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Great American Rail-Trail GPS Tracks

Hiking America's Free GPS tracks for the full Great American Rail-Trail, Washington, D.C., to Washington State.

Great American — Trails (GPX, 6.8mb)

Great American — Gap Trails (GPX, 4.7mb)

Great American — Hiker Alternates (GPX, 4.7mb)

The tracks cover 2,100 miles of existing trail connected by roughly 1,670 miles of gap trails, plus hiker-only alternatives. Wyoming has the highest percentage of gaps of any state on the route, so we built a Hiker Alternate from Shoshoni, Wyoming, through Yellowstone to Butte, Montana, mostly along the Continental Divide Trail, to reduce road miles.

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Hiking America is an independent navigation resource. This site is not authorized by, and has no affiliation with, the American Discovery Trail Society. Our routes are our own, developed and continuously verified through field research and hiker feedback. They are not the official route of the American Discovery Trail, are not derived from American Discovery Trail Society materials, and may deviate from the route marked with signage.