 From the divide's junction with the Continental Divide at Triple Divide Peak, just south of the U.S. border in northwestern Montana, it runs north to just across the border then east through southern Alberta and Saskatchewan where it turns southeasterly reentering the U.S. at the northwestern corner of North Dakota.It then continues on to the extreme northeast corner of South Dakota before crossing the middle of Minnesota's western border at the Traverse Gap.The divide then runs north and east through northern Minnesota, through Superior National Forest in the eastern tip, into Ontario.