Brookhollow Park is not just a larger replacement for Grounded's backyard. It is a layered survival world in which ordinary public landmarks, creature-made spaces, hidden Ominent infrastructure and a growing underwater environment overlap. This guide explains the park as a connected place — what its major regions are, how they relate, why they matter, and which areas are current, historical or still planned.
Evidence baseline: 25 September 2026 · First-party world state rechecked: 25 September 2026 · Current playable world: Into the Abyss / 0.5 branch · Scope: stable regions, facilities and location classes with reconciled identities
Grounded 2 is set in Brookhollow Park in 1992, two years after the first game. The core world is deliberately legible at human scale — statue, snackbar, garden, picnic areas, pond — but those landmarks become enormous survival territories at miniature scale, while Ominent's research network runs through and underneath them.
Entrance, Snackbar, Statue, Ceremony Area, Pine Hill, Fire Pit, Picnic Table and other recognisable park features give the miniature world a readable top-level geography. P02 G03
The Garden Patch, Sinkhole Anthill and Pond/Abyss branch materially enlarged the playable world during Early Access rather than merely adding new mechanics. P06 P09 P12
Onboarding, Network Center, Field Archives, Monitoring, candy-processing, O.G.R.R. and Raw Science facilities make the park a distributed research complex as well as a public space. G01 G09
Anthills and the underwater Pond/Abyss complex behave as worlds within the park, with their own entrances, environmental identity and progression significance.
Scope: this page explains stable regions, facilities, environmental identity and relationships. It is not an exhaustive POI catalogue: exact coordinates, shortest routes, collectibles, resource pins and minor patch-note place labels are excluded unless their identity and relationship to the wider park are clear.
These five layers are an editorial model for understanding the park, not official in-game zoning. They explain why the same patch of park can simultaneously be a public landmark, a survival region, a research site and part of the story.
Human-scale features — entrances, a snackbar, statue, ceremony grounds, picnic areas, garden structures and pond — anchor orientation and give miniature exploration its sense of scale.
At insect scale, those landmarks break into distinct terrain: Garden subregions, bark, vegetation, water margins, elevated structures and enclosed spaces that function as separate exploration environments.
Anthills, dens and aquatic spaces are not incidental caves. They are named, differentiated environments with their own access points and progression or research context.
Facilities, checkpoints, labs, archives, ranger sites and reservoir infrastructure create a second institutional map hidden inside the public one.
The park is still changing. Garden, Sinkhole Anthill and Pond/Abyss are delivered expansions; Rotting Wood Pile is explicitly planned and therefore kept outside current playable geography.
The useful question is not “where is every pin?” but “what kind of place am I looking at, what larger area does it belong to, and what role does it play in the park?”
Names such as Garden Patch, Pond, Statue Area and Snackbar Front describe the broadest useful reader-facing spaces. They are the best anchors for understanding where smaller sites fit.
Croquet Court, Veggie Garden, Greenhouse and Pumpkin Patch should not be flattened into “the Garden”. They have separate names and relationships, even where the available evidence does not establish exact borders.
Candy Processing Facility belongs in the Veggie Garden context; O.G.R.R. Labs belong to the Pumpkin Patch/Scarecrow cluster; Statue Checkpoint is not interchangeable with Statue Area.
Most entries here describe current named locations. Monitoring Station and Raw Science Reservoir are known through in-world records rather than treated as ordinary open-world regions, while Rotting Wood Pile remains an official future plan.
Brookhollow is best understood as a set of large regional identities plus smaller named spaces inside and between them. The descriptions below explain their role and relationships without claiming exact boundaries or routing.
The original park footprint is built from recognisable municipal-park landmarks rather than a single named biome. Entrance Area, Snackbar Front Area, Statue Area, Ceremony Area, Pine Hill, Fire Pit, Picnic Table Area and Ice Cream Cart Surroundings remain distinct named areas in the available evidence.
The important spatial pattern is that public landmarks and Ominent infrastructure overlap. Snackbar Front contains the secret Onboarding Facility; Statue Area includes the Statue Checkpoint and provides network-story context; the Ceremony Area is a public-facing site with major narrative significance. Pine Hill, Fire Pit and the picnic area are not just background scenery: they are named field regions used by the game's location and encounter model.
The Toxic Tangle did not add a generic “garden level”. It expanded Brookhollow with a Garden Patch whose internal geography is explicitly named: Croquet Court, Veggie Garden, Greenhouse and Pumpkin Patch. Obsidian's first-party material describes the Greenhouse as overgrown with twisting paths and hidden crawlspaces, reinforcing that these are exploration spaces rather than decorative labels.
