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.
35 places in The Last of Us Part I.
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.
Waverly Township
Waverly Township is the Pittsburgh suburb that Joel, Ellie, Henry and Sam reach after escaping through the sewers, and the setting of the Suburbs section of The Suburbs chapter. Hunters with a sniper rifle and a Humvee are waiting.
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.