Colorado
Uncompahgre Peak
A pen-plotted topographic map of Uncompahgre Peak in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, drawn from real elevation contour data.
Highest summit in the San Juan Mountains, sixth-highest in Colorado. 14,321 feet above sea level.
$54
Ink & paper: Black
Size: 12×18"
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- 12 × 18 inches
- Drawn on 98 lb (160 gsm) archival cotton paper
- Precision technical pens and archival inks
- Signed and dated on the back
- Ships flat, protected, ready to frame
Each map begins with elevation data and is drawn by a pen plotter in our Vermont studio. Mechanical precision, plus the texture and small imperfections of real ink on paper.
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+ About this map
Uncompahgre Peak rises to 14,321 feet in the San Juan Mountains, the highest summit in the range and the sixth-highest in Colorado. Unlike the granite fourteeners farther north, Uncompahgre is built from layered volcanic rock, and it shows: the mountain is a huge flat-topped block with a sheer north face, recognizable from summits all across the western San Juans.
The contour lines make the peak’s unusual architecture plain. Broad, evenly spaced bands climb the gentle southern slopes toward the summit plateau, then crowd together along the cliffs of the north face, where the mountain drops away in near-vertical steps. Around the base the map traces the drainages of Nellie Creek and the open alpine country of the Uncompahgre Wilderness, terrain that stays above treeline for miles in every direction.
+ Map details
- Uncompahgre Peak
- Colorado
- United States
- Rocky Mountains (San Juan Mountains)
- Rocky Mountains
- 14,321 ft / 4,365 m
- 38.0717N 107.4621W
- Mountain topographic map
- Original pen plot, archival ink on cotton paper
- 8 × 12 in · 12 × 18 in · 18 × 24 in
- Highest summit in the San Juan Mountains, sixth-highest in Colorado
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