Viewpoints: American Truck Simulator

Viewpoints
A viewpoint icon as it appears in Denver, Colorado
Game(s) Featured	American Truck Simulator
Function	Truckers can trigger a special in-game "cutscene" with a short showcase of a near location or place of interest

Viewpoints are locations where the driver can trigger an in-game “cutscene” that showcases the nearest point of interest to the player. They are identified by a green, 3D film-camera icon and marked with a on the map. There are a total of 123 viewpoints in American Truck Simulator.

Summary

When approaching and stopping at a viewpoint, the player must turn off their vehicle. The player then presses 'ENTER' in order to activate the viewpoint. When the cutscene is playing, the player can press 'ESCAPE' or watch the cutscene. The player can play the cutscene again. Since update 1.46, viewpoints are available to watch anytime through the gallery after activating them.

Locations

Base game

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
	California	CA299	East of Eureka	Burney Vista Point
		Richmond	In front of HMS Machinery in Point Richmond	Richmond Bridge

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TBA

Colorado

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
1	New Mexico	US160	Between Kayenta, Arizona and Durango	Four Corners Monument
2	Colorado	US160	Between Durango and Alamosa	Wolf Creek Pass
3		Ouray	On US550 between Durango and Montrose	Million Dollar Highway
4		Colorado Springs	Wallbert market west of the city	Colorado Springs
5		Colorado Springs	At the NAMIQ warehouse west of the city	Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine
6		US24	South of IS70 between Grand Junction and Colorado Springs	Red Cliff Bridge
7		IS70	West of Denver	Eisenhower Tunnel
8		IS70 US6	East of Grand Junction	Glenwood Canyon
9		Denver	On E 75th Ave south of Peña Blvd east of the city	Denver Airport
10		US34	Between Steamboat Springs and Fort Collins	Rocky Mountain National Park

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Idaho

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
1	Idaho	Twin Falls	Sunshine Crops farm south of the city	Twin Falls potato farm
2		US93	North of Twin Falls	Perrine Memorial Bridge
3		US20 US26 US93	Between Ketchum and Idaho Falls	Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve
4		Idaho Falls	On IS15 and US20 west of the city	The city of Idaho Falls
5		Boise	On US20 and US26 east of the city	The city of Boise
6		ID75	North of Ketchum	Galena Summit
7		US95	North of Ontario, Oregon	Midvale Hill Rest Area
8		McCall	On ID55 between Boise and Grangeville	The town of McCall
9		US95	At a Deepgrove timber harvest between Coeur d'Alene and Lewiston	Timber Harvest site
10		Sandpoint	On Superior Street south of the city	The city of Sandpoint

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Kansas

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
	Kansas	Dodge City		Entrance to Dodge City
		IS35	Southwest of Emporia	Bazaar Cattle Pens
		US50	South of US50, West of Emporia	Farm and Surrounding Area
		Hutchinson		Elevators in Hutchinson
		Junction City		Junction City Centre
		Kansas City		Kansas City
		US54	West of Wichita	Butler Country Line
		US77 El Dorado	West of Wichita	El Dorado
		US83	Hidden on a secret road, east of US83, north of Garden City	Monument Rocks
		IS70, exit 1 KS267 Kanorado	Hidden on a secret road, south of IS70, west of Colby	Mount Sunflower

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Montana

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
1	Montana	US20 US191 US287	East of West Yellowstone	Yellowstone National Park
2		US287	Northwest of West Yellowstone	Earthquake Lake
3		Billings	In an alley next to Billings Hotel on the corner of Montana Street and North 27th Street	City of Billings
4		US87	In front of the NAMIQ warehouse to the north of Billings	Signal Peak Coal Mine
5		Butte	Near the Faraday Energy substation in the northern part of Butte	City of Butte
6		Lewistown	In front of Bitumen on the western edge of Lewistown	Lewistown
7		Fort Peck	On MT24 south of Glasgow	Fort Peck Spillway
8		Great Falls	On River Drive in the northern part of Great Falls	Great Falls
9		US93	Between Kalispell and Missoula	Flathead Lake
10		Thompson Falls	In front of the Voltison Motors warehouse	Thompson Falls (18 WoS Heritage)
11		Going-to-the-Sun Road	Between West Glacier and St. Mary	Glacier Natl. Park

