Where do the animorphs live?

[esplin]

i wished they lived near me too :[

[Gafrash]

Anyone ever tried drawing an area map of where they live?

I always imagined the coast to left and Jake, Rachel and Marco living like 30 min walk east from the beach and then the abandoned construction site and the mall divided by this busy arse highway. Cassie living not far to the north, on the outer skirts of dense fores and further north into it is Ax's scoop and the mountains where scenarios of The Encounter, The Proposal and The Resistance would have been in.
To the south would be the Downtown. The Gardens somewhere in between.

I'm gonna try putting my view on paper.

[wotw2112]

I always thought the mall and construction site were between their houses and the coast...  Other than that it's pretty much the way I pictured it.

[Gafrash]

Interesting.

[charming_angel]

Hi! Just found this forum recently and have finished most of the books now. 
I've wondered about where the Animorphs live for a while now.
I checked what you all wrote here and remembered that in book 51 they said the Capitol was over 200 miles away. I'm guessing it wouldn't be too much over 200 miles.
I googled a little, as I don't know much about California (I'm from Germany).  From the distance it could be either Eureka (about 209 miles from Sacramento) or San Luis Obispo (about 230 miles from Sacramento), considering that the city is near the coast.
I tried to google deserts as well. The Mojave Desert seems to be not too far from San Luis Obispo.
So, San Luis Obispo is my best guess.
What do you think? Could that be right?

[goom]

america.

i'd always hoped they lived somewhere near me, but i doubt it now.

[Hylian Dan]

After the series its confirmed that they lived in south cali, but in one of the inside cover pictures it shows a cop with oregon pd on his badge, forget which one ill have to find that

The badge actually says "Orson," the name of David B. Mattingly's cat. He snuck Orson's name and pictures into a few of the illustrations, like the ones for books 5 and 13.

[Gafrash]

Hi! Just found this forum recently and have finished most of the books now. 
I've wondered about where the Animorphs live for a while now.
I checked what you all wrote here and remembered that in book 51 they said the Capitol was over 200 miles away. I'm guessing it wouldn't be too much over 200 miles.
I googled a little, as I don't know much about California (I'm from Germany).  From the distance it could be either Eureka (about 209 miles from Sacramento) or San Luis Obispo (about 230 miles from Sacramento), considering that the city is near the coast.
I tried to google deserts as well. The Mojave Desert seems to be not too far from San Luis Obispo.
So, San Luis Obispo is my best guess.
What do you think? Could that be right?

Interesting work there, charming_angel.
Though I got no idea what the Sunnydale Valley girl thing means...
It definitely needs to be a place by the west coast of the USA with lots of woods/forest.

I tried to jot down a rough map of what I imagined the Animorphs' town to be.
Here's what's in my mind:

[Yarin]

wow thats an awesome map

[goom]

maybe k.a. didn't really know where they were, and just wanted the readers to guess?

[immortal]

i only have like 12 of the books but with the info i did some google maps searches and the most likely place is just north of L.A.

[Brad the Brit]

Awesome map...  well thought out

[ThinkAgain]

I pretty sure KA said one time she didn't base it on any specific city or town, but it did share many qualities with the West Coast.

Sort of like having a forest, a zoo, the ocean, mountains, desert, and a decent population all in a relatively small area is very convienent for people who can aquire and spend two hours as animals.

[DinosaurNothlit]

Awesome map.  But shouldn't the Yeerk Pool extend under the mall, as well?  And probably the down-town area, too; since they mention entrances in car-washes and such.

For that matter, most of the time, malls are in (or at least close to) down-town areas, aren't they?  Why do you have "Downtown" so far away from everything else?

I still really like the map.  I'm just pointing out things.

[AniDragon]

Also, I'd say that Erek's house is probably a bit further from the Yeerk pool. Otherwise, the pool complex and the Chee park would probably have intersected at some point...

Actually, that'd be an interesting fic... The Yeerk pool expansion getting too close to the Chee Park... Hm... Maybe I'll include something about it in my Pemalite Chronicles...