What Key Locations Are Mapped In The Percy Jackson Series Books?

I still get excited thinking about all of the locations Rick Riordan has placed throughout the world for ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians’. Here is a list of locations to post on your fan made map: Camp Half-Blood (Long Island), Mount Olympus (above the Empire State Building), The Underworld (under Los Angeles), The Lotus Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas), The Sea of Monsters/ The Bermuda Triangle (a line of sea that the heroes must cross in the second book).

And don’t forget the Labyrinth – it’s not just one place, but a constantly shifting set of tunnels and entrances all over the country, so I’d include several entrance locations for the Labyrinth. For the later crossovers, you could include Camp Jupiter on the West Coast. And the many, many sites that the demigods visit on their quest (islands, temples, etc.) – each of these sites could be represented by a pin on the map and you could include a quote or relevant scene for each. All of these would really make the books seem like a road trip across the country to search for mythological and magical things.

I am a huge map person. I love to print out maps before reading a series and highlighting out all of the places that the characters go to. For ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians’ the world feels like it was built to be pinned to a map. My fandom map for ‘Percy Jackson’ would include Camp Half-Blood on Long Island (the entire camp, the cabin circle, Half-Blood Hill with Thalia’s pine tree) and Mount Olympus sitting atop the Empire State Building in Manhattan. The two places feel like the main emotional/physical anchors of the series. The modern rooftop of the gods and the hidden refuge on the East Coast where most of the series takes place and where the characters train, fight, and deal with cabin politics.

Of course, I would include the really cool places to visit on this fan-made map. For The Lightning Thief, the Underworld would be located underneath Los Angeles, so the entire descent into Hades takes place beneath the real-life underbelly of LA. The Lotus Hotel and Casino would be based in Las Vegas for The Titan’s Curse. The hotel is a weird, modern myth-land where you can waste an infinite amount of time. The Sea of Monsters is basically the Bermuda Triangle and The Battle of the Labyrinth features the Labyrinth, which is not a single location – it’s a huge, ever-changing network of tunnels beneath large parts of the country. There are all sorts of random locations where the entrance to the Labyrinth can appear in different chapters of The Battle of the Labyrinth.

I would include Camp Jupiter (for the Roman demigods in The Heroes of Olympus series, which is set on the West Coast, primarily in Northern California) as well as a bunch of different monster lairs and quest points (like Polyphemus’s island, the spots where Rick, Annabeth, and Grover searched for the second gold币 in the Garden of the Hesperides, St. Louis Arch, etc). I would mark out really cool one-off places that become mythic in the story, like the Gateway to the Underworld, places where Rick, Annabeth, and other characters would rendezvous during their quest (like airports, or a dam, or a national park), and other local landmarks and sites that become important to the story. When I’m making my fandom maps, I like to number the cabins and make a note of which god or goddess “claims” that territory, and then I highlight out the corresponding chapters where that god or goddess appears. It’s really fun to go back through the books and relive some of the best moments of the series.

Even from a pure power-scaling standpoint, some locations are just places where tons of magical energy converge. The Oracle’s cave, the very center of the Labyrinth, the specific location where the Doors of Death can be found. All of these are more ‘plot points on a map’ than actual locations, and the characters travel to these spots in order to retrieve a MacGuffin or to complete some ritual. But each of these locations is fleshed out and given considerable personality by Riordan. The Oracle’s cave reeks of incense, the very center of the Labyrinth is cluttered with the paranoid, regret-filled possessions of the Labyrinth’s creator, and so on.