Brief by Central Staff
Colorado geography – June 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
What does this mean for Colorado?
From an article by Martin Peretz in the April 11, 2003, edition of The New Republic:
Colorado Geography
The Lowest Point isn’t on the Arkansas, after all
Brief by Central Staff
Colorado Geography – October 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Some of us who live along the Arkansas River have boasted that its drainage includes both the highest point in Colorado (14,433-foot Mt. Elbert in Lake County) and the lowest (3,350 feet, where the Arkansas crosses the Kansas line a few miles east of Lamar).
It turns out that we were wrong. We were in good company, since that’s what the U.S. Geological Survey has listed as Colorado’s lowest point for as long as anyone can remember.