley-davidson.com\/share\/rides\/4BWNfabKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to view this route in the Harley-Davidson Ride Planner and start planning your next adventure.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>First published in 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. John\u2019s to Burin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-riding-routes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions\/8346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}