Bennington National Park

"*We've been here too long. We've been **here** too long. I can hear them, Harry. I can hear the dead in the trees. Moaning. [...] We need to find a group...people we can trust. Otherwise, we'll end up just like **them**,*"
—Holly begs Harry for them to leave the park[src]

**Bennington National Park** is a vast forest located in western Sylvania in *The Walking Dead by EDStudios*. Before the outbreak, it was a popular destination for hikers and became infested with walkers because of this. A year after the outbreak, a broken group sought refuge in the park, with what remained of the group taking refuge in a shack in the middle of the forest. It serves as the central location of the first half of Season 2. The park also partially appears in *Season 1* of *'End of Days*', when the Ones Left seek refuge from an incoming herd.

## Pre-Apocalypse

The park was a popular federally protected park located to the west of Port Collier. It received hundreds of visitors every week.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Season 1

#### 'All That Remains'

As the group evade a herd on the outskirts of Port Collier, they escape through a wood, eventually entering the park itself. They walk a few miles along a path until Jess collapses, screaming in pain as she goes into labour. Her screams attract walkers, with Harry and James clearing them away from the area while Alex helps Holly deliver the baby. Alex cuts the cord, with Holly reporting the baby is a boy. A few minutes later, it is discovered that Jess has an infected injury on her leg that she kept hidden. Jess passes away, leaving the group in agony. Alex tearfully decides to bury Jess, but is too late and she reanimates, biting him on the hand. Putting her down, Alex then amputates his bitten hand before behind found by Harry.

That night, the remaining Clarkson Survivors rest at a derelict campsite, where Harry and Holly begin a relationship and Alex confesses to James his part in the deaths of Daniel and Emma. In a rage, James shoots Alex in the head, claiming that he had stopped breathing. That morning, James leaves Harry and Holly, wandering off into the wilderness. Harry and Holly decide to name Alex and Jess' child Alex Junior before continuing further into the park.

The two of them come across a wooden shack, within which they find beds and food rations. The two decide to stay there, at least for a while. Harry wanders off to check the area and goes through another hallucination. Fighting through it, he finds a cliff overlooking the entire park. Throwing away everything on his key-ring aside from his locker key, he smiles and retreats back into the park.

### Season 2

#### 'What We Have Lost'

A year after the events of Port Collier, Harry, Holly and AJ remain in the park, living out of the hiker's shack they discovered. They follow a basic routine, with Edwards going out into the park to hunt for supplies while Holly tends to their crops and plays with AJ.

#### 'Along A Lonely Road'

Edwards continues on through the park but is beginning to lose the trail.

### Season 1 ('End of Days')

#### 'Don't Look Back'

When the group realize the crimes that Gerrard has committed, they attack him and run out of his house into a storm. In the darkness, they realize that a large herd is heading right for them and has already surrounded their truck.

## Inhabitants

### Formerly:

* Alex Junior
* Harry Edwards
* Holly Parker
* Deathjaw!

## Deaths

* Jess Black *(alive and zombified)*
* Alex Sutton
* Gerrard *(alive and zombified)*
* 12 bandits

## Trivia

* Bennington National Park is the birthplace of Alex Junior.
* Both Alex and Jess are buried somewhere in the park.