Missions in GTA San Andreas

This is a comprehensive list of story missions in the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. There are 104 missions in total.

Los Santos

Protagonist Carl Johnson returns to his hometown of Los Santos and needs to re-establish himself in his former neighborhood. Missions in this city involve Carl's attempt to regain respect within the Grove Street Families and the obstacles confronting his family. Many of these missions have Carl as the driver with additional help as required.

There are 28 missions in the main thread in Los Santos.

Introductory missions

These missions slowly introduce you to the essentials of the game and the main characters you will encounter many times throughout the story. This section of the story is where you will receive some of the most important benefits/unlocks.

Name/Screenshot	Objective	Rewards	Unlocks
In the beginning...	Using the allocated bike, head back to the Grove Street.	None	Big Smoke
Big Smoke	Meet your friend Big Smoke for the first time in five years.	None	Sweet & Kendl
Sweet & Kendl	Escape the Ballas with Sweet and Ryder and head back to Ganton.	Respect	Ryder
Ryder	Get a haircut at Reece's Hair & Facial Studio and some food from The Well Stacked Pizza Co.	Respect	Tagging Up Turf

Sweet

Name	Objective	Reward	Unlocks
Tagging Up Turf	Spray the Grove Street Families tag over the enemy gang tags.	$200 Respect	Cleaning the Hood
Cleaning the Hood	Clean Ganton by removing the crack dealers from the premises.	Respect	Drive Thru
Drive Thru	Get some food at Cluckin' Bell. Prevent the Ballas from reaching Grove Street.	$200 Respect	Nines and AKs
Nines and AKs	Collect some pistols and weapon-training from Emmet.	Respect+ Binco Pro-Laps Sub Urban Emmet's	Drive-By OG Loc
Drive-By	Perform drive-by shootings on the Ballas and escape the heat afterwards.	Respect $500	Sweet's Girl Home Invasion
Sweet's Girl	Rescue Sweet from the Seville Boulevard Families.	Respect $500	Cesar Vialpando
Cesar Vialpando	Win the Lowrider Challenge.	Amount of money bet at the challenge	High Stakes, Low Rider Lowrider Challenge Loco Low Co. TransFender

Big Smoke

Name	Objective	Reward	Unlock
OG Loc	Pick up OG Loc from Los Santos Police Department at Pershing Square. Kill Freddy.	Respect	Running Dog Life's a Beach
Running Dog	Chase and Kill a Los Santos Vagos gang member.	Respect	Wrong Side of the Tracks
Wrong Side of the Tracks	Kill four Vagos gang members on a train before they escape.	Respect	Just Business
Just Business	Escape and kill the attacking Russian Mafia.	Respect	None

Ryder

Name	Objective	Reward	Unlock
Home Invasion	Burglarize Colonel Fuhrberger's house for weapons.	Respect	Catalyst
Catalyst	Intercept the army munitions train and throw the crates to Ryder.	Respect	Robbing Uncle Sam
Robbing Uncle Sam	Raid the National Guard Depot for weapon crates using a forklift. Outrun the Guardsmen pursuing in Patriots.	Respect	None

Cesar Vialpando

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
High Stakes, Low Rider	Win the lowrider race.	$1000	None

OG Loc

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlock
Life's a Beach	Steal a sound system in a Pony.	Respect	Madd Dogg's Rhymes
Madd Dogg's Rhymes	Break into Madd Dogg's mansion and steal his rhyme book using a knife, stealth, and silenced pistol.	Respect	Management Issues Burning Desire
Management Issues	Kill Alan Crawford and his escort; drive them into the ocean.	Respect	House Party
House Party	Defend Grove Street from invading assault force of Ballas	Respect	None

Frank Tenpenny

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Burning Desire	Burn Vago's Gang house Rescue Denise Robinson and use extinguisher to lead her from inferno.	None	Gray Imports Denise as a girlfriend
Gray Imports	Raid the warehouse in Ocean Docks where Ballas and Russian make a deal.	None	None

Sweet

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Doberman	Takeover Glen Park and learn/begin the turf war segment.	Respect	Los Sepulcros Ammu-Nation Gang Warfare.
Los Sepulcros	Ambush Kane while attending Little Weasel's funeral with other Ballas.	Respect	Reuniting the Families
Reuniting the Families	Go to the Jefferson Motel Rescue Sweet from SWAT team raid Flee with homies using AK-47 to practice rail-shooting the police pursuit.	Respect	The Green Sabre
The Green Sabre	Go to the underpass where Cesar awaits to show you the despised Green Sabre responsible for your Mom's murder Rescue Sweet at Mulholland Intersection.	None	Badlands Countryside and San Fierro access

Countryside/Badlands missions

CJ has returned home to something much larger than personal matters. It seems that Big Smoke is involved in the dealings of corrupt Officer Tenpenny who warns CJ to stay away from Big Smoke or Sweet will suffer. Tenpenny has to tend to a few loose ends while CJ is trying to re-establish himself.

