Master guide
100+ Filming Locations You Should See In The USA, State by State
This is the master list of filming locations in the USA: the places where the camera actually stood in film and TV, arranged state by state, each with an address you can put into a map, a note on what the shot used it for, and a status saying whether it is still there. The film and TV locations here run from a delicatessen on East Houston Street to a red-dirt highway in southern Utah, and the list is written for people who intend to go, not for people who want a slideshow.
The rules are the same on every entry. A location earns its place when it can be tied to a real street, building or landform, and the addresses are given in the form a map will accept; a town name on its own is not enough. That is the whole test for the film and TV locations below. Each one is marked standing, changed or gone, and access is stated plainly: open, visible from public land, or private. Nothing here is padded out with a production that shot on a soundstage, because a soundstage is not somewhere you can stand.
How to use this index of film and TV addresses
The fifteen sections below are geographic, not alphabetical, because that is how a trip is actually planned. Several regions carry a deeper file of their own: the North Carolina coast, Madison County in Iowa, Monument Valley and the Burbank studio lot among them, and the entry here links straight through to it. The full location index lets you filter the same material by production and by status instead of by state.
Two practical notes before the list. Many of these sites are private homes whose owners did not choose to live in a landmark; the entries say so, and the correct behaviour is to look from the footpath and leave. And several of the best-known American locations sit inside national or state parks with entry fees and seasonal closures, so the access line is worth reading before a long drive.
New York City and the Hudson Valley
No American city has been filmed more often, which makes it the hardest section to keep honest: half of what tourists are told about New York locations turns out to be a soundstage in Queens. The entries below are the ones where the exterior is genuinely the building on screen.
Katz's Delicatessen · When Harry Met Sally (1989)
The corner table where the deli scene was shot is still in the room, and the counter service, the ticket system and the ceiling fans are unchanged. It is a working delicatessen with queues at lunchtime, not an attraction, so go early.
- Address
- 205 East Houston Street, Manhattan, New York
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Hook & Ladder 8 · Ghostbusters (1984)
The firehouse exterior is a working New York City fire station in Tribeca. Only the front elevation was used; the interior of the film was built elsewhere. There is no tour, and the apparatus doors need to stay clear.
- Address
- 14 North Moore Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Visible from public land
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Empire State Building observatory · Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
The 86th-floor observation deck is the meeting place at the end of the film and has been the same rendezvous in half a dozen others. The deck itself is intact; the ticketing hall and the approach through the lobby were rebuilt in the 2019 renovation, so the way in no longer matches what you have seen.
- Address
- 20 West 34th Street, Manhattan
- Status
- Changed
- Access
- Open, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Tiffany & Co., Fifth Avenue · Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
The opening scene was shot on the pavement outside the Fifth Avenue store in the early hours. The building is the same; the ground floor behind the windows was completely rebuilt during the 2019–2023 works, so the shopfront you photograph is authentic and the interior is not.
- Address
- 727 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
- Status
- Changed
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Washington Square Arch · When Harry Met Sally and many others
The arch and the fountain basin have appeared in so many New York films that the park works as a single stop for several of them. Public park, open all day, no restrictions on photography.
- Address
- Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County
The Hudson Valley towns north of the city carry the Washington Irving material and a long tail of period productions that needed a nineteenth-century main street within an hour of Manhattan. The Old Dutch Church burying ground is the anchor and is open to visitors.
- Address
- Old Dutch Church, 430 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, New York
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
New England: Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine
New England's screen locations cluster in three places; the coast, the university towns and Salem, which has effectively become a year-round film location because of one 1993 comedy.
Mystic Pizza · Mystic Pizza (1988)
The restaurant that gave the film its name is still on West Main Street and still a pizzeria. The interior used on screen was a set built elsewhere, so the exterior is the authentic part; the frontage has been repainted and re-signed since.
- Address
- 56 West Main Street, Mystic, Connecticut
- Status
- Changed
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Ropes Mansion · Hocus Pocus (1993)
The Georgian house used as Allison's home stands on Essex Street and is owned by the Peabody Essex Museum. The garden behind it is open to the public in season and is the better view; the house interior is not the one in the film.
