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Michigan Physical Map

Michigan’s two peninsulas are surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes — the most freshwater-defined state 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. Arvon

1,979 ft

Lowest Point

Lake Erie

571 ft

Michigan physical map showing the Upper Peninsula’s Porcupine Mountains, the Great Lakes shoreline, and the Lower Peninsula’s glacial moraines, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

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

Michigan physical map, labeled: the Upper Peninsula’s Porcupine Mountains, the Great Lakes shoreline, and the Lower Peninsula’s glacial moraines, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Michigan blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

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

Michigan relief wall art

Michigan 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 Michigan

Michigan is two peninsulas surrounded by four of the Great Lakes. The western Upper Peninsula is rugged country of very old, hard rock, with the Huron Mountains, the Porcupine Mountains and the Keweenaw Peninsula. Mt. Arvon, the highest point, is there. The eastern Upper Peninsula is low and swampy. The Lower Peninsula was shaped by glaciers. It has a high plateau in the north-central part, flat lake plains around Saginaw Bay and the southeast, and tall sand dunes along Lake Michigan.

Major rivers

  • Grand
  • Muskegon
  • Au Sable
  • Manistee
  • Saginaw
  • Kalamazoo

Find it on the map

  • The mitten shape of the Lower Peninsula, with Saginaw Bay forming the thumb
  • The Keweenaw Peninsula pointing into Lake Superior
  • Isle Royale far out in Lake Superior
verified

Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Michigan 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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Michigan political map

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

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