SegmentNextGTA San Andreas Mission List: From Grove Street To End Of The Line
San Andreas does not have a mission list so much as a set of them. The story is handed out by people rather than by chapters, and several of those people are available at once, which is why a playthrough can feel shapeless in the middle. Laid out by who is giving the work, in the order the map opens up, it is much clearer, and it lines up with the way this folder's other pages talk about the game, since almost everything they cover is gated behind one of these missions.
Los Santos
| Strand | Missions, in order |
|---|---|
| Opening | In the Beginning, Big Smoke, Sweet and Kendl, Ryder |
| Sweet | Tagging up Turf, Cleaning the Hood, Drive-Thru, Nines and AK's, Drive-By, Sweet's Girl, Cesar Vialpando, Doberman, Los Sepulcros, Reuniting the Families, The Green Sabre |
| Big Smoke | OG Loc, Running Dog, Wrong Side of the Tracks, Just Business |
| Ryder | Home Invasion, Catalyst, Robbing Uncle Sam |
| OG Loc | Life's a Beach, Madd Dogg's Rhymes, Management Issues, House Party |
| Cesar Vialpando | High Stakes, Low-Rider |
| C.R.A.S.H. | Burning Desire, Gray Imports |
Tagging up Turf is the one that starts the spray can, and our collectibles guide picks up the other 94 tags from there. Burning Desire introduces Denise, the first of the six on our girlfriends page. The Green Sabre closes the city and is the single most consequential mission in the game for anyone reading this folder, because it is the one that puts the countryside's houses on the market.
Red County, Flint County And Whetstone
| Strand | Missions, in order |
|---|---|
| C.R.A.S.H. | Badlands, Snail Trail |
| Catalina | First Date, Tanker Commander, First Base, Against all Odds, Gone Courting, Local Liquor Store, Made in Heaven, Small Town Bank |
| The Truth | Body Harvest, Are You Going to San Fierro? |
| Cesar Vialpando | King in Exile, Wu Zi Mu, Farewell My Love |
The Catalina strand is the odd one in the game. Her four dates alternate with four robberies, Tanker Commander, Against all Odds, Local Liquor Store and Small Town Bank, and Cesar's separate strand runs alongside it, bringing Woozie in through the Wu Zi Mu race. Are You Going to San Fierro? is the exit, and it hands over the Doherty Garage for nothing.
San Fierro
| Strand | Missions, in order |
|---|---|
| Doherty Garage | Wear Flowers in your Hair, 555 WE TIP, Deconstruction |
| Triads | Photo Opportunity, Outrider, Ice Cold Killa, Pier 69, Toreno's Last Flight, Yay Ka-Boom-Boom |
| Loco Syndicate | Jizzy, T-Bone Mendez, Mike Toreno |
| Wu Zi Mu | Mountain Cloud Boys, Ran Fa Li, Lure, Amphibious Assault, The Da Nang Thang |
| Zero | Air Raid, Supply Lines, New Model Army |
| Wang Cars | Zeroing In, Test Drive, Customs Fast Track, Puncture Wounds |
Two of these strands pay out in this folder. Customs Fast Track, for Cesar, opens the crane at Easter Basin, which is where the thirty vehicles on our wanted cars page get sold. Photo Opportunity is the mission that puts a camera in Carl's hands, and the 50 snapshots follow from it. Yay Ka-Boom-Boom ends the city and opens the desert.
The Desert And Bone County
| Strand | Missions, in order |
|---|---|
| Mike Toreno | Monster, Highjack, Interdiction, Verdant Meadows |
| Flight School | Learning to Fly |
| Verdant Meadows | N.O.E., Stowaway, Black Project, Green Goo |
Learning to Fly is a school rather than a mission, and it is the hardest gate in the game: Las Venturas stays shut until every lesson is passed. Verdant Meadows buys the airstrip, which our safehouses accounting counts among the property you have to pay for.
Las Venturas
| Strand | Missions, in order |
|---|---|
| Four Dragons Casino | Fender Ketchup, Explosive Situation, You've Had Your Chips, Don Peyote, Fish in a Barrel |
| Ken Rosenberg | Intensive Care, The Meat Business |
| Salvatore Leone | Freefall, Saint Mark's Bistro |
| Caligula's Palace heist | Architectural Espionage, Key to Her Heart, Dam and Blast, Cop Wheels, Up, Up and Away!, Breaking the Bank at Caligula's |
Key to Her Heart is the mission that starts the Millie relationship, and the heist cannot proceed until her keycard is in hand, which is the one point where the dating system and the story are welded together. The Four Dragons becomes a free safehouse once its strand is done.
Return To Los Santos
| Strand | Missions, in order |
|---|---|
| Madd Dogg | Vertical Bird, Home Coming, Cut Throat Business |
| Grove Street Families | Beat Down on B Dup, Grove 4 Life, Riot, Los Desperados, End of the Line |
The last stretch is short, and unlike the middle of the game it runs as one line rather than several at once. End of the Line closes the story; everything else this folder covers, from the horseshoes to the gyms, stays available afterwards.
Mission Questions
How many missions are in GTA San Andreas?
Counting the strands above, the story runs to roughly a hundred missions, and that is before the side work: the schools, the odd jobs, the courier and vigilante rounds, and the property missions. The story alone is the longest of the PlayStation 2 era Grand Theft Autos.
Which missions unlock the rest of the map?
The Green Sabre opens the countryside, Are You Going to San Fierro? opens San Fierro, Yay Ka-Boom-Boom opens the desert and Learning to Fly opens Las Venturas. Our San Andreas hub is arranged around exactly those four gates, because each one changes what the state has for sale.
Can missions be replayed?
Not in the original design; a failed mission is retried and a passed one is gone. That is part of why the collectibles and the properties on our other pages are the usual reason to keep playing after End of the Line.