- Address
- 318 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Garden open seasonally; house exterior only
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Old Town Hall, Salem · Hocus Pocus (1993)
The Halloween party hall in the film is Salem's 1816 Old Town Hall on Derby Square, a few minutes' walk from the Ropes Mansion. It is used for events, so opening is irregular; the square outside is always accessible.
- Address
- 32 Derby Square, Salem, Massachusetts
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Exterior open; interior by event
- Checked
- Aug 2026
L Street Tavern, South Boston · Good Will Hunting (1997)
The bar used for the film's neighbourhood scenes is a genuine South Boston pub and is still trading. Much of the rest of the production was shot in Toronto, which is why the Boston list for this film is shorter than most guides claim.
- Address
- 658 East Broadway, South Boston, Massachusetts
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Cape Neddick Light ("Nubble Light"), Maine
The most photographed lighthouse on the Maine coast and a recurring establishing shot for productions that need New England in one frame. The light sits on an islet; the viewing point is Sohier Park, which has parking and no admission charge.
- Address
- Sohier Park, Nubble Road, York, Maine
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open (viewpoint only; the island is closed)
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC
The mid-Atlantic corridor gives up three of the most-repeated shots in American cinema within a two-hour drive of each other, and all three are free to visit.
Philadelphia Museum of Art steps · Rocky (1976)
Seventy-two steps, climbed by several thousand people a day. The bronze statue that appeared in the third film now stands at the foot of the steps to the right instead of at the top, where it was originally placed; the one thing about this location that has moved.
- Address
- 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Elfreth's Alley, Philadelphia
The oldest continuously inhabited residential street in the country, and a standing double for colonial Philadelphia in period productions. The houses are private homes; two are open as a museum. Our full file on the alley covers the opening hours and the quieter end.
- Address
- Elfreth's Alley, off North 2nd Street, Philadelphia
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Street open; houses private
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Exorcist steps, Georgetown · The Exorcist (1973)
Seventy-five steep steps between Prospect Street and M Street, padded with rubber for the stunt and now a listed city landmark with a plaque at the top. They are a public right of way and a genuinely hard climb.
- Address
- 3600 Prospect Street NW, Washington DC
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool · Forrest Gump (1994)
The reunion scene was staged at the pool's eastern end. The basin was completely rebuilt in 2012 with a new lining and circulation system, so the water is cleaner and shallower than in the film, but the sightline to the memorial is unchanged.
- Address
- National Mall, Washington DC
- Status
- Changed
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Fell's Point, Baltimore · Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
The cobbled waterfront district stood in for the Baltimore half of the film. The east-coast file walks the whole route; the short version is that Thames Street and the harbour front are intact and the row houses are private.
- Address
- Thames Street, Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Carolinas: the busiest coast in American film
Wilmington's studio complex made coastal North Carolina the most-filmed stretch of shoreline in the country outside California. Four Nicholas Sparks adaptations, one long-running teen drama and a string of features share the same hundred and eighty miles.
Boone Hall Plantation · The Notebook (2004)
The avenue of live oaks and the main house were used for the Hamilton family home. The estate is open daily with an admission charge, and the oak avenue is the shot everyone comes for. Our Notebook file lists all eleven addresses in filming order.
- Address
- 1235 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Cypress Gardens, Moncks Corner · The Notebook (2004)
The blackwater swamp with the rowboat and the swans. The garden hires flat-bottomed boats on the same water, which is as close to the shot as any location on this list gets. It closes after heavy rain, so check before driving out.
- Address
- 3030 Cypress Gardens Road, Moncks Corner, South Carolina
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Southport waterfront · Safe Haven (2013) and Dawson's Creek
A small river port that has doubled for coastal America for thirty years. The general store used in Safe Haven trades under a different name, and the dock is public. The Southport file maps the walkable circuit.
- Address
- Bay Street waterfront, Southport, North Carolina
- Status
- Changed
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Inn at Rodanthe · Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
The most instructive entry in this index. The house used for the inn was not demolished, it was moved: erosion left it standing in the surf