#map reference

reference for howdy, honey!

The version the Masquerade has (with Ego’s writing) and then my version with travel time notes! I did NOT expect to get this done in one night but WAHOO WE DID IT! I also completely updated my calendar clear to the last revised chapter so tomorrow we’re gonna continue cruising \o/

One blog had a fucking m/a/p as a mod, one has a dreamwidth where they support m/a/ps and nsfw rpf involving underage celebrities. It wasn’t until I took a step back from them that I realized just how messed up it all is. Hell, there are even proship selfshippers!! >_<

Link to high-res map

Last fall I nerded out some with trying to map Hawkins based of the maps we see in show, then with the guide they released this map of Hawkins. Long overdue maybe but finally nerded out some more. The guidebook map marked out some locations clearly and put in some street names but didn’t mark out everything, and is kind of hard to read with the small print so made this to mark out more clearly where some important locations have been confirmed to be and to mark out some which isn’t confirmed but where I think they are. So, green means confirmed by the official map, red is my speculation as you can see.

The red 1 for Mirkwood where Will’s bike was found I feel 99 % sure of. The x’s painted on the map seems to indicate locations where mysterious stuff happened (Demogorgon stuff and Mind Flayer stuff, like most I think are to indicate farms where crops were destroyed in s2). The x on that road going by the Lab must be where Will fell off his bike since that road is marked as being Cornwallis and it stretches into town and just on the edge of town another street carled Kerley intersects it, and Mike tells Hopper in s1 that Mirkwood is the name the boys have given the stretch of the road after Cornwallis and Kerley meet. Will was biking home along this road, passed warning signs about the Lab being near, when the Demogorgon appeared in front of him and he fell off his bike and ran through the woods home. The red 2 I’ve marked out for Benny’s Burgers I’m 99 % sure of as well because it looks to be in the exact same spot as Murray has marked out Benny’s (with photos and all) as being located on the map he has on his wall. 

So I then have one red circle for the approximate area where I think the Byers house is located somewhere, and one for the Harrington house, because I don’t think they can be marked out more clearly than this. I believe the Byers live outside of town itself. Since on screen they seem to live more remote, not in a residential area, and we see when Jonathan, Bob etc drives into town several times it appears they drive on some open roads before getting into town itself. And of course because of Will’s way home in the first episode, he bikes on the road with woods on either side and past warning signs about the lab which must mean the Byers either live further southwest than the lab (since that’s where he was heading) or that he was going to follow the road for a bit more and then turn either left or right off it to get home. Either way they live somewhere southwest/west/south of town proper. And working from that I believe Steve lives right on the western edge of town. Because he lives in a residential neighborhood but he has woods going right up to the back of his house (which is how the Demogorgon found it’s way there) and that it’s somewhat close to the Byers house, as Nancy and Jonathan talk about when they look at their map in s1. It seems there’s a forest separating where Will’s bike was found (ie somewhat close to the Byers house) and the Harrington house, as Jonathan in s1 goes to where Will’s bike was found and looks around and hearing screams from Steve’s party runs through the woods to it. The location of the Lab in the southwest of course plays part in mapping this too, as the Demogorgon prowls the woods going out from the Lab, so the woods to the west and southwest of town proper is home not only to the Demogorgon but the Byers house, and Steve lives close to it but in town itself. Steve living in the western part of town also makes sense given that the Loch Nora neighborhood is marked out in the northwest part of town, this is the wealthy neighborhood the party goes trick or treating in in s2. We don’t know if the Harrington’s live in Loch Nora too but we know they’re wealthy and perhaps they live there or close to it, like perhaps there’s generally wealthier neighborhood in the western part of town.