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Newfoundland and Labrador Route 13

highway in Newfoundland and Labrador

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ16673274 ↗
Source-derived summary

Route 13, also known as Witless Bay Line, is a 20.9-kilometre (13.0 mi), uncontrolled-access highway in Newfoundland and Labrador. Its western terminus is at Route 1 (TCH) in Holyrood and its eastern terminus is at Route 10 in Witless Bay. The route travels a generally straight line through the centre of Avalon Peninsula and is completely in Division No. 1.

The entire route of Route 13 is rural, with no other major communities or services of any kind along its length. Butter Pot Provincial Park is located approximately 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi) from the highway's western terminus via Route 1.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 100-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Newfoundland, Labrador and Route can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Newfoundland and Labrador Route 13” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.