Colorado's Highest and Lowest Points: Mount Elbert and the Arikaree River

High point: Mount Elbert, 14,440 ft (4,401 m), Sawatch Range, ~12 mi SW of Leadville.
Low point: Arikaree River, 3,315 ft (1,011 m), extreme SE corner near Holly, at the Kansas border.

Colorado's mean elevation is the highest of any U.S. state, and it contains 58 peaks over 14,000 ft.