Strong matchVice City
Ocean Beach → Ocean Drive
Ocean Beach: the Art Deco strip
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.
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Every real place in Leonida
49 real Florida locations behind GTA VI, with photos, maps and directions, graded by how confident the match is.
49 places
Strong matchVice City
Vice Beach → South Beach lifeguard towers
Vice Beach and its lifeguard towers
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.
Strong matchVice City
Downtown Vice City → Brickell and Downtown Miami
The downtown skyline: Brickell and beyond
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.
Named by RockstarVice City
Bayside → Bayside Marketplace and the downtown bayfront
Bayside: the waterfront Rockstar named
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.
Strong matchVice City
Stockyard → Wynwood Walls
Stockyard: the mural district in Wynwood
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.
Strong matchVice City
Causeway toll plaza → Venetian Causeway
Venetian Causeway: tolls, walking and cycling
Plan a Venetian Causeway visit: SunPass and toll-by-plate costs, walking and cycling tips, official bridge updates, and the toll plaza matched to GTA VI's second trailer.
Strong matchVice City
Stilt houses off Vice City → Stiltsville
Stilt houses on the bay: Stiltsville
The pastel houses on stilts that a boat races past in the second trailer are a clear match for Stiltsville, seven surviving shacks in the shallows of Biscayne Bay.
Likely matchVice City
Derelict waterfront stadium → Miami Marine Stadium
The abandoned graffiti stadium on Virginia Key
A concert in a graffiti-covered concrete grandstand on the water: fans have matched the trailer scene to Miami Marine Stadium, a 1963 landmark empty since 1992.
Likely matchVice City
Island mansions → Star Island and Palm Island
The waterfront mansion pool party
The trailer's pool party at a white mansion on the water looks like the celebrity islands off the MacArthur Causeway. You cannot get in, but a boat tour gets you close.
Likely matchVice City
Vice City port → PortMiami
The port cranes on the skyline
The cranes on the horizon in the second trailer look like PortMiami's gantry cranes. You cannot walk the port, but South Pointe Park puts you next to the ships.
Likely matchVice City
Racetrack with flamingos → Hialeah Park
Flamingos at the racetrack: Hialeah Park
A flock of flamingos in front of a grand old building: fans matched the trailer's shot to Hialeah Park, the 1920s racetrack whose flamingo colony opened Miami Vice.
Likely matchVice City
Causeway highway → MacArthur Causeway (I-395)
The causeway highway: the MacArthur
The wide highway over the water with the skyline behind, seen in both trailers, looks like the MacArthur Causeway, Miami's six-lane link between downtown and South Beach.
Strong matchVice City
The bay → Biscayne Bay
Boats and jet skis on Biscayne Bay
Jet skis, rafted-up boats and parties on the water run through both trailers. Biscayne Bay is the real thing, and you can rent a jet ski or join a sandbar crowd yourself.
Likely matchVice City
Vice City nightlife → Downtown and South Beach nightclubs
Neon nightlife and the club circuit
Neon clubs, DJs and strip clubs run through the second trailer and the Extended Look. Miami's real circuit is South Beach, Mid-Beach and the downtown club blocks.
Possible inspirationVice City
Cuban district → Calle Ocho, Little Havana
Vice City's Cuban quarter: Little Havana
GTA: Vice City had a Little Havana in 2002; nothing in the GTA VI footage confirms one yet. Miami's real Cuban quarter along Calle Ocho is worth the trip either way.
Possible inspirationVice City
Downtown landmark tower → Freedom Tower
The pale tower downtown: Freedom Tower
Fans keep looking for the 1925 Freedom Tower among Vice City's glass; nothing official shows it yet. The real one stands across from Bayside and is the oldest thing on the skyline.
Strong matchLeonida Keys
The Keys bridge → Seven Mile Bridge
Seven Mile Bridge: the long bridge over turquoise water
The long, low bridge from Trailer 2 is a clear match for Marathon's Seven Mile Bridge, and the old railroad span beside it is now a walkable path over the water.
Strong matchLeonida Keys
Leonida Keys highway → Overseas Highway (US-1)
The Overseas Highway: driving the Keys
The two-lane road with water on both sides that Trailer 2 keeps coming back to is US-1, 113 miles from Key Largo to Key West over 42 bridges. Drive it slowly.
Possible inspirationLeonida Keys
Roadside whale statue → Betsy the Lobster, Rain Barrel Village
Betsy the Lobster: the giant roadside creature
Fans think the oversized roadside creature in the Keys draws on Betsy, the 30-foot spiny lobster outside Rain Barrel Village in Islamorada. Whatever it is, Betsy is worth the stop.
