Below Filming Locations: A 2-Day Avalon Guide (Netflix, Newfoundland)

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Below: A Netflix Filming-Locations Guide to the Avalon

Now you can see everything for yourself. Six places Netflix confirmed for Below: a cold-ocean research station on the cliffs at Logy Bay, a 1920s fishermen’s hall the production paid to repair, a park beside a pond, a working marine quay at Bay Bulls, the outport that was dressed to play Snook’s Arm, and a corner store on Conception Bay. Two days from one hotel on Water Street, with breakfast and lunch both days and dinner on the first night, every leg measured by road and every scene claim checked against a source.

Below is a six-episode Netflix limited series, every episode released on 8 October 2026, shot over 75 days entirely in Newfoundland and Labrador.

That matters for a filming-locations trip, because the production barely built anything. It took real working places on the Avalon Peninsula and used them as they stood — and in one village, repainted the houses. Netflix published the addresses through its Netflix in Your Neighbourhood programme, which is why this guide can be specific about where to go. It is deliberately un specific about what was shot where: Netflix released a list of places, not a list of scenes, and only two of the six roles are confirmed by any source. Where a role is known, it is named. Where it is not, it is not guessed.

Snook’s Arm is a real place too, by the way — a village on the Baie Verte Peninsula, resettled in 2018. The show borrowed the name, not the harbour.

Three things to know before you set off. Two of the six stops are not attractions at all: the Pennecon Marine Base at Bay Bulls is a working industrial quay closed to the public, and Rising Tide Convenience is somebody’s village shop. Both are worth driving to; neither is a visit in the usual sense. The Ocean Sciences Centre opens to the public only in summer, Wednesday to Sunday, and that is the firmest constraint on the whole itinerary. And the trip is shorter than it looks — 295 km and about five and a half hours of driving across two days, the drive home included — which leaves real time at each stop.

Day 1 — Logy Bay, Pouch Cove, Quidi Vidi and Signal Hill

→ 70 km · breakfast on Water Street, the lab on the cliff, a park beside a pond, the 1920s fishermen’s hall, lunch in Torbay’s old post office, then Quidi Vidi and Signal Hill before dinner

Start on Water Street · 650 m · 9 min on foot west from the Alt Hotel

1☕ Breakfast

Breakfast at Rocket Bakery & Fresh Food — Water Street

★ 5.0·Rocket Bakery & Fresh Food, 294 Water Street, St. John’s, NL A1C 1B7

Start where St. John’s starts its own day: Rocket, a bakery, fresh-food counter and café on Water Street with a full seating area, coffee, and same-day takeout if you want something for the car. It opens at 7:30 a.m. every day of the week — until 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 6 p.m. on Sunday, per the Downtown St. John’s business directory — so it works for any start day. Rocket’s own site confirms the seven days and points to its Instagram for current hours, which is the place to check on a holiday. It is a 650 m, nine-minute walk west along Water Street from the Alt Hotel, where this guide spends the night. Eat around 8:30 and leave by 9:40: the Ocean Sciences Centre’s touch tank opens at 10.

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2Filming location · research lab

Ocean Sciences Centre, Logy Bay — Fonda Howander’s lab

★ 5.0·Ocean Sciences Centre, 0 Marine Lab Road, Logy Bay, NL A1C 5S7

Memorial University’s Ocean Sciences Centre is Fonda Howander’s laboratory — Netflix’s own cast guide says so, and Mackenzie Davis called it a Bond-villain-looking building on the edge of the world outside St. John’s. It is one of Canada’s oldest cold-ocean research stations: low buildings on the cliff above Logy Bay, outdoor sea pens, running-seawater tanks fed straight from the North Atlantic. Dr. Annie Mercier, who works here, also advised the production on the creature — a deep-sea invertebrate specialist consulting on a giant squid, which is the detail most write-ups report instead of the filming. It is a working research facility, so public access means one thing: the Summer Marine Public Educational Program, an outdoor touch tank with interpreters on hand. In 2026 it ran Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 11 June to 6 September, free with a donation box. Closed Monday and Tuesday — which is what decides the days this trip can start. Out of season there is no public programme and the building seen from the approach road is the whole of the visit. Allow an hour in summer.

