Continental Divide National Scenic Trail

Vision — Nature and Purposes

The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail Comprehensive Plan describes the nature and purposes of the CDNST as providing for high-quality scenic, primitive hiking and horseback riding opportunities and to conserve natural, historic, and cultural resources along the CDNST corridor.

Comprehensive Plan and Directives

The U.S. Forest Service amended the CDNST Comprehensive Plan on September 28, 2009. The Comprehensive Plan and directive amendments assure that the Forest Service is positioned to complete the CDNST in partnership with Federal, state, and local agencies, tribal governments, and other interested groups and individuals.

The 2009 CDNST Comprehensive Plan, Forest Service Manual (FSM) Chapter 2350, final Federal Register notice, and a location map can be viewed and printed from this website:

• CDNST Comprehensive Plan
  [WORD] [PDF]
• Deputy Chief's Comprehensive Plan Transmittal Letters
  [FS] [BLM] [NPS]
• FSM 2350
  [WORD] [PDF]
  • FSM 2350 CDNST Excerpts
    [WORD] [PDF] 
• Federal Register - Final Direction
  Vol. 74, No. 191
  Monday, October 5, 2009
  [TEXT] [PDF]
• Trails for America - Executive Order 13195 - 2001

Featured: "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in furtherance of purposes of the National Trails System Act of 1968...and to achieve the common goal of better establishing and operating America's national system of trails, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Federal Agency Duties. Federal agencies will, to the extent permitted by law and where practicable ... protect, connect, promote, and assist trails of all types throughout the United States. This will be accomplished by: ... (b) Protecting the trail corridors associated with national scenic trails...to the degrees necessary to ensure that the values for which each trail was established remain intact...." William J. Clinton

• Location Map - General Drawing of Travel Route
  [PDF]