This walkthrough for The Park – Chapter 23: Tracking Lesson in The Last of Us 2 (TLOU Part II) will guide you through all objectives. It also includes Collectibles and other Items (Artifacts, Trading Cards, Journal Entries, Training Manuals, Workbenches, Safes, Coins, Weapons, Upgrade Parts, Skill Unlock Supplements).
For other Chapters see The Last of Us 2 Walkthrough.
Day: The Park
Chapter: Tracking Lesson
Collectibles:
- Artifacts: 3
- Coins: 1
Find Your Dad
This chapter you are playing as Abby again in a flashback from 4 years ago. From the start of the chapter if you check your backpack you can see that you already have two of the artifacts (Thank You Card from Mel and Owen’s Drawing of Abby) already in your inventory, so there are only actually two more items to find through the course of this short chapter.
From where you start you can just head forward down the obvious forest path, continuing until you have to crouch under a fallen tree branch.
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In the next area with the buildings, go over to the right side inside the gazebo to find the only other artifact to pick up in this chapter, Zoo Holiday Brochure.
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Go over to the building and couch under the bars on the door to get inside.
Grab the bottle that will have fallen out of the garbage can, then throw it throw the window to the right to break it, allowing you to climb through it back outside.
Climb through the window, then go to the dumpster in the corner. Interact with the coin (Virginia) on it to pick it up, which is required to progress so this first one is unmissable. You can then pull the dumpster out and push it to be beside the building so that you can get up to the roof.
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Sprint-jump across to the other rooftop, then drop off on the right side going towards the metal archway.
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Follow Your Dad
Having caught up with Abby’s father, he wants her to check on something with him. Continue following him through the area.
Continue following him along the path for a while, then he will point out some tracks on the ground that you can inspect. After that, you will be in a closed-off area, where you can look to the left to find an item to interact with.
Find the Animal
Follow Abby’s dad through into the next area where you’ll then watch through a few cutscenes.
Enter the Room
After those cutscenes are done you’ll be in a hallway. Go through both doors at the end for some more cutscenes and the end of the chapter.
This finishes Chapter 23: Tracking Lesson in The Last of Us Part 2. Next is Chapter 24: The Stadium.
For all other Chapter Walkthroughs, check out our full The Last of Us 2 Walkthrough.
I was happy to see that the game’s creators were to clarify who Abby was really. In the beginning of the game when Joel was killed by her, it gave you a sense she was purely evil, but now that your playing her, you get to see another side of her you did not and how things lead up to how she has become later down the road. Like Ellie, you got to really feel for Abby and her losses too. Really good game all around.
I agree, after I played the game I couldn’t understand all the hate it got.