Route 230

Route 230 (also known as the Discovery Trail) is a major provincial highway in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The route starts from the Trans-Canada Highway at an overpass just east of Thorburn Lake, and continues for ### kilometres, ending at the town of Bonavista.

Originally, in the 1970s, Route 230 started next to the Holiday Inn (now branded as Clarenville Inn), but due to circumstances (possibly an increase in traffic and causing concerns for safety, since that old route started with a sharp turn along a curve on the Trans-Canada Highway), by the 1980s Route 230 was relocated further west, and the old route became a residential street, Manitoba Drive. That newly-relocated route also started with a sharp turn. But by the late-1980s, Route 230 was relocated one more time, and instead of going through the town of Clarenville and in order to allow for more efficient access to Bonavista, construction on a new road just before Thorburn Lake was underway, along with an overpass and a divided highway on the Trans-Canada Highway. The newest Route 230 was officially opened to the public by late-1989, and the former Route 230 has since been designated as Route 230A (one of two provincial routes that have an “A” attached to the route number – the other being Route 3A, the Team Gushue Highway, in St. John’s).

Route 230 holds the distinction of being the route that branched out into the most provincial routes from the main route.

Communities along Route 230

 * Port Union
 * Port Rexton
 * Catalina
 * Bonavista

Routes branching out from Route 230

 * Route 230A
 * Route 233
 * Route 234
 * Route 235
 * Route 236
 * Route 237
 * Route 238
 * Route 239