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Badges
Celebrate your hiking achievements with fun badges!
Bruce Trail Club Badges
Each Bruce Trail Club offers badges for completing its section of the Trail and for other challenges. Visit the Club websites for the latest offerings:
To obtain a Bruce Trail Club’s End-to-End badge, submit your trail logs for that Club’s section directly to the Club. Contact details are included in the links above.
End-to-End Badges
Keep a hiking log and by the end of your journey, let us know so that we may officially recognize you as an End-to-Ender and present you with a certificate, a unique official End-to-End number and a badge!
We’ve issued over 4,000 official End-to-End numbers in our 50+ year history. Each year the names of those who have reported End-to-End completions in the previous 12 months are published in the spring issue of Bruce Trail Conservancy Magazine.
To be recognized as an official End-to-Ender with the Bruce Trail Conservancy, we ask you to:
– Send us your hiking logs*
– Provide us with the date you completed your End-to-End
– Be a BTC member at the time you complete your End-to-End
– Send us $15 to cover the costs of your badge, certificate, and processing your End-to-End.
– Please note that, due to the Canada Post strike, we are unable to mail out End-to-End certificates and badges and can only receive your logs by email or in person. We apologize for any inconvenience.
*The hiking logs can be as simple as a list of the dates of your hikes and where you started and ended each day. It might be worth having a separate page for each club section (especially as these will help you request Club Badges from the individual Bruce Trail Clubs).
Payment and logs can be sent to our mailing address at P.O. Box 857, Hamilton, ON L8N 3N9
Or to end2end@brucetrail.org
Please note:
We operate on the honour system. We give equal recognition to all End-to-End hikers regardless of sequence, direction, speed, or whether the End-to-End was completed as a thru-hike or in sections. The BTC does not maintain records of End-to-End completion time or of End-to-Enders gender, age or other characteristics.
Please allow 14 business days for the processing of your End-to-End badge and recognition.
We are receiving a higher than usual number of End-to-End recognition requests and thank you for your patience.
Please note that, due to the Canada Post strike, we are unable to mail out End-to-End certificates and badges and can only receive your logs by email or in person. We apologize for any inconvenience.
End-to-End Badge Package
The End-to-End badge package is currently out of stock.
It is expected to be available again in the new year. We apologize for any inconvenience.
You may still collect the badges individually from the Clubs and the final badge is still available from the BTC head office.
Colourful Badge
The colourful version of the Bruce Trail End-to-End Badge is available for $5.00 those who have already received their official End-to-End number and badge above.
To purchase the Colourful Badge, please contact the head office.
Badges Just For Kids!
Some of our Bruce Trail Clubs have designed special badges just for junior hikers. Visit the links below for more details on how your your nature enthusiast can earn them:
Young Trail Blazers and Young Nature Blazers Badges (from the Niagara Bruce Trail Club)
Junior Hiker Badges – one for each season (from the Iroquoia Bruce Trail Club)
Youth Badge (from the Toronto Bruce Trail Club)
Nature Hunter Badge (from the Caledon Hills Club)
Young Hiker Badge and Explorer’s and Adventurer’s Badges (from the Dufferin Hi-Land Club)
Bruce Trail Junior Birder (from the Peninsula Bruce Trail Club)
Bear Cub Badge (from the Peninsula Club)
Other badges
All members of the Youth Council receive a Bruce Trail Conservancy Youth Council Member badge.
The Bruce Trail Conservancy currently has 9 Friendship Trails. In each case, a route on the Bruce Trail (main and side trails) and a corresponding route on the international trail have been designated as a Friendship Trail, displaying special signs to mark the partnership. To receive an International Friendship Trail Badge, a hiker has to hike the Friendship Trail section of the Bruce Trail as well as the corresponding trail abroad.