2025 ANNUAL REPORT
A year of federal uncertainty. We answered it by securing our largest state investment to date, hiring our first staff member in Wyoming, and turning every Forest Service dollar into more than five.
Together we expanded stewardship across the trail, welcomed new volunteers and partners, strengthened communities, and advanced the work to complete, protect, and elevate the CDT.
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
"We are at a unique moment in the history of the CDT. Significant public investment is helping us address long-standing needs, and it also gives us the opportunity to build something even more lasting: a strong community of people who will continue to care for the trail long after today's projects are complete."
Executive Director
CDTC staff at our December, 2025 retreat at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiú, New Mexico, miles from the CDT.
It happened because people chose to work together. Federal investments, private philanthropy, volunteer service, and community partnerships each played an important role, creating something far greater than any of us could accomplish on our own.
Public agencies, local communities, volunteers, Tribal Nations, partners, and supporters all shaped this year. The work, impact, and stories shared in this year’s annual report are theirs as much as ours. Thank you for your partnerships!
Grateful for our agency partners
The Continental Divide Trail crosses lands managed by three federal agencies. Their staff help plan the re-routes, sign the permits, fund our projects, and work beside our crews in the field. We couldn’t do it without their constant partnership.
National Park Service
Bureau of Land Management
Thankful for our Board of Directors
Our board gives its time, its expertise, and its steady belief in this trail, and shares responsibilities for the impact detailed in this year’s Annual Report. Their leadership, passion, and support is appreciated every day, every mile.
One step closer to completion
The Continental Divide Trail runs 3,100 miles from the New Mexico border to the Canadian line. Most of it is finished. What remains is a handful of stretches where the route still follows roads, crosses private land, or simply has not been built yet.
In 2025 we finalized a route to close the Muddy Pass gap in Colorado, and the Cuba gap in New Mexico cleared NEPA planning. Each one takes years of survey work, agency coordination, landowner conversations, and volunteer labor.
FISCAL SUMMARY
Looking forward on firm financial ground
Went to programs
Open books, by design
We hold a 2025 Platinum Transparency rating from Candid, the highest level available to nonprofits. View all our financial reporting online at anytime.
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The full 2025 Annual Report
Also inside
- Where the last 160-plus miles are, mapped: all 14 remaining gaps, from a 0.76-mile crossing in Montana to a 46-mile stretch in New Mexico
- The first cohort of our Tribal Scholars Program, and the trip to Washington, D.C. that followed
- What ten volunteers built in Yellowstone National Park
- The 10th anniversary of Trail Days in Silver City, New Mexico
Looking Ahead to the Future
With your help, our work to complete, protect, and elevate the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail has never been stronger.