The Great Divide Trail Association – Page 57 – Dedicated to maintaining, protecting and promoting the Great Divide Trail

Film Festival & Fundraiser

Now Hiring: Operations Coordinator

Trip-Planning Resources

Trail Building & Maintenance

Film Festival & Fundraiser

Join us online or in person at the Globe Cinema in Calgary for this year's Film Fest! Get tickets here.

Now Hiring: Operations Coordinator

The GDTA is hiring an Operations Coordinator. Come join our team.

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

The dates for our trail building & maintenance trips for this summer have been announced and we need you! 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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Draft Castle Management Plan

A few weeks ago the Alberta Government proceeded with an Order in Council to make both the Castle Provincial Park and the Castle Wildland Provincial Park official. For the history of this process, you must go all the way back to 1895 when part of the area was included in…

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Julia Lynx Concert: A Benefit for GDTA

The AWA headquarters was packed on Saturday, January 28 as it hosted the first event of 2017 put forth by the GDTA Outreach Committee: Julia Lynx concert: A Benefit for the GDTA. Julia Lynx thru-hiked the GDTA in 1996 with her partner Dustin, an experience that eventually evolved into a…

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Jasper National Park backcountry reservations open Jan 25

Online reservations for the 2017 hiking season for Jasper National Park’s backcountry campgrounds begin on Wednesday, January 25, 2016 at 8:00 am MST. For more information, check out Jasper’s backcountry brochure. New for 2017: Maligne Pass north Hiking the Great Divide Trail this summer? It is now possible to book a…

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GDT in Backpacker Magazine

Backpacker Magazine’s Long Trails edition awarded the Great Divide Trail the title of “Wildest Thru-Hike” – Check out the article by Ted Alvarez here. Few blazes, fewer trail angels: Canada’s Great Divide Trail offers a rare chance to go back in time and experience the birth of a thru-hike.

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