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Home > Nova Scotia's Trans-Canada Highway > Moncton, NB to Truro, Nova Scotia Itinerary

TransCanadaHighway.com Nova ScotiaTrans-Canada Highway: along Highway #2 (NB) and Highway #104 (NS) between Moncton, New Brunswick and Truro, Nova Scotia

Here is the itinerary for the 155 km along Highway #2 (NB) and Highway #104 (NS) between Moncton, New Brunswick and Truro, Nova Scotia:

The area east of Moncton (on the north side of the Petitcodiac) & Dieppe (on the south side of the Petitcodiac) are part of the Tantramar eco-zone. The name Tantramar comes from French for loud noise Trantimarre, referring to the noise from large flocks of birds in the area, and migrating through it. The area, after early deforestation, has been stunted by Fundy fogs and winds. You will also pass an area of drumlins (teardrop-shaped sand & Gravel deposits left behind by glaciers as they receded) beside the Peticodiac River.

East of Sackville you enter the Tantramar Marshes, where dykes built by early Acadian settlers in 1686 hold back the sea and build lush farmlands on the recovered land. To fertlize the land, the settlers occasionally let the sea flood the land. The settlement here grew to over a thousand people, and was defended by Fort Beausejour (just inside present-day Nova Scotia). The fort was taken by the English in 1755 and the Acadians were resettled around Memramcook and Dorchester. You will also notice a set of high antennas, on Coles Island eat of Sackville, which are used by CBC Radio International for their overseas shortwave broadcasts. By anchoring them in salty marshy ground, it was believed the electrical ground would improve signal transmission.

Once in Nova Scotia, the area south of the Trans-Canada around Springhill has a rich history of coal mining. The coal is a result of tropical forests from 350 million years ago, which left behind decaying vegetable matter that under incredible pressure from the rocks deposited above them was compressed into coal. Nearby Oxford has built up accumulations of salt and sediment from long-ago oceans, that now is mined for rock salt and gypsum.


Recently the Trans-Canada route was realigned through the Cobequid Pass, which used a public-private partnership to build a short toll stretch of the highway to speed traffic. This route takes travelers close to Wentworth Provincial Park and Wentworth Ski Hill. The Cobequid Mountains are three times older than the Rocky Mountains, and 200 million years ago were likely as high, but erosion has worn them down to their current 400 metre (1200 ft) elevation. Cyclists should take the older highway 4, which follows a more level and more lightly traveled route.

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Next West: Fredericton to Moncton

Next East: Truro to New Glasgow

New Brunswick Transportion road condition reports for this segment.

Nova Scotia Transportation road condition reports for this segment.

