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Colorado is a state of the United States, which is featured in American Truck Simulator as a map expansion DLC that was released on November 12, 2020. It is the seventh map of DLC involving map expansions, but the sixth paid one.
Colorado is located in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas to the east, Oklahoma to the southeast, New Mexico to the south, Utah to the west, and touches Arizona to the southwest at the Four Corners. The mean elevation of Colorado is higher than any other state in the country. Geographically, the state can be divided into four regions: the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Plateau and the Intermontane Basin. The Great Plains region is part of the Interior Plain of North America that runs from Canada in the north, through the United States, to Mexico in the south. The land is flat and dry, sloping gently upward from east to west to meet the Rocky Mountains. The Colorado Rocky Mountains are part of the Rocky Mountain chain of ranges that stretches from Alaska to Mexico. Colorado supports the highest mountain peaks in this mountain chain, with 54 peaks reaching altitudes of over 14,000 feet above sea level and more than 1,000 peaks are over 10,000 feet high. The Great Continental Divide runs through the Colorado Rockies, the rivers and streams on the east side of the Divide flowing toward the Atlantic Ocean, and those on the west side flowing toward the Pacific. The Colorado Plateau lies to the west of the Rocky Mountains, running along the border of Utah. The topography of this region is characterized by hills, deep valleys, plateaus, and flat topped mountains. It occupies 1/5 of the state. The Intermontane Basin lies in the northwest corner of Colorado. This region, characterized by rolling forested hills, plateaus and plenty of sagebrush, is the smallest land area in Colorado. Some of Colorado's landforms are the Eastern dry high plains, the hilly to mountainous central plateau, and the western Rocky Mountains of high ranges alternating with broad valleys and deep narrow canyons.
Climate
The climate of Colorado is complex and varies according to different regions in the state. Extreme weather is common in the state. The eastern Plains is semi-arid, with low humidity and moderate rainfall. This area is prone to droughts and most of the precipitation comes from thunderstorms. In the western plains and foothills of Colorado, the climate is semi-arid, which becomes an alpine climate at higher altitudes. The wettest season is winter, while June is the driest month in western Colorado. Some of the mountain regions of the state receive snowfall in winters.
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Welcome to Colorful Colorado, a state that has some of the best wildlands and mountain ranges in the United States. See a big metropolitan area of Denver on the edge of the Great Plains, travel across the beautiful Rocky Mountains and through deep canyons to see vast desert landscapes around Grand Junction.
The cover of the DLC features a Mack Anthem containing a Rocket Metallic-like color with a Bulk Feed Trailer attached to the truck; it was the first DLC cover of ATS to not feature a truck after an introduction announcement of an expansion pack, as well as the second after Iberia for ETS2. The cover takes place at the Uncompahgre Gorge on US 550, known as the Million Dollar Highway, in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Colorado, with a rocky cliffside on the right side of the cover (where the highway traverses along), and some mountains on the left side, which contain some grass and trees. Above the rocky landscape is a blue sky with clouds in the horizon, as well as the sun glaring at the top-left corner of the cover. The logo of the DLC sits on the bottom-left side of the cover.
Cities
There are 13 cities in the Colorado map expansion.
Suburbs on this wiki are defined as scenery towns located in or nearby a city and which contain depots associated with their respective parent city. Unsigned locations are marked with italics.
26 March 2020: First official blog post confirmed Colorado will be the second state of 2020 with a few new screenshots [17] and added to Steam Store.[18]
6 March 2020: A teaser video from Colorado appears on the blog.[19]
26 February 2020: 1.37 Open Beta added in def.scs references to dlc_colorado.[20]
31 October 2019: SCS Community Manager Carthoo posts a teaser image on the SCS forum from Utah, emphasizing the specific Welcome Sign, which is only located on the Colorado border.[21] This is later debunked as coincidental, and instead, a teaser for Utah's release date announcement hours later.
10 October 2019: 1.36 Open Beta is released with files for Colorado, such as a state highway sign for CO 17,[22] and a bridge support from the Glenwood Canyon on the I-70.[23]
