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The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center is a location featured in The 100. It is a US government base, and underground bunker designed in the Blue Ridge Mountains on Earth. It was constructed to house senior US officials in the event of a nuclear war. Mount Weather was the intended dropping point for the 100, but they were unable to travel there as the territory was guarded by a faction grounders.

The Mount Weather facility is functionally intact with 21st century technology, such as electrical power, gas-grenades, gas-masks, laser-sighted assault rifles, and a hospital large enough to have a dedicated Quarantine Ward.

As executive producer Jason Rothenberg said,

"Mount Weather is the place where the government of the United States is supposed to be taken to in the event of some sort of a cataclysmic, end-of-the-world situation. It's a bit of a relic of the Cold War, but it's a real place. A lot of conspiracy theorists have their own bizarre claims about it. Nobody's ever seen it, it's classified, etc. So it's based on that.

And you can imagine, at the time of the bombs, people made it there unbeknownst to the Chancellor. His speech in the pilot says that nobody ever made it there, but obviously he was wrong. And I look at Mount Weather in Season 2 as almost a mirror or negative image of the Ark. Whereas the Ark was founded by scientists and astronauts, who were already in space at the time of the war, Mount Weather was founded by politicians and military people and powerful people who had connections and were able to get there in time. That may be a little spoiler-y, but we find that out pretty quickly in Episode 1 of Season 2.

One of the things that I love about the show so much and was important to me from the beginning was this juxtaposition of the claustrophobic, suffocating, airless world on the Ark, this dying spaceship, and the exploding-with-life, mysterious world on the ground. Obviously, because we're bringing the Ark down, we lose that, or you would think we would lose that. What we get, though, is a very similar juxtaposition by using Mount Weather instead. So we'll be able to cut to Mount Weather, where a majority of the surviving members of the 100 have been taken -- we think as prisoners, perhaps that's the case, perhaps it's not -- but it gives us, just on the most basic level, some continuity for the show. So it won't feel like a different show, it doesn't lack that [other place to go to]".

(Also The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center a.k.a. High Point Special Facility, is for real, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Bluemont, Virginia. For more information about the real Mount Weather, you can see here.