Freeside Freeside is the main slum adjacent to , but not controlled by , Mr . House ' s New Vegas in 2281 . It is protected and / or loosely ruled by the Kings and the Van Graffs . The streets are dangerous and lack the luster of the New Vegas Strip . There is a conflict between the local s and squatters that followed the NCR to the area . Background . wasn ' t heavily damaged during the Great War , but people didn ' t immediately settle into the remnants of the old city . The various Vault tribes and indigenous people that emerged years later hunted and fought amongst themselves within the ruins . It was not until the " return " of Mr . House and his Securitron enforcers that they ceased most of their open hostilities . Mr . House ' s robots directed the tribes to use the sizable quantities of pre - War construction materials to build the crude ( but effective ) outer walls that separate The Strip and Freeside from the rest of New Vegas . While House valued the area around , he ultimately viewed it as secondary in importance to the Strip itself and had a second , inner wall built that separated the two areas . When the NCR prospectors ( and eventually the army ) arrived in the region , people typically went straight for The Strip , leaving " Freeside " ( as it had become known by locals ) as an informal stopping point . Eventually , Mr . House recognized that he could use Freeside as a filter for undesirables and pulled his favored tribes and all Securitrons into the Strip , leaving Freeside to fend for itself . In the two years that followed , Freeside slowly degenerated into a hostile , lawless den of ne ' er - do - wells . For a while , it was completely without order , but two power groups managed to come to an understanding about how the area needed to be maintained . The Kings prevent all - out - chaos from erupting , but do little to deal with the day - to - day nastiness that Freesiders inflict on each other . The Followers of the Apocalypse , no longer associated with the NCR , settled in the Old Mormon Fort . They receive some protection from the Kings in exchange for help with the community ' s basic needs ( food , water , health services and some education ) . Despite the oversight from the Kings , and help from the Followers , the people in Freeside live in daily peril from each other as well as outside forces . Layout . Freeside is centered on the intersection of Las Vegas Blvd . and Fremont Street and is divided into two sections via a gate . The first section is C shaped and comprised of the western , northern , and eastern parts of the district . This section is the first that can be entered from the Mojave as it has both of Freeside ' s external gates . Several rough bodyguards stand near the gates , offering their " protection " on the mean streets for a paltry sum of . Points of interest in this section include : The second section covers the central and southern parts of the district . This section is reached from the north by passing through a wrecked - vehicle roadblock that divides the two parts of Freeside , or from the north - west through a zone door at the back of a ruin building between the Silver Rush and the Atomic Wrangler casino , or from the south via The Strip North Gate . Points of interest in this section include : Campfire s can be found up by the north gate to the New Vegas Strip . When facing the gate , the fenced off area guarded by securitron s is flanked by empty lots . In each of these lots is at least one campfire . Appearances . Freeside appears only in " " .