KM from Start		Highway Point Description	Municipality	GPS and Map Zoom
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0	155	Exit #467/#19a Junction of Highways #15 & #2. West to City of Moncton 1/2 km. E to Shediac, N to Bathurst, Campbellton and Quebec's Gaspe Region, NE to Province of Prince Edward Island. S to town of Sackville, the New Brunswick / Nova Scotia border	Dieppe	Map Zoom
7	148	Exit 474 Junction of Highway #132 W back to Moncton Airport (5 km) Moncton (10 km), E to Scoudouc (9 km) and Shediac(17 km)		Map Zoom
13	142	Exit #480 to Old Shediac Rd, South to Memramcook		Map Zoom
15	140	crossing Memramcook River		Map Zoom
16	139	Exit #482 Renaissance St, S to Memramcook ( 5 km)	Memramcook	Map Zoom
20	135	Exit #488 Port Route Rd (route 933), W to community of Memramcook, E to East Memramcook	Memramcook	Map Zoom
22	133	Exit #488 Memramcook-Est Rd< N to East Memramcook	Memramcook	Map Zoom
24	131	U-Turn		Map Zoom
26	129	EB government weigh scales		Map Zoom
33	122	Exit#500 Junction Walker Rd/Chemin Walker	Sackville	Map Zoom
37	118	Exit #504 Main St (Hwy 106) S to Sackville & Mount Allison University (1 km), Highway #940 N to Shemogue (33km)	Sackville	Map Zoom
39	116	Exit #506 to Bridge St (route 106), SW to community of Dorchester, NE to camping & Vogue Cinema	Sackville	Map Zoom
40	115	River Crossing Tantramar River	Sackville	Map Zoom
71	84	Access on N side to Coles Island & Tantramar Marshes		Map Zoom
44	111	River Crossing Aulac River		Map Zoom
46	109	Exit #513 W to community of Aulac & Fort Beausejour, E to Hwy16 Port Elgin, Cape Tourmentine and PEI	Aulac	Map Zoom
48	107	River Missaguash, NB-NS provincial boundary. Highway changes from #2 (NB) to #104 (NS)		Map Zoom
50	105	Exit 1, SE to Fort Lawrence Historical site & rest stop, NE to Gateway Parklands camping & Riverbend Golf		Map Zoom
51	104	Weigh Scales both sides of highway		Map Zoom
51	104	Underpass Laplanche St (No Access), and railway underpass	Amherst	Map Zoom
53	102	Exit 3 Victoria St (Hwy 6 ), NW to town of Amherst, all services & accommodation	Amherst	Map Zoom
55	100	Pass Blair Lake to S, access via Exit #4	Amherst	Map Zoom
57	98	Exit 4 Hwy #2 (Albion St) S to hpsital, Loch Lomond camping, Fenwick PP, community of Springhill (23 km), North to Town of Amherst, all services & accommodation	Amherst	Map Zoom
58	97	overpass MacDonald Rd (no access)	Amherst	Map Zoom
58	97	emergency U-turn		Map Zoom
59	96	River Crossing Nappan River		Map Zoom
60	95	overpass Nappan Rd / route 302 (no access)		Map Zoom
65	90	overpass Fenwick Rd (no access)		Map Zoom
69	86	River Crossing Styles Brook		Map Zoom
78	77	Exit 5 route 142, S to Springhill (7 km)	Black River Rd	Map Zoom
88	67	Exit 6 route 321 S and route 301 N to Oxford (2 km), River Phillip, and Heather Beach PP (18 km), and town of Pugwash (25 km)		Map Zoom
89	66	Crossing Steepbank Brook		Map Zoom
91	64	Transimission Line		Map Zoom
97	58	Exit 7 Hwy 4 E to Wentworth Center (23 km), and Wentworth PP (25 km)		Map Zoom
107	48	Exit 8 to Wentworth-Collingwood Rd, east of here is start of toll section of Hwy 104	Cobequid Pass	Map Zoom
115	40	underpass for Westchester Rd (no access) NE to Rushton Beach	Cobequid Pass	Map Zoom
119	36	Toll booth for the Highway 104 Cobequid Pass (west bound traffic, car $4, trucks $3 per axle) 1877-727-7104	Cobequid Pass	Map Zoom
125	30	Juct of Mines Bass River Rd, East to Londonderry Community and Provincial Park	Cobequid Pass	Map Zoom
130	25	Crossing the Great Village River	Cobequid Pass	Map Zoom
132	23	Exit 10, S to Great Village (3 km), N to Londonderry (7 km), Begin of Toll Road (west bound traffic, car $3.5, truck $2.5 per axle)	Cobequid Pass	Map Zoom
135	20	Crossing Peppard Brook		Map Zoom
137	18	Exit 11 to Hwy 4, N to community of Folly Lake (16 km), Wentworth Prov Park (25 km), Wentworth Ski Resort, S to scenic Hwy 2 weast along coastline of Minas Basin		Map Zoom
138	17	Crossing Folly River		Map Zoom
140	15	Crossing Debert River		Map Zoom
141	14	Exit 12 to Masstown Road and Hwy 2, N to Debert (6 km) & Airport, S to Elm River camping and to McElmons Pond PP		Map Zoom
146	9	Exit 13 S to McElmons Pond Prov Park		Map Zoom
147	8	Crossing Chigancis River	Truro	Map Zoom
148	7	underpass Belmont Rd (no access)	Truro	Map Zoom
151	4	underpass Crowes Mills Rd (no access)	Truro	Map Zoom
155	0	Exit 15 to Hwy 102, S to Truro, Halifax, E to new Glasgow	Truro	Map Zoom
KM from Start		Highway Point Description	Municipality	GPS and Map Zoom
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