Topographic Map of Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City sits on a broad valley floor at 1,288 m with the Wasatch Range rising abruptly along its entire eastern edge. The mountains climb more than two vertical kilometres straight out of the city's grid, giving the streets a wall of peaks at their end.

The terrain around Salt Lake City

The Wasatch front lifts to summits above 3,400 m — Mount Olympus, the Twin Peaks — within a few kilometres of downtown, cut by steep canyons that funnel out of the range. West of the city the valley runs flat toward the Great Salt Lake. On the map the eastern edge is a solid band of dense contour against an almost open western basin.

How this map was made

Every contour line traces a constant elevation drawn from the public GEDTM30 30 m bare-earth terrain model, extracted with a marching-squares algorithm at a 100 m interval and coloured by height — cool blues in the valley climbing to warm reds on the summits. The satellite base layer and the contours share the same Web Mercator projection, so the lines fall exactly on the ground they describe.

You can regenerate this exact view — and change the interval, colours, resolution or export it as a print-ready SVG — directly in the TopoLines editor.