Winter Park, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
12,050 ft 3,675 m11,210 ft 3,415 m10,790 ft 3,290 m9,950 ft 3,035 m9,110 ft 2,775 m8,690 ft 2,650 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Winter Park sits at about 8,880 ft (2,710 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
8,880 ft 2,710 m
most residents: 8,730–9,340 ft
Lowest
8,690 ft 2,650 m
on the northwest side
Highest
12,050 ft 3,675 m
on Twin Cones
Average
10,060 ft 3,065 m
all land inside town limits
Winter Park spans about 3,360 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 | 8,880 ft2,710 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on Twin Cones | 12,050 ft3,675 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 8,690 ft2,650 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Winter Park | 9,050 ft2,755 m |
| Average of all land | 10,060 ft3,065 m |
| Nearest peak Parry Peak, 2.1 mi southeast of the town limits | 13,350 ft4,070 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 8,880 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
195.4 °F90.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
72% of sea level
21.5 inHg (72.8 kPa): each breath holds 28% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
15.0% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+18% 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
- 1,192 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.0 sq mi
- Density
- 70 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8917° N, 105.7631° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of California
- ZIP codes 1
- 80482
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- St. Mary's10,220 ft
- York Gulch9,270 ft
- Mill Creek Park9,250 ft
- Silver Plume9,150 ft
- Eldora9,130 ft
- Winter Park8,880 ft
- Empire8,600 ft
- Fraser8,590 ft
- Georgetown8,500 ft
- Tabernash8,440 ft
- Downieville-Lawson-Dumont8,070 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado39th highest of 484
- Towns in Grand Countyhighest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bard Peak13,620 ft
- Pettingell Peak13,530 ft
- North Arapaho Peak13,490 ft
- Parry Peak13,350 ft
- Byers Peak12,813 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).
- 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.