Being able to find every confirmed gold bar location in Red Dead Redemption 2 means you’ll do lots of exploring. It also means you’ll get rich fast. It’s no secret that money’s hard to come by in the early stages of the game. Getting these gives you a head start.
How to Get Gold Bars in RDR2: All Gold Bar Locations in Red Dead Redemption 2
There are 11 gold bar caches to find in Red Dead Redemption 2. Gold bars are worth an unbelievable $500 each, and hunting them all down will give you at least $12,000. They can also be used to exploit the RDR2 infinite money glitch. However, know that if you’ve jumped over to playing Red Dead Online, this glitch counts as cheating and could result in your account getting banned. I don’t recommend taking the chance.
RDR2 Gold Bar Locations Map
Use the links below to jump to each location to make sure you haven’t missed any, or read on to find them all in order. I’ve also marked each entry with a number to correlate to their position number on the map above. The numbers don’t represent the number of gold bars at each location.
1. Limpany Gold Bar Location
This Red Dead Redemption 2 gold bar location is available as soon as you leave the mountain and enter the open-world area, making it easy to grab early. If you’re like me, you want to have a padded bank account as soon as possible.
Travel southwest from the Horseshoe Overlook camp until you find Limpany, a tiny little burned-down burg. Go into the burnt-out Sheriff’s Office at the northwest end of Limpany and look for a desk in the corner. Your quarry is inside a lock box under the desk (along with a horse pamphlet).
2. Train Wreck Gold Bars Locations
Located south of Coterra Springs and northwest of Fort Wallace, this hidden train wreck location has two gold bars. You’ll see a derailed train car underneath the bridge. To the right of the crashed car is a small path up the mountain.
Just slightly up the path, turn left, and you’ll see a small alcove. You can run and jump into the open area, then turn around and jump across the chasm to an outcropping. From there, just jump down into the open end of the derailed car to find a chest with two inside.
3. Strange Statues Quest Gold Bars
To kick off the odd Strange Statues puzzle, go to Window Rock northwest of Fort Wallace and immediately south of Granite Pass. At the top of the area, Arthur notes a cave painting about strange statues. After that, go northeast of Fort Wallace to a map location just to the southeast of the giant letter “I” on the map. Enter the cave in the rock wall to find the room filled with stone figures.
To complete the puzzle and get your gold bars, press the button on the strange statues in this order: 2,3,5,7. It took me a while to figure the order out, so hopefully, it’ll speed things up for you. Now, you can access the middle statue to find three gold bars ready for the taking!
4. Braithwaite Manor Gold Bar Location
You can pick up this RDR2 gold bar in Chapter 4 by heading to Lemoyne’s Braithwaite Manor, found south of Rhodes. Head into the main burned-down building and go into the room just beyond the dead body. In that room, turn around and look in the corner to find a lockbox.
5. Shady Belle Gold Bar Location
This gold bar at Shady Belle is also known as the secret gold bar in Red Dead Redemption 2. At the end of Act 3, you’ll return to the old Shady Belle plantation house a second time to clear out the remaining Lemoyne Raiders and establish a new camp.
When the elderly Confederate shoots himself in the head in the main upstairs bedroom, don’t go downstairs to help move the bodies yet. Instead, search the dresser on the opposite side of the bed.
Where to Find All Treasure Map Gold Bars
There are five Treasure Maps that lead you to gold bars: Landmarks of Riches, High Stakes, Jack Hall Gang, and The Poisonous Trail maps send you on what may feel like a wild goose chase. However, map four of each series leads you to stashes of gold bars.
6. Landmarks of Riches RDR2 Gold Bars Location
To find the first map for Landmarks of Riches, head to the Obelisk landmark northwest of Lake Owanjila. Investigate the plaque to discover a hole that hides the map. From there, go to:
- Tiny Church: Located northeast above the letter “Y” in Lakay on the world map in the Bayou Nwa.
- Mysterious Hill Home: East of Donner Falls under the giant letter “I” on the world map.
- Bolger Glade: This is just east of Braithwaite Manor, east of the letter “W” on the world map.
- Mount Shann Sundial: Head to Mount Shann in Big Valley to find the Stone Sundial. You’ve pretty much made a loop, as you can see the Obelisk from its location. Examine the rocks that make up the different times to find six gold bars.
7. High Stakes Treasure Map Location
To start the High Stakes Treasure Hunt side quest, you’ll need to find an old treasure hunter that wanders throughout New Hanover and Strawberry. He won’t give the map over willingly, so you either have to kill him, tie him up and steal it, or push him so he drops it. With the map and the quest officially started, here’s where to go:
- Cumberland Falls: East of Wallace Station inside a cave.
- Barrow Lagoon: Northwest of Valentine under the giant letter “M” on the world map.
- Cliff Path: Northwest from Fort Wallace, onto an unmarked path and around a small series of mountain edges. Finding the treasure reveals three gold bars for your stash.
8. Jack Hall Gang Treasure Map Location
You can pick up two gold bars in Red Dead Redemption 2 by following the treasure map bought from (or looted off the body of) the treasure hunter Maximo, who is available in Chapter 2, northwest of Flatneck Station. After picking up the first map, you can follow the clues to the stashes at these locations:
- Caliban’s Seat: South of Valentine.
- Cotorra Springs: Southeast of the second giant letter “A” in Ambarino on the world map.
- The O’Creagh’s Run Lake: South of the giant letter “O” in Ambarino on the world map.
9. The Poisonous Trail Treasure Map Location
To get the Poisonous Trail treasure map, finish The Noblest of Men, and a Woman quest and search Flaco’s house. Go to the following locations after finding the map:
- Face Rock: West of Ringneck Creek, under the giant letter “E” on the world map.
- Van Horn: Look for the steep hill west of the trading post, below the giant letter “R” on the world map.
- Elysian Pool: Northwest of Van Horn, above the giant letter “E” on the world.
The treasure is hidden behind the waterfall, in a chamber off toward the right. You’ll find four gold bars near a boulder on a ledge.
10. Le Tresor Des Morts Treasure Map Location
If you pre-ordered Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC or got the Special or Ultimate Editions of the game while they were available, you’ll have access to the exclusive Le Tresor Des Morts treasure hunt quest.
To start it, head to the Jailhouse in Limpany. Search the man on the cot to find the first map in this series. If you don’t see the map, you’ve either already picked it up or don’t have access to this quest. Next, you’ll head to:
- Cornwall Freight Station: Located at the Saint Denis Docks. Look for a beam with an X.
- The next clue is a rhyme instead of a map, with a sketch of stained glass windows:
- Where the floods rise up,
But the dead stay dry,
And the colored light falls,
When the sun’s in the sky.
There to your left you’ll find our wealth,
It’s no good to us without our health.
- Where the floods rise up,
- Saint Denis Cemetery: Look for the building with stained glass windows. Inside, you’ll find six gold bars in a hole in the wall.
Those are all the gold bar locations in Red Dead Redemption 2. If you need help with the rest of the open-world wild west adventure, whether it’s how to bond with your horse or where to find legendary bear pelt location, our RDR2 guides page has you covered.
