The Great Divide Trail Association – Page 73 – Dedicated to maintaining, protecting and promoting the Great Divide Trail

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.

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

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

In September 2006, members of the Great Divide Trail Association and the Alberta Wilderness Association, with help from several Pathway Connectivity employees, did bridge construction across Baril Creek and trail clearing up to Fording River Pass. The entire Baril access trail was also re-blazed.

Cataract Creek – 2004

In 2004, major trail clearing, bridge building and some trail realignment was done between Cataract and Lost Creeks, across the spectacular Cataract Plateau. The new line was surveyed in June, with construction work occurring in August. The entire section from Rye Ridge to Cataract Plateau was re-blazed as well. Lunch…

Trail Supporter Campaign

Discover the Great Divide Trail

Get Involved

Trip-Planning Resources

Trail Building & Maintenance

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

About the GDTA

Membership

Volunteer

Baril Creek – 2006

Cataract Creek – 2004

Trail Supporter Campaign

Discover the Great Divide Trail

Get Involved

Trip-Planning Resources

Trail Building & Maintenance

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

About the GDTA

Membership

Volunteer

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