Industrial site
Hoover Dam power plants
The four turbine halls inside Hoover Dam where head engineer Mike Lawson works and the NCR and Legion clash in the final battle.
- Region
- Eastern Mojave
- Faction
- New California Republic
- Danger
- Safe
- Map marker
- None, unmarked location
Part of Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam has four power plant sections, each a three-tier hall of catwalks around two giant turbines. Power plant 01 in the west is the busiest: head engineer Mike Lawson works on its bottom floor with NCR engineers, it holds Museum of Technology posters and the only pre-War flag in the plants, and it links the visitor center with the offices. Plants 02 and 03 are quieter work and testing areas, and 03 is dimly lit with no one in it.
Power plant 04 in the far east holds the locked door to General Oliver's compound, which only opens in the endgame. Under all four runs the Hoover Dam lower level, with eight turbines of which only four still turn. During the final battle the plants become a front line; in Eureka! Lawson asks you to restart the turbines from a console in plant 03 so they shred the legionaries trying to slip through.
How to get there
From the Hoover Dam visitor center, follow the passage into power plant 01, then continue east through the other plants.
Notable loot
- Ammunition boxes (ground floor of power plant 03, near the door to 02)
Related quests
- Eureka!
- All or Nothing
- Veni, Vidi, Vici
Notable characters
- Mike Lawson
Tips
- The middle-tier doors in plants 02 and 04 lead out to the lower dam exterior.
- Hacking the Hard terminal on plant 02's second level costs Karma and only opens a door you can already use.