Great Divide Trail

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The Great Divide Trail is a wilderness hiking trail in the Canadian Rockies. The trail closely follows the Great Divide between Alberta and British Columbia, crossing the divide more than 30 times. Its southern terminus is in Waterton Lakes National Park at the Canada–US border and its northern terminus is at Kakwa Lake in Kakwa Provincial Park, north of Jasper National Park. The trail is 1,130 km long and ranges in elevation from 1,055 m at Old Fort Point trailhead near Jasper to 2,590 m at an unnamed pass above Michele Lakes just south of the White Goat Wilderness Area. ()

Length: 702.15 miMaximum elevation: 8497 ftMinimal elevation: 3461 ftCoordinates: 51°41'12"N, 116°40'30"W

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British ColumbiaCanada

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Great Divide Trail – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mount Habel, Mount Collie, Peyto Glacier, Wapta Glacier.

5.1 miSE
Mountain
Mount Habel
129 min walk • Mount Habel is a 3,087-metre mountain summit located on the Continental Divide along the border of Alberta and British Columbia in the Waputik Mountains, part of the Canadian Rockies. It was named in 1986 after Jean Habel.
6 miSE
Natural attraction, Nature, Mountain
Mount Collie, Yoho National Park
154 min walk • Mount Collie is a mountain in Yoho National Park, located on the western boundary of the Wapta Icefield in Canada. The mountain was named in 1897 by Charles S. Thompson after J. Norman Collie, an accomplished mountaineer and early explorer of the Canadian Rockies.
5.4 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Peyto Glacier, Banff National Park
139 min walk • The Peyto Glacier is situated in the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, approximately 90 km northwest of the town of Banff, and can be accessed from the Icefields Parkway.
5.9 miSE
Winter sport, Ski piste
Wapta Glacier
150 min walk • The Wapta ice fields are a series of glaciers popular with climbers on the border of Alberta and British Columbia in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies. The Burgess shale animal Waptia takes its name from these features. Their meltwater feeds the nearby Wapta falls.
4.7 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Peyto Peak, Banff National Park
119 min walk • Peyto Peak is a mountain in the Waputik Range, part of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, Canada. It lies at the north end of the Wapta Icefield, in Banff National Park, about one km east of the border with British Columbia and 32 km north of the town of Field.
6 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Patterson, Banff National Park
154 min walk • Mount Patterson is a peak in the Waputik Range of the Canadian Rockies. It is located within Banff National Park in Alberta of Western Canada. Mount Patterson stands across the Mistaya River Valley from Mount Weed, and both are prominent features seen from the Icefields Parkway...
6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Caldron Peak, Banff National Park
153 min walk • Caldron Peak is a 2,911-metre mountain peak of the Waputik Range, located in Alberta, Canada. It is prominently visible from the Peyto Lake Overlook in Banff National Park. It was named after Caldron Lake which is 3 km from its summit.
5.7 miE
Hiking, Wilderness hut
Peyto Hut
146 min walk • The Peter and Catharine Whyte Hut, also known as the Peyto Hut, is an alpine hut located on the northern tip of the Wapta Icefield in Banff National Park. It is nicknamed the Peyto hut due to its proximity on the Peyto Glacier. The hut is maintained by the Alpine Club of Canada.
5.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Breaker Mountain, Banff National Park
138 min walk • Breaker Mountain is a mountain located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It is part of the Waputik Range. It was named in 1917 by Arthur O. Wheeler for the resemblance of a cornice on its summit to a breaking wave.
7.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Conway, Banff National Park
188 min walk • Mount Conway is a mountain located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1901 by J. Norman Collie after Martin Conway, an alpinist.
5.6 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Rhondda, Banff National Park
142 min walk • Mount Rhondda is located on the Continental Divide straddling the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1917 by the Interprovincial Boundary Survey after David Alfred Thomas, First Viscount Baron Rhondda.