The line is OpenStreetMap's mapping of the route (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), via Waymarked Trails, with heights from a 30 m terrain model. Check the current official route before a long trip: diversions and permitted paths change. Where the mapping has gaps (73 km), the line is drawn by our router along mapped paths: check those stretches against the waymarks. See the source.
The trail
The Continental Divide Trail runs from the Mexican border at Crazy Cook, New Mexico, to the Canadian border at Waterton Lake, through the Gila, the Colorado Rockies, Wyoming's Wind River Range and Yellowstone, Idaho and Montana's Glacier country. The Continental Divide Trail Coalition gives about 3,100 miles (4,990 km); the line here is OpenStreetMap's main route, with gaps drawn by our router, and measures 4,780 km. It has many alternates and long stretches without a clear trail: use the Coalition's maps, and expect snow in the high country until July.
Summits on the way
- Peak 6 12,582 ft (3,835 m) · 1,218 mi from the start
- Mount Edwards 13,839 ft (4,218 m) · 1,269 mi from the start
- Grays Peak 14,272 ft (4,350 m) · 1,271 mi from the start
- Ptarmigan Point 12,362 ft (3,768 m) · 1,368 mi from the start
- 6427 ft · 2,878 mi from the start
- Scenic Point 7,310 ft (2,228 m) · 2,879 mi from the start
- 7643 ft · 2,880 mi from the start
- 7277 ft · 2,880 mi from the start
Tops within 300 m of the line. Lists from the Database of British and Irish Hills; other summits from OpenStreetMap.
Start and finish
Start: 31.49704, -108.20866
Finish: 48.99869, -113.90612
Paths change, and the weather decides the day. The line comes from the source named under the map and the heights from a terrain model, so treat the figures as a guide. Check for diversions before you go, take a map, check the forecast, and turn back if it isn't right.
