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Montana Physical Map

Montana’s western third is mountainous and its eastern two-thirds are plains — the Continental Divide cleaves the state in two.

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

Highest Point

Granite Peak

12,807 ft

Lowest Point

Kootenai River

1,800 ft

Montana physical map showing the Rocky Mountains, the Bitterroot Range, the Continental Divide, and the Great 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 Montana terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Montana physical map, labeled: the Rocky Mountains, the Bitterroot Range, the Continental Divide, and the Great Plains, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Montana blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

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

Montana relief wall art

Montana 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 Montana

Western Montana is part of the Northern Rocky Mountains, with dozens of ranges separated by broad valleys. The Continental Divide runs through it. The Beartooth Mountains on the southern border hold Granite Peak, the highest point. The eastern three-fifths of the state is Great Plains, broken here and there by small, isolated mountain ranges. The Missouri River begins at Three Forks, where three smaller rivers meet.

Major rivers

  • Missouri
  • Yellowstone
  • Clark Fork
  • Flathead
  • Milk
  • Kootenai

Find it on the map

  • The crowd of mountain ranges in the west
  • Flathead Lake in the northwest
  • Small mountain ranges standing alone on the plains
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Montana 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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Montana political map

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

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