Inspiration for the LiS Arcadia Bay of the real world

[Woululuu]

So basically the Arcadia Bay in Life is Strange is not completly real but in Oregon at the Tillamook Area you can find a lot of sign for the LiS Arcadia Bay.
So first we got the city itself. It is pretty close to the City Garibaldi, Oregon, USA.
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Port+of+Garibaldi/@45.5578146,-123.9147067,1333a,35y,266.25h,1.4t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x54eb32a4ae7623a5:0x5707766a4d6b3bed!8m2!3d45.554304!4d-123.914601

If you compare the picture of Arcadia Bay in LiS and the real world you see hella similarities. You can see it pretty close in this post. http://imgur.com/LxDfPcD and if you take the map itself there are more similarities. http://life-is-strange.wikia.com/wiki/Arcadia_Bay?file=Map.jpg

But the location doesn't fit. Garibaldi isn't a real cost city. So i looked throught the coast around the Cape Meares Lighthouse and basically the Cape Meares Lighthouse got kinda the Location the lighthouse in LiS have.
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Cape+Meares+Lighthouse/@45.4864783,-123.979999,642m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x54eb2edc8864154f:0x675bcdefc594186c!8m2!3d45.4864783!4d-123.9783347

The bay and the mountains around it are pretty much the ones in LiS. Just take this picture of googlemaps and compare it with the two screenshots of LiS at the lighthouse and i got you on my side.

https://www.google.de/maps/place/Cape+Meares+Lighthouse/@45.490484,-123.976507,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s36789349!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2FV1tqFV0T86ZbSKgIPnjx9l8ov8e3HH_uOeXo2sA_2Oq3WgY0Q0e4hKiYB5JofZbznTyEJche4mAoaQETHqxSPutbTJkTYg%3Dw203-h152-k-no!7i920!8i689!4m5!3m4!1s0x54eb2edc8864154f:0x675bcdefc594186c!8m2!3d45.4864783!4d-123.9783347!6m1!1e1

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=897742469

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=897742496

But to be honest the Cape Meares Lighthouse is pretty small so it doesn't fit well, but wait i got a solution for that. The Yaquina Head Lighthouse, also at the Orgeon coast, does a good job.

https://www.google.de/maps/place/Yaquina+Head+Lighthouse/@44.6367836,-124.0534505,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s-0tCe11Fgy60%2FWLGPMvFldpI%2FAAAAAAACFcw%2FeU6TUpFpPTc_6amnUFMobjYL2aCf6QaAwCLIB!2e4!3e12!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-0tCe11Fgy60%2FWLGPMvFldpI%2FAAAAAAACFcw%2FeU6TUpFpPTc_6amnUFMobjYL2aCf6QaAwCLIB%2Fw186-h106-k-no%2F!7i3840!8i2178!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x54c1d7cada340249:0x810e71d8862a4028!2sYaquina+Head+Lighthouse!8m2!3d44.6767823!4d-124.0794181!3m4!1s0x0:0x810e71d8862a4028!8m2!3d44.6764656!4d-124.0795898!6m1!1e1

Just take all these images, put them together and you got your Arcadia Bay from Life is Strange. That is hella amazing!

[talemore]

Our imagination is the limit to what we can hope to have in the future - Charles Kettering

[CZBGR Icepick]

I think the Dev commentary covers this....

[Brewski]

Yeah it does, but it's still cool to see whwnever someone finds it for the first time and posts here. :)

Another interesting fact: If you actually plot the coordinates of all of the locations in Arcadia Bay using David's information from Episode 4, everything ends up being smack int eh middle of Tillamook Bay covered in water. I think the devs specifically tried to make sure the locations didn't map to anything real just in case fans decided to go to the town. It's some forward thinking, really, for a small game company.

[maui]

I thought Depoe Bay [www.google.co.uk]

[Judy Garland]

It actually is based off a small town near the River Ganges.

[Mishel, the Creativator]

Also, there is a scrapyard next to Garibaldi, it's called Merrill's Scrapyard, and the rails next to it and the place itself look pretty similar to the junkyard in the game https://www.google.com/maps/place/Merrll's+Scrapyard/@45.5647315,-123.9187567,6410m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sscrap+yard!3m4!1s0x0:0x811ad077c89dcd1d!8m2!3d45.5624715!4d-123.900075

[Mishel, the Creativator]

Also, there is a diner in Garibaldi, it's called Diary Queen, and I find it similar enough to the diner in the game https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dairy+Queen/@45.5589318,-123.9123507,761m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sDiner!3m4!1s0x0:0x5986c119d9fe967b!8m2!3d45.5594048!4d-123.911756