Location from Steel Ball Run by Hirohiko Araki
Six thousand kilometers of 1890s America — from San Diego's Pacific coast to New York's Atlantic shore, through desert, mountain, prairie, and swamp, where a horse race and a holy war play out simultaneously.
The Steel Ball Run is officially the greatest horse race in history — 6,000 kilometers divided into multiple stages, each with its own checkpoint and prize allotment. 3,652 racers start in San Diego. Far fewer reach New York. Officially, they drop out from exhaustion, injury, and the brutal terrain. Unofficially, Stand users, government agents, and the supernatural zones called Devil's Palms claim dozens. The race route is both setting and character. The emptiness of the American interior is where alliances form and battles happen unseen. The isolation forces racers into proximity — you can't avoid your rival when there's one water source for fifty miles. The landscape itself is hostile: flash floods, sandstorms, predators, and the sheer crushing distance. Steven Steel organized it. Funny Valentine funded it. The racers run it. None of them fully understand what's beneath the surface — literally. The Saint's Corpse parts are scattered along the route, and the Devil's Palms appear where the corpse's influence warps reality.
The route spans the entire American continent from west to east. It begins at the San Diego coastline with packed-earth starting gates and a roaring crowd, then plunges into the Sonoran desert — red rock, saguaro cactus, heat shimmer on the horizon. It crosses the Rocky Mountains through treacherous passes, opens onto the vast Great Plains where the sky is bigger than the land, threads through Midwestern river towns and Southern bayous, climbs the Appalachians, and terminates in New York City. The landscape changes weekly. The danger never does.
Also known as: The Steel Ball Run, The Race, SBR