East Coast Map: Free Printable Eastern US Map

Every version on this page is also an Eastern US map: tap Eastern US in the customizer and the sheet fills in the 26 states east of the Mississippi River plus Washington, DC. That is the usual definition of the Eastern United States; Minnesota and Louisiana, which the river runs through, are left out, and the Census Bureau has no region called East at all. Its four regions and nine divisions put these 26 states in the Northeast, in the East North Central division of the Midwest and in the South Atlantic and East South Central divisions of the South (Census Bureau regions and divisions map). The ready-made files for the Eastern US version of each map are in the list under the tool.

Fourteen states have an Atlantic shoreline: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. That is the list this map uses, with Washington, DC. Pennsylvania, Vermont and West Virginia are often counted as East Coast states too because they sit in the same corridor (Pennsylvania reaches the tidal Delaware River at Philadelphia), and some map sites stretch the list to Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. The Eastern US version has all of them. The table below shows every state on this page, its capital, whether it touches the Atlantic and its Census division.

Print the road trip version on cardstock and mark the route with a highlighter. I-95 is the spine: 1,904.61 miles from the Canadian border at Houlton, Maine to US 1 in Miami, with 303 miles of it in Maine and 382 in Florida (FHWA route log, January 2026). The classic loops branch off it: I-90 west from Boston, I-84 to Hartford and the Hudson, I-76 from Philadelphia toward Pittsburgh, I-64 from Richmond to the Shenandoah, I-40 from Benson, North Carolina to the Smokies, I-26 from the Carolina coast into the mountains, I-16 from Savannah to Macon, I-10 from Jacksonville west along the Gulf, and I-4 across Florida from Daytona to Tampa. The cities version pairs with it for the stops; the capitals version for the state-capitol tour. On the way, the national parks checklist has Acadia, Shenandoah, the Great Smoky Mountains, Congaree and the Everglades along this corridor. When the trip is over, color the states in on the states visited map maker, or scratch them off the scratch off USA map.

Pick a version at the top. Then change what you like: Region (East Coast or Eastern US), state names or abbreviations or none, capitals off or starred or named, major cities on or off, interstates on or off, color or black and white, fine or thick borders, your own title, Letter or A4, portrait or landscape. Download PDF writes a vector file in your browser, so the roads and borders stay sharp on any printer; the title, author and keywords are set inside the file. Download PNG gives you a 300 dpi image for slides or a trip binder. Print sends the sheet to your printer at the paper size you chose. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account.

The free printable US map page has the whole country in eight versions: blank, labeled, states and capitals, two quizzes with answer keys, abbreviations and a coloring page. The states visited map maker colors in the states you have driven through, and the national parks checklist keeps count of the parks. For the world there is the printable world map.

Alphabetical, with the capital, whether the state has an Atlantic shoreline (the 14 East Coast states) and the Census Bureau division it belongs to. Washington, DC is at the end: a federal district on the tidal Potomac, counted with the East Coast on this map but not a state.