Cutler Bend

Cutler Bend is a location in the Commonwealth

Background
This boggy mess of rusting boats, tires and other debris forms a makeshift bridge across the Charles River. A group of salvagers, Brenda and Lee, attempted to retrieve the riches locked in the military transport truck buried under the makeshift bridge, but only succeeded in annoying the local mirelurks. They abandoned the location, leaving the mirelurks and stingwings behind, along with the pickings.

Layout
Several boats form a crude bridge across the river, with clusters of mirelurk eggs, mirelurks, and three or four mirelurk kings waiting in ambush. Some minor loot can be found inside the trailer on the east side of the river behind the Advanced-locked door. A boat on the north side of the bridge contains a Master-locked safe and an industrial trunk. A connected shack and treehouse on the west side of the river include a cooking station and more minor loot, but beware the mines. South of the shack and treehouse up an inland path is a cabin and restrooms with more loot including a second trunk and a few stingwings, while to the northwest across the river is a small island with another treehouse and some notable loot.

Underwater beneath the bridge is an Advanced-locked military truck containing +30 levels of radiation and several containers of ammunition. The water itself contains some radioactive barrels.

Loot

 * Fusion core - Inside the cabin of the capsized central wooden white boat, beside a red toolbox.
 * Note from Brenda to Lee - Attached by a combat knife to the outer post of the treehouse on the west side of the river.
 * Vault-Tec lunchbox - On the small island to the northwest on the east side of the river, on the floor of the treehouse. Climb the fallen log to gain access.

Related quests

 * Cleansing the Commonwealth: Knight Rhys gives the Sole Survivor an assignment to clear the location of what he calls "abominations" to further the aims of the Brotherhood of Steel.
 * Quartermastery: Scribe Haylen has identified the location of a piece of technology she wishes to retrieve and catalog. She asks the Sole Survivor for help in bringing back the technology in one piece.

Appearances
Cutler Bend appears only in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes
Cutler Bend is in the same geographical location as Cutler Park, on the shores of the Charles River in Needham, Massachusetts.