SRS?

[ToughOmbres]

We have the location of one of the SRS (Strategic Reserve Stockpiles) from a module/adventure in canon. We also have several from Chico's excellent "On This Day 25 Years Ago" thread.

Does anyone know if GDW ever mentioned the locations of the other SRS or how much they would differ from the published Maryland SRS? Placing one in a random mountain in every state's mountain or salt dome seems too easy.

Any ideas from referees or groups? Did the SRS come up in play for your group and how did you handle it?

[wolffhound79]

upon locating and securing the srs bunker the players went thru the paper work in the offices that gave them hints to other locations. i gave the players 5 roles on d100 to come up with states that the bunkers are located. 1 role was new jersey.

I then searched abandoned military bases in new jersey then made a decision to use Highlands Air Force Station and Army Air Defense Site. Found an area with a weird loop road that had a concrete area and said the was a hidden entrance to an underground storage bunker. The majority of the equipment was ww2 to Vietnam era but a few updated pieces equipment. Plus a mystery as someone had been there before them and had removed some boxes and a vehicle.

another location was in a remote Pennsylvania resort hotel that had vehicles with no engines and hotel rooms with brand new furniture still in plastic as the hotel was never open to the public. Hidden in the basement parkade was a secret storage level with vehicles, equipment, and food stores, and the freedom bell. i read about a secret plan for hiding national treasures like the bell and thought what the hell lol.

[Silent Hunter UK]

The British moved national art treasures underground during the Second World War and had a similar plan for a Third World War.

[Vespers War]

I hadn't thought about it much (I've read the adventure but haven't run it), but I reckon they'd be more common in the general vicinity of DC, like the various Continuity of Government sites. Officials would want to make sure the area they were most likely to be in when the fecal matter hit the rotary impeller device would be well-supplied. A little further east from the canon site you could have them in abandoned coal mines, there could be one near Camp David (unbeknownst to the NPCs in Allegheny Uprising), down in southeastern Virginia you could hide one in Fort Monroe, and in the Shenandoah Valley you could put one in Luray Caverns (or Skyline, Shenandoah, Endless, or Grand Caverns if Luray is too obvious).

[Desert Mariner]

Long time ago, I started to put together a list of possible SRS/COG sites. Never really went beyond the brainstorming stage due to being busy in RL (seem to recall something about a Wall coming down). Took me a day to transcribe my old draft; some of it was just margin scribbles. The first few are the obvious east coast locations but after those, the list branches out a bit.

Raven Rock Mountain Complex (Site R) – Pennsylvania/Maryland Border
• Type: Hardened military COG bunker
• Why: Already a real Cold War-era Continuity of Government (COG) site, adjacent to Washington D.C. but underground and fortified. Could easily be designated as an SRS for key documents and artifacts from the National Archives or Smithsonian.
• Notable Feature: Deep tunnel system, secure comms, internal power grid

Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center – Berryville, Virginia
• Type: FEMA continuity hub
• Why: Historically a major FEMA and federal relocation site; plausibly used to safeguard cultural artifacts, including federal records and artistic treasures.
• Notable Feature: Integrated air filtration, vast storage space, and high-level government access

Mount Weather Annex – Winchester, Virginia
• Type: Alleged FEMA or military communications annex
• Why: A rumored extension of the Mount Weather facility, potentially used as a backup command node or data relay center if the main site is compromised.
• Notable Feature: Quietly secured government buildings with Cold War-era underground components and hardened shelters tied into the National Radio System.

Iron Mountain – Boyers, Pennsylvania
• Type: Former limestone mine turned data/archive storage site
• Why: Privately operated but deeply integrated into federal and corporate data protection services. Underground, climate-controlled, with extensive vault infrastructure.
• Notable Feature: Home to vaults used by the National Archives and major corporations. In T2K, could be nationalized quietly by executive order pre-war.

Cheyenne Mountain Complex – Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Type: Deep hardened military NORAD facility
• Why: Built to survive near-direct nuclear strikes; secure, deeply buried, and already designed to protect vital assets.
• Notable Feature: Blast doors, EMP protection, massive internal support systems

Denver Federal Center – Lakewood, Colorado
• Type: Federal administrative campus with soft underground features
• Why: Though not hardened like Cheyenne Mountain, it's one of the largest concentrations of federal offices west of the Mississippi. Ideal fallback for civil government if East Coast assets are lost.
• Notable Feature: Self-sufficient campus with its own power, water, and rail access—could serve as a western capital in a post-war scenario.

