The real Florida behind Leonida.
Every place in Grand Theft Auto VI's state has a real twin: Ocean Beach is Ocean Drive, the causeway toll booths are the Venetian, the stilt houses are Stiltsville. This is the guide for actually going there.
Six regions, one state
Rockstar has named six regions. Each has a clear real-world basis.
Port Gellhorn
Based on: Panama City Beach and the Forgotten Coast
Faded motels, a fishing pier and the Redneck Riviera.
Ambrosia
Based on: The sugar belt around Lake Okeechobee
Cane fields, a refinery and roads that go straight for miles.
Mount Kalaga National Park
Based on: North Florida forests and springs
Pine forest, crystal springs and lakes you can hunt around.
The surest matches
Places Rockstar has named, or the mapping community agrees on.
Ocean Beach: the Art Deco strip
Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami Beach, FL
Rockstar's Ocean Beach is a clear match for Ocean Drive: pastel Art Deco hotels, neon at dusk and a park between the strip and the sand. Here is how to walk it.
Vice Beach and its lifeguard towers
South Beach lifeguard towers, Miami Beach, FL
The candy-colored lifeguard stands in the trailer are a clear match for the real ones on South Beach. Walk the sand from South Pointe to 15th Street and you pass a dozen.
The downtown skyline: Brickell and beyond
Brickell and Downtown Miami, Miami, FL
The glass towers behind every Vice City shot are Brickell and Downtown Miami. Where to see the skyline for real, from a free elevated train to the causeway viewpoints.
Bayside: the waterfront Rockstar named
Bayside Marketplace and the downtown bayfront, Downtown Miami, FL
Rockstar named Bayside as a Vice City district in the Extended Look. The real bayfront is Bayside Marketplace, Bayfront Park and the boat docks at the foot of the skyline.
Stockyard: the mural district in Wynwood
Wynwood Walls, Wynwood, Miami, FL
Rockstar named Stockyard as Vice City's mural district. The real thing is Wynwood, a former warehouse quarter painted wall to wall, with Wynwood Walls at its heart.
The causeway toll booths on the Venetian
Venetian Causeway, Miami to Miami Beach, FL
The toll booths a car rolls through in the second trailer are a clear match for the Venetian Causeway, a 1926 island-hopping road between Miami and the Beach.
Trips
Day-by-day itineraries that string the places together.
Three days in Vice City
Three days across Miami Beach, downtown and the bay: the Art Deco strip, the lifeguard towers, the causeways, the Wynwood murals and the stilt houses that Vice City borrows from.
The Leonida Keys road trip
Three days down the Overseas Highway, from the Card Sound back road to Duval Street, past the canal homes, tiki bars, mangrove channels and the long bridge that shape Jason's home turf.
A day in Grassrivers
One long day west out of Miami on the Tamiami Trail and back on Alligator Alley: an airboat, Shark Valley's alligators, the Big Cypress boardwalks, the tiniest post office and a stone crab town.