Fallout Days in Goodsprings, Nevada: Fallout In Real Life #SciFiSunday
The town of Goodsprings can be found on a dusty valley in Nevada. With a population of 229, Goodsprings looks from afar like a ghost town. Settlers built the Pioneer Saloon and its one-room school house in 1913. The town serves as inspiration for its namesake in the popular video game Fallout: New Vegas. Bethesda Softworks, the game’s designers, recreated the town with such loving care that wandering down main street can feel like stepping into the post-apocalyptic retro-future vibe that has helped make the Fallout series a beloved video game franchise.
Once a year, dedicated Fallout fans descend on Goodsprings to celebrate Fallout Days, a live-action cosplay event where Fallout enthusiasts immerse themselves in the game they love. Here’s more from PC Magazine:
The vibes were immaculate this past weekend at Fallout Celebration 2024, an annual gathering of all things Fallout in Goodsprings, Nevada, which you might remember as the town where Fallout: New Vegas begins. Yep, the ghost town where Doc Mitchell nurses your character to health after eating a bullet is not only a real place, but as I found out, surprisingly true to life. The real Goodsprings is a tiny community nestled between a few dusty hills north of Primm—just far enough from society that crossing into its borders feels like you’ve entered a simpler, quieter world indifferent to the glitzy Las Vegas 30 miles down the interstate.
I imagine it was Goodsprings’ secluded mystique and charming antiquity that made it the target of this massive fan gathering when it started a few years ago. Locals told me over 5,000 people RSVPed for the weekend—so many that the organizers stopped promoting the event in hopes that fewer would come—but nobody was turned away.
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