Happy Earth Day 🌎
In 2024, CDTC volunteers put in 22,000+ hours of trail stewardship along the Continental Divide. Support from 1% for the Planet member businesses helps make that possible, season after season.
#EarthDay #ContinentalDivide
Today kicks off National Park Week!
The CDT Dthreads through Glacier, El Malpais, Rocky Mountain, and Yellowstone, connecting 3,100 miles of parks, forests, and Gateway Communities along the Divide.
We're standing with park partners across the country for All For Parks, Together Day!
#AllForParks
NOBO or SOBO?
Northbound: desert sunrise start, long build into the high country. Southbound: Montana in summer, finish in wide-open New Mexico.
Which way did you go on the Continental Divide Trail, or which would you pick? No wrong answers.
(Okay, maybe some strong opinions.)
📷 Polly Murray
Spend a weekend maintaining the Continental Divide Trail in Montana this July. No experience needed — we provide all food, tools, and gear.
July 17–19 at Flesher Pass, near Lincoln, MT. Spots are limited.
Sign up: https://ow.ly/3SQZ50YK6JS
Will we see you at Trail Days next weekend?
We are handing out these custom CDTC tokens at the Saturday Adventure Fest in Gough Park.
✅ Find our booth
✅ Grab a token
✅ Skip the After Party cover charge at Whiskey Creek Zocalo!
Let us know if you are making the trip!
156 CDT hikers have completed LNT training for 2026 — 47% of the class, past our 33% goal.
The ripple: each trained person educates 256 others. That's 39,936 people reached.
Join before July 1 for free gear + raffle.
https://ow.ly/JP7F50YIn8L
Close out Trail Days 2026 by giving back! Three Sunday community events in Silver City — a historic walking tour, a community cleanup, and a stewardship hike + bioblitz with Oboz (gear giveaway included). Pre-registration required. Grab your spot at https://ow.ly/f5l250YFPh6
Free Trail Skills 101 workshop on July 10 near Anaconda, MT! 🛠️
Learn trail work basics, tackle real maintenance at Twin Lakes Trailhead, and hear about our CDTC Adopter program. No experience needed — we provide tools and gear.
Register: https://ow.ly/UNQs50YFQME
#ContinentalDivideTrail
The Continental Divide Trail Coalition is hiring a Field Operations Program Manager to lead volunteer trail projects and community stewardship across the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail. Based in Golden, CO with field time across five states.
Details + apply: https://ow.ly/H0g450YFX94
New Mexico desert or Colorado high peaks?
The CDT gives you both. Which one calls to you?
🏜️ or 🏔️?
#ContinentalDivideTrail #WouldYouRather
A new interactive storymap by geologist + CDT thru-hiker Dr. Kevin Ward explores the geology beneath the Continental Divide Trail — from 2.5-billion-year-old rock to lava tubes formed 3,000 years ago.
Check it out: https://ow.ly/V4lz50YCYVs
Fun Fact: In Wyoming's Great Divide Basin, the Continental Divide splits in two. Rain within the basin never reaches any ocean, evaporating away.
Yet this high desert is home to wild horses, the world's largest desert elk herd, and the biggest pronghorn migration in the lower 48.
📸 Matt Berger
Vendor registration for Trail Days 2026 extended to April 5! 50+ vendors confirmed for Adventure Fest in Silver City, NM — Osprey, Gossamer Gear, Oboz, and more. Free pancakes, pie eating contest, gear raffles.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/CiSv50YAYl1
#TrailDays #ContinentalDivideTrail
Ever played chicken with a cow in the Great Divide Basin? Wished one tree existed in 70 miles?
Introducing: the Cow Lane, a 70-mile water pipeline (sparkling at mile 35), and shade structures every quarter mile.
The Basin: Now with amenities.
...Happy April Fools' Day 😄 #ContinentalDivideTrail
Spring is here and CDT season is close. Our Trail Store has hats, BUFFs, socks, stickers, and more — and every purchase supports the Continental Divide Trail.
https://ow.ly/5KzV50YAXwh
📷 Amanda Wheelock
📍 White River NF, CO. Ancestral lands of the Núuchiu (Ute) people.
