Grand Lake, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,090 ft 2,770 m8,910 ft 2,715 m8,820 ft 2,690 m8,640 ft 2,635 m8,460 ft 2,580 m8,370 ft 2,550 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Grand Lake sits at about 8,400 ft (2,560 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
8,400 ft 2,560 m
most residents: 8,380–8,590 ft
Lowest
8,370 ft 2,550 m
on the southeast side
Highest
9,090 ft 2,770 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
8,500 ft 2,590 m
all land inside town limits
Grand Lake spans about 720 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 8,400 ft2,560 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 9,090 ft2,770 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 8,370 ft2,550 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Grand Lake | 8,390 ft2,555 m |
| Average of all land | 8,500 ft2,590 m |
| Nearest peak Gravel Mountain, 7.9 mi west of the town limits (NGS survey) | 11,774 ft3,589 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 8,400 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
196.4 °F91.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
73% of sea level
21.9 inHg (74.1 kPa): each breath holds 27% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
15.3% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+17% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
CDC: about 1 in 4 visitors who sleep above 8,000 ft get altitude sickness. CDC Yellow Book
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Grand County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 400 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 371 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2522° N, 105.8231° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 80447
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ward9,270 ft
- Hidden Lake8,900 ft
- Fraser8,590 ft
- Bar-K Ranch8,560 ft
- Allenspark8,470 ft
- Tabernash8,440 ft
- Grand Lake8,400 ft
- Granby8,040 ft
- Hot Sulphur Springs7,750 ft
- Estes Park7,650 ft
- Parshall7,570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado64th highest of 484
- Towns in Grand County4th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Longs Peak14,250 ft
- Copeland Mountain13,170 ft
- Stones Peak12,910 ft
- Sundance Mountain12,400 ft
- Gravel Mountain11,774 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 8,370 ft at 40.2501° N, 105.8337° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.