There are 14 missions dedicated for the Countryside. These missions consist of minor objectives which will take you around Red County and Flint County.

Frank Tenpenny

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Badlands	Kill a witness for Tenpenny and bring back the proof he's dead.	None	First Date

Catalina

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
First Date	Choose from one of the four places to rob around Red County.	None	Tanker Commander Against All Odds Local Liquor Store Small Town Bank

The Truth

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Body Harvest	Steal a Combine Harvester from The Farm Take the Harvester to Truth's farm	Respect	King in Exile

Cesar Vialpando

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
King in Exile	Meet Cesar and Kendl at Angel Pine	None	First Base

Catalina

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
First Base	Choose a place to rob	None	None
Gone Courting	Choose another place to rob	None	None
Made in Heaven	Choose the remaining place to rob	None	None

Robbery

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Tanker Commander	Hijack a Tanker and connect to tanker-trailer Take the gas to Mr. Whittaker in Flint Range.	$5000	None
Against All Odds	Rob the Inside Track betting shop in Montgomery.	$2000	None
Local Liquor Store	Chase the the three yokels on Quadbikes to retrieve the loot from the Blueberry Liquor Store robbery.	$1000	None
Small Town Bank	Rob Palomino Creek Bank.	$10,000	None

Cesar Vialpando

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Wu Zi Mu	Beat Wu Zi Mu in a race around Red County.	None	Farewell, My Love...
Farewell, My Love...	Beat Catalina and Claude in a race.	None	Are You Going To San Fierro?

The Truth

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Are You Going to San Fierro?	Burn Truth's crops Head to the garage CJ won in San Fierro via The Mothership.	Respect	Wear Flowers in Your Hair

San Fierro missions

Things are starting to settle since Carl was banished. He now owns a dilapidated garage and has a close circle of allies to assist him in his recovery. San Fierro offers a variety of missions to help CJ become even stronger in his quest to return to Los Santos.

There are 26 story missions in San Fierro.

Carl Johnson

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Wear Flowers in Your Hair	Recruit The Truth's friends, Jethro, Dwayne and Zero to help.	Properties in S.F. available	555 We Tip Zero RC on sale
555 We Tip	Go to Vank Hoff Hotel and set up a D.A. car by planting weed in his car's trunk.	Valet's uniform used for Valet Missions (available)	Deconstruction
Deconstruction	Destroy the portables on construction site behind your garage with Bulldozer and bury the foreman in cement for calling Kendl a hooker.	Jethro calls to alert you to Driving School	Photo Opportunity

Zero

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Air Raid	Defend Zero's transmitters from RC Barons using the zing of a minigun.	$3000	Supply Lines...
Supply Lines...	Use RC Baron to kill all five of Berkley's couriers and land back on Zero's roof.	$5000	New Model Army
New Model Army	Control RC Goblin and help Zero's RC Bandit defeat Berkley in RC BattleGround.	$7000	Zero RC as an asset

Loco Syndicate

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Photo Opportunity	Go meet Cesar at Red County Go to Angel Pine and photograph the members of Loco Syndicate.	None	Jizzy
Jizzy	Part I: Meet Cesar and Woozie at the garage to identify the members of Loco Syndicate Part II: Do errands for Jizzy B.	Part I: None Part II: Respect and $3000	T-Bone Mendez Mountain Cloud Boys
T-Bone Mendez	Retrieve the stolen packages from three FCR-900 riders.	$5000 Respect	Mike Toreno
Mike Toreno	Locate and rescue Mike Toreno.	$7000 Respect	Outrider
Outrider	Clear the roadblocks with Rockets for the yay shipment van.	$9000	Snail Trail

