Port Gellhorn: Leonida's Forgotten Coast

This is Leonida's Forgotten Coast. A once-popular vacation town on the far west coast, now cheap motels, shut-down attractions and empty strip malls. The tourists aren't coming back, Rockstar says, but there's a new economy fuelled by malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks. Its advice: Jump on a dirt bike and hold onto your wallet. Think Sandy Shores by the sea.

The town

Port Gellhorn has two halves. The residential side is cut through by a railway. The other half is Draper Island, an industrial zone of warehouses, docks with big cranes and a giant factory.

Named spots so far:

• Starlet Motel — where Jason and Lucia are seen "up to no good."
• Delights cabaret — neon, pole dancers and a "New girls, new food" sign out front.
• Uncle Jack's Liquor — the store Jason and Lucia rob at the end of Trailer 1.
• Dive bars with pool and darts.

Motorsport capital

Port Gellhorn is where Leonida races.

• Gellhorn International Raceway — the first full-size circuit in a GTA game. Lucia wears a Gellhorn International shirt in Trailer 2, and Rockstar showed a real circuit race with a lap counter, timer and position on screen.
• A drag strip.
• A motocross track and dirt-bike trails that spread across the area.
• Many of the trailers' car-jump and dirt-bike shots were filmed around here.

See racing and car culture.

Offshore

Past Port Gellhorn, the leaked and community maps show the Crude Islands and Sand Bars — more to explore than just the town. South of Port Gellhorn, in Mariana County, lies the unrevealed city of Capri.

Tips

• Cheap motels and dive bars mean petty crime is everywhere — and so are easy targets for robberies.
• Bring a dirt bike: trails link the town to the surrounding scrub and are great getaway routes.