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Fallout: New Vegas Hints

Annotated Map Key

  • 1 = Black Mountain.  <Annabelle>
    2 = El Dorado Substation [NCR].
    3 = El Dorado Dry Lake.
    4 = Black Rock Cave.  <Paladin Toaster>
    5 = El Dorado Gas & Service.
    6 = Cazador Nest.
    7 = Ranger Station Delta [NCR].
    8 = Scorpion Gulch.
    9 = HELIOS One [NCR].  <Medicine skill book>
    10 = Gibson Scrap Yard [Novac].  <Big Boomer>
    11 = Southern Nevada Wind Farm.  <Repair skill book>
    12 = Camp Forlorn Hope [NCR].  <Science skill book>
    13 = Abandoned BoS Bunker [Brotherhood of Steel]. Can't be entered unless you have the "Dead Money" add-on game.
    14 = REPCONN Test Site.
    15 = Novac [Novac].  <Medicine skill book, That Gun>
    16 = Toxic Dump Site.
    17 = Nelson [Caesar's Legion].  <Liberator>
    18 = Techatticup Mine [Caesar's Legion].
    19 = Clark Field.
    20 = Highway 95 Viper's Encampment.
    21 = Ranger Station Charlie [NCR].
    22 = Wrecked Highwayman.
    23 = Lucky Jim Mine.  <Speech skill book>
    24 = Snyder Prospector Camp.
    25 = Ranger Station Echo [NCR].
    26 = Cliffside Prospector Camp [Caesar's Legion].
    27 = Broc Flower Cave.  <Ratslayer>
    28 = Legion Raid Camp [Caesar's Legion].
    29 = Wolfhorn Ranch.  <Lockpick skill book, Chopper>
    30 = Searchlight North Gold Mine.
    31 = Coyote Mines.
    32 = Sniper's Nest [Caesar's Legion].  <Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle>
    33 = Cottonwood Cove [Caesar's Legion].  <Melee Weapons skill book, Recompense of the Fallen>
    34 = Raided Farmstead.
    35 = Camp Searchlight.  <Sneak skill book, Knock Knock, 2 mini nukes>
    36 = Searchlight East Gold Mine.
    37 = Cottonwood Overlook [Caesar's Legion].
    38 = Smith Mesa Prospector Camp.
    39 = Blue Paradise Vacation Rentals.
    40 = Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm.  <Survival skill book>
    41 = Fire Root Cavern.
    42 = Old Nuclear Test Site.  <Energy Weapons skill book>
    43 = Crashed Vertibird.  <Tesla-Beaton Prototype>
    44 = Searchlight Airport.
    45 = Cottonwood Crater.  <fat man>

    a = Lonesome Drifter's camp [The Strip].  <Mysterious Magnum>
    b = Robobrain's dam overlook [NCR].
    c = Slaughtered trade caravan.
    d = Radio tower alcove.
    e = Gibson's shack [Novac, Brotherhood of Steel].
    f = Test site checkpoint.
    g = Radioactive barrels.
    h = Dead Bright followers [southern one Caesar's Legion].
    i = Legion camp [Caesar's Legion].
    j = Astor's recon camp [NCR].
    k = NCR supplies [NCR, Caesar's Legion].
    l = Old crashed car.
    m = Two skeletons.
    n = Ranger Milo's checkpoint [NCR].
    o = Minefield [NCR].
    p = Legion camp [Caesar's Legion].
    q = Bootjack Cavern.
    r = Trailer park.
    s = Lakelurk alcove.
    t = Deathclaw treasure.
    u = Dead hiker.
    v = River alcove.