Pitkin County, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
14,240 ft 4,340 m12,250 ft 3,735 m11,250 ft 3,430 m9,250 ft 2,820 m7,260 ft 2,210 m6,260 ft 1,905 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pitkin County averages about 9,970 ft (3,040 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 6,260 ft on the northwest side to 14,240 ft on Castle Peak.
Average elevation
9,970 ft 3,040 m
all land inside the county
Highest
14,240 ft 4,340 m
on Castle Peak
Lowest
6,260 ft 1,905 m
on the northwest side
Pitkin County spans about 7,980 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 9,970 ft3,040 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Castle Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 14,240 ft4,340 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 6,260 ft1,905 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
47 mi west to east through Aspen.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Colorado, United States
- Population
- 16,643 2024 est.
- Land area
- 970.7 sq mi + 2.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains 93%
- Drains to
- Gulf of California
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lake County10,950 ft
- Chaffee County9,980 ft
- Pitkin County9,970 ft
- Gunnison County9,550 ft
- Eagle County9,060 ft
- Garfield County7,910 ft
- Mesa County6,870 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Colorado8th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States8th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Castle Peak14,240 ft
- Snowmass Mountain14,099 ft
- Grizzly Peak13,960 ft
- Pyramid Peak13,900 ft
- Mount Sopris12,940 ft
All 6 towns in Pitkin County by typical elevation
- Norrie8,450 ft
- Snowmass Village8,320 ft
- Aspen7,930 ft
- Woody Creek7,310 ft
- Redstone7,290 ft
- Basalt partly6,620 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.