Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, Utah is the last stop on Joel and Ellie's search for the Fireflies. It is an abandoned quarantine zone where the Fireflies hold Saint Mary's Hospital, and you play the Bus Depot and The Firefly Lab chapters here in spring 2034.
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Good to know
- Bus Depot has two sections, Highway Exit and Underground Tunnel, and holds 9 collectibles.
- The Firefly Lab has one section, The Hospital, and holds 5 collectibles.
- Landmarks include the Logan James Bus Station and Saint Mary's Hospital.
- Giraffes roam the overgrown city.
- The flooded tunnels and sewers hold runners, clickers and, in one tunnel, three bloaters.
- The Fireflies moved here after abandoning their lab at the University of Eastern Colorado.
What you do here
You pass a highway of wrecked cars, the empty QZ and its medical triage tents, and the bus station where Ellie finds the giraffes. Joel offers to turn back for Jackson, and Ellie refuses. You then cross an underground tunnel full of infected on the way to the hospital.
The zone's past
The military built a walled QZ here with checkpoints, a triage center, a hospital and a bus depot, then abandoned it for unknown reasons. The Fireflies never cleared the whole city, only the hospital and its surroundings.
The hospitalSpoilerShow
Joel wakes in a Firefly hospital bed and learns the surgery to make a vaccine would kill Ellie. He fights through the hospital, kills Marlene and drives away with Ellie.
- 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.
Bus DepotBus Depot opens in the spring of 2034 as Joel and Ellie walk into Salt Lake City, aiming for the Fireflies at Saint Mary's Hospital. The route runs along a highway full of dead cars, through the Logan James bus station and an abandoned quarantine zone, and down into a flooded tunnel full of infected.- The Firefly LabThe Firefly Lab is the second-to-last chapter, set inside Saint Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City, where the Fireflies have their base. It is a single section played as Joel, and its five collectibles include the recordings that explain what the Fireflies have learned from Ellie.
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.- FEDRAFEDRA, the Federal Disaster Response Agency, is the military government that runs the Boston quarantine zone. Its soldiers are the best-equipped enemies in the first chapters, and you fight them while smuggling Ellie out of Boston.
- FirefliesThe Fireflies are the militia fighting FEDRA's rule and searching for a cure, led by Marlene. Their slogan, look for the light, is painted across the ruins, and their deal with Joel and Tess to smuggle Ellie out of Boston starts the story.
- InfectedThe Infected are people taken over by a mutant Cordyceps fungus, and they are the main threat between every human fight in The Last of Us Part I. In Part I and Left Behind you meet four stages: runners, stalkers, clickers and bloaters, each harder to kill than the last.
- Bomb: ShrapnelBomb: Shrapnel is the last training manual, on top of a box truck in the underground tunnel of Bus Depot. It doubles the blast radius of nail bombs.
- CatalysisCatalysis, issue 13 of Savage Starlight, sits at the end of the ventilation ducting that runs along the underground tunnel in Bus Depot.
- Family photographThe Family photograph is an optional artifact in an overgrown camper on the highway at the start of Bus Depot. Before you leave the highway, climb into the camper in the middle of the road and check the dining table on the left.
- Marlene's journalMarlene's journal is an optional artifact in the Firefly tent on the sixth floor of St. Mary's Hospital. Walk to the far section of the tent marked with the Firefly logo and take it from the table on the left, next to the microscope.
- Marlene's recorder 1Marlene's recorder 1 is an optional audio artifact in an office on the sixth floor of St. Mary's Hospital. After the first flight of stairs, turn right, go through the open door on the right and pick it up from the desk.
- Marlene's recorder 2Marlene's recorder 2 is an optional audio artifact in Room 608 of the hospital's Pediatrics ward. After you enter Pediatrics and barricade the door, go into the room on the right and pick it up from the table against the back wall.
- Natalie Hoo's Firefly PendantNatalie Hoo's Firefly pendant lies in a corner behind a city bus on the ramp down to the underground tunnel in Bus Depot. It belonged to Natalie Hoo.
- Nicole Hoo's Firefly PendantNicole Hoo's Firefly pendant hangs from a light fixture outside the bus station in the Highway Exit section of Bus Depot. It has to be shot down or hit with a thrown object.
- Note to wifeThe Note to wife is an optional artifact in the Salt Lake City bus station. Search the luggage along the wall opposite the ladder; it is in an open suitcase along with some crafting parts.
- Perich's Firefly PendantPerich's Firefly pendant is tucked among rocks behind a guardrail at the freeway exit in the Highway Exit section of Bus Depot. It belonged to Katerina Perich.
- PrecipitatePrecipitate, issue 9 of Savage Starlight, is on the floor of the men's restroom in the bus station during the Highway Exit section of Bus Depot.
- Salt Lake Q.Z. mapThe Salt Lake Q.Z. map is an optional artifact in the triage area outside the Salt Lake City bus station. Go to the small tent in the far corner where the workbench is and take it from the table on the left.
- Stewart-Seume's Firefly PendantStewart-Seume's Firefly pendant is the 31st and last pendant, on a desk behind a shiv door on the sixth floor of the hospital in The Firefly Lab. It belonged to Bryony Stewart-Seume.
- Surgeon's recorderThe Surgeon's recorder is an optional audio artifact on the sixth floor of St. Mary's Hospital in The Firefly Lab. After the first flight of stairs, it is on the reception desk right in front of Joel.
- EthanEthan is a Firefly soldier at Saint Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City. In The Firefly Lab he finds Joel and Ellie after they arrive, and Marlene later puts him in charge of walking Joel out of the building.
- Jerry AndersonJerry Anderson is the lead doctor of the Fireflies at St. Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City, the man in charge of their research into a cure. You only meet him near the end of the game, in the chapter The Firefly Lab, and his part in the story is best discovered by playing it.
- KariKari is a Firefly surgical assistant at Saint Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City. You meet her in the operating room at the end of The Firefly Lab, where she is helping the surgeon Jerry Anderson.
- MarleneMarlene is the leader of the Fireflies, the militia fighting the military in the quarantine zones. Wounded in Boston, she hires Joel and Tess to smuggle Ellie out of the city in The Quarantine Zone, and you meet her again at the Fireflies' hospital in Salt Lake City near the end of the game.
- Logan James Bus StationLogan James Bus Station is the abandoned Salt Lake City bus depot that Joel and Ellie walk through in the Highway Exit section of Bus Depot, on their way to Saint Mary's Hospital. It leads to the scene where Ellie spots the giraffes.
- Saint Mary's HospitalSaint Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City is the Fireflies' main base and lab, the destination of Joel and Ellie's whole journey. You fight through it in The Firefly Lab, the last full chapter, which has one section, The Hospital, and 5 collectibles.
Related places
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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.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a former quarantine zone now run by hunters who ambush anyone passing through. Joel and Ellie spend two chapters here, Pittsburgh and The Suburbs, and meet the brothers Henry and Sam. Expect heavy human combat and the largest pile of collectibles in the game.
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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.
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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.