Ruin
Salida del Sol
The Villa's east town, 'Sunrise', with Dog's switching station, the bell tower that triggers the Gala Event and the Sierra Madre snow globe.
- Map
- Sierra Madre
- Faction
- None
- Danger
- High
- Map position
- 14 × 11
Salida del Sol, Spanish for sunrise, is the eastern town of the Villa and once held the church and the homes of many casino staff. It is split into Salida del Sol South, entered from the east end of the Villa, and the larger Salida del Sol North, which Dean calls the most dangerous part of town. Traps and mines are hidden everywhere, some inside the Cloud, and each half starts with about six Ghost People, including Ghost Seekers and Ghost Harvesters in the north. Graffiti such as 'Run, run, run!' always points back toward the Villa.
In Fires in the Sky you bring Dog or God to the Salida Switching Station in the southwest corner of the south half. He can be locked inside with the terminal outside, bribed with two slabs of Ghost Harvester Remains, or, with Intelligence 7, talked into it by showing you understand the schematics. A hidden terminal at the station also clears most of the Cloud from the south half. Once all three companions are in position, Trigger the Gala Event sends you through the north half to the Campanas del Sol and up the bell tower, where the control panel faces the casino.
Activating the Gala Event earns the Having a Ball achievement and lights up the casino with fireworks and music, but it also switches on new speakers, including an indestructible red one, and floods the streets with Ghost People. Run back to the fountain rather than fight. The district is full of loot: seven of Dean's secret stashes, Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor, vending machine codes for Rad-X, RadAway, Super Stimpaks, the Bear Trap Fist springs and the Holorifle focusing lens, and the Snow Globe - Sierra Madre, which converts straight into 2,000 Sierra Madre Chips.
How to get there
Follow the East Villa street from the fountain to its east end, where the Salida del Sol South gate stands.
Notable loot
- Snow Globe - Sierra Madre (Salida del Sol North, upper room above the blocked gate)
- Vending Machine Codes: Super stimpak, Hologram rifle - focusing lense (bell tower)
- Vending Machine Code - "Bear trap fist - heavy duty springs" (Salida switching station)
- Vending Machine Codes: Rad-X, RadAway (Salida del Sol North)
- Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor (second floor just south of the Salida del Sol North door)
- Seven Dean's secret stashes (three in the south half, four in the north)
Related quests
- Fires in the Sky
- Trigger the Gala Event
Notable characters
- Dog and God
Tips
- Use the switching station terminal to clear the Cloud before exploring the rest of the south half.
- Do not drop into the Salida del Sol Courtyard without a plan; the only way out is a key in its southeast corner.
- Grab the snow globe before triggering the Gala Event, since the area fills with Ghost People afterward.
Collectibles and items here
- Easter egg I AM NOT YOUR MUMMY graffitiIn the basement wine cellar of Salida del Sol on the way to the bell tower where the Gala Event is triggered, scrawled on the central pillar.
- Holotape Vending machine code - "Hologram rifle - focusing lense"In the bell tower of Salida del Sol North, together with the Super stimpak code.
- Holotape Vending machine code - "Super stimpak"In the bell tower of Salida del Sol North, together with the holorifle focusing lense code.
- Holotape Vending machine code - "Rad-X"Salida del Sol North, a little south of the map center on the way to the bell tower. Climb the building three floors (top floor has a terminal about workers conning the contractor), go through the hole in the wall to a roof with a ramp; the code is on the bookshelf next to the bed.
- Holotape Vending machine code - "RadAway"Salida del Sol North, behind a counter in a pool table room in the southwestern corner of the southeastern area.
- Holotape Vending machine code - "Bear trap fist - heavy duty springs"Salida del Sol South, in the switch room where you leave Dog/God, near some pipes on the right.
- Key Salida del Sol courtyard keyIn the alcove to the left of the courtyard's south exit, next to a skeleton in a corner under the balcony.
- Note JournalIn Salida del Sol South, on the second floor of the building south of the Villa and courtyard entrances, a dead end on the far west edge across the wall from the switching station. Enter through a hole in the wall rigged with a trip wire and girder trap.