The older Community Garden wording remains resolvable as a historical/in-world regional label, but it is not mechanically substituted for every Garden Patch reference. P06 G04 G09
Beat the Heat added Sinkhole Anthill as a new point-of-interest landmark and anthill. Its significance is architectural as much as numerical: Grounded 2 can expand Brookhollow by adding deep creature-made environments inside the existing park footprint, not only by pushing the surface boundary outward.
The delivered name Sinkhole Anthill is used for the current world. Earlier roadmap concepts are not treated as aliases unless evidence explicitly connects them. P09 P10
The Pond was always one of Brookhollow Park's largest visible landmarks; Into the Abyss made it a major playable geography above and below the surface. The evidence distinguishes the broad Pond location from Skunk Pond, a named story/quest surface in the current narrative.
This distinction matters because “Pond content” is broader than the Skunk Pond quest. The current world also includes surrounding Bayou and Mountains regions, while deeper progression leads into The Abyss. P12 P13
The Abyss is the deep underwater area below the Pond, not shorthand for the entire 0.5 update. Its addition changes Brookhollow from a predominantly surface-and-tunnel world into one with a substantial vertical aquatic layer.
The surrounding world-state records also connect this branch to Raw Science Reservoir infrastructure and other underwater research evidence. Those records establish that Ominent's hidden geography extends beneath the visible park, but they do not establish the reservoir's ultimate origin or causal responsibility for unrelated events. P12 P30 G01
Into the Abyss also expands the world around the water rather than treating the Pond as an isolated dungeon. Bayou and Mountains are named surrounding regions; Gnarly Bark is a current Abyss-era park area with a separately registered Gnarly Bark Outpost.
That separation — region versus outpost — is deliberate. It keeps the region distinct from the facility rather than collapsing every named site into the area around it. P13 P15
The evidence does not support a route-planning graph, but it does establish enough parent/child and association relationships to explain how the park hangs together.
Snackbar Front Area contains the Ominent Onboarding Facility, while Snackbar Anthill is a separate biological location in the same broad named context.
Statue Area contains the Statue Checkpoint and provides location context for Network Center access. Ceremony Area is related but not identical to Statue Area.
Croquet Court, Veggie Garden, Greenhouse and Pumpkin Patch are distinct named subregions. Veggie Garden contains Candy Processing; Pumpkin Patch contains O.G.R.R. Labs and connects toward the Scarecrow complex.
Hatchery, Snackbar, War-Torn, Spider Den and Sinkhole Anthills remain separate because they have different names, contexts, entrances and progression significance.
Pond is the broad water landmark; Skunk Pond is a named story surface; The Abyss is the deep biome below. Bayou and Mountains are surrounding regions rather than synonyms for the Pond.
The current region and its Ranger Outpost are separately tracked, demonstrating the distinction between world region and facility instance.
Important: these are documented relationships, not promises about the shortest in-game route, exact border, elevation or traversal requirement.
Brookhollow's most important world-building distinction is that Ominent's facilities are distributed across the park rather than concentrated in one laboratory complex. The network spans training, communications, archives, field monitoring, flavour research, genetic research and Raw Science infrastructure.
Ominent Onboarding Facility, hidden in the Snackbar Front context, is a miniature training/start facility — not Ominent headquarters. Network Center is a major network and communications facility with documented Levels 01–05 and a Stranger-arena relationship. Ominent Field Archives stores field records and assets and is explicitly distinct from the Monitoring Station.
Keeping these roles separate matters because “Ominent facility” is not one place. The Park Project is spatially distributed. G10 G01 G13
The Garden Patch contains a particularly dense research geography. The Candy Processing Facility sits in the Veggie Garden and is associated with super-sour/flavour research. O.G.R.R. Labs sit in the Pumpkin Patch and belong to Ominent's Genetic Recombination Research programme. The Scarecrow is both a landmark and a structure containing research spaces, with Scarecrow Entrance retained separately.
These relationships let the world tell a spatial story: garden research is spread across visible subregions and concealed infrastructure rather than confined to one “lab biome”. G09 G04 G03
Monitoring Station is referenced as a Park Project monitoring/relay facility but is not used as an alias for Network Center. Raw Science Reservoir is an in-world-record research infrastructure site associated with Raw Science instability, underwater monitoring and evacuation-era material.
These records establish that the places exist in the story world without pretending the available evidence fully characterises them as ordinary open-world regions. G01
A separate Ominent checkpoint near statue/network operations. It is neither the entire Statue Area nor the Network Center itself.
G01A facility class with multiple instances across Brookhollow. Gnarly Bark Outpost is separately named; records also tie outposts to regions including Pine Hill, Pumpkin Patch and Veggie Garden.
P06 G03 P15A cave/stash class associated with the Stranger and O.R.C. equipment. The available records do not establish that every O.R.C. cave reference describes one unique cave.
