What is an End to End?  What is involved in completing it?

An End-to-End is the completion of the entire main Bruce Trail (currently 885 km) on foot.
This can be done over 30 days or several years depending on how you'd like to approach it.

• Hiking the whole Trail
• Hiking each Trail Section: Club Badges
• Hiking with Clubs: Organized End-to-End Hikes
  

Hiking the whole Bruce Trail

If you decide to go ahead with an end-to-end hike, it is highly recommended that you purchase the current Bruce Trail Reference Guide, especially if you are going to attempt any of the sections on your own. The guide will be an invaluable resource in planning your trips. The guide can be purchased at major bookstores and through the BTC website.

Visit our Accommodation and Camping section for more information on places to stay during your trip.

To be recognized as an official End-to-Ender with the Bruce Trail Conservancy, you will need to do the following:

• Send us your trail logs*
• Be a member at the time you complete your end-to-end
• Provide us with the date you completed your end-to-end
• Send us $15 to cover the costs of processing your end-to-end and to pay for your end-to-end badge.

*The trail logs can be as simple as list of where you started and where you ended on a particular day. It might be worth having a separate page for each club section.

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Hiking each Trail Section: Club Badges

Each Bruce Trail Club also offers a badge for completing its section of the trail. To obtain a Club's End-to-End badge, submit your trail logs for that Club's section directly to the Club. Include a self-addressed envelope and the fee for the badge (usually between $3 and $6).

If you complete the entire trail, keeping your trail logs organized by Club section will make it easier to sort out which pages you need to send to which Club when you apply for the badge.

Badges from each Bruce Trail Club:

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Hiking with Clubs: Organized End-to-End Hikes

Most of the nine Bruce Trail Clubs offer organized end-to-end hiking opportunities. Usually they are run over 1 or 2 weekends and the Club will have water/snack stations along the trail on those days. There is a registration fee to participate in these organized hikes and you'll get your badge at the end of the weekend. You do not need to submit trail logs for these events.

2011 End-to-End Hikes

Pre-registration is required for most of these hikes. Please visit the appropriate Club website for details and to confirm the End-to-End dates and locations.

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