Silver Lake
Silver Lake is a snowbound Colorado resort town and the setting of the Lakeside Resort chapter, where Ellie is playable for most of the winter. A group led by David lives here. Its surroundings include an abandoned coal mine and the Whitefish Lake rest area.
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- Silver Lake
Good to know
- Lakeside Resort has two sections, The Hunt and Cabin Resort, and holds 17 collectibles.
- A welcome sign says the town was first settled in 1882.
- Landmarks include Todd's Steakhouse & Bar, Bear Creek Lodge, Warren Coal Mining and Whitefish Lake.
- No infected appear inside the town itself, though you fight them near the coal mine.
- Oil-drum fires and a ringing bell help you find your way through the blizzard.
- The town has comic and video game shops and a garage that Joel passes through.
Playing as Ellie
The chapter opens with Ellie hunting a deer with her bow while Joel lies feverish in a house. She trades the deer to David and James for medicine, and the pair hold off a wave of infected together in a warehouse. Later, Ellie escapes into a blizzard with only her switchblade and must take a pistol and ammo from enemies.
What the town hidesSpoilerShow
David's group survives by eating people. They use a converted butcher shop to store and prepare bodies, and Joel finds corpses hung upside down while he searches for Ellie. Some residents grumble that David's leadership should be put to a vote again.
The restaurant fightSpoilerShow
Ellie's final fight with David happens in the town's intact restaurant, where broken plates on the floor let him hear her moving. The building catches fire during the struggle, and Ellie kills David with a machete just before Joel reaches her.
- Main storyThe main story of The Last of Us Part I follows Joel, a smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone, as he escorts Ellie, a teenage girl who is immune to the Cordyceps infection, across the United States to the Fireflies. It runs 12 chapters, from Austin on the night of the outbreak in 2013 to the spring of 2034.
Lakeside ResortLakeside Resort jumps to winter and puts you in control of Ellie near Silver Lake, Colorado, hunting with a bow and searching for medicine. She runs into two strangers, David and James, and for part of the second half the game switches you back to Joel.
- Bear Creek LodgeBear Creek Lodge is a former holiday ski lodge in Silver Lake, the snowbound town David's group calls home in the Lakeside Resort chapter.
- Todd's Steakhouse & BarTodd's Steakhouse & Bar is a former barbecue restaurant and bar in the resort town of Silver Lake, which David's group holds during the Lakeside Resort chapter.
- Warren Coal MiningWarren Coal Mining is the abandoned coal mine in the forest near Silver Lake where Ellie's deer hunt ends at the start of Lakeside Resort. Here she meets David and James and fights infected alongside David in The Hunt section.
- Whitefish LakeWhitefish Lake is a snowed-in lakeside rest area near Silver Lake that Ellie crosses in The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort while leading David's men away from Joel. A cliffside walkway runs along the frozen lake.
BloaterBloaters are stage four infected covered in armor-like fungus. They are slow and blind but kill you instantly if they grab you, and they throw bursting sacks of mycotoxin from range. Fire is the way to beat them.- David's GroupDavid's group are a group of survivors from a town at Silver Lake, Colorado who hunt Joel and Ellie through the winter. You fight them at the University of Eastern Colorado, in Left Behind at the Colorado Mountain Plaza, and around Lakeside Resort.
- BlondieBlondie is one of David's men in Silver Lake, a member of the group that hunts Joel and Ellie through the winter. Joel runs into him at the cabin resort in Lakeside Resort while searching for Ellie, and questions him alongside Skully.
- CallusCallus is the horse Joel and Ellie ride from Jackson County to the University of Eastern Colorado and beyond. He first carries Joel when Ellie runs off in Tommy's Dam, and Ellie names him on the road to the university.
- DavidDavid is the soft-spoken leader of a group of survivors near Silver Lake and the main threat of Lakeside Resort, the winter chapter where you play as Ellie. He meets her while she is hunting, trades her penicillin for deer meat, and fights infected beside her.
- Ellie WilliamsEllie Williams is the 14-year-old girl Joel is hired to smuggle out of Boston, and your companion for most of The Last of Us Part I. She was bitten weeks earlier and never turned, so the Fireflies believe her immunity could lead to a vaccine. You play as her in the winter chapter and in the Left Behind DLC.
- JamesJames is David's right-hand man in the group of survivors Ellie runs into near Silver Lake during Lakeside Resort. He is hunting with David when they meet her, and he is the one sent back to their settlement for the penicillin she needs for Joel.