G01At miniature scale, animal-made spaces and field infrastructure are substantial enough to need their own names. They remain separate because their relationships and roles differ even when they share the same broad park region.
Connected to Buggy egg/hatchery progression and represented with north/south entrance relationships. It must remain distinct from the player-buildable Hatchery system.
G01A separately named anthill used in park research/scouting records. Its proximity or shared early-game context does not make it another name for Hatchery Anthill.
G01A 1992 scouting-record location near Croquet Court. The register deliberately does not infer an O.R.C. relationship merely from its name or condition.
G01A current park anthill/location whose unusual name is preserved exactly rather than normalised into a generic spider-den label.
G03A delivered anthill and point-of-interest expansion. It demonstrates that major world growth can happen downward inside the existing park footprint rather than only at the edge of the map.
P09 P10Ranger Outpost is a facility class, Gnarly Bark Outpost is a named instance, and Pergola Ranger Station retains a different facility label. A Ranger Station is not automatically treated as the same thing as a Ranger Outpost.
P15 G03Lore owns the full institutional story, but several dated records materially explain why these places belong in a world reference: they show Ominent treating Brookhollow as one distributed research environment.
Sloane Beaumont's orientation material describes research in and under Brookhollow Park, establishing the Park Project as broader than a single facility. G01
Staff records place environmental problems around a named Ominent facility before the later public update chronology. This is useful place-history, not proof of the gunk's ultimate cause. G13
Ominent orientation records distinguish communications, archive and monitoring functions rather than describing one generic underground lab. G01
A Garden-team warning shows the research geography still active shortly before the ceremony. This page keeps the location implication while leaving the full project interpretation to Lore. G01
Raw Science Reservoir and evacuation/monitoring records materially extend Ominent's geographic footprint beneath the surface. G01
0.5.1 corrects map/location presentation without expanding the playable world. The patch fixes map alignment for the Abyss and corrects the map unlock location for Ranger Outpost: Pergola. These are map/location fixes, not evidence of a new region. [P51]
Updates and Timeline own the complete release chronology. Here the focus is narrower: which milestones materially changed the geography players could inhabit.
Announcement material establishes the 1992 setting and says the starting playable zone was already close to the scale of Grounded's entire backyard. P02
The launch footprint establishes the core public-landmark and hidden-infrastructure model, but the world is explicitly unfinished and expected to grow through Early Access. P01
Croquet Court, Veggie Garden, Greenhouse and Pumpkin Patch become established current subregions, while Ominent's Garden research footprint becomes much more visible. P06
The current roadmap names it as a future park area. It remains outside the playable-world sections until release evidence establishes that it has shipped. P18
A reliable world reference is partly about preserving distinctions. Casual discussion, update titles and planning labels often use similar words for different things.
Garden Patch is the current official expansion-region identity. Community Garden remains a meaningful historical/in-world label, but one should not be substituted mechanically for the other.
Pond is the broad water landmark; Skunk Pond is a named story/quest surface; The Abyss is the deep underwater biome below the Pond.
The Abyss is a place. Into the Abyss is the 0.5 update title. Search, linking and chronology depend on preserving that distinction.
The landmark/structure and its specific entrance are separate records even though one belongs to the other.
One is a named biological location; the other is a player-facing Buggy/building system. Shared wording does not make them the same entity.
Ranger Outpost is a facility class. Gnarly Bark Outpost is a named instance; Pergola Ranger Station keeps its own facility terminology.
Both belong to Ominent's Park Project geography, but The retained records keep monitoring/relay and network/communications functions separate.
It is first-party roadmap geography. No datamine or expectation should move it into the playable-world section before release evidence changes.
The entries below are stable regions, facilities and location classes retained for public reference. The index is intentionally selective rather than pretending every minor POI or patch-note place label has already been reliably reconciled.
Primary Grounded 2 setting.
Also used: Brookhollow municipal park; the Park
Contains: all current park regions
Public ceremony site central to Grounded 2 inciting event.
Also used: ceremony; statue unveiling area
Associated with: Statue Area
Park region around ceremony/statue infrastructure.
Also used: Statue
Contains: Statue Checkpoint, Network Center access
Official Toxic Tangle name/marketing region for garden expansion.
Also used: Garden; Garden biome
Contains: Croquet Court, Veggie Garden, Greenhouse, Pumpkin Patch
In-world/roadmap regional wording overlapping the garden expansion.
Also used: community garden
related to: Garden Patch
Garden-area subregion; Snake Colossus territory.
Part of: Garden Patch
Garden-area subregion containing Candy Processing Facility.
Part of: Garden Patch
Garden-area greenhouse region.
