Location or Category

We recommend you use the location system that is built in, as opposed to creating tags or categories for locations.

Try starting with adding listings in each of the areas/neighbordhoods/cities you will be serving or focusing on, then, when using full location in the URL, check the location page to see the layout. Add widgets to the layout to show all the different CPTs or featured listings so the location page is robust.

Once yo uupgrade to GDV2 you can also make a type of ‘landing page’ using GD Listing and GD Map focused on a specific city, too, maybe with some special design or focused on a particular category.

If you have a list of locations you will serve, then you can also just as easily put links to the location pages into the menu.

Check your GD pages

GD – Settings – General – Pages

Look for the location page there and click ‘view’

For more info about permalinks see:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/geodirectory/settings/permalinks/

The pages already exist, probably, if you have added listings there.
Are you using the location in the detail page URL?

a location page URL is like

/LOCATION_SLUG/%country% or
/LOCATION_SLUG/%country%/%region%/ or
/LOCATION_SLUG/%country%/%region%/%city%/

So, if you have location in the detail page URL, you should be able to place your location slug in there and find the location page.

You should also try out this element to get those URLs.
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/geodirectory/design-elements/#gd_locations

Please share a link to the location page.
Your regions should be there in the URL, no?
So, if you knock off the city, you get the region location page.

Then, once you have the URL, you can add a link to it anywhere you like.

Sure thing.

For what it’s worth, Archive pages can work the same way, but what you usually want to do is have a list of categories, and then the categories added to your menu through the WP Menu settings -> GeoDirectory Place Categories (example)

These links will be updated with the current location automatically, or you could get the ones pointing to your two featured states and hardcode the links into the menu. These are the same links shown in the GD Categories widget.