diff --git a/ports/backward-cpp/portfile.cmake b/ports/backward-cpp/portfile.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..3860f5225b1374
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/backward-cpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+vcpkg_from_github(
+    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
+    REPO bombela/backward-cpp
+    REF "v${VERSION}"
+    SHA512 db0256a54819952ff1d92e05d6ab81fe979d4826ebb6651b6b08c30e7a0091879dfeff33d81f9599462152ce68e61e2c8c42bf039129bc6b28d1e68b1eab039b
+    HEAD_REF master
+)
+
+set(VCPKG_BUILD_TYPE release) # header-only
+
+vcpkg_cmake_configure(
+    SOURCE_PATH "${SOURCE_PATH}"
+)
+vcpkg_cmake_install()
+vcpkg_cmake_config_fixup(PACKAGE_NAME Backward CONFIG_PATH lib/backward)
+
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/lib")
+
+vcpkg_install_copyright(FILE_LIST "${SOURCE_PATH}/LICENSE.txt")
diff --git a/ports/backward-cpp/vcpkg.json b/ports/backward-cpp/vcpkg.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..08e84ce35078bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/backward-cpp/vcpkg.json
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{
+  "name": "backward-cpp",
+  "version": "1.6",
+  "description": "A beautiful stack trace pretty printer for C++",
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp",
+  "supports": "!uwp & !(windows & arm)",
+  "dependencies": [
+    {
+      "name": "vcpkg-cmake",
+      "host": true
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "vcpkg-cmake-config",
+      "host": true
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/versions/b-/backward-cpp.json b/versions/b-/backward-cpp.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0311ef5cbc7939
--- /dev/null
+++ b/versions/b-/backward-cpp.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "9f204819a5063dea81b56369e5ce424219e56ca5",
+      "version": "1.6",
+      "port-version": 0
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 9495d7342fcfda..4f2ddcc6558e7b 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -468,6 +468,10 @@
       "baseline": "2.0.0.1",
       "port-version": 2
     },
+    "backward-cpp": {
+      "baseline": "1.6",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     "basisu": {
       "baseline": "1.11",
       "port-version": 7