The PCT Passport

Turn your hike into an adventure you can collect, remember, and keep.
Like a real Passport, the PCT Passport is stamped at PCT Checkpoints along the trail.

Where do you get a PCT Passport?
You don’t need to go looking for it, and it’s free.

  • Download and customize your own.
  • Pick one up at the first PCT Checkpoint, CLEEF Campground, at the border.
  • Also at designated Passport Checkpoints on the trail at places you’re already stopping, like Trail Angels, trail businesses. 

What do you do with it?
It’s more than just an ordinary Passport.

  • The PCT Passport will give the locations of PCT Checkpoints.
  • These Checkpoints are Trail Angels, Trail businesses, recommended places, and monumental locations on the PCT.
  • PCT Passport Checkpoints stamp and date your Passport with customized stamps for their locations.
  • Collect stamps from the people and places you cross paths with.
  • Discover places you might have missed.
  • Have access to information for additional support on the trail.
  • Stay connected to the PCT Community.
  • Have your tramily sign it as a reminder of your time together.
  • Take it home as a lasting record of your hike and the dream you made real.

In Addition:
The PCT Passport will have an up-to-date list of additional resources and support on the trail.

Why it matters
The PCT Passport helps you keep track of memories.

  • Too many hikers miss special places or forget moments that matter.
  • The PCT Passport helps you find these people and locations and remember them.
  • The physical Passport gives you access to trail angels and resource information if your electronic devices fail.

Get Your PCT Passport
Start Hiking
Collect the Stamps
Collect the Memories
Keep It For Life

You have your choice of four passports.
Two different styles, for NOBO or SOBO.
All are double-sided.
They are free to download, ready to print, or take to your local print shop.

  • Style #1 is modeled after those given away on the Camino de Santiago, which are passport-sized accordion-fold booklets.
    This one is white with black print, and you could decorate it to make it yours.
  • Style #2 is a single letter-sized sheet of paper modeled after your PCT Permit.
    When your hike is over, you can frame and hang it on your wall, like a well-used map of your PCT adventure.
  • Then you chose between NOBO or SOBO.

After you finish your PCT Adventure, send in a photo of your PCT Passport for the PCT 2027 Yearbook at PCT2027.com
Submissions open March 1, 2027.