 Its southern terminus is in Waterton Lakes National Park at the Canada–US border (where it connects with the Continental Divide Trail) and its northern terminus is at Kakwa Lake in Kakwa Provincial Park, north of Jasper National Park.The trail is long and ranges in elevation from at Old Fort Point trailhead near Jasper to at an unnamed pass above Michele Lakes just south of the White Goat Wilderness Area.The first record of the Great Divide Trail appears in 1966 when the Girl Guides of Canada proposed the idea of a trail running the length of the BC–Alberta border through the Rocky Mountains.