Crossroads Newfoundland and Labrador Map

About Crossroads, Newfoundland and Labrador

Crossroads is a locality in Trinity-Bay de Verde, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Crossroads is located at 47.8675°N, 53.3633°W.

Crossroads unfurls itself like a weathered quilt stitched onto the rugged Newfoundland coast, where the land buckles and heaves towards the Atlantic. It lies 18.0 km north-north-west of Carbonear, NL (from Carbonear, NL: bearing 327°T), and is situated 8.7 km north-west of Halfway House. Here, the terrain is a study in resilient greens and somber greys, with low, wind-scoured hills rolling towards the restless sea, their slopes dotted with hardy spruce and the occasional tenacious birch. The air, perpetually kissed by salt spray, carries a bracing chill even in summer, and the light often has a pearlescent quality, softening the sharp edges of the rock and the weathered wood of the scattered homes. Small, peat-stained ponds, remnants of glacial sculpting, glint like scattered coins on the land, reflecting the vast, ever-shifting sky. This is a place where history is not a distant whisper but a palpable presence, carried on the salty breeze and embedded in the very stones. Crossroads, like much of Trinity Bay, owes its origins to the persistent lure of the sea, a magnet for hardy souls who came to fish and to endure. The economy, once wholly dependent on the bounty of the cod fishery, now finds a more varied footing, with tourism and small-scale aquaculture weaving through the traditional ways. Scattered remnants of older structures, perhaps a stone foundation or a rusting piece of forgotten machinery, hint at generations who worked this land and sea, their lives shaped by the rhythms of tide and season. The quiet hum of daily life in Crossroads is punctuated by the cry of gulls and the distant sigh of the ocean, a constant reminder of the powerful forces that have shaped this corner of the world.

About This Crossroads Map Page

Explore Crossroads, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 47.8675, -53.363333. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Detailed location data for Crossroads includes the postal code (A1Y), telephone area code (709, 879). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.

Location data for Crossroads is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.