Continental Divide National Scenic Trail CDT

The record

Kind

Designated trailDesignated, maintained and published as one trail by a land agency or a trail association

Designation

National Scenic Trail (1978)

Tier

National Scenic TrailA United States National Scenic Trail

Listing

First setIn the first set of trails

Inclusion

Listed unconditionallyEvery National Scenic Trail is listed

Where

NM CO WY ID MT (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana), United States

Published length

4,989 km3,100 miabout 3,100 mi published. A check value, not measured from the line.

Short name

CDT

Record ID

continental-divideStable: the directory name, never changed

Verification Checked 2026-11-08

Measured

YesThe line was downloaded and measured

Published

4,989 km3,100 mi

Measured

4,891.2 km3,039 migeodesic, from the line

Difference

−2.0%measured minus published

Parts

1pieces left after joining ends within 100 m

The 'CDT Primary Route' features join into 1 line, 4,891.2 km, 2.0% short of 4,989 km. alternates.geojson holds the Chief Mountain and Tonahutu routes and the one feature labelled Great Divide Trail (57.5 km).

Source and licence

Line in this dataset

line.geojsonThe main line file of the record

Source status

VerifiedThe line was downloaded from the source and measured

Publisher

Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC)

Source

https://services8.arcgis.com/WyuHwdftppQLa5KO/arcgis/rest/services/Continental_Divide_Trail_2/FeatureServer/0Where to ask for the line: a layer or relation page

Line source

Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC)

Format

ArcGIS FeatureServer layer, 7 features

Main line

'Label' separates 'CDT Primary Route' (4 features), 'CDT Chief Mountain Route' and 'CDT Tonahutu Creek Route' (alternates), and one feature labelled 'Great Divide Trail' (the Canadian link; belongs to the GDT record).How the main line is told apart from alternates, connectors and side trails

Coordinates

not stated in the layer (ask for outSR=4326)What the source stores; published files are longitude/latitude (EPSG:4326)

Licence

CC BY

Credit

Continental Divide Trail CoalitionThe credit line to show, as the source asks

May be passed on

YesThe source's terms allow its line to be passed on

OpenStreetMap only

No

Source checked

2026-11-08

Newer release?

arcgis-layer-edit-date: GET <layer>?f=json and read editingInfo.dataLastEditDate (and the feature count); fetch again when either changes (last edit 2026-11-05).How to tell whether the source has a newer release

What the source says

The source item's licence field reads 'CC BY' (version not stated). Treated here as Creative Commons Attribution; credit: Continental Divide Trail Coalition. The version should be confirmed with the Coalition before reuse that needs a named version. Source: https://services8.arcgis.com/WyuHwdftppQLa5KO/arcgis/rest/services/Continental_Divide_Trail_2/FeatureServer/0 (read 2026-11-09).

With the page it was read on. Not legal advice.

OpenStreetMap

Relation

921198

Note

OSM has relation 921198 (4,988 km) and four state sections.

Logo

Status

Logo in useThe trail has a logo

Holder

Continental Divide Trail Coalition (continentaldividetrail.org); USFS CDNST administrator

Taken from

https://continentaldividetrail.org/

File

shield.png

Note

No logo policy found. The official emblem of a National Scenic Trail is a federal insignia (18 U.S.C. 701; Federal Register notices of 2000-03-28 cover Ice Age, North Country and Natchez Trace; status for the others not confirmed). Use needs the administering agency's permission.