- SkullySkully is one of David's men in Silver Lake. Joel captures him with Blondie at the cabin resort in Lakeside Resort and forces him to reveal where Ellie is held.
- Braun's Firefly PendantBraun's Firefly pendant rests on a bench inside a gazebo next to the first cabin at the resort, in The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort. It belonged to Paul D. Braun.
- Ellie's backpackEllie's backpack is an automatic artifact Joel picks up in the back of the butcher shop in Lakeside Resort. As he walks in, he grabs it from a low shelf, and it stays in his Artifacts menu from then on.
- Joel & Sarah photoThe Joel & Sarah photo is a picture of Joel with his daughter, an automatic artifact in Ellie's backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. You can view it from the Artifacts menu while playing as Ellie.
- Kristof's Firefly PendantKristof's Firefly pendant is inside a blue storage container in the coal mine during The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort. It belonged to Travis Kristof.
- Lake resort mapThe Lake resort map is an automatic artifact Joel gains in Lakeside Resort. It goes into his backpack right after he interrogates the two hunters in the Cabin Resort section, so you cannot miss it.
- Meat ledgerThe Meat ledger is an optional artifact in the back room of the butcher shop in Lakeside Resort. After Joel picks up Ellie's backpack, look at the shelf on the right; the ledger is on the middle shelf.
- NegentropyNegentropy, issue 8 of Savage Starlight, lies on a bench in a small rest area along the cliffside walk by Whitefish Lake, in The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort.
- No Pun IntendedNo Pun Intended is one of Ellie's joke books, an automatic artifact already in her backpack when you take control of her at the start of Lakeside Resort. You view it from the Artifacts menu.
- No Pun Intended: Volume TooNo Pun Intended: Volume Too is Ellie's second Will Livingston pun book. In the main game it is an automatic artifact in her backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. In Left Behind, Riley gives it to her during the flashback chapter Fun and Games.
- Note from momThe Note from mom is a letter from Ellie's mother, Anna, and an automatic artifact in Ellie's backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. You can read both sides of it from the Artifacts menu.
- Riley's Firefly PendantRiley's Firefly pendant starts Lakeside Resort already in Ellie's backpack, but it only counts once you open the backpack and look at it. It belonged to Riley Abel, Ellie's closest friend from Boston.
- Sam's robotSam's robot is a small toy robot Ellie keeps, an automatic artifact in her backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. Viewing it in the Artifacts menu makes Ellie speak to it.
- Smoke: ShapingSmoke: Shaping is a training manual inside a shiv-locked shed in Lakeside Resort. It makes smoke bomb clouds last 20 seconds longer.
- SwitchbladeThe Switchblade artifact is Ellie's personal knife, sitting in her backpack automatically at the start of Lakeside Resort. It appears in the Artifacts menu as one of the belongings you can look over while playing as Ellie.
- To Get to the Other Side!To Get to the Other Side! is a joke book Ellie carries, an automatic artifact sitting in her backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort. It shows up in the Artifacts menu as soon as you play as her.
- UncertaintyUncertainty, issue 4 of Savage Starlight, is in a desk drawer in a collapsed barn that Ellie passes while tracking the deer in The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort.
- WalkmanThe Walkman is Ellie's cassette player, an automatic artifact already in her backpack when Lakeside Resort begins. Viewing it in the Artifacts menu prompts Ellie to say she should try to fix it.
Related places
- Region
Boulder
Boulder, Colorado is where Joel and Ellie search the University of Eastern Colorado for the Fireflies in The University chapter. Left Behind's present-day story picks up nearby at the Colorado Mountain Plaza mall, so this region covers both the campus and the mall.
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Boston
Boston, Massachusetts is the first region after the time skip and the city where Ellie grew up. You play The Quarantine Zone and The Outskirts here, and Left Behind's flashbacks with Riley take place in the same city. FEDRA holds the North End as one of the last working quarantine zones in the country.
- Landmark
Colorado Mountain Plaza
Colorado Mountain Plaza is the snowbound mall near Boulder where Ellie hunts for medical supplies in Left Behind's present-day chapters. You play Back in a Flash, So Close and The Enemy of My Enemy here, fighting both infected and hostile survivors.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a small Massachusetts town a few miles from Boston and the setting of Bill's Town, the fourth chapter. Joel and Ellie come here to call in a favor from Bill, a paranoid survivor who has rigged the whole town with traps, because they need a working vehicle.