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3Filming location

Marine Park, Pouch Cove — the pond, not the headland

★ 5.0·Marine Park, 515 Pouch Cove Line, Pouch Cove, NL A0A 3L0

This one is on Netflix’s list, and it is worth knowing what it actually is before you drive out: a municipal park and campground beside a pond, 4.9 km south-west of Pouch Cove village on Pouch Cove Line — not a headland above the open Atlantic. Little Herring Cove Pond lies 800 m west, and it is the pond that turns up in the paperwork: a provincial decision note records a request to build a small wharf on it for the production, and SCENE 49 reports that it is not confirmed the wharf was ever built. Treat it as a maybe, and look. If what you came for is the Atlantic falling away at the end of the road, that is Cape St. Francis, 6 km north of the village and reached from the next stop rather than this one. Marine Park is a short, quiet pull-in: fifteen or twenty minutes, a pond, a campground, and the knowledge that a Netflix location scout stood here and liked it.

4.9 km · 10 min north-east into the village of Pouch Cove — Marine Park sits south-west of the village, not beyond it.

4Filming location · heritage hall

Clifton Lodge, Pouch Cove — the fishermen’s hall Netflix helped repair

★ 5.0·Pouch Cove Heritage Society, Clifton Lodge SUF #46, 122 Town Circle, Pouch Cove, NL A0A 3L0

The best-documented stop after Brigus South, and the one the bare address hides. 122 Town Circle is Clifton Lodge, SUF No. 46 — a Society of United Fishermen hall built in 1924–26 to replace a lodge opened in 1900, and a Registered Heritage Structure since 2021. Netflix’s account of the production says it worked with the Society of United Fishermen Lodge in Pouch Cove, making improvements to the historic fishermen’s hall and using it as a key filming location: a streaming service paid to repair a 1920s outport hall and then shot in it. The Pouch Cove Heritage Society is based here, but it is a volunteer historical society with an archive and projects rather than a staffed museum with posted hours — do not drive out expecting a ticket desk, and get in touch first if you want to see inside. From the village the East Coast Trail’s Biscan Cove Path runs 7 km north to Cape St. Francis, rated moderate to difficult, with designated parking at the ball field rather than at the trailhead. One caveat on the pin: no mapping service carries Clifton Lodge, so the coordinate is triangulated onto Town Circle from the nearest numbered building. Expect to do a little looking.

13.6 km · 21 min back down Route 20 to Torbay — lunch at about a quarter to one

5🥪 Lunch

Lunch at The Post Taphouse — Torbay’s old post office

★ 5.0·The Post Taphouse, 1412 Torbay Road, Torbay, NL A1K 1K2

A locally owned pub in the town’s former post office on Torbay Road, right on the East Coast Trail — the Town of Torbay made it its local business of the week in March 2026. Pub food with a seafood lean: chowder, cod bites, a fishburger, scallops, calamari, sandwiches and salads. It is closed on Mondays and opens at 11:30 a.m. the rest of the week, which is why lunch comes on the way back from Pouch Cove rather than on the way out: you arrive at about a quarter to one, with the kitchen already going, instead of waiting at the door. It keeps its hours on Facebook rather than a website, and two listings disagree about Sunday’s closing time, so on a Sunday it is worth a call to (709) 437-6268. The pin is placed from the civic numbers along Torbay Road; look for the old post office building.

6Fishing village · afternoon

Quidi Vidi — an outport inside the city

★ 5.0·Quidi Vidi Village, Barrows Road, St. John’s, NL

After the outports of the morning, the one inside the city limits: a tight harbour in the east end of St. John’s, cottages along the road and a wharf lined with coloured fishing stages. Pronounced Kitty Vitty, or Quida Vida, depending on who you ask. Quidi Vidi Brewery is in a former fish plant on the harbour; the large yellow building at the water’s edge is the Quidi Vidi Village Artisan Studios, with studios for up to ten makers and a small café inside; and in the warmer months Landwash Brewery runs The Wharf, an outdoor beer garden with food trucks. Mallard Cottage, the dinner alternative named on the Fish Exchange card, is on Barrows Road too. An hour is plenty. The brewery, the studios and the café change their hours with the season, so none are given here — the village itself is always open.

