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There's a chance I could crash us all in to the middle of Lake Mead, that place seems to attract aircraft for some reason.Daisy Whitman

Lake Mead is a pre-War man-made water reservoir and an unmarked location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.

Layout[]

Situated southeast of Camp Golf and south of Bitter Springs, Lake Mead encompasses a large contingent of the map to the northeast. Many locations can be found directly abutting the shoreline, including the Hoover Dam, which serves to maintain the reservoir's volume to the south. Other locations such as Boulder Beach Campground, Fisherman's Pride shack, Callville Bay, and Guardian Peak dot the lake's perimeter.

Several points of interest can be found either on or under the lake itself, including the site of a crashed B-29. Directly behind the plane lies a partially sunken ship resembling a tugboat, red in color, which has some gore bags coming out of a hole in the hull. Directly below this ship is the underwater Lake Mead Cave.

There is another cave system accessible by the lake, Camp Guardian caves, which is near a shipwreck. The area consists of a sunken boat, a half-buried body, and a large number of poker chips. Along the lake's floor is also a sunken Sunset Sarsaparilla truck, with its contents spilling out into the nearby vicinity. These contents include approximately 11 dozen empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottles and several Sunset Sarsaparilla crates. Floating above close to the wreckage is the scavenger platform.

The lake bed is comprised mostly of sand, rocks, and seaweed. There are fish in the lake, although they cannot be interacted with. Lakelurks can be found in abundance along the shores and serve as the most prominent enemy encountered in and around the lake.

Notable loot[]

Notes[]

  • The lake's water is pure and not irradiated, so drinking it will reset the H2O meter to 0 when hardcore mode is activated.
  • After completing Volare! for the Boomers, Mr. New Vegas mentions sightings of a "Lake Mead Monster" in reference to the raised B-29.
  • Cass can be questioned if she knows what a fish looks like, which is described much like the fish in Lake Mead, by an intelligent Courier.
  • Lupe sells bottles of purified water from Lake Mead.[1]

Appearances[]

Lake Mead appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes[]

  • The in-game Lake Mead is based on the real-world water body of the same name. Lake Mead was originally formed by the creation of the Hoover Dam stopping the movement of the Colorado River, leading to the lake's formation. Its namesake is Elwood Mead, who was the commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1924 to 1936.
  • The crashed B-29 found on the lakebed in the game is a reference to a real airplane, a modified Boeing B-29 Superfortress, that crashed into the waters of Lake Mead while performing atmospheric research on July 21, 1948 - the same date in-game and in real life.
  • During development, the world map was based on United States Geological Survey data at 1/25th scale. Lake Mead and the Colorado River were expanded from this scale so that they would not feel too small.[2]

Bugs[]

  • PCPC Playstation 3Playstation 3Playstation 3 Xbox 360Xbox 360 There are a few hollow, floating, underwater rocks southeast of the Boulder Beach Campground docks. [verified]
  • PCPC Playstation 3Playstation 3Playstation 3 Xbox 360Xbox 360 When fast traveling to Lake Mead (when you spawn on the boat wreckage), you can often see the crashed B-29, floating off in the distance by the dock. However, when you approach it, it's gone, per the Boomer's quest. [verified]

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References[]

  1. The Courier: "Where do you get your water?"
    Lupe: "The NCR fixed up the pipe network pretty good, and water merchants like me are allowed to have some of it to sell. If we have a water license, of course. Still, it beats the inconvenience of having to trek all the way to the lake to resupply."
    (Lupe's dialogue)
  2. Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream Part 3 (reference starts at 14:50)
    Joshua Sawyer: "So this actually uses U.S. Geological Survey data, but it's at 1/25th the scale. So everything is obviously much, much, much smaller. The exceptions were that we had to widen the Colorado River, because at 1/25th scale, you could literally just jump over it. So we scaled everything down and then we could literally run over and jump across the Colorado River. So we expanded that, I think we expanded Lake Mead a little bit to get the scale to feel, like, okay."
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