23 communities. Five states. One trail.
CDT Gateway Communities are where trail meets town. Last year: a CDT mural in Grants, an Adventure Fest in Rawlins, a hiker celebration in Salmon, and a school hiking series in Lincoln.
Which trail town is your favorite?
#ContinentalDivideTrail
The work in "Labor of Love" doesn't require a trail crew background — just a willingness to show up. Volunteers at every level help protect the Continental Divide Trail.
Sign up for our volunteer list: https://cdtcoalition.org/get-involved/volunteer/
All four senators from the Continental Divide Trail's terminus states now cosponsor the CDT Completion Act!
🎉 Senators Sheehy (MT) and Luján (NM) join Senators Daines and Heinrich in backing the bill. Bipartisan momentum for the trail keeps growing.
https://ow.ly/J9N250Yzpxc
There are places on the Continental Divide Trail where the Milky Way is so bright it casts a shadow. Come see for yourself — second annual Dark Sky Party, May 15–17 in Pie Town, New Mexico.⭐
Learn more, get the Dark Skies Guide, and register: https://ow.ly/1gFL50YwAHQ
📸 Photo: Steven Shattuck
"When I'm outdoors, the one thing that I feel the most is love." — Teresa Martinez, CDTC Executive Director. "Labor of Love" is a new short film following Continental Divide Trail Coalition crews building and protecting the CDT in New Mexico.
Watch it: https://ow.ly/REW750Yyp29
Bags packed, Amtrak ahead, with a ticket stamped LDB. IYKYK.
CDT hiking season in the Bootheel is officially live — our Trail Information Manager, Danny, is headed south to fire up the shuttle and water cache. NOBO hikers, your trail is waiting.
#ContinentalDivideTrail #Amtrak #CDT2026
The Continental Divide Trail doesn't maintain itself. Every mile exists because someone showed up to do the work. Volunteer season is coming — are you in?
Find a project 👉 https://ow.ly/FZAu50YwAAt
#ContinentalDivideTrail #VolunteerOpportunities
If you could only visit one section of the Continental Divide Trail, which would it be and why?
📸 Photo by Ryan Lim
📍 San Juan Mountains, Colorado | Ancestral lands of the Ute, Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache peoples
The answer to yesterday's trivia: The Continental Divide Trail passes through 20 National Forests with 2,100+ miles on USFS lands like the Chinese Wall in Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness.
Happy International Day of Forests! These forests sustain the communities of the Divide.
Friday Trail Trivia 🌲
The CDT passes through 3,100 miles of some of the most iconic National Forest lands in the West.
How many National Forests does it travel through?
Drop your guess — answer coming tomorrow!
Continental Divide Trail Days — April 23–26 in Silver City, NM.
Four days of speakers, live music, free pancakes, a gear raffle, 30+ vendors, trail stewardship, and community hikes. Headliner: Anish, with a world book release.
All free. All welcome!
https://ow.ly/RM2N50YtOYx
Three CDTC staff and one amazing volunteer spent a week in DC for Hike the Hill — meeting with 20 congressional offices, the Forest Service, and BLM to advocate for the CDT, public lands, and trails.
We also hosted our first-ever community hike in DC at Theodore Roosevelt Island. 10 people came out!
"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story." — Linda Hogan, Chickasaw poet
📸 Photo by Steven Shattuck
📍 San Juan Mountains, Colorado | Lands of the Ute, Jicarilla Apache, and Puebloan peoples.
CDT summer planning season is here 🏔️
Your go-to resources — planning guide, maps, permits, shuttle, and more: https://ow.ly/u9GO50Ys33P
⚠️ Starting at Crazy Cook? Army permit now required for the final 1.1 miles.
Monica carried watercolors from Mexico to Canada on the Continental Divide Trail in 2025, painting desert still lifes, spring snowstorms, and wildflower meadows along the way. Now she's challenging everyone to pack a sketchbook next time they hit the trail.
Read her story: https://ow.ly/W25150YtOwF