Where Is Westworld Located?

Westworld is huge. But fans want to know: Where is Westworld located?

Have you ever thought about what it might be like to visit Westworld? If you are heading to South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas this year, then you may have a chance. HBO is creating a small-scale replica of the show. They using 2 acres to recreate the Old West as it appears on Westworld. 2 acres is nothing compared to the expanse that is seen when Teddy (James Marsden) and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) are galloping across the landscape. With so much land, just where is Westworld located?

There’s a lot of speculation as to where the park may reside.  But in an EW interview with showrunner Jonathan Nolan, he did provide a clue about the park:

"If you drive across the Western United States — and I don’t think that’s where the park is located — but if you do that … we were pretty rigorous about the scope and scale of it, about size of the park. It’s within 500 square miles. I think Ted Turner owns that much in Mexico. It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility that a park this size would exist here in America."

At least we know the size of the park. But this show is possibly set in a future where people can afford to spend $40,000 a day. It does seem plausible that some of the far-fetched theories could be plausible. Let’s take a look at some of these ideas.

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Is Westworld Located In Outer Space?

If you want to delve into the wild theories of

Westworld

, then head over to Reddit. A Redditor, by the name of mind-lux, recently posted about the park being on a

spinning space station.

Other fans thought the story may take on another planet, but never gave much insight into this concept. But the person who posted about the space station provided some information from NASA about

some possible designs.

One of the designs looks very similar to the station in the movie Elysium.

Is Westworld Located Underwater?

Some fans don’t subscribe to the idea of Westworld existing in space. Instead, they want to believe that everything takes place under the sea or at least on an island. If you visit the DiscoverWestworld site, there’s a page that talks about the terms and conditions. This text provides the only support for this theory. Some of the verbiage in the document talk about “off of the mainland” and  Westworld’s port. According to the terms and conditions, anycriminal behavior is under the jurisdiction of the territory. It doesn’t sound like Westworld takes place in the middle of America.

Is Westworld Located Inside A Video Game?

A newer theory that has surfaced is that of all of it existing in a video game. We’ve already seen this topic explored in movies like

The Matrix

and soon

Ready Player One.

It’s an idea about

individuals entering into a virtual reality.

With people logging into MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like

Destiny

or

World of Warcraft.

With the way the guests behave and the hosts react, it’s not too crazy of an idea. The Man in Black (Ed Harris) might have logged in from his home or some other area and participated in every quest. And each host has their own series of loops that resets each day.

Maybe we’ll get a better idea once Westworld Season 2 starts. In the recent trailer, we’ve already seen scenes that take place outside the park. It’s possible we learn where Westworld is located.

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We still have a few months until Westworld Season 2 drops. Until then, we will continue to speculate on anything and everything Westworld.

Westworld Season 2 will premiere on HBO Sunday, April 22, 2018 9PM/EST

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