lykopotoboy wrote:It does look like a true american roadnetwork. I think that intersection is the one for I10 and 110 in Pheonix. Dont remember Arizona since I havent been there in a while. Anyways I hope they included the I10 tunnel through downtown pheonix. Which would be awesome. Im also proud of the terrain its not all desert like in california. Im asumming the grassier part is around Flagstaff.
your assumption is semi-correct about Flagstaff. The west side is significantly wetter than the east, Ponderosa forest is basically what you see in great quantity here, it extends south on the I-17 till you reach the Mogillon Rim and then thins out vegetation changes. the Forest also extends west toward Williams again ending at the rim, and north of town parts of the forest also include aspen groves it ends just north of Kendrick Peak. There are dry lake beds that act like meadows and also some places where Logging has removed the forest to create a small prairie, those would be grassy though vegetation is not necessarily so green all the time. Ponderosa Forest inhibits the growth of grass so mostly the underbrush is pine needles, small flowers, bush, and gamble oak that don't grow that large. at a glance most of that terrain would be brown or sparsely green.
East Flagstaff is completely different than the west, more open and prairie like there isn't as much rain falling there and elevation is lower, this all means that you get an environment with tall grass that isn't so colorful sort of dry looking, though ponderosa still grow in patches here its not really as dense as the west side. That means the under story begins to take over more in the area taller gamble oaks, some grass more large rocks. due to lower elevation you also see juniper trees growing out in the under-story and eventually the ponderosa's stop altogether and just the junipers are left. in this area it is much more grassy and rocky prairie, rocks from the many volcanos and lava flows that dot the area and also from the San Francisco volcano. After you get past Winona though almost all the trees are gone its just grassy and rocks, by the time you get to Two Guns almost all the grass has started to thin out. After Meteor Crater turn off the lava flows are gone and the landscape turns from igneous rocks to sedimentary red sandstone and sandy desert with spare vegetation is all that is left.
I could explain the environments of all the roads along the interstates but that would be way too extensive unless you were intreseted in re-creating this beautiful state of mine.
. If you ever wish to do so and would like some pointers on what things are like without relying on Google maps/earth I'd be glad to share what I know.
yuhui2008 wrote:lykopotoboy wrote:LoaderSaints wrote:Well, SCS is known for dropping out lanes.
true I thought I 10 had 10 lanes in Pheonix oh well thats what mapers are for. At least its not a phony custom interchange with a standard clover leaf underneath.
But scs ATS all the highways are two lanes。
Umm, there are probably no 10 lane highways in the US, there are they probably reside in LA or New York City.
there driving into Phoenix, from the north the lanes widen, at the exit to Anthem, from two by two (north and south bound traffic) to three by three. An extra outside lane appears at Carefree hwy interchange dedicated to carpool traffic only that would be off limits to trucks. There are places where merging lanes appear in between exits these extra lanes do not continue the entire length of the highway just between one exit and another. no 10 lanes in phx anywhere. 5 maybe 6 at times though no ten lanes. unless you mean five by five north/southbound roads. ten lanes total between the two.
lykopotoboy wrote: Im asumming the grassier part is around Flagstaff.
also, wanted to say that there is more grass than you think in Arizona. The Verde Valley has plenty of grass and vegetation, other places that have ample grass are Apache-Sitgreaves national forest, Payson, Snowflake, Show Low, Pinetop, Springerville, the Manzinal mountain range, Tonto national forest/basin, Ash fork, Chino Valley, Prescott, Globe. etc etc. list goes on. of course when we say grassy you probably mean the green stuff that grows all over Europe... that doesn't exist anywhere in Arizona really maybe a few mountain tops that are high enough have that kind of green grass though most of the state is covered in various native grasses that aren't so showy and grow in clumps that don't fully cover the ground. some places have areas where the grass is close together and looks as if its covering the ground when in fact it is just grouped very closely. there really is no place in Arizona that doesn't have some native grass really though there are areas where not enough rain falls to sustain plants like grass.
