Friday, March 20, 2009

The Twilight Movie Location Travel Guide

Tonight at midnight, retailers around the United States are staying open late for an early-morning release of the much-anticipated two-disc DVD set of Twilight. The film hit theaters back in November and became a smash-hit, raking in just under $200 million in domestic box-office receipts alone. The film was based on the first novel of an equally popular series of books from author Stephenie Meyer that involves the relationship between a teenager and a century-old vampire.

The books are set in and around the small, yet very real, city of Forks, Washington (see Forks, Washington), which has seen over a 50% increase in tourism from fans of the series. The popularity and interest in seeing the locations in the book firsthand completely caught the city off-guard, but they have firmly embraced the interest and the fans - With the Chamber of Commerce going so far as to create a driving tour of the various locales (see Forks Chamber of Commerce Twilight Tours).

The filmmakers behind the big screen adaptation of Twilight were interested in filming in the real Forks (and La Push and Port Townsend), but found that the cities were too small to accommodate the cast and crew of a major motion picture production. In addition, the state of Oregon to the south of Washington stepped up to the plate and offered similar settings and a major incentive to lure the production to the state. Filming commenced in northern Oregon (with some filming in southern Washington) and included such Oregon cities as St. Helens, Vernonia, Portland, Oregon City, Carver and more. Needless to say, the locations used in the film have seen a similar growth in tourism to the area.

Filming is already underway on the next entry in the series, New Moon, but the state of Oregon was unable to match the incentives offered in first film and the production has again relocated - this time to Vancouver, British Columbia with a few extra weeks of filming in Italy. However, in anticipation of the DVD's release, we figured we would revisit its time in Oregon and include the list of that actual locations used in the production of Twilight; including both locations seen in the theatrical version, as well as a few that will most likely emerge on the DVD's deleted scenes.

Twilight Film Locations:
If those are not enough for you, we also offer the individual Washington locations in Forks, La Push, and Port Townsend from the books that are considered the "must-stops" for fans of the series. We are still hard at work and tracking down more locations from the books, as well as starting the preliminary scouting of locations used in the upcoming sequel, New Moon. Stay tuned!

-Casey H.

11 comments:

Chris 'Frog Queen' Davis said...

Amazing blog. Thanks for sharing this information.

I live up where most of the filming took place, great locations! Even had the View Point Inn donate to our charity fundraiser for our Twilight gift baskets.

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Carolyn said...

Love your site!

Any idea where these sites were filmed in Oregon or Washington?
1. Cullen House -Portland, OR ?
2. Scene overlooking the river with the logs sticking up.
3. Baseball Scene -meadow

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This blog post is amazing, It's so informative and is beginning to help me formulate a trip to Oregon (I live in England!) This is the best page I've found about the locations so far... Utterly astounding, Amazing work!

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Peter Smith said...

Awesome info - we used it when visited Forks and La Push when we cycling all the down the Pacific Coast. See our twilight photos and blog here: http://www.peteandianhittheroad.co.uk/2011/09/forks-la-push-twilight/

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