Part of: Garden Patch
Garden-area subregion containing O.G.R.R. Labs and Ranger Outpost.
Part of: Garden Patch
Park region containing Onboarding Facility/O.R.C. cave content.
Also used: Snackbar Front
Contains: Ominent Onboarding Facility
Park region and Ranger Outpost location.
Located in: Brookhollow Park
Park region with Ranger Outpost and O.R.C. encounters.
Located in: Brookhollow Park
Park area referenced in O.G.R.R. spawning/content.
Also used: picnic area
Located in: Brookhollow Park
Named park region.
Located in: Brookhollow Park
Main park entrance region.
Located in: Brookhollow Park
Major water landmark opened in Into the Abyss.
Also used: the pond
Contains: Abyss approaches, aquatic content
Named quest/story surface associated with Into the Abyss progression.
Part of: Pond/Abyss content
Deep underwater area below Pond.
Also used: Abyss
Part of: Pond
Into the Abyss surrounding area.
Also used: The Bayou
Near: Pond/Abyss
Into the Abyss surrounding area.
Also used: The Mountains
Near: Pond/Abyss
Into the Abyss-era park area containing outpost/progression.
Contains: Gnarly Bark Outpost
Planned for: Fall 2026
Anthill/POI added with Beat the Heat.
Located in: Brookhollow Park
Anthill connected to Buggy egg/hatchery progression.
Includes: North/South entrances
Anthill in Snackbar area used in park research/scouting.
Located in: Snackbar Front Area
Anthill referenced in 1992 scouting records.
Near: Croquet Court
Named current park anthill/location.
Located in: Brookhollow Park
Respawn/outpost point referenced in current patch.
Also used: Ranger Outpost: Gnarly Bark
Located in: Gnarly Bark
Named Ranger Station in current patch.
Located in: Brookhollow Park
Generic Ominent outpost class across park.
Also used: Ranger Outposts
Examples: Pine Hill, Pumpkin Patch, Veggie Garden, etc.
Secret miniature training/start facility.
Also used: Onboarding Facility
Located in: Snackbar Front Area
Major Ominent network/communications facility and story location.
Contains: Levels 01–05; Stranger arena
Ominent archives facility storing field records/assets.
Also used: Field Archives
Part of: Park Project
Park Project monitoring/relay facility referenced by Sloane.
Part of: Park Project
Ominent lab researching super-sour/candy effects.
Located in: Veggie Garden
Laboratory facilities for Ominent's Genetic Recombination Research.
Located in: Pumpkin Patch; Leads to: Scarecrow
Large park scarecrow containing Ominent research spaces.
Also used: Scarecrow Lab (informal/functional)
Contains: O.G.R.R. interaction/lab spaces
Entrance into Scarecrow research structure.
Part of: Scarecrow
Ominent checkpoint near statue/network operations.
Located in: Statue Area
Cave/stash location associated with Stranger and O.R.C. equipment.
Also used: O.R.C. cave
Associated with: Masked Stranger
0.5-era Ominent reservoir/underwater research infrastructure associated with Raw Science instability and evacuation.
Also used: reservoir
Associated with: Raw Science Research Division, SNPI-42Z, The Abyss
Current = established current location/region record. In-world record = explicitly present in shipped records but not necessarily treated here as a fully characterised standalone playable region. Planned = official future location, excluded from current geography.
First-party announcements and update material anchor the live regional state. Released-game transcript/environment layers are used for facility terminology and relationships where Sourceborne has not yet retained a direct primary capture.
Current setting/platform framing.
Open source ↗1992 setting, Brookhollow Park and launch-world scale.
Open source ↗Garden expansion and Garden Patch terminology.
Open source ↗Sinkhole Anthill / park expansion.
Open source ↗Beat the Heat location and encounter detail.
Open source ↗Pond, Abyss and current underwater expansion.
Open source ↗Pond expansion, Mountains and Bayou.
Open source ↗Abyss map alignment and Ranger Outpost: Pergola map unlock location corrections.
Open source ↗Historical Gnarly Bark/outpost and Pond-area state.
Open source ↗Rotting Wood Pile as a planned Fall 2026 region.
Open source ↗Detailed 0.5 world/progression changes.
Open source ↗In-world records and facility/location terminology.
Open source ↗Current named site/location retrieval.
Open source ↗O.G.R.R. Labs location wording.
Open source ↗Ceremony site terminology and environmental context.
Open source ↗Candy Processing Facility location context.
Open source ↗Onboarding Facility location/environment context.
Open source ↗Field Archives story/location context.
Open source ↗Evidence baseline: 25 September 2026; selected first-party world-state sources rechecked 25 September 2026. No interactive map, coordinates, collectible pins or route database are included.