Atlanta Survivor Camp (TV Series)

Dale Horvath watching over the campsite

The **Atlanta Survivor Camp** is a base camp established in a quarry just outside the city of Atlanta, near Interstate 85. It is a major location in Season 1 of AMC's *The Walking Dead*.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Rural Georgia

Before the outbreak, the campsite was a nature park area that had a dense forest, mountain cliffs which helped form a quarry, and a lake/river of water. Numerous animals such as squirrels, birds, deer, and fish all live in the area, feeding off of the vegetation. The State of Georgia most likely allowed campers and hikers to use this area as a public park space to hike, camp, fish, and rock-climb.

## Post-Apocalypse

Prior to the outbreak, all refugees headed towards the city of Atlanta for safety and protection by the U.S. Military. However, infected individuals also made their way to the city and completely overran the shelter and outposts. When Shane Walsh and Lori Grimes see that the city is overrun and the subsequent destruction of the military installation, they decide to set up an outpost at the quarry just outside the city. Ed Peletier, his wife Carol, and their daughter Sophia also joined them and helped establish the campsite. Other survivors from the city and nearby area eventually see the survivors and join them at the campsite to establish a base of operations there.

They used the resources in the area to continue on their daily lives such as food, water, shelter, and safety from the infected. Andrea and her sister, Amy, fished on the lake, Merle and Daryl Dixon hunted, some of the women washed the clothes using the lake/river, and Dale Horvath mentions that the mountain cliffs provide protection since they are away from the city and loud sounds would be hard to pin-point in that location. However, the survivors occasionally have to make trips to the city for other supplies such as equipment, tools, and medicine.

The walkers (after running out of "food" in the city) began to make their way into more rural areas. A walker does wander into the camp and is seen eating part of a deer, later several walkers make their way into the campsite causing several casualties and several survivors were killed or bitten. Realizing that the walkers are making their way outside of the city and that this location was compromised, the remaining survivors decided to flee to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta (with the exception of Morales and his family, who head to Birmingham, Alabama, to find their relatives).

## Inhabitants

### Survivors

* *Amy Harrison*
* *Ed Peletier*
* *Atlanta Camp Survivor*
* *Twelve unnamed survivors*

### Formerly

* Rick Grimes *(Leader)*
* Daryl Dixon *(Hunter)*
* Carol Peletier
* *Carl Grimes*
* *Morales* *(Supply Runner)*
* *Glenn Rhee* *(Supply Runner)*
* *Andrea Harrison* *(Supply Runner)*
* *Merle Dixon* *(Supply Runner)*
* *Lori Grimes*
* *Theodore Douglas* *(Supply Runner)*
* *Miranda Morales*
* *Louis Morales*
* *Eliza Morales*
* *Shane Walsh* *(Leader)*
* *Dale Horvath* *(Lookout)*
* *Sophia Peletier*
* *Jacqui* *(Supply Runner)*
* *Jim* *(Mechanic)*

## Deaths

* Ed Peletier
* Amy Harrison *(Alive and Zombified)*
* Atlanta Camp Survivor
* Twelve unnamed survivors

## Appearances

### TV Series

#### Season 1

* "Days Gone Bye"
* "Guts"
* "Tell It to the Frogs"
* "Vatos"
* "Wildfire"

#### Season 7

* "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" (Archive Footage)

## Trivia

* The Atlanta Survivor Camp is a purchasable property in *The Walking Dead* Monopoly and a territory in *The Walking Dead* Risk.
* The last five survivors of this group at the time, Rick, Carl, Glenn, Daryl and Carol, are referred to as the **"Atlanta Five"** by the fan-base.
* As of "Rest in Peace", Rick, Daryl and Carol are the only known remaining survivors of the Atlanta Survivor Camp.
* The Atlanta Survivor Camp appears in the archival footage shown at the beginning of "A New Deal" as Judith narrates past events of the show to the audience before the episode's story begins.

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