Horizon Zero Dawn Real World Location

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This is a list of the most significant or striking real life locations used in the setting of Horizon Zero Dawn. For boosted locations see Real World Location Info.

Full general Location

Horizon Zero Dawn is set in the states of Colorado and Utah, parts of northern Arizona and a very small function of Montana in the U.s.a.. Colorado is predominantly Nora territory. Utah is predominantly Carja territory.

The Frozen Wilds DLC added the Banuk territory, The Cut, to the HZD map. The Cut is based in the country of Wyoming in the United States, specifically in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.

Named Locations

Horizon Location		Real Life Location
A
All-Mother Mountain and Proving Grounds		Cheyenne Mountain[i] and Pikes Acme, CO
D
Daybrink		Lake Powell, UT[2]
Devil's Grief		Denver, CO[3]
Devil's Thirst		Colorado Springs, CO[four]
Devil's Thirst Bandit Camp		Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, CO[5]
One thousand
GAIA Prime number		Kings Peak, UT[6]
Gatelands and Sun-Steps		Arches National Park, UT
Greatrun River		Colorado River, CO, UT, AZ, NV, CA, BN and SO
H
Hollow Fort Brigand Camp		Mesa Laboratory, CO[7]
Hollow Hall FW		Old Faithful Company Instruction Center, WY
I
Icerasps FW		Teton Range, WY
M
Meridian and the Alight		Eagle Coulee, UT[8]
Female parent's Crown		Garden of the Gods, CO
R
Red Echoes		Blood-red Rocks Amphitheatre, CO[9]
Ring of Metal		Empower Field at Mile Loftier, CO[x]
Due south
Shattered Kiln Bandit Military camp		Provo Utah Temple, UT
Rock Yield Brigand Army camp FW		Mammoth Hot Springs, WY
Sunfall		Bryce Canyon National Park, UT[11]
Sun Furrows		Canyonlands National Park Needles District and Goblin Valley Country Park, UT
T
The Cutting FW		Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, WY
The Grave-Hoard		Hallet Peak and Flat Top Mount, CO
The Jewel		Monument Valley, UT and AZ[12]
Two-Teeth Bandit Camp		Smuggler-Union Hydroelectric Power Found, CO[13]
Five
Valleymeet		Maroon Bells, CO

Unnamed Locations

Horizon Location		Real Life Location
Devil'south Grief
Aboriginal Cathedral in Devil'southward Grief		Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, CO
Ancient Belfry in Devil's Grief		Daniels & Fisher Tower, CO
Devil's Thirst
Aboriginal Cathedral in Devil's Thirst		St. Mary's Cathedral, CO
Ancient Ruins in Devil's Thirst		Colorado Springs City Hall, CO
Ancient Statue in Devil's Thirst		Pikes Peak Range Memorial Statue, CO
Ancient Tower in Devil's Thirst		Wells Fargo Tower, CO
Gatelands
Bend in the Greatrun River		Horseshoe Curve, AZ
Sacred Lands
Air Combat Academy		United states Air Forcefulness University Cadet Chapel, CO
Ancient Castle in the Sacred Lands		Glen Eyrie, CO
Sunday Furrows
Hoodoos in Sun Furrows		The Three Sisters, UT
Sun-Steps
Double Stone Arches in Sun-Steps		Double Arch, UT
Stone Arch in Dominicus-Steps		Fragile Arch, UT
Stone Arches in Sunday-Steps		The Windows, UT
The Cut
Aboriginal Arch in the Cut FW		Roosevelt Arch, MT
Aboriginal Befouled in the Cutting FW		John Moulton Barn, WY
Colorful Pool in the Cut FW		Morning Glory Pool, WY
Pools in the Cut FW		One thousand Prismatic Spring and Excelsior Geyser, WY
Stalker Territory in the Cut FW		Former Faithful Inn, WY
Waterfall in the Cut FW		Yellowstone Falls, WY
The Gem
Mountain in the Jewel		Navajo Mountain, UT and AZ
Valleymeet
Mountain in Valleymeet		Maroon Pinnacle, CO

Inconsistencies

While the world of Horizon Zero Dawn is inspired by the Western United States, it is non a 1:1 replica. Several creative liberties are taken regarding the relative distance between real locations and their position relative to the prime directions, or by bringing two faraway locations extremely close together and leaving out vast swaths of territory in betwixt. While some locations are directly based on their existent-life counterparts, some just accept visual inspirations, and other locations don't be in the real world to begin with. For these reasons, information technology is impossible for the game map to exist accurately laid over a real map of the Western United States. These are some discrepancies betwixt the game map and a real world map:

• The Air Force Academy (including the chapel) is northwest of downtown Colorado Springs, but is depicted as being s/southwest in the game.
• The Red Rocks Amphitheater is non located directly across from the metropolis of Denver, but southwards.
• Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks aren't located just north of Denver, but rather to the extreme north.
• The game pushes the Provo Temple southwards, and completely deletes Salt Lake City off the map.
• The Smuggler-Union Hydroelectric Power Plant is not on Maroon Peak.
• The Fragile Arch, the Windows and the Double Curvation are portrayed like they're next to each other. However, the distance betwixt the Double Arch and the Windows in reality is at least twice the altitude equally in the game, and the Delicate Arch is to the far northward of both of them.
• The Colorado River is noticeably shorter, and the Horseshoe Curve is now in Utah instead of Arizona.
• In the game, the Canyonland's Needles District and Goblin Valley are portrayed like they're side by side to each other, with Goblin Valley to the e. However, in reality, Goblin Valley is to the far northwest of the Canyonlands.
• Lake Powell isn't located directly south of Bryce Canyon.
• Eagle Canyon is drastically pushed southwards, even south of Lake Powell.

References

1. ↑ Coordinates shown afterward prune of Aloy, viewed from Olin's focus after Erend's speach, while she was in Mother's Heart from earlier The Proving:
2. ↑ Lake Powell Vantage Point
3. ↑ Extrapolated from Denver Stadium and Sterling-Malkeet Amphitheater vantage points
4. ↑ Colorado Springs vantage point
5. ↑ Explorer Museum vantage point
6. ↑ King's Height vantage betoken
7. ↑ See movie comparision here and on in-game location's wiki folio
8. ↑ Eagle Coulee vantage betoken
9. ↑ Sterling-Malkeet Amphitheater vantage point
10. ↑ Denver Stadium vantage point
11. ↑ Bryce Orbital vantage point
12. ↑ Monument Valley vantage bespeak
13. ↑ Bridal Veil Falls vantage point

Source: https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Real_Locations_in_Horizon_Zero_Dawn#:~:text=Advertisement-,General%20Location,Utah%20is%20predominantly%20Carja%20territory.

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