Locations

Three kinds of place in Red Dead Redemption 2 reward a detour: gang hideouts, the shacks and cabins scattered through the wilderness, and the oddities the game files as points of interest. The completion tracker treats them very differently. Hideouts are compulsory, shacks are a quota, and points of interest are not counted at all, however many Arthur sketches into his journal. This guide sorts the map by that rule so you know which detours pay toward 100 percent and which are only for the story.

What the checklist counts

Location type	On the map	Needed for 100%	Tracked in the progress tab
Gang hideouts	6 in the base story, plus Twin Rocks on the special edition and 2 more on PC after patch 1.15	All 6 base hideouts	Yes
Shacks and cabins	19	Any 5	Yes
Points of interest	49	None	No, journal only

Gang hideouts: six are mandatory

The first four hideouts cannot be skipped because the story walks you into them, and their gangs move back in afterwards, so you can return whenever you like once a hideout has been discovered. The last two sit in the stretch of map that only opens after Chapter 6. Clearing one means fighting through ambushes and campfire skirmishes, so search the bodies for ammunition on the way in. Our gang hideouts page has the approach for each one.

Hideout	Gang	Where	When it opens
Six Point Cabin	O'Driscoll Boys	Cumberland Forest, northeast of Valentine by the Dakota River	Chapter 2 story
Shady Belle	Lemoyne Raiders	Southeast of Rhodes, southwest of Saint Denis	Chapter 3 story
Beaver Hollow	Murfree Brood	Between Annesburg and the Kamassa River, above Elysian Pool	Chapter 5 story
Hanging Dog Ranch	O'Driscolls, replaced by the Laramie Gang in the epilogue	West of Valentine and Wallace Station, north of Strawberry, near Little Creek River	Chapter 6 story
Thieves Landing	Del Lobo Gang	South of Blackwater	After Chapter 6
Fort Mercer	Del Lobo Gang	Southwest of Armadillo, southeast of Tumbleweed	After Chapter 6

Three more hideouts exist without counting. Twin Rocks, north of Armadillo, is a Del Lobo camp added by the special and ultimate editions and is not required. PC players on patch 1.15 also get Gaptooth Breach, in the Gaptooth Ridge region northwest of Tumbleweed, and Solomon's Folly, which lies up from the San Luis River and below Benedict Point, both Del Lobo as well.

Shacks: any five of nineteen

Five visits satisfy the tracker, but what is inside is the reason to keep going: cigarette cards, gold nuggets, jewelry, a cheat code and a few of the map's stranger stories. Three shacks do not exist until the epilogue, so a full sweep as Arthur tops out at sixteen. The shacks page pairs the list below with a numbered map.

#	Shack	Where	What is inside
1	Dormin Crest Shack	Icy northwest, west of Spider Gorge and Deadboot Creek	Cigarette card, rations
2	Fairvale Shanty	Directly north of Grizzlies East, above the O in Ambarino	Corpses, platinum stopwatch, gold nugget, jewelry
3	Snowfield Shack	South of Dormin Crest, west of Lake Isabella	A cheat code in a locked drawer
4	Dodd's Bluff Cabin	South of Widow Creek by the river, due west of Fort Wallace	Corpses, salmon, gold nugget, hair pomade
5	Clawson's Rest	Northwest of Valentine along the Dakota River, locked	3 cigarette cards, a book, rations
6	Martha's Swain	Between Annesburg and Moonstone Pond, east of Three Sisters	Rations, jewelry
7	Hani's Bethel	North of Emerald Ranch, northeast of Heartland Overflow by a small lake	A UFO encounter
8	Vetter's Echo	Northern Big Valley, east of Pronghorn Ranch	Cigarette card, cash
9	Shepherd's Rise	Southeast of Wallace Station by the tracks, north of Strawberry	Epilogue only
10	Ridge View	Directly east of Emerald Station	Epilogue only; herbs that refill Dead Eye
11	Osman Grove	South of Clawson's Rest, southwest of Ridge View	Corpses, a book, provisions
12	Lenora View	Northeast of Hawks Eye Creek, northwest of Monto's Rest	A letter about a story character
13	Old Trail Rise	Heartlands, east of Dewberry Creek, burned out	Basement with Valerian Root, a cigarette card and cash behind a stone
14	Robard Farm	North of Rhodes, just north of Southfield Flats Pond	Cigarette card, cash, provisions
15	Bayall Edge	Western Bayou, east of the Kamassa River label	Papers hinting at Armadillo's fate
16	Bear Claw	Southwest of Blackwater and Manzanita Post, a cluster of shacks	A lockbox of cash at the bottom of a dry well
17	Argil Rise	Southeast of Rhodes	Epilogue only
18	Crawdad Willies	Directly east of Shady Belle	Two escaped convicts; spare the survivor for a tip about hidden money
19	Old Harry Fen	South of Bolger Glade, southeast of Braithwaite Manor	An ex-slaver's story, little loot

Points of interest: 49 the tracker ignores

A point of interest is anything that gives Arthur an Inspect prompt and a journal sketch: a meditating monk, a face cut into a cliff, a crashed airship. The progress tab never mentions them, so they are pure exploration. The points of interest page maps every one; the table groups them by region so you can clear a state in one ride. Guarma has none.

Region	Points of interest
Ambarino	Meditating Monk (appears around noon), Face in Cliff, Strange Statues, Mysterious Hill Home, Mammoth Skeleton, Frozen Settler (carries the Morion Helmet), Defaced Grave, the statue paintings at Window Rock
New Hanover	Warped Tree, Register Rock, Oil Derrick, Trading Post, Brush Fire, Barrel Rider, Meteorite, Abandoned Trading Post, Fossilized Man, Meteor House, Old Tomb, Old World Scripts, the four Trail Trees, Manmade Mutant, Serpent Mound
West Elizabeth	Hermit Woman, Crashed Airship, Hidden Tunnel, Obelisk, Native Burial, Giant Remains, Pagan Ritual, Faces in Trees, Whale Bones, Circus Wagons, Wickiup
Lemoyne	Tiny Church, Gray's Secret (only once Chapter 3's A Short Walk in Pretty Town is done), Withered Arm, Phonograph, Bolger Glade, Abandoned Church, Braithwaites' Secret, Pleasance
New Austin	Donkey Lady, Flying Machine, Jesuit Missionary, Sperm Whale Bones

Several points of interest cluster. The four Roanoke Ridge oddities north of Annesburg (Meteorite, Abandoned Trading Post, Fossilized Man and Meteor House) are a few yards apart, and the Hermit Woman, Crashed Airship and Hidden Tunnel share one corner of northwestern West Elizabeth. Owanjila Dam alone anchors the Obelisk, Native Burial, Pagan Ritual, Faces in Trees and Whale Bones.

Location questions

Do points of interest count toward 100 percent?

No. They are never listed in the progress tab. The hideouts and the five-shack quota are the only location entries that move the percentage.

Can a shack be missed?

None disappears. Shepherd's Rise, Ridge View and Argil Rise simply do not appear until the epilogue, so they cannot be part of Arthur's five.

Do I have to clear Twin Rocks, Gaptooth Breach or Solomon's Folly?

No. Only the six base hideouts are required. The other three are extras tied to the special edition and the PC patch. If you are hunting collectibles rather than places, the dinosaur bones, rock carvings, dreamcatchers and cigarette cards are sorted in our items guide, and every other guide for the game hangs off the Red Dead Redemption 2 hub.