Likely matchLeonida Keys
Keys tiki bar → Islamorada's bayside tiki bars
Islamorada's bayside tiki bars
The thatched waterfront bar at sunset in Trailer 2 has been matched by fans to Islamorada's bayside tiki bars, where the real thing is a rum drink, a dock and a very slow sunset.
Likely matchLeonida Keys
Jason's place in the Keys → Key Largo and Islamorada canal homes
Jason's place: canal homes of the Upper Keys
Jason's raised house on the water, boat tied up behind, is the kind of canal home that fills Key Largo and Islamorada. You can't visit his, but you can see hundreds like it.
Likely matchLeonida Keys
Mangrove channels → Florida Bay backcountry
Running the mangroves of Florida Bay
Boats tearing through tunnels of mangrove in both trailers have been matched by fans to the Florida Bay backcountry behind the Upper Keys, a maze you should only enter with a guide.
Possible inspirationLeonida Keys
Southernmost town → Duval Street, Key West
Key West and Duval Street: the end of the road
Rockstar hasn't shown a Key West in Leonida, but the end of the Keys road looks like it draws on the real thing, and the real thing is the best finish to a Keys trip.
Possible inspirationLeonida Keys
Keys beach → Bahia Honda State Park
Bahia Honda: the beach under the old bridge
Nothing official points here, but the Leonida Keys look like they draw on the Lower Keys, and Bahia Honda's beach under a broken railroad bridge is the most cinematic spot on the chain.
Possible inspirationLeonida Keys
Back road → Card Sound Road and Alabama Jack's
Card Sound Road and Alabama Jack's: the back road in
There are two roads into the Keys and the game's version looks like it draws on both; the quiet one crosses Card Sound past a bar on stilts where the weekend country band never stops.
Strong matchGrassrivers
Grassrivers airboat → Airboat tours on the Tamiami Trail
The airboat ride: Tamiami Trail
The airboat skimming the sawgrass in Trailer 1 is a clear match for the Everglades tours strung along the Tamiami Trail west of Miami, where you can ride the same boat for $25-45.
Strong matchGrassrivers
Alligators everywhere → Shark Valley, Everglades National Park
Shark Valley: gator country in the Everglades
Trailer 1's alligators, on lawns, in stores and in the swamp, are a clear match for the real Everglades, and Shark Valley's 15-mile loop is where you'll walk past dozens of them.
Strong matchGrassrivers
Gator in a pool → Suburbs on the Everglades edge
The gator in the backyard pool
Trailer 1's gator floating in a suburban pool is a clear match for the real edge of the Everglades, where towns like Weston back straight onto the swamp and the trappers stay busy.
Likely matchGrassrivers
Swamp highway → Alligator Alley (I-75)
Alligator Alley: tolls, rest stops and driving tips
Drive Alligator Alley across the Everglades: toll-payment guidance, an official rest-stop resource, what to check before setting off, and its possible GTA VI connection.
Likely matchGrassrivers
Cypress swamp → Big Cypress National Preserve
Big Cypress: cypress domes and the Loop Road
The flooded forest of grey trunks and hanging moss in Trailer 2 has been matched by fans to Big Cypress, the swamp west of the Everglades where a gravel loop road takes you into it.
Possible inspirationGrassrivers
Swamp town → Everglades City and Chokoloskee
Everglades City and Chokoloskee: the stone-crab town
Rockstar hasn't shown a town in Grassrivers, but a swamp town in a GTA game looks like it draws on Everglades City, whose stone-crab fleet has a famous history with the wrong side of the law.
Possible inspirationGrassrivers
Roadside oddity → Ochopee Post Office
Ochopee: the smallest post office in America
Nothing official points here, but Leonida's roadside oddities look like they draw on places like Ochopee, where a shed the size of a parking space has been a working post office since 1953.
Likely matchPort Gellhorn
Port Gellhorn pier → Russell-Fields Pier
The fishing pier at Panama City Beach
The long concrete pier fans matched to Port Gellhorn's: 1,500 feet into the Gulf at Pier Park, a few dollars to walk, best in the hour before sunset.
Likely matchPort Gellhorn
Port Gellhorn strip → Front Beach Road
Faded motels on Front Beach Road
Port Gellhorn's strip of motels and half-lit neon is Panama City Beach's Front Beach Road: what survives of the old Miracle Strip between the condo towers.
Likely matchPort Gellhorn
Port Gellhorn's quiet coast → Apalachicola, Port St. Joe and Mexico Beach
The Forgotten Coast: Apalachicola to Mexico Beach
The empty Gulf coast east of Panama City: the oyster town of Apalachicola, the beaches of Cape San Blas, and Mexico Beach, still rebuilding after Hurricane Michael.
