Best secret/hidden locations?

[BennyGod]

What are your favorite hidden or secret locations in the GTA series few know about? Not just Easter eggs, but also secluded areas.

[Pistol Bobcat]

Ghost Town for starters, thats legendary.

 

Donald Love's rooftop garden with the view, loved flying a tank up there as a kid.

 

Liberty City in San Andreas, again the stuff of legends, especially when we console gamers invented numerous ways to get there.

 

Comrades Bar in GTA IV, such a cool space, can't believe they locked it outside of missions (even has an unusable pool table in a rather stupid position)

 

North Yankton, a place I've always gone back to using different...methods haha

Edited March 2, 2024 by Pistol Bobcat

[TaylorSwiftDies2038]

Not a Grand Theft Auto game but another R* game, but I always loved the Sea of Coronado in Red Dead Redemption II. It looks like so many places in the southwest along the California/Arizona/Nevada border and even though it's practically unused, I always like going there and looking beyond and wondering what's supposed to be past those mountains, and what a Red Dead Redemption version of the West Coast with the Pacific Ocean would look like.

[cant remember]

My locations aren't secret, just areas I love to explore because of their aesthetic:

 

- The roadside restaurant at the bottom of residential map in GTA2. It has a pedestrian bridge crossing the highway and watching traffic waving at passing cars works better in this game than it does in San Andreas with its crazy highways.

 

- The basketball court and little park in GTA3 where the Triads hang out (before they hate you ofcourse)

 

- Little Haiti in VC. The combination of the distinct look the area has and the liveliness (if you can call it that) of the gunfire and gangs getting into fights hits a lot of my spots.

 

- The avenue with palm trees in Sandy Shores in GTA5. I like the exotic yet desolate feel.

[TaylorSwiftDies2038]

The park by Joe's Diner in GTA III/LCS also deserves a mention on here. It barely plays a role in either game yet it feels like the kind of place where you can do some hiking, hold a trance rave, have a picnic, etc. It goes unnamed but it gives off that "vibe" for lack of a better term.

[Jeansowaty]

Maybe not secret per se but I remember as a kid always being sad that we can't walk into some interiors outside of a mission, to a degree in SA but moreso in IV. Like Oleg Minkov's apartment (insanely liminal) or Bucky Sligo's house. I don't get why these interiors were locked off from the player to begin with while others are fully explorable.

[GhettoJesus]

I kinda like the tunnel underneath the rocks near Fort Carson purely because it is so obscure. But I also like the inner garden of some apartments just north of Chinatown in SF. They've got these trees in them and stairs that lead to the doors of the homes. It's quite nice, I'd live there.

Edited March 5, 2024 by GhettoJesus