Montrose Regional Airport

ICAO KMTJ38.5098°N 107.8940°W5,759 ft / 1,755 mMedium airport

Montrose Regional Airport (IATA: MTJ, ICAO: KMTJ) is a medium airport in Montrose, Colorado, United States. It opened in Sep 1946. It has 2 runways; the longest is 10,000 ft (3,048 m). In 2025 it handled 516 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1946–1946

SEP 1946

OpenedMontrose Regional Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

17/35180° / 360° · LIT

LENGTH10,000 ft3,048 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

13/31139° / 319° · LIT

LENGTH7,510 ft2,289 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025

206K

234K

246K

268K

317K

200K

380K

466K

495K

530K

516K

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Routes

6 destinations · 1 country

Year-round1

DENDenver International AirportUnited States · United Airlines316 km196 mi

Seasonal5

DFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,161 km721 mi IAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · United Airlines1,491 km926 mi ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Airlines1,736 km1,079 mi ATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines2,171 km1,349 mi EWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · United Airlines2,882 km1,791 mi

Most destinationsUnited Airlines 4American Airlines 1Delta Air Lines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MTJ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Montrose Regional Airport” (revision of 20 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers516K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,100of 3,974 · #260 North America · #178 US Longest runway10,000 ft3,048 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,058of 29,823 · =243 North America · =191 US Elevation5,759 ft1,755 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#1,234of 43,341 · #638 North America · #474 US AgeOpened 19462026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,744of 15,079 · =1,680 North America · =1,626 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels

ASOSASOS135.225

CNTRDENVER CNTR125.350

RDODENVER RDO122.650

UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.800