The Pacific Crest Trail runs 4,221 km from the Mexican border to Canada, holding the crest of the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades the whole way. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The preview on screen is the finished poster, and it ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The trail runs the length of the American West along the mountain crest, from the desert border with Mexico up through the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades to the Canadian line. A schoolteacher named Catherine Montgomery first proposed a border to border crest trail in 1926, and through the late 1930s youth groups scouted roughly two thousand miles of it in a relay hike, passing a logbook team to team all the way north.

The route was not declared complete as one continuous trail until 1993, though most of its tread had existed in pieces for decades before that. For much of its length through the Sierra it runs alongside the John Muir Trail, sharing the same path for something like 160 of that trail's 210 miles and splitting away only a few times, and most people who walk the whole distance in one go take about five months to do it.

Made for someone who walked it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Annapurna Circuit, Camino de Santiago and Coast to Coast.

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