GPT Photo of the Week
Hiking on another planet? Nope. Scouting new trail in Toadstool Geologic Park.
GPT Photo of the Week
Camouflaged in the center of the picture is the fastest land animal in North America.
GPT Photo of the Week
GPT Photo of the Week
Barren and beautiful – somewhere in western Nebraska.
GPT Newsletter
We’re sharing our very first newsletter with the world! We hope to publish two of these per year, and maybe increase it to quarterly as time and resources allow. A huge thanks to all of the GPTA board members who made this first issue possible! Below is a link that should take you there . […]
Strider Discusses the GPT
Recently, Luke “Strider” Jordan was interviewed on the podcast The Pursuit Zone. He discusses his 2016 GPT thru hike in detail with host, Paul Schmid. Here is a link to the podcast: http://www.thepursuitzone.com/tpz157/
Supporting the GPT with Your Amazon Purchase
There’s a super easy and effective way to support the Great Plains Trail every time you shop for items on Amazon. As a qualified 501c3, we are able to participate in the AmazonSmile program which donates 0.5% of your Amazon purchases to various charities. All you have to do is select us as the charity […]
GPT Photo of the Week
On the open prairie near toadstool.
GPT Photo of the Week
Buttes and sky in Nebraska!
Backpacker Magazine Article
We’re very excited to announce that we have a very nice article written by Ken Ilgunas (author of Walden on Wheels, Trespassing across America, and This Land Is Our Land) that appears in the latest issue (June 2018) of Backpacker Magazine. Ken did an outstanding job of portraying the trail in a positive, yet realistic […]
GPT Photo of the Week
For the next few weeks, there will be more pics from the trip for the Backpacker article. This one is from near the Nebraska/South Dakota border.
GPT Photo of the Week
Scottsbluff National Monument – Photo courtesy of Luke Jordan
