Based on The Everglades. A river of grass the width of the peninsula. The airboat sequences, the gator in the pool and the endless flat horizon all come from the Everglades and Big Cypress.
Airboats, sawgrass and more alligators than people.
Airboat tours on the Tamiami Trail, Miami-Dade, FL
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.
Shark Valley, Everglades National Park, Miami-Dade, FL
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.
Suburbs on the Everglades edge, Weston, FL
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.
Alligator Alley (I-75), Broward and Collier, FL
The dead-straight highway across the swamp in Trailer 2 has been matched by fans to Alligator Alley, 80 miles of I-75 with a canal full of gators on one side and nothing on the other.
Big Cypress National Preserve, Ochopee, FL
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.
Everglades City and Chokoloskee, Collier County, FL
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.
Ochopee Post Office, Ochopee, FL
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.
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.