7History · lookout · afternoon

Signal Hill and Cabot Tower — on Netflix’s map, not its list

★ 5.0·Signal Hill National Historic Site, Cabot Tower, 300 Signal Hill Road, St. John’s, NL

The hill above the Narrows at the mouth of St. John’s harbour, with Cabot Tower on top — and the one place on Netflix’s illustrated Below map that is not on its address list. It is here as the afternoon rather than as a shoot stop, and it earns the slot: the view down the Narrows to the open Atlantic is one of the great ones in Canada. The grounds are open all year. In 2026 the visitor centre was open 1 June to 9 October, daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with access to Cabot Tower closing at 5:30, so in season come up by the middle of the afternoon. Parks Canada lists admission at $10 an adult, youth free, and suggests one to three hours. The pin is the car park at the summit, and the North Head Trail starts right beside it if you want to walk.

8🛏️ Overnight

Overnight at the Alt Hotel St. John’s — Water Street

★ 5.0·Alt Hotel St. John’s, 125 Water Street, St. John’s, NL A1C 1C1

One hotel for the trip, at the harbour end of Water Street. Check in, leave the car, and walk: dinner at the Fish Exchange is 800 m along Water Street, eleven minutes on foot, and Day 1’s breakfast at Rocket was 650 m the other way. The hotel’s own Terre Café opens at 7 a.m. every day for coffee, pastries and breakfast, which is the fallback if you would rather not move the car before eating tomorrow; Terre Restaurant serves a fuller breakfast from 7 on Wednesday to Friday and from 8 at weekends. The hotel sells a breakfast-and-parking package, worth asking about since you will have a car for both days. Bookings online, toll-free on 1-844-625-0123 or locally on (709) 383-2125.

9🍷 Dinner

Dinner at St. John’s Fish Exchange — Water Street

★ 5.0·St. John’s Fish Exchange Kitchen & Wet Bar, 351 Water Street, St. John’s, NL

Fish is the point, which is the right way to end a day that began at a cold-ocean research station. The Fish Exchange is a kitchen and wet bar at 351 Water Street, open every evening from 4:30 — until 9 p.m. Sunday to Thursday and 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday — with a weekday happy hour at the bar from 4:30 to 6:30. Book a table for six, through its website or on (709) 739-7539; it is an eleven-minute walk from the hotel, and the same walk back. If you would rather eat at Mallard Cottage, which you walked past in Quidi Vidi this afternoon: it reopened in June 2026 under new operators but does not publish its hours, so book first on (709) 237-7314.

Day 1 is 70 km and about 1 hr 57 min behind the wheel, and dinner is a walk.

Day 2 — Bay Bulls, Brigus South and Conception Bay

→ 225 km · breakfast in the west end, a working marine quay, the outport that played Snook’s Arm, a corner store, lunch and an afternoon in Brigus — then home

Check out and drive 1.7 km · 3 min to the west end of downtown

10☕ Breakfast

Breakfast at Exile — the JAG Hotel, George Street West

★ 5.0·Exile Restaurant & Lounge, JAG Hotel, 115 George Street West, St. John’s, NL A1C 0B7

Breakfast every day from 7 to 11 a.m. at Exile, the restaurant of the JAG Hotel on George Street West — the hotel with its own live-music venue. It is at the west end of downtown, which is the way out of town for Day 2: check out of the Alt, drive 1.7 km, eat at half past seven, and be on the road by 8:20. Booking online or by phone. If you would rather not move the car before you have eaten, the Alt’s own Terre Café opens at 7 every day as well.

11Filming location · working quay

Pennecon Marine Base, Bay Bulls — seen from Northside Road

★ 5.0·Pennecon Marine Base, 2 Northside Road, Bay Bulls, NL A1S 1R3

On Netflix’s address list — and that is the entirety of what anyone has said about it. No source states what was shot here, so if you read that this was the show’s ship-side set, someone is guessing. What is verifiable: Pennecon’s Bay Bulls facility is a real industrial-marine operation with a deep-water quay, cranes and support vessels, on one of the deepest natural harbours on the Avalon, and the facility is closed to the public. What you can do instead is better anyway — drive out Northside Road, which is public, and look across the harbour at the quay, or take one of the whale-and-puffin tours from the Bay Bulls public wharf a few hundred metres south, which pass the pier on the way out and run in summer only.