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New Mexico

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
1	New Mexico	US82	Between Alamogordo and Artesia	US-82 rest area
2		US70	Between Alamogordo and Roswell	The Historic Monument of Lincoln
3		Roswell	On US285 east of the city	The city of Roswell
4		Vaughn	On US54, US60, and US285 between Albuquerque and Clovis	The city of Vaughn
5		IS40	Between Albuquerque and Tucumcari	The Route 66w Rest Stop
6		Albuquerque	Near IS25 northeast of the city	The Albuquerque Junction
7	Arizona	IS40	West of Gallup	The Arizona Welcome Center Rest Area
8	New Mexico	Santa Fe	Near US84 and US285 east of the city	The city of Santa Fe
9		US84	North of Santa Fe	US-84 rest area
10		US64	Southwest of Raton	US-64 rest area

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Oklahoma

TBA

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Oregon

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
1	California	US199	Between Eureka, California and Medford	US-199 Sequoia Forest
2	Oregon	Eugene	Southwest of OR126 east of the city	Oregon Paper Mill
3		US101	Between Coos Bay and Newport	Thor's Well
4		US395	South of Pendleton	US-395 Vista
5		Newport	East of US101 south of the city	Newport Yaquina Bay Bridge
6		Newport	East of US101 north of the city	Yaquina Head Lighthouse
7		The Dalles	On US30 south of the city	The Dalles city
8		Biggs Junction	On US97 east of The Dalles	The Biggs Junction
9		Portland	In Haddock Shipyard northwest of the city	Portland Shipyard
10		Astoria	On US101 west of the city	Astoria-Megler Bridge

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Texas

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
1	Texas	Brownsville	On TX4 east of the city	Space rocket facility
2		Laredo	In the city center	The city of Laredo
3		Corpus Christi	At the Taylor depot near the US181 / TX35 concurrency north of the city	The city of Corpus Christi
4		Palacios	Between the Mary's Cotton and Sea Horizon depots south of TX35 east of Victoria	The city of Palacios
5		Galveston	Near the Sea Horizon depot southwest of the city	The city of Galveston
6		Uvalde	At the junction with US83 and US90 between Del Rio and San Antonio	The city of Uvalde
7		Del Rio	East of the city	The city of Del Rio
8			North of the city	Governor's Landing Bridge
9		New Braunfels	At the NAMIQ quarry (part of San Antonio) north of IS35	Quarry
10		US90	Between Del Rio and Fort Stockton nearest to US285	The Pecos river
11		Austin	Across the NAMIQ depot south of the city	The city of Austin
12		Fredericksburg	On US290 between Junction and Austin	The city of Fredericksburg
13		US90	Southeast of Van Horn	Marfa Lights
14		US96	Across the Chuck & Jack's Harvest site north of Beaumont	Buna county
15		US190	East of Huntsville	Lake Livingston
16		Fort Stockton	In the city center	The city of Fort Stockton
17		US67	South of the Vitas Power construction site west of San Angelo	Wind power plants
18		Van Horn	In the city center	The city of Van Horn
19		San Angelo	On the US87 / US277 concurrency south of US67	The city of San Angelo
20		Pecos	On US285 between Van Horn and Odessa	The town of Pecos
21		US62 US180	East of El Paso	The Salt Flats
22		Corsicana	On TX31 south of Dallas	The city of Corsicana
23		US62 US180	Southwest of Carlsbad, New Mexico	El Capitan
24		El Paso	At the El Paso Freight depot northeast of the city	El Paso airport
25		Big Spring	On US87 between San Angelo and Lubbock	The city of Big Spring
26		IS20	East of Abilene	Pecan farm
27		Anthony	Off of IS10 to the east between El Paso and Las Cruces, New Mexico	The Gateway to Texas
28		US62 TX114	East of Lubbock	Silver Falls rest area
29		Adrian	Just north of IS40 on Historic US66 west of Amarillo	The city of Adrian
30		Amarillo	In the city center north of the interchange with IS27 and IS40	The city of Amarillo

