My thru-hiking engineer friend, who is as giddy about collecting data as he is about walking, has conveyed his totals as 2,700 and 2,970 miles. What It’s Like to Hike the Continental Divide Trail The ...

Continental Divide Trail, New Mexico. (Credit: U.S. Forest Service) NOTE: The southern terminus at Crazy Cook Monument may no longer be accessible due to it becoming a National Defense Area.

McKenzie Majchrzak is a veteran who just finished backpacking thousands of miles on the Continental Divide Trail with her husband on Nov. 11. “It was super cute, it was pretty neat that we were ...

SILVER CITY, Mexico — This hiker-friendly town of 10,000 lies at an elevation of nearly 6,000 feet just east of mile marker 158 on the Continental Divide Trail.