id suggest something old west related though is that covered under the ghost town?

a sheriff office !

for sure you need a MethVan set up somewhere in the desert and any of BreakingBad easter eggs you can think of as its in arizona

Unsure if you can control this with the map, but perhaps higher ratio of 'later stage' decomposed zombies, due to the heat?

A water treatment plant somewhere, if there isn't one?

Perhaps an old western-styled saloon tourist-y place? (Something like Russian-weeb suggested)

What about late-game? I'm personally not very experienced and I always die before I get to that point- but thinking about it, there's no woods to vanish into to live off the land - is there any equivalent here?

Hope these ideas help add to the map!

This is kind of ♥♥♥♥-posty, but what about making a suspicious ass hill, three layers tall, and then put a bunker entrance on top, with an underground bunker inside the hill?

No?

Hmmm. Stripclub?

OH! A muuuuseeeummmm!

abandoned public pool?

I ran out of ideas...

Agreed, every western city has a cowboy era part of town.

How about a secluded charles manson style compound out in the desert wilderness?

What about a terminator 2 area referencing that spot in the desert where they get armed.

A Dusk Til Dawn club area and maybe some kind of Area 51 inspired place, and how about some sort of native American site with stone ruins.