- Note Stained pageIn Salida del Sol South, in the building at the first set of stairs (graffiti "Floors have teeth" at the top). It is under a lunchbox on the counter in the right corner of the kitchen.
- Note Torn journalIn Salida del Sol North near the southernmost exit to Salida del Sol South, on the floor at the top of the stairs in the house you enter first.
- Main quest Trigger the Gala EventOnce the third companion is in place, Elijah radios you and sends you to the control console at the top of the Campanas del Sol bell tower in Salida del Sol North.
- Dean's secret stash Dean's Secret StashSalida del Sol South, near the Salida switching station where Dog/God is left in Fires in the Sky. With your back to the switches, walk about 100 feet east across the open area into the hallway and look for a small dead-end passage on the north side.
- Dean's secret stash Dean's Secret StashSalida del Sol South. Right after entering from the Villa, take the hole in the wall on the right, go upstairs onto the awnings and turn right. Follow the awnings to their very end and turn right into the last hole in the wall; the stash is opposite the hole.
- Dean's secret stash Dean's Secret StashSalida del Sol South, east side of the main street, inside the Cloud-filled shop with a cosmic knife ad outside and a ladder next to a speaker nearby. The suitcase is behind the counter.
- Dean's secret stash Dean's Secret StashSalida del Sol North. Enter through the Salida del Sol house, go down the stairs on the left and out the hole, head right under the columns, climb the stairs on the right, turn left and jump over the rail onto the awning. Follow the awnings across to a hole in the wall on your left; it leads to a room full of desks where the stash sits.
- Dean's secret stash Dean's Secret StashSalida del Sol North, at the dead end of the main street east of the house, up the second staircase into a single shop. The stash is on the top shelf behind the counter, next to a radio under Dean's handprint.
- Dean's secret stash Dean's Secret StashIn the northwest corner of the Cloud-filled Salida del Sol courtyard, near an automatic rifle by the water duct. Reach it from Salida del Sol North through the Cloud-covered gate, the hole in the wall on the left, upstairs through the cafe and out onto the balcony, then drop down.
- Dean's secret stash Dean's Secret StashSalida del Sol North, on the way to the bell tower. In the large courtyard below the stairs up to Campanas del Sol, take the stairs on the south side down into the Cloud; the suitcase is in the far southwest corner of the room at the bottom.
- Vending machine Sierra Madre vending machineSalida del Sol South, at the south end of the area, at the street fork with the "Cloud kills fast or slow" graffiti.
- Vending machine Sierra Madre vending machineSalida del Sol South, at the dead end of the main street next to the Salida del Sol house door that leads into Salida del Sol North.
- Vending machine Sierra Madre vending machineSalida del Sol North, in the shop with the hologram vendor. Leave the house, head east, and the shop is through the arches on the left.
- Vending machine Sierra Madre vending machineSalida del Sol North. From the dark cobblestone junction courtyard, climb the lit staircase north into the tall building; the machine is on its lower level, by the hole in the wall.
- Vending machine Sierra Madre vending machineSalida del Sol North, in the building at the top of the wooden ramp from the L-shaped courtyard, just before the large courtyard below Campanas del Sol.
- Playing card Sierra Madre Jack of DiamondsSalida del Sol North, in the shop with the hologram vendor and a vending machine. The card is in the northwest part of the broken glass display in the middle of the room.
- Playing card Sierra Madre 6 of SpadesSalida del Sol North, in the northwest corner of the small courtyard with three bear traps and a dead tree. It is on the ground between a wall and three pipes, just west of the stairs to the room with a Dean's Secret Stash, a radio and pool tables.
- Skill book Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor (Barter)Salida del Sol South, in the building across from the Salida del Sol house door that leads to Salida del Sol North. Go to the second floor; the book is on a bookshelf.
- Snow globe Sierra MadreSierra Madre, upper levels of Salida del Sol North near Dean's secret stash. From the southernmost entrance to Salida del Sol South, go down the stairway to the street and turn around to spot a hole in the wall above; reach it by taking the stairs around the corner to the southeast and following the rooftops back.