Granite Mountain Records Vault – Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
• Type: Deep archival facility (Mormon Church-owned)
• Why: Not government-owned but easily co-opted in a WWIII scenario. The site is built to withstand disaster and is already used for secure document preservation.
• Notable Feature: Climate-controlled vaults tunneled into granite

Fort Huachuca – Sierra Vista, Arizona
• Type: Army Intelligence Center and electronic testing range
• Why: Remote, secure, and with extensive underground communications infrastructure.
• Notable Feature: Large training ranges, deep access restrictions, minimal civilian presence

Missouri Underground – Springfield, Missouri
• Type: Massive underground warehouse network in limestone caves
• Why: Invisible to the public, used for cold storage and archival purposes. Central U.S. location makes it geographically resilient.
• Notable Feature: Hundreds of acres of climate-controlled, naturally cool cave storage beneath industrial sites

Mammoth Cave National Park – Kentucky
• Type: Natural cave system with historical civil defense potential
• Why: One of the largest known cave networks in the world, with Cold War proposals to use it as a massive fallout shelter. Perfect for hiding large numbers of people and artifacts.
• Notable Feature: Natural stone insulation, access to groundwater, and concealment make it an ideal emergency refuge—possibly used by FEMA, or a last-ditch COG enclave.

Dulce Base – Archuleta Mesa, New Mexico (Conspiracy Lore Location)
• Type: Alleged black site with deep underground infrastructure
• Why: It could actually exist in T2K, and be repurposed as a deep-storage vault for cultural materials.
• Notable Feature: Shielded by layers of disinformation and folklore.

Camp David – Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland
• Type: Presidential retreat
• Why: Not often considered a storage facility, but remote and secure, with protected bunkers nearby. Could serve as an emergency evacuation point for select artifacts from D.C. before the bombs fall.
• Notable Feature: Remote and defended, with plausible emergency storage functions baked into its mission

Atchison Storage Facility – Atchison, Kansas
• Type: Subterranean cold storage cave network
• Why: Quiet, central, easily defensible, and extremely spacious. Former limestone mines like Iron Mountain, used for document and food storage.
• Notable Feature: Central location ideal for post-war distribution, with rail access and minimal surrounding population

San Luis Valley Vaults – Near Crestone, Colorado
• Type: Remote mountain sanctuaries with spiritual and esoteric affiliations
• Why: Out of the way, lots of private land.
• Notable Feature: High elevation, natural concealment, and surrounded by conspiracy theories—useful misdirection


Locations that have come to light in the time since my original list was put together (yes, the original is that old)….

Greenbrier Bunker – White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1990s)
• Type: Secret Congressional bunker beneath a resort
• Why: Historically built to shelter Congress; ideal for relocation of select national treasures due to secrecy and access to rail lines. While compromised in real life, in T2K, it may remain active.
• Notable Feature: Secluded, accessible, and fully self-contained

Mount Pony – Culpeper, Virginia (1990s)
• Type: Former Federal Reserve and Treasury emergency bunker
• Why: Originally used to store billions of dollars in currency to restart the U.S. economy after nuclear war; later converted into a media archive. Could be repurposed as a post-war economic control center.
• Notable Feature: Massive underground vaults, former helipad, and thick security doors—perfect for surviving and restarting a government currency system.

Peters Mountain Telecommunications Bunker – Virginia (2000s)
• Type: Hardened NSA communications relay and control node
• Why: Cold War-era facility is part of the national microwave communication grid, tied to secret government telecom operations. Ideal for COG continuity via secure lines, with underground infrastructure.
• Notable Feature: Deep underground, with line-of-sight microwave towers and persistent NSA ties; rumored to house EMP-hardened comms arrays.

[Brit]

Greenbrier Bunker is featured in an episode of the TV series 'Abandoned Engineering'. It may be on youtube?

Other stuff here:

https://www.dark-tourism.com/index.p...-west-virginia

https://wvtourism.com/today-show-gre...resort-bunker/