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GTA 6 Grassrivers: the gator wetlands Rockstar has shown

Grassrivers is the wetland region of Leonida, one of six destinations Rockstar Games described on May 6, 2025. An Extended Look put it in motion on August 27, 2026, around the 17:10 mark, from a small boat.

Grassrivers postcard on a dark green ground, sunset wetlands with an airboat cutting a long wake
The Visit Leonida postcard for the Grassrivers wetlands. © Rockstar Games

Grassrivers is the wetland region of Leonida, one of the six destinations Rockstar Games named and described on May 6, 2025, under the official heading Welcome to the Wetlands. The copy the studio wrote for it runs to three sentences, and that is the whole official description. An Extended Look put it in motion on August 27, 2026, around the 17:10 mark, from a small boat.

Grassrivers is the wetland region of Leonida, and one of the six destinations Rockstar Games named and described on May 6, 2025, the day the second Grand Theft Auto VI trailer went out. Its official heading is “Welcome to the Wetlands”. The game arrives November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

The copy the studio wrote for it runs to three sentences, and that is the whole of the official description:

The untamable jewel of Leonida’s crown. You never know what lies beneath the surface of this primordial expanse. The gators may be the most famous attraction, but there are far deadlier predators and weirder discoveries among the mangroves.

An Extended Look, released on August 27, 2026, showed those swamps in motion. SVG places the sequence around the 17:10 mark, Jason at the wheel of a small boat.

Top-down view of an airboat on black water, two people aboard as alligators circle through the lily pads
A rare top-down frame puts the gators and the airboat in the same shot. © Rockstar Games

NME described the same passage, on August 27, 2026, as “a dazzling glimpse at the Grassrivers wetlands modelled on Florida’s famous Everglades”. The Everglades match is a reporters’ reading, not a Rockstar statement: the official Grassrivers copy names no real place at all.

The vehicle tied to the region is the airboat, the flat-bottomed craft pushed by an aircraft propeller that skims water too shallow for a hull. Engadget listed it on August 27, 2026 among the ways of getting around in the video.

Three armed swamp locals pose on a wooden dock beside an airboat, a dead alligator at their feet
Swamp locals and their airboat, in one of the Grassrivers stills. © Rockstar Games

A region with no borders yet

Rockstar has published no map of Leonida, not on May 6, 2025 with trailer 2, and not on August 27, 2026 with An Extended Look. The size of Grassrivers, its exact position and where it stops are all unknown. The studio does not use the word “county” in its copy either: the six places are presented as destinations, and the county names in circulation come from road signs and sheriff badges read off trailers and screenshots, as GTA Intel set out on June 6, 2026.

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