Leonida is Rockstar's version of Florida, and Vice City is its Miami. Six places in the game each have a real place behind them, and you can drive to every one.
Out November 19, 2026 PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
Each card starts as a drawing in a video-game style. Press it to turn it into the real place in Florida. Rockstar has not said which real places it used; these are real places in Florida that look like them.
Ocean Drive runs along the beach in the Miami Beach Art Deco District. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1979. A state historical marker says no urban historic district from the 20th century had been listed before it.
The hotel in the drawing is the real Colony Hotel on Ocean Drive, here at night with its neon lit.Miami-Dade County guide →The Seven Mile Bridge at Marathon is the longest of the 42 bridges on the Overseas Highway. It is 6.79 miles long and opened in 1982.
Beside it, a 2.2-mile section of the old bridge is open for walking, running, cycling and fishing. The old bridge carried Henry Flagler's railroad to Key West, finished in 1912.
The race in the drawing is on this bridge.Monroe County guide →Everglades National Park was established in 1947 and covers about 1.5 million acres. Marjory Stoneman Douglas gave the Everglades the name everyone uses now: the river of grass.
Photo: an airboat crossing the sawgrass of the Everglades.Broward County guide →Port Gellhorn is a port town in the game. A real port on the Panhandle that looks like it is Apalachicola, in Franklin County.
By 1915, several canneries in Apalachicola were sending canned seafood, shrimp among it, to markets in the North.
Photo: shrimp boats at the Apalachicola docks, on the Apalachicola River.Franklin County guide →Ambrosia is a factory town in the game. Florida's sugar country is around Lake Okeechobee: Clewiston, at the south end of the lake in Hendry County, and Belle Glade, in the Glades of Palm Beach County. Clewiston is called America's Sweetest Town, and U.S. Sugar Corporation is based there.
The Glades of Palm Beach County got their first sugar mill in 1921.
Photo: cane fields and the mill of the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, Belle Glade.Hendry County guide →Mount Kalaga National Park is the game's mountain park. Florida has no mountains. Its highest point is Britton Hill, 345 feet above sea level, in north Walton County, the lowest state high point in the country.
Photo: the road up Sugarloaf Mountain, a hill in Lake County that is called a mountain anyway.Lake County guide →Answer three quick questions. We match you to a region of the game and the real Florida county behind it.
Question 1 of 3
Every stop in the video is a place you can drive to. Here they are in the order the video shows them.
Start in the Miami Beach Art Deco District. Come back after dark, when the neon signs are lit.
Cross Biscayne Bay on a causeway to the towers of Brickell, Miami's financial district.
Head west for an airboat ride through the sawgrass. Everglades National Park has trails and visitor centers.
Drive south on the Overseas Highway through the Keys. The Seven Mile Bridge starts in Marathon.
GTA 6 is here. The streets you'll cruise. The neon you'll race under. The beaches you'll drive by. The bridges you'll fly across. The swamps you'll get lost in. They're all inspired by one place... Florida. And every one of them is real. Want to see the real thing? Let's ride.
Yes. It is set in Leonida, a made-up state built on Florida. Its main city, Vice City, is based on Miami.
November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
No. Vice City is Rockstar's version of Miami. Ocean Drive, Brickell and Biscayne Bay are the real places behind it.
In the Florida Keys, in Monroe County. It carries the Overseas Highway at Marathon.
Yes, at the edge of it. Everglades Holiday Park in Broward County is one of the places that run airboat rides. Inside Everglades National Park, airboats run only on a few old routes.
No. Ambrosia is a town in the game. Its closest real match is the sugar country around Clewiston and Lake Okeechobee.
Every place on this page is in one of Florida's 67 counties. See what it is like to visit, live or move there.
Photos: the Colony Hotel at night, at the top by Luis Erives (Pexels) and on the first card by Austin Hervias (Unsplash); Seven Mile Bridge, U.S. Department of Transportation (public domain); airboat in the Everglades by Avramka (CC BY-SA 4.0); shrimp boats at Apalachicola by Diane Delaney, National Archives (public domain); the Belle Glade sugar mill by Jamesmartin111 (CC0); the road up Sugarloaf Mountain by Lithium6ion (public domain). The six drawings and the drawn scenes of the video were made with Google Flow for 1stFlorida. The video's voice was made with ElevenLabs; its music is "Mirror Mirror" by Anno Domini Beats (YouTube Audio Library). 1stFlorida.com is not connected with Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Vice City and Leonida are names belonging to Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive, used here only to describe the game. Every picture's full record is on Photo Credits.