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Jason and Lucia begin the story in the Leonida Keys, a chain of bridge-connected islands south of Vice City. Explore the turquoise shallows and beach town early because the Keys are story-critical and packed with introductory activities.
Vice City is split into neighborhoods like Ocean Beach, South Beach, Little Havana, Little Haiti, Washington Beach, and the Stockyard. Ocean Beach and South Beach are the neon nightlife strips, while the Stockyard and Vice City Port are grimy industrial zones that suit low-profile activity.
The Grassrivers wetland is Leonida's Everglades and normal cars are useless in the marsh. Grab an airboat, a new vehicle class built for this biome, to skim across shallow water, dodge alligators, and reach hunting and fishing spots you cannot drive to.
Mount Kalaga National Park in the north is Leonida's mountain wilderness, the closest thing GTA 6 has to remote backcountry. It's the prime spot for hunting deer and boar, fishing mountain lakes, and running off-road trails far from the city heat.
Port Gellhorn is Leonida's 'forgotten coast,' a faded tourist town of run-down motels, empty strip malls, and shut-down attractions. It's quieter than Vice City, making it good for exploring interiors and dodging cops when heat is high.
Underwater exploration is a standout feature around the Leonida Keys, with coral reefs, sunken shipwrecks, and submerged caves. Bring a boat or jet ski out, dive down, and check wrecks for hidden loot away from the coastline.
Rockstar packed the map with a reported 700-plus enterable interiors: nightclubs, motels, restaurants, pawn shops, supermarkets, fast-food joints, and gun stores. If a door looks usable, try it, because many hold shops, activities, or robbery opportunities.
Leonida is divided into counties such as Vice-Dale (Vice City and its airport/port), Kelly County (Port Gellhorn), Mariana County (Leonida Keys and Grassrivers), and Ambrosia County (Lake Leonida). Thinking in counties makes long cross-map trips easier to plan.
Ambrosia is the state's agricultural and industrial heartland, dominated by the Allied Crystal sugar refinery and ringed by farmland, factories, highways and rail. Industrial zones in GTA games mean trucks, warehouses and low-witness crime space — expect this region to matter for work, not sightseeing.
Lake Leonida sits beside Ambrosia in the state's interior, making it the easiest inland landmark to orient by — the way Mount Chiliad worked in GTA 5. Lost without a waypoint? Find the lake or the refinery smokestacks and you know which way is north.
Leonida's regions are stitched together by interstates and state highways, and long-distance jobs will live or die on how fast you can get on and off them. Drive the main loop once early, noting on-ramps near your safehouses — it pays off in every chase and delivery afterward.
Rockstar describes Kalaga's backwoods as home to 'hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals' — in Rockstar-speak, that's stranger missions, cults and weird encounters waiting to happen. When you're up north, follow the odd NPCs instead of driving past them.
Hunting, fishing and off-road trails are officially listed for Mount Kalaga National Park, and with RDR2's DNA all over this game, expect animal materials or catches to feed into money or crafting somewhere. Learn the park early — quiet income sources tend to hide in places like this.
Ambrosia and the industrial north are threaded with railroads, and in every Rockstar map rail lines lead somewhere useful — towns, depots, yards. No waypoint and no road signs? Walk the tracks; they never dead-end in wilderness.
Leaks and trailer analysis point to serious weather tech, with hurricanes or tropical storms rumored as dynamic events in this Florida-inspired state. Treat it as unconfirmed, but if a storm rolls in, expect it to change visibility, handling and possibly what's happening on the streets.
Car modification, tattoo parlors and barbershops are confirmed as distinct regional businesses, which means the useful stuff is scattered across Leonida rather than clustered downtown. As you explore, note where your nearest mod shop and clothing options actually are — that map matters more than landmarks.
With a world roughly double GTA 5's, casually driving across the state for one errand burns serious time. Batch your activities by region and think in trips — do everything you need in Vice City before heading back out to the Keys or Kalaga.
Six biomes want six tools: an airboat for Grassrivers, something off-road for Kalaga's trails, a boat or seaplane around the Keys, and fast asphalt cars for Vice City. Keep region-appropriate transport parked where you actually operate instead of forcing one supercar everywhere.
Alligators are confirmed straight from the trailers, and the Everglades-inspired Grassrivers is their home turf. On foot in the swamp, stay out of murky shallows and give anything log-shaped a wide berth — wildlife in Rockstar games bites back.
Trailers show flamingos, dogs, gators and dense birdlife, pointing to a living ecosystem rather than decorative animals. Expect wildlife to interact with the world — and with you — the way RDR2's did, especially outside the city.
Fuel management keeps appearing in GTA 6 rumor lists, but as of mid-2026 nothing official supports cars needing gas. Note the gas stations as robbery targets and landmarks, and revisit the idea only if real gameplay shows a fuel gauge.
Leonida is a peninsula state: Vice City, the Keys, Port Gellhorn and the Gulf side are all reachable by water. A decent boat turns the coast into a police-light bypass around half the map — slower than the interstate, but nobody sets up roadblocks on the ocean.
With six major regions across multiple counties, street-level navigation will drown you in detail. Plan trips at the region level first — which county, which highway, which exit — then let the minimap handle the last mile.
Trailers lean hard into Vice City's nightlife — neon strips, clubs, beach parties after dark. Expect districts to shift character on the clock: a daytime shopping street can be a nightlife economy at 2am, with different NPCs, opportunities and risks on the same block.
Once you can get airborne — or even just ride the tallest bridges and towers — spend ten minutes learning Leonida's silhouette: where the Keys trail off, where the swamp meets the gulf, where Kalaga rises. A mental aerial map makes every later chase and route decision faster.