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Utah

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
1	Utah	US163	North of Kayenta, Arizona	The Monument Valley
2	Arizona	US89	North of Page, Arizona	The Glen Canyon Dam Bridge
3	Utah	US89	East of St. George	The Moqui Cave
4		St. George	On UT34 west of the city	The city of St. George
5		US191	South of Moab	The Hole N'' The Rock landmark
6		US89	East of Cedar City	The Hoover Rest Area
7		IS70 US50	West of Moab	The San Rafael Swell area
8		US40 US191	In the Gallon Oil oil fields southwest of Vernal	Oil Fields of Utah
9		Salt Lake City	At a Coastline Mining quarry southwest of the city	The Bingham Canyon Mine
10		IS80	West of Salt Lake City	The Bonneville Salt Flats

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Washington

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
1	Washington	Unnumbered road	East of Vancouver	Mt. St. Helens
2		IS90	Southeast of Wenatchee	Vantage Bridge
3		Seattle	On IS405 and WA900 southeast of the city	Kenworth Factory
4		Seattle	Port of Seattle south of the city	Seattle Port
5		Seattle	On 4th Ave south of the city	Seattle Downtown
6		Grand Coulee	On WA155 south of the city	Grand Coulee Dam
7		Everett	Darwing factory south of the city	Aircraft Factory
8		Everett	On WA529 north of the city	Everett Swing Bridge
9		WA20	North of Everett	Deception Pass
10		WA20	At a Deepgrove timber harvest east of Bellingham	Washington Timber Harvest Site

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Wyoming

Number on Map	State	City/Road	Location	Place of interest	Photo
1	Utah	US191	Between Vernal, Utah and Rock Springs	Flaming Gorge Dam
2	Wyoming	Cheyenne	Near the American Lines depot northeast of the city	City of Cheyenne
3		Evanston	Near the Wallbert food market east of the city	City of Evanston
4	Utah	Garden City	On US89 northeast of Logan, Utah	Bear Lake
5	Wyoming	US20 US26	West of Casper	Hell's Half Acre
6		Alpine	On US89 southwest of Jackson	Alpine
7		US20 WY789	North of Riverton	Boysen State Park
8		US26 US89 US191	North of Jackson	Grand Teton National Park
9		Devils Tower	On WY110 near US14 northeast of Gillette	Devils Tower
10		US14	West of Sheridan	Big Horn National Forest

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History

Viewpoints in American Truck Simulator were first featured in the Idaho map expansion. The icon for the viewpoint was first designed as a cogwheel, which looked like this: . 10 viewpoints were added to the Idaho map expansion.

In update 1.39, more viewpoints were added in the Washington and Utah map expansions, and the icon marked on the map, was changed to a camera. 20 more viewpoints (10 in Washington, 10 in Utah) were added to the game.

The release of the Colorado map expansion on November 12, 2020, featured 10 new viewpoints.

In update 1.40, more viewpoints were added in the New Mexico and Oregon map expansions. 20 more viewpoints (10 in New Mexico, 10 in Oregon) were added to the game.

The release of the Wyoming map expansion on September 7, 2021, featured 10 new viewpoints.

The release of the Montana map expansion on August 4, 2022, featured 10 new viewpoints.

In update 1.46, more viewpoints were added in California and the Montana map expansion. 3 more viewpoints (2 in California, 1 in Montana) were added to the game.

The release of the Texas map expansion on November 15, 2022, featured 30 new viewpoints.

The release of the Oklahoma map expansion on August 1, 2023, featured 10 new viewpoints.

Related Achievements

• The achievement The Director requires you to trigger all viewpoints in Idaho.
• The achievement Over Plains and Mountains requires you to trigger all viewpoints in Wyoming.
• The achievement Big Sky Country requires you to trigger all viewpoints in Montana.
• The achievement Big Country Views requires you to trigger at least 25 viewpoints in Texas.