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Trail Building & Maintenance

Trail Supporter Campaign

The GDTA has big plans to continue to improve the trail in 2025 and beyond, and we need your support to raise $20,000 by December 31, 2024!

Discover the Great Divide Trail

Read about the Sections of the GDT, learn about the history of the trail or plan your own journey on the Great Divide.

Get Involved

Become a member now! Or support the Great Divide Trail by volunteering on a trail maintenance trip, joining a committee, or becoming a sponsor.

Trip-Planning Resources

Planning a GDT hike in 2025? Whether out on the trail for a few days or a month, check out our step by step guide and resources to make your trip planning easier.

Trail Building & Maintenance

We are busy planning for our trail building & maintenance trips for next summer and dates will be announced early in 2025. Learn more about volunteering here.

Canada's Great Divide Trail
a journey on the crest of the continent

The Great Divide Trail traverses the continental divide between Alberta and British Columbia, wandering through the vast wilderness of the Canadian Rocky Mountains for more than 1100 kilometres. It is one of the most spectacular and challenging long‐distance trails on the planet.

The Great Divide Trail is wild and not always even an actual trail, sometimes merely a wilderness route, inspiring modern-day adventurers to walk the same paths of the original Indigenous people and explorers to the area. A journey on the Great Divide Trail promises to be demanding but on the GDT you'll discover a superlative wilderness experience in one of the most magnificent settings on Earth.

The Great Divide Trail Association is dedicated to maintaining, protecting and promoting the Great Divide Trail and with your support, we can preserve the GDT and its wilderness experience for generations to come!

About the GDTA

The Great Divide Trail Association is a Canadian not‐for‐profit corporation and registered charitable organization headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, responsible for maintaining, promoting and protecting the Great Divide Trail.

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Membership

We are supported by members who make the Great Divide Trail experience possible. Join the GDTA community - Become a member today.

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Volunteer

Come join a volunteer trail crew and give back to the Great Divide Trail!

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Amiskwi Ridge Alternate

NEW SECTION D ALTERNATE: Amiskwi Ridge. For those who prefer spectacular ridge walking to an active logging road, this alternate is for you! NOBO begin 1.5 km north of Amiskwi Pass by hiking steeply on good trail (+200m over 1 km) to reach Amiskwi Lodge at the tree line, where…

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July 2020 Trail and Road Conditions

Trail Conditions Update – July 27, 2020 While Alberta and British Columbia continue to cautiously move into the next phases of living with COVID-19, the Great Divide Trail Association is considering what is best for the health and safety of the trail community that we serve. Staying active in the outdoors is…

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Pathfinder Newsletter – Spring/Summer 2020

This edition of the Pathfinder Newsletter includes articles showcasing GDT and other wilderness adventures, information to help (re)plan your 2020 summer on the Great Divide – hiking and/or volunteering, announcements, conditions, GDT literature news, and general interest articles. Enjoy! GDTA COVID-19 Update: An important message from the GDTA regarding the…

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GDTA Charitable Status

By Mary Jane Kreisel The GDTA has Charitable Status! On May 5, the Charities Directorate let us know we are now a registered charity. This means that The Great Divide Trail Association can issue official tax receipts for charitable donations. This is a big step for us and we hope that…

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