Platted mesa grid
Beyond the built-up areas, long straight streets run in a regular grid across open desert, laid out decades ago in anticipation of future growth.
Minimalist map poster · United States
35.2334° N / 106.6645° W
A planned suburb on the mesa west of the Rio Grande, with streets platted far beyond the built-up area





One city, five moods
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The map
Rio Rancho sits on high desert mesa northwest of Albuquerque, above the Rio Grande valley. It was developed from the 1960s as a planned community, with land sold in advance and streets laid out across huge tracts of open ground. The result is one of the more unusual maps in the Southwest.
In the built-up parts, curving suburban streets, cul-de-sacs and arterial roads fill the space. Farther out, a vast regular grid of streets extends across the mesa, much of it still sparsely developed. From above these gridded lines look like a drawing of a city not yet finished. Intel's large campus is one of the city's major landmarks.
A Rio Rancho map poster captures both the dense suburban core and the ghostly grid beyond it. It is a distinctive piece for residents, for people who moved to New Mexico for work and for anyone interested in how planned towns grow.
Beyond the built-up areas, long straight streets run in a regular grid across open desert, laid out decades ago in anticipation of future growth.
Nearer Albuquerque, curving residential streets and cul-de-sacs form denser clusters, clearly different from the wide grid farther out on the mesa.
The city looks east over the Rio Grande valley, and the river corridor forms a natural boundary between Rio Rancho and its neighbours.
Make it yours
Add a date, a name or a line of your own, switch style, size or orientation.
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Why Rio Rancho
Rio Rancho's map is striking because it shows plans as well as places. For residents it is the shape of home; for others it is an unusual piece of American planning history.
The title, subtitle and coordinates line can be personalised with names or dates. Choose one of five styles, Classic black and white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand, as HD files for $9 or as a printed poster.
Oder poster Rio Rancho| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
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