8 regions
Austin, Texas is where The Last of Us Part I begins: the Prologue of Hometown plays out on outbreak night in September 2013 as Joel, his daughter Sarah and his brother Tommy try to escape the city. It is the only region you visit before the 20-year time skip.
Boston, Massachusetts is the first region after the time skip and the city where Ellie grew up. You play The Quarantine Zone and The Outskirts here, and Left Behind's flashbacks with Riley take place in the same city. FEDRA holds the North End as one of the last working quarantine zones in the country.
Boulder, Colorado is where Joel and Ellie search the University of Eastern Colorado for the Fireflies in The University chapter. Left Behind's present-day story picks up nearby at the Colorado Mountain Plaza mall, so this region covers both the campus and the mall.
Jackson, Wyoming is the home of Tommy's community and covers both the town and the wider Jackson County, including the hydroelectric dam and the Hidden Pines Corral ranch. You visit it twice: in Tommy's Dam and in the short closing chapter, Jackson. It is the one safe, working settlement in Part I.
Lincoln is a small Massachusetts town a few miles from Boston and the setting of Bill's Town, the fourth chapter. Joel and Ellie come here to call in a favor from Bill, a paranoid survivor who has rigged the whole town with traps, because they need a working vehicle.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a former quarantine zone now run by hunters who ambush anyone passing through. Joel and Ellie spend two chapters here, Pittsburgh and The Suburbs, and meet the brothers Henry and Sam. Expect heavy human combat and the largest pile of collectibles in the game.
Salt Lake City, Utah is the last stop on Joel and Ellie's search for the Fireflies. It is an abandoned quarantine zone where the Fireflies hold Saint Mary's Hospital, and you play the Bus Depot and The Firefly Lab chapters here in spring 2034.
Silver Lake is a snowbound Colorado resort town and the setting of the Lakeside Resort chapter, where Ellie is playable for most of the winter. A group led by David lives here. Its surroundings include an abandoned coal mine and the Whitefish Lake rest area.
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Bear Creek Lodge
Bear Creek Lodge is a former holiday ski lodge in Silver Lake, the snowbound town David's group calls home in the Lakeside Resort chapter.
Colorado Mountain Plaza
Colorado Mountain Plaza is the snowbound mall near Boulder where Ellie hunts for medical supplies in Left Behind's present-day chapters. You play Back in a Flash, So Close and The Enemy of My Enemy here, fighting both infected and hostile survivors.
Fort Duquesne Bridge
The Fort Duquesne Bridge is the hunter-guarded crossing out of Pittsburgh that Joel, Ellie, Henry and Sam try to slip across at night in the Escape the City section of the Pittsburgh chapter. Its broken middle span forces a jump into the river below.
Freedom Museum of Boston
The Freedom Museum of Boston is a history museum about the American Revolutionary War that Joel, Tess and Ellie cut through in the Museum section of The Outskirts. A wave of infected chases them inside, and you fight clickers and runners through its exhibits.
Hidden Pines Corral
Hidden Pines Corral is the abandoned ranch house in the Jackson County woods where Joel and Tommy catch up with Ellie after she rides away from the dam. It is the setting of the Ranch House section of Tommy's Dam, ending in a bandit ambush.
Jackson County Hydro Dam Reservoir
The Jackson County Hydro Dam Reservoir is the hydroelectric plant that powers Tommy's town of Jackson, and where Joel and Ellie finally find Tommy in Tommy's Dam. It is the setting of the Hydroelectric Dam section and a bandit attack.
Liberty Gardens
Liberty Gardens is an abandoned two-level mall in Boston where Ellie and Riley spend a night together in Left Behind's flashback chapters. You explore it in Mallrats and Fun and Games, and it gives the final chapter, Escape from Liberty Gardens, its name.
Lincoln High School
Lincoln High School is the infected-filled school at the end of Bill's Town, where Joel, Ellie and Bill go looking for a military truck's battery. The High School Escape section and a bloater fight in the gym happen here.
Logan James Bus Station
Logan James Bus Station is the abandoned Salt Lake City bus depot that Joel and Ellie walk through in the Highway Exit section of Bus Depot, on their way to Saint Mary's Hospital. It leads to the scene where Ellie spots the giraffes.
Massachusetts State House
The Massachusetts State House, usually called the Capitol Building in the game, is where Marlene sends Joel and Tess to hand Ellie to a waiting Firefly group. It is the goal of The Outskirts and gives the chapter's last section its name.
Miller residence
The Miller residence is Joel and Sarah's two-story house just outside Austin, and the first place you explore in Part I. You play as Sarah here at the start of Hometown, on the night of September 26, 2013, before the family flees with Tommy.
Mission Hill Pier
Mission Hill Pier is the wharf in the Boston slums where the smuggler Robert runs his trade. Joel and Tess fight through Robert's men here at the end of The Slums section of The Quarantine Zone, then chase him through the area.
Raja's Arcade
Raja's Arcade is the arcade inside Boston's Liberty Gardens mall that Ellie and Riley visit in Left Behind. Ellie has always wanted to play the fighting game The Turning, and the arcade is the setting for one of the DLC's best-known scenes.
Spenzür Architecture
Spenzür Architecture is a Pittsburgh office and apartment building where Henry and Sam are hiding when Joel and Ellie meet them. The four rest here and plan their night escape over the bridge.
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
St. Paul's Lutheran Church is Bill's fortified home and armory in Lincoln, and the base you visit in the Safehouse section of Bill's Town. Bill gives Joel a shotgun and nail bombs here before the group heads out through the graveyard.
State Street Subway Station
State Street Subway Station is an abandoned, infected-filled Boston subway stop that Joel, Tess and Ellie pass through in the Downtown section of The Outskirts. The Firefly map artifact lies here next to a dead Firefly on the stairs just inside.
The Goldstone Building
The Goldstone Building is a damaged downtown Boston skyscraper that Joel, Tess and Ellie climb through in the Downtown section of The Outskirts, because a chasm blocks the street. It is packed with infected, including stalkers, runners and clickers.
The Hotel Grand
The Hotel Grand is a ruined luxury hotel in Pittsburgh that gives the Hotel Lobby section its name. Hunters hold the upper floors and infected lurk in the basement, and the lobby hides a safe worth opening.
Todd's Steakhouse & Bar
Todd's Steakhouse & Bar is a former barbecue restaurant and bar in the resort town of Silver Lake, which David's group holds during the Lakeside Resort chapter.
University of Eastern Colorado
The University of Eastern Colorado is the Boulder campus where Joel and Ellie expect to find the Fireflies in The University chapter. You search it on horseback and on foot through the Go Big Horns and Science Building sections, and it holds 17 collectibles.
Warren Coal Mining
Warren Coal Mining is the abandoned coal mine in the forest near Silver Lake where Ellie's deer hunt ends at the start of Lakeside Resort. Here she meets David and James and fights infected alongside David in The Hunt section.
Weston's Pharmacy
Weston's Pharmacy is the drugstore inside Colorado Mountain Plaza that Ellie checks first in Left Behind's Back in a Flash. It has been picked clean, but it is where the chapter's search for supplies starts.
Whitefish Lake
Whitefish Lake is a snowed-in lakeside rest area near Silver Lake that Ellie crosses in The Hunt section of Lakeside Resort while leading David's men away from Joel. A cliffside walkway runs along the frozen lake.