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Colorado Physical Map

Colorado has 53 peaks above 14,000 feet — more than any other US state. Its average elevation is the highest in the country.

Rendered from SRTM 30m elevation data + Natural Earth rivers/lakes + US Census state boundary. Four versions below, all free.

Highest Point

Mt. Elbert

14,440 ft

Lowest Point

Arikaree River

3,317 ft

Colorado physical map showing the Rocky Mountains, Front Range, San Juan Mountains, and Eastern Plains, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

The same Colorado terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Colorado physical map, labeled: the Rocky Mountains, Front Range, San Juan Mountains, and Eastern Plains, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Colorado blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

Colorado physical map for the classroom

Elevation in color with shaded relief, plus the surrounding states and water for context. The labeled version marks the capital, major cities and the highest point. The blank version leaves them off so students can label the map themselves.

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Colorado relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
Colorado relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

Colorado relief wall art

Colorado on its own, with strong shaded relief and no labels. The dark version has the most contrast. The light version uses far less ink on a home printer.

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The physical geography of Colorado

The eastern two-fifths of Colorado is High Plains, rising gently toward the west until it meets the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Rockies cross the middle of the state in several ranges, including the Sawatch Range, where Mt. Elbert is the highest peak in the whole Rocky Mountain chain. The Continental Divide follows these ranges. The San Luis Valley is a broad, flat basin in the south, the San Juan Mountains fill the southwest, and the far west is canyon and mesa country of the Colorado Plateau.

Major rivers

  • Colorado
  • Arkansas
  • South Platte
  • Rio Grande
  • Gunnison
  • Yampa

Find it on the map

  • The sharp line where the plains meet the Front Range
  • The flat San Luis Valley between mountain ranges in the south
  • Rivers flowing outward in every direction from the central mountains
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Colorado physical map on this page was rendered from NASA SRTM 30-meter elevation data, with hydrography from Natural Earth and the shoreline-clipped state outline from the US Census Bureau. Each map is colored over that state’s own elevation range, and the relief shading is exaggerated so gentle terrain still shows.

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Colorado political map

The blank outline version of Colorado (state borders, no terrain). Useful for political-geography exercises.

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