Possible inspirationPort Gellhorn
Port Gellhorn beach → St. Andrews State Park
St. Andrews State Park: white sand and the jetties
A travel idea for Port Gellhorn fans: the white-sand state park at the end of Panama City Beach, with rock jetties, a sheltered snorkel pool and a boat to Shell Island.
Possible inspirationPort Gellhorn
Port Gellhorn docks → Port Panama City
Port Panama City: the working port
A travel idea: the cranes, warehouses and ship channel of Port Panama City on St. Andrew Bay, seen from the Hathaway Bridge or the old St. Andrews waterfront next door.
Possible inspirationPort Gellhorn
Beach amusements → Pier Park and the old Miracle Strip
Pier Park and the ghost of the Miracle Strip
A travel idea for Port Gellhorn's carnival side: the big wheel and boardwalk shops of Pier Park, and what survives of the Miracle Strip amusement park era on Front Beach Road.
Strong matchAmbrosia
Ambrosia's sugar mill → U.S. Sugar mill
Clewiston and the U.S. Sugar mill
Ambrosia's mill is a clear match for Clewiston, America's Sweetest Town, where U.S. Sugar's stacks rise over the cane and the 1938 Clewiston Inn still serves dinner.
Strong matchAmbrosia
Ambrosia farmland → Sugar cane country
Cane fields and the burning season
The burning cane field in Trailer 2 is the Everglades Agricultural Area south of Lake Okeechobee: 400,000 acres of cane around Belle Glade and Pahokee, on fire from October to spring.
Likely matchAmbrosia
Leonida's inland lake → Lake Okeechobee
Lake Okeechobee: the big inland lake
Fans matched Leonida's big inland lake to Lake Okeechobee: 730 square miles of water you cannot see from the road, ringed by the Herbert Hoover Dike and a 110-mile trail on top of it.
Likely matchAmbrosia
Cal Hampton's trailer → Rural Glades and Hendry County
Cal's place: the backwoods of Hendry County
Cal Hampton's mobile home in the trees has no single real address; the country it belongs to is Hendry County: LaBelle, the Caloosahatchee and the sand roads between ranches.
Possible inspirationAmbrosia
Ambrosia ranchland → Okeechobee
Cattle country around Okeechobee
A travel idea for Ambrosia's ranch side: Okeechobee, the cattle town on the lake's north shore, with a working livestock auction, a rodeo and the dark-sky prairie of Kissimmee Prairie Preserve.
Likely matchMount Kalaga National Park
Mount Kalaga forest → Ocala National Forest
Ocala National Forest: the pine forest
The pine forest and sand roads of Mount Kalaga have been matched to Ocala National Forest: 380,000 acres of scrub, longleaf pine and clear springs an hour and a half from Orlando.
Likely matchMount Kalaga National Park
Mount Kalaga springs → Silver Springs State Park
Silver Springs and the glass-bottom boats
Trailer 2's crystal-clear spring has fans pointing at Silver Springs, Florida's oldest attraction: glass-bottom boats since the 1870s, wild monkeys and water you can see 80 feet into.
Likely matchMount Kalaga National Park
Mount Kalaga hunting → North Florida hunt camps
Hunt camps in the Apalachicola National Forest
Mount Kalaga's hunting culture has a real home in the Panhandle's national forest: Apalachicola's half million acres of pine, sinkholes and swamp, where deer season runs from fall into winter.
Possible inspirationMount Kalaga National Park
Spring swimming → Rainbow Springs and Ginnie Springs
Swimming holes: Rainbow and Ginnie Springs
A travel idea for Mount Kalaga's swimming scene: Rainbow Springs, a state park headspring you can float in, and Ginnie Springs, the private tubing and cave-diving spot on the Santa Fe River.
Possible inspirationMount Kalaga National Park
Mount Kalaga lake → Lake George and the St. Johns River
Lake George and the St. Johns fish camps
A travel idea for Mount Kalaga's lake country: Lake George, Florida's second-largest lake, on the north-flowing St. Johns, ringed by old fish camps, a Navy range and Silver Glen Springs.
Possible inspirationMount Kalaga National Park
The "mount" in Mount Kalaga → Torreya State Park and Britton Hill
Torreya and Britton Hill: where Florida gets hills
Florida's high point is 345 feet, so Mount Kalaga's mountains are Rockstar's invention; the closest real thing is the Apalachicola River bluffs at Torreya and the marker at Britton Hill.
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