Fort Edmonton Park: The Fort
Zombie Apocalypse Survival Tour
Fort Edmonton, the fort within the park, is the ultimate safe-house. It's main gate comes with a great little feature, a small latched opening that you could use to safely dispatch the dead from behind the safety of the fort walls.
Observe your situation through the four, thirty-five foot (10.7 meters) high towers and the thirty-seven (11.3 meters) watch tower. From here you can plan your defensive actions. Need more weapons to dispose of Deadmonton's dead? Make them on site at the blacksmith shop.
The Fort has everything you need--housing, gardens, security, etc--to live a long while within its walls, should you need to do so. Plant crops, use the ice-house and clay bake ovens, then hunker down. Once behind the twenty foot (6.1 meters) walls, you can rest safely knowing that nothing will be getting through.
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Rowand House
Trade House
Meat Store
Quarters
Ice House
Stable
Hall
Watchtowers
Rundle House
Boat Shed
Blacksmith
Clay Oven
Rowand House
Rowand House should be the main place to make your home if living within the fort itself. Even if the park isn't breached, it makes sense to reside here at night--close the main fort gates and rest easy.
You'll find the comforts of home here on its three levels: kitchens, bedrooms, clothing, defensive weapons, and outhouse at back. Its 2100 square feet of living space means that it can house several families comfortably.
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Trade House
The Trade House contains many useful items: Traps, furs, pots, pans, spices, rifles, blankets, clothes, and more. There is a good stock pile of all.
Though, you will need to bring in a couple of wood stoves and piping from the hardware store, on 1885 street, for heat and to have a place to cook a meal.
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Meat Store
Are the traps doing more than just trapping zombies? Is your livestock at healthy levels for allowing some to be butchered for the dinner table? Then the meat store is where the preparation will take place. This building has all the equipment needed to salt meat, make sausages as well as to combine dried meat and grease into pemmican.
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Men's Quarters
Several families can make a home in the Men's Quarters of Fort Edmonton. In the very unlikely event that zombies breach the fort itself, you can reach safety by access the loft in each bedroom.
Zombies couldn't navigate the straight up ladders to the lofts. Also, there are cellars to keep food supplies cool and in reach should a room need to be barricaded while the zombies are dispatched within the fort.
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Ice House
The Ice House will help you to store your meat and perishables over the summer while they wait to be processed or canned.
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Fill the 20 foot deep pit with ice from the river when it starts to break up in Spring. With added straw, the sod roof, an double walls; the ice house will keep things cool for months.
Gentlemen's Stable and Horse Yard
A stable within the fort walls to make a home for farm animals. Always ensure you keep some animals here, even when the park seems secure. A situation could arise where you need to lock yourself in and may not have time to bring in animals from other parts of the park.
Should more area be needed for gardens, fence the horse yard off in half, and make use of the new area.
Bachelors' Hall or Clerks' Quarters
Once the Fort Edmonton starts to fill up, Bachelors' Hall is a great place to assemble everyone for meals. With its kitchen, large fireplace, and numerous tables, it seems ideal for making sure everyone is being fed-- keeping meal prep and cleanup to one area. Also allows having everyone in one spot for pre or post-meal announcements. A connected sleeping quarters will accommodate a dozen or so people.
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Palisade and Watchtowers
While there is only one true watchtower (highlighted in green--37 feet above ground), the other lookouts (highlighted in red--35 feet above ground) serve the same function. These structures offer unobstructed views of the grounds around the fort.
The 20 foot palisade (walls) encloses all of the fort buildings. A walkway, 4 feet below the top of the palisade, runs the entire length of the walls, making it possible to clear zombies from any point.
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Rundle House and Chapel
Two small rooms can be used as personal sleeping areas in Rundle House. There is also a larger room which was originally used as a chapel.
Since the fort already has a large number of sleeping areas, there is no reason to convert the chapel to more sleeping quarters. Keep it as it was intended or perhaps make it a play area for Fort Edmonton's children.
Boat Shed
With the North Saskatchewan River one minute away from the Fort's main gate, you have an excellent way to escape an overrun park should the need arise.
The boat shed provides all the tools and work area needed to reproduce the trusty and sturdy York boats. Once completed, keep one in the water and stocked with necessities; if the boat is needed to escape, you won't have time to stock it.
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Blacksmith Shop
1885 Street has its own blacksmith shop, but that does no good if you're barricaded inside the fort. Thankfully the Fort Edmonton has its own blacksmith shop as well.
Make the nails, bolts, defensive weapons, fortifications and more that will be required to ensure the dead don't inside the Fort. If you are living in the Fort, it is because the park itself is overrun, fortify and strengthen everything to ensure the dead stay out.
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Clay Bake Oven
Heated by building a fire inside the domed clay oven. Once burned out, ashes were removed and the oven cleaned.
Dough was then placed within and the oven's radiant heat baked it, making excellent bread for the forts' occupants.
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