Colorado Landmarks Map
A free printable illustrated map of Colorado for kids. It shows 7 landmarks and natural places and 4 industries where they really are, along with the state symbols, 6 cities and a box of key facts. It comes in color and in ink-saving black and white, sized for US Letter paper.
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Color or black and white.
Both are free, sized for US Letter paper, and come as a PDF to print or a PNG image for slides.
Color
The full-color map, for a wall display or a color printer.
Black and white
The same map with no color or shading. Prints cleanly on a classroom printer and saves ink.
What is on the Colorado map
Every picture sits at its real location in Colorado, with a one-line fact beside it. Denver, the capital, is marked with a star.
Landmarks and natural places
- Mount Elbert: Mount Elbert is the highest peak in Colorado.
- Great Sand Dunes: These are the tallest sand dunes in North America.
- Colorado River: This major river begins in the Colorado Rockies.
- Mesa Verde: Ancestral Puebloans built these cliff dwellings.
- Bent’s Old Fort: An important 1830s fur trading post.
- Red Rocks: A famous open-air theater built into red rocks.
- Cumbres & Toltec: A historic steam railroad in southern Colorado.
What Colorado makes and grows
- Wheat Farming: Wheat is a major crop grown on the plains.
- Gold Mining: Gold mining shaped Colorado’s early economy.
- Peach Orchards: Palisade is famous for growing sweet peaches.
- Cattle Ranching: Cattle ranching is a key plains industry.
State symbols
- Lark Bunting: This prairie bird nests on the ground.
- Rocky Mountain Columbine: This blue and white flower grows in meadows.
- Colorado Blue Spruce: This tree has sharp, silvery-blue needles.
- Bighorn Sheep: These wild sheep have large, curling horns.
- Stegosaurus: This dinosaur had bony plates on its back.
Colorado key facts
From the box on the map
- Nickname
- The Centennial State
- Capital
- Denver
- Largest city
- Denver
- Became a state
- August 1, 1876 (38th)
- State bird
- Lark Bunting
- State flower
- Rocky Mountain Columbine
- State tree
- Colorado Blue Spruce
- Motto
- Nothing without providence
Cities shown
- Denver (capital)
- Colorado Springs
- Pueblo
- Fort Collins
- Grand Junction
- Durango
The outline, rivers and cities are drawn from map data. Pictures of crops and industries are placed in a part of the state where each is typical.