Navigating the treacherous landscape of Tarkov's Shoreline can feel like trying to find your way through a dense, shifting fog. For both seasoned veterans and wide-eyed beginners, this map serves as a brutal proving ground, where survival hinges not just on combat prowess but on the intimate knowledge of its escape routes. The map's layout, with its southern coastline, northern mountains, and the skeletal network of pylons stretching through its heart, provides a deceptive simplicity. Yet, within this arena, the extraction points are the critical lifelines, the fragile tethers that connect a successful raid to a triumphant return to the hideout. Understanding their locations, requirements, and associated risks is the key to transforming from prey into predator on this unforgiving stretch of coastline.
PMC Extraction Points: The Main Arteries of Escape
For the elite PMC operators, Shoreline offers several primary exits, each with its own character and strategic considerations.
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Path to Lighthouse: Nestled in the northeastern quadrant, this exit is a journey through the woods. Players must find the clearing north of the Flooded Village, a place where the forest thins like a receding hairline. Following the pylons westward from the rock face leads to a white fence; the path lies just beyond it. This exit is a patient hunter's dream, offering cover but also long sightlines for ambushes.
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Tunnel: Perhaps the most straightforward exit to locate, the Tunnel sits in the far southwestern corner. One simply follows the coastal road west from the main port until stumbling upon a scene of automotive carnage—a tunnel choked with the wreckage of buses and cars. This metallic graveyard offers sporadic cover, but the long coastal approach is a sniper's paradise, making the final dash to the tunnel entrance a heart-pounding sprint. It’s a location as predictable as a ticking clock, and just as dangerous.
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Pier Boat: Centrally located along the shoreline, marked by floating buoys, this exit requires more than just presence. It demands preparation: a flare gun and a green signal flare. Firing the flare from the wooden pier summons your escape, a beacon of hope in the gloom. Unlike some traps, entering the zone without the flare won't trigger automatic retaliation, but it will leave you stranded, a sailor without a ship.
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Railway Bridge: On the western map edge, this distinctive rusty bridge is a prime exit for those looting the rich port area. It can be approached by following the wide border river or the road from Customs. Its position directly opposite the Tunnel exit across the map makes it a strategic alternative or a dangerous chokepoint, often buzzing with activity.
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Road to Customs: Guarding the northwestern corner, north of the port's main entrance, this exit has a unique cooperative requirement. It only activates when multiple PMCs are present in the extraction zone, forcing uneasy alliances in the heat of the moment. The nearby radio tower and the long white fence serve as its silent sentinels.
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Azure Health Complex Exits: The resort at the map's center houses two potential PMC escapes, offering a tantalizing fast exit from the heart of the action.
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Admin Basement: Found by descending the central stairwell into the bowels of the complex, this exit is a claustrophobic but secure wait at the end of a long underground corridor.
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Gymnasium Exit: Located in the eastern wing of the resort, identifiable by an external children's play area and a gazebo. The exit is at the base of a stairwell on the far eastern wall, leading outside.
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Scav Extraction Points: The Shadows' Exits
For the opportunistic Scavengers, Shoreline provides a different set of escape hatches, often more discreet but no less perilous.
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Azure Coast (Resort): Two Scav exits exist within the resort itself, allowing for quick getaways after pillaging the medical complex.
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Lighthouse: Don't be fooled by the name; this is merely the site of a former lighthouse on a southern sandbank, now crowned with a crude Scav-built tower. Its proximity to the Pier Boat makes it an excellent ambush spot or a quick exit after scavenging the marina, a spider waiting at the edge of its web.
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North Fence Passage: A discrete forest exit in the northwest, near the Road to Customs. It's found at the northern terminus of the long white fence and is the only Scav exit in that quadrant, making it as valuable as a secret passage in a castle wall.
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Ruined Road: Directly adjacent to the Tunnel PMC exit, this Scav path follows a small coastal road upward. Marked by a few steps, it's best found by using the Tunnel wreckage as a landmark and veering left past a tall rock.
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Ruined House Fence: Centrally located in the far west between the Tunnel and Path to Lighthouse exits. Its convenience for Scavs leaving the eastern villages is offset by its exposure to better-equipped PMCs traversing the same area.
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Svetliy Dead End: Tucked away in the southern Abandoned Village, this exit is at the end of a small road, marked by a large truck parked as a blockade. Waiting by this metallic sentinel activates the escape, provided the exit is live.
Strategic Considerations & The Evolving Shoreline
As of 2026, knowledge of these points is only half the battle. The terrain of Shoreline itself is a character in the raid—thick forests and uneven ground provide cover for movement, while hills and peaks are natural perches for snipers, turning the landscape into a giant, lethal game of whack-a-mole. The developers' long-teased plans for interconnected map travel (where extracts like Path to Lighthouse or Road to Customs would lead directly to adjacent maps instead of the menu) remain a topic of fervent discussion within the community, a promised future that hangs over every raid.
The extraction points are not just destinations; they are narrative endpoints. The Pier Boat requires foresight and a specific tool. The Road to Customs demands temporary, fragile cooperation. The Tunnel is a blatant, high-traffic gamble. Choosing your exit is as important as choosing your fight. A player weaving from the loot-rich resort, through the cover of the forests, to a discreet Scav exit like North Fence Passage is executing a precise ballet of survival. Conversely, a PMC squad fighting their way to the cooperative Road to Customs exit is writing a short, brutal story of forced alliance.
In conclusion, mastering Shoreline is mastering its exits. They are the final, most critical objectives in a raid, the pressure valves that release the built-up tension of survival. Whether you are a PMC executing a clinical withdrawal or a Scav slinking away with a bag full of loot, your path off the map defines your success. Study these points, understand their contexts, and always have a backup plan. In Tarkov, the only true failure is failing to extract, and on Shoreline, that lesson is written in the geography itself.