Newfoundland And Labrador Route 92
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Route 92, also known as North Harbour-Branch Highway, is a highway on the
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of the
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Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of . As of 2025 the populatio ...
. Its northern terminus is an intersection at Route 91, near the town of Colinet, and its southern terminus is at the town of Branch, where the route transitions into Route 100.


Route description

Route 92 begins at an intersection between Route 100 (Cape Shore Highway) and Loop Road in
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and heads east to immediately cross a large
Inlet An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In ...
via a
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. It then leaves town and winds its way along the coastline for several kilometres as it crosses the Beckfords River. The highway crosses the Red Head River before turning more inland and northeast through rural hilly terrain. Route 92 briefly follows the water again as it passes through North Harbour before turning completely north to cross another river and coming to an end at an intersection with Route 91 (Old Placentia Highway) between Colinet and Cataracts Provincial Park.


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