Wu Zi Mu

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Mountain Cloud Boys	Take Woozie to the meeting Defend Woozie from the attacking Da Nang Boys.	$5000 Respect	Ran Fa Li
Ran Fa Li	Retrieve the car for Ran Fa Li from the airport and return to warehouse.	$6000 Respect	Lure
Lure	Use decoy Rancher to lure the Da Nang Boys out to Angel Pine and give them a chase.	$8000 Respect	Amphibious Assault
Amphibious Assault	Swim to Vietnamese' ship and plant a bug.	$11,000 Respect	The Da Nang Thang
The Da Nang Thang	Attack the Vietnamese' ship with minigun from the chopper (lose all weapons during crash) Rescue the refugees aboard the ship Kill The Snakehead	$15,000 Respect	Yay Ka-Boom-Boom (after Toreno's Last Flight)

Frank Tenpenny

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Snail Trail	Follow the train to Los Santos Follow the skittish reporter (Spook-o-metre) Assassinate both reporter and informant on Santa Maria Pier Yacht Harbor	None	Ice Cold Killa

Loco Syndicate

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Ice Cold Killa	Visit the Pleasure Domes to finish the pimp, Jizzy B.	$12,000 Respect	Pier 69
Pier 69	Kill all the Rifa guards using the sniper rifle, attack rest on foot and assassinate T-Bone Mendez and former friend Ryder.	$15,000 Respect	Toreno's Last Flight
Toreno's Last Flight	Destroy the chopper containing Mike Toreno to kill him.	$18,000	Yay Ka-Boom-Boom
Yay Ka-Boom-Boom	Get the wired car from a bomb-shop in Downtown San Fierro Detonate the car inside the yay factory in Doherty	$25,000 Respect	Monster Wang Cars showroom for sale (after completing Driving School)

Wang Cars

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Back to School	Complete the Driving School	Increased Driving Skill Vehicle spawns in front of the school depending on the medals you won	Wang Cars showroom for sale (after Yay Ka-Boom-Boom)
Zeroing In	Follow and steal a car from a woman	$5000 Respect Uranus in the showroom Wheel Arch Angels	Test Drive
Test Drive	Steal (with Cesar) two cars from Otto's Autos	$5000 Respect Elegy and Sultan in the showroom	Customs Fast Track
Customs Fast Track	Retrieve a car from container in Easter Basin using a crane	$10,000 Respect Savanna in the showroom Exports and Imports	Puncture Wounds
Puncture Wounds	Use stingers (spikes) to acquire a car	$5000 Stratum in the showroom Wang Cars showroom as an asset	None

Desert missions

These series of missions have more of an adventuresome feel. CJ will be doing some strange and daring things. In addition to the Boat School in Bayside, you get to learn how to fly (Flight School) which will come in very handy later on.

There are 9 story missions in the Desert.

Mike Toreno

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Monster	Use monster truck to get through the checkpoints around Tierra Robada before 6:30	1st: $5000 2nd: $4000 3rd: $3000 4th: $2000 5th: $1000	Highjack
Highjack	Jack a Tanker truck on the highway with Cesar	$7000	Interdiction
Interdiction	Protect Toreno's allied helicopter from enemy choppers in Arco del Oeste, retrieve the package, then deliver it to Las Brujas	$1000	Verdant Mission
Verdant Meadows	Buy Verdant Meadows airstrip cost $80,000	Save point (no closet) at Verdant Meadows airfield	Learning to Fly Race tournament access (will open after received a call from Jethro in the middle of the mission) (Must finish Puncture Wounds first)

Verdant Meadows Airstrip

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Learning to Fly	Finish Flying School	Increased Flying Skill Plane parked in the airstrip depending of the medals you won	N.O.E. Fender Ketchup
N.O.E.	Deliver the package from Toreno to Angel Pine agents using a Rustler, but Nap-of-the-Earth (radar)	$15,000	Stowaway
Stowaway	Use a bike to catch and board the Andromada cargo-plane Plant an explosive aboard Use stolen parachute and escape.	$20,000	Black Project
Black Project	Break into Area 69 and steal the black project	None	Green Goo
Green Goo	Use the newly-acquired jetpack to steal green goo from the military train	$20,000 Verdant Meadow airstrip as an asset Jetpack spawning at the airstrip	Saint Mark's Bistro (after Freefall and High Noon)

Las Venturas missions

CJ has regained much of his former status, maybe even improved it. He now owns assets in several businesses in San Fierro and also partnership in Woozie's casino. These missions basically ensure that C.J. survives the powerful competition of the Venturas mob element and asserts his gains towards reducing their threat.

There are 19 story missions in Las Venturas.