31.8 km · 33 min south on Route 10 through Witless Bay, Mobile, Tors Cove and Cape Broyle, then down the side road into Brigus South

12Filming location · Snook’s Arm

Brigus South — the outport that played Snook’s Arm

★ 5.0·Harbour Authority of Brigus South, Brigus South, NL — off Route 10 south of Cape Broyle

The principal location, and the reason this trip is worth making. Brigus South played Snook’s Arm itself — not a backdrop, the town. The production altered houses to read as a church façade and a fish plant, repainted others, and gave one resident’s home a weathered blue exterior, all reported by CBC and SCENE 49. A provincial permit dated 4 July 2025 allowed temporary fish stages and wharves to be built here, to be removed after filming unless the harbour authority asked to keep some — so part of the set may still be standing and part may be gone, and going to find out which is most of the fun. Not to be confused with Brigus on Conception Bay, 100 km north, which is a different and also lovely place, and where you have lunch today. This is a small Southern Shore outport down a side road off Route 10, below Cape Broyle; the harbour is a working small-boat fishery and visitors are fine at the wharf provided you keep clear of the working areas.

66.6 km · 1 hr 4 min · back up Route 10, west on the Trans-Canada, then Route 60 along Conception Bay to Harbour Main

13Filming location · village shop

Rising Tide Convenience, Harbour Main — somebody’s shop

★ 5.0·Rising Tide Convenience, 305 Conception Bay Highway, Harbour Main, NL A0A 2P0

The last of Netflix’s six Avalon addresses, and the one that needs the lightest touch. It is a village convenience store on the Conception Bay Highway in Harbour Main. No source says what was filmed here — Netflix published the address and nothing else. It is still an operating shop, so the whole visit is: pull in, buy something, be pleasant, leave. It is not a set, and the people behind the counter did not sign up to be a stop on a tour. Harbour Main is a quiet stretch of the Conception Bay shore worth twenty minutes on foot, looking across at Bell Island. Brigus, 20 km north, is lunch. Like Clifton Lodge, this pin is triangulated: the shop appears in no mapping database, so the coordinate sits on the Conception Bay Highway at the civic number.

20.1 km · 20 min north on Route 60 into Brigus — lunch at about half past twelve

14🥪 Lunch

Lunch at The Quay — Water Street, Brigus

★ 5.0·The Quay, 14 Water Street, Brigus, NL A0A 1K0

Brigus is the Conception Bay one, not Brigus South. The Quay is a licensed restaurant on Water Street, across from the park, doing soups, sandwiches, salads, fish and chips, crab cakes and fish tacos; the cod chowder and the blueberry crisp are what people come back for. It has no website and publishes no hours of its own. Every listing agrees it opens at noon, and they disagree about which weekdays it closes, so phone (709) 528-1099 before you count on it and treat it as a summer place. You arrive at about half past twelve. The rest of the afternoon is the village, a few minutes’ walk away.

200 m · 3 min on foot up Irishtown Road

15History · village walk · afternoon

An afternoon in Brigus — Hawthorne Cottage and the tunnel

★ 5.0·Hawthorne Cottage National Historic Site, Irishtown Road, Brigus, NL

Captain Bob Bartlett’s town, and the prettiest stop of the day. Hawthorne Cottage, Bartlett’s house on Irishtown Road, is a national historic site run by Parks Canada, 200 m and three minutes on foot from The Quay; in 2026 it was open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 1 June to 6 September. The Brigus Tunnel, cut through the rock to the harbour, is about 550 m from lunch, seven or eight minutes’ walk, and is there in every season; so are the stone walls and the harbour itself. Give it a couple of hours, then start for home: Brigus is 73 km and about 1 hr 5 min from downtown St. John’s, and 77 km and about 1 hr 10 min from St. John’s International Airport if you are flying out tonight.

Hawthorne Cottage →

Then home: 73.2 km · 1 hr 5 min back to downtown St. John’s, or 76.9 km · 1 hr 10 min to St. John’s International Airport. Day 2 is 225 km and about 3 hr 35 min behind the wheel with the drive home included, and the evening is yours.