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New York Physical Map

New York’s geography is shaped by ancient mountains, glacier-carved lakes, and the Hudson River — a sea-level river that runs hundreds of miles inland.

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

Highest Point

Mt. Marcy

5,343 ft

Lowest Point

Atlantic Ocean

0 ft

New York physical map showing the Adirondack Mountains, Catskills, Hudson Valley, and Finger Lakes, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

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

New York physical map, labeled: the Adirondack Mountains, Catskills, Hudson Valley, and Finger Lakes, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
New York blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

New York 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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New York relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
New York relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

New York relief wall art

New York 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 New York

New York has two mountain regions. The Adirondacks, in the northeast, are a broad dome of very old rock and include Mt. Marcy, the highest point. The Catskills, in the southeast, are the high edge of the Allegheny Plateau, which covers most of the southern part of the state. Between and around them run lowlands: the Hudson and Mohawk valleys, the plains along Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the St. Lawrence valley. The Finger Lakes are long, narrow lakes carved by glaciers, and Long Island is a ridge of glacial debris.

Major rivers

  • Hudson
  • Mohawk
  • St. Lawrence
  • Genesee
  • Susquehanna
  • Delaware
  • Niagara

Find it on the map

  • The Finger Lakes lined up side by side
  • The round mass of the Adirondacks
  • The Hudson Valley running straight north from New York City
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every New York 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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New York political map

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

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