The Four Dragons Casino

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Fender Ketchup	Scare Johnny Sindacco	$5000 Respect	Explosive Situation
Explosive Situation	Steal the dynamite from a quarry	$7,000 Respect	You've Had Your Chips Architectural Espionage Quarry Mission
You've Had Your Chips	Get to the factory where Sindacco make fake chips and destroy their machines	$10,000 Respect	Don Peyote
Don Peyote	Rescue Kent Paul and Maccer from the desert	Respect	Intensive Care

Heist

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Architectural Espionage	Go to the City Planning Department and photograph Caligula's Palace blueprint	Respect	Key to Her Heart
Key to Her Heart	Follow the Caligula croupier; Millie Perkins. Don't spook her	Respect Millie Perkins as a girlfriend	Dam and Blast
Dam and Blast	Plant explosives in Generator Hall of Sherman Dam	Respect	Cop Wheels
Cop Wheels	Steal four police bikes and load them onto the circling Packer for Woozie	Respect	Up, Up and Away!
Up, Up and Away!	Steal a Cargobob from K.A.C.C. Fuels Use its magnet to grab a Securicar and deliver to Airstrip.	Respect Leviathan at Verdant Meadows	Breaking the Bank at Caligula's

Caligula's Casino

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Intensive Care	Rescue Johnny Sindacco from the Forelli Family	$5000 Respect	The Meat Business Misappropriation
The Meat Business	Take Ken Rosenberg to abattoir Escape from the abattoir alive	$8000 Respect	Fish in a Barrel Madd Dogg

Frank Tenpenny

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Misappropriation	Retrieve the dossier from an agent at Aldea Malvada	None	High Noon (after Freefall)

The Four Dragons Casino

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Fish in a Barrel	Meet Woozie at Four Dragons Casino to sign ownership deal with Mr. Farlie.	None	None

Madd Dogg

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Madd Dogg	Save Madd Dogg from falling, then take him to Ivory Towers Rehab before he dies.	None	High Noon

Caligula's Casino

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Freefall	Get a Dodo from Las Venturas International Airport Catch up with the plane full of Forelli hitmen Kill them and land the plane at the airport	$15,000 Respect	High Noon

Frank Tenpenny

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
High Noon	Meet C.R.A.S.H. at the desert ghost town where they intend to eliminate both Hernandez and C.J. Chase (white Buffalo) and kill Eddie Pulaski	None	Saint Mark's Bistro

Caligula's Casino

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Saint Mark's Bistro	Take a flight to Liberty City and assassinate the Forelli gang members in Marco's Bistro.	$20,000 Respect	Didier Sachs A Home in the Hills Breaking the Bank at Caligula's

Heist

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Breaking the Bank at Caligula's	Rob the Caligula's Palace.	$100,000	None

The Four Dragons Casino

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
A Home in the Hills	Recover Madd Dogg's Crib from Vagos druglord Big Poppa, who flees in his Phoenix and must be chased and eliminated.	Madd Dogg's Crib Respect	Vertical Bird

Los Santos missions

CJ has money, power, and respect, but his conscience still nags him about the unfinished business in the 'hood. He's been watching lame acts audition and wants some real closure on his sense of pending duty. He has to go back and reclaim the old neighborhood. With the news of Madd Dogg's release, it appears the time has arrived.

There are 8 story missions in Los Santos after the return.

Carl Johnson

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Vertical Bird	Steal a Hydra jet from the S.F. Naval Base Use it to destroy the spy ships in Tierra Robada Land the Hydra at Verdant Meadows.	$50,000 Respect Hydra at Verdant Meadows	Home Coming
Home Coming	Pick up Sweet at Pershing Square LCPD Retake the cul-de-sac.	Respect	Cut Throat Business Beat Down On B Dup
Cut Throat Business	Chase OG Loc to the Record Label using the Vortex and Kart.	Respect (also Vortex and Kart spawn around SA)	Riot (after Grove 4 Life)

Sweet

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Beat Down On B Dup	Retake Glen Park to locate B Dup and Big Bear.	Respect	Grove 4 Life
Grove 4 Life	Retake Idlewood (require 2 of 4 hoods to end) and don't let Sweet die.	$10,000 Respect	Riot (after Cut Throat Business)

Final missions

Name	Objectives	Reward	Unlocks
Riot	Drive Sweet to Ganton; avoid the riot.	None	Los Desperados
Los Desperados	Help Cesar and Los Aztecas retake El Corona from Los Santos Vagos.	Respect	End of the Line (after taking over 35% of gang territories in Los Santos)
End of the Line	Kill Big Smoke for his treachery, and rescue Sweet.	$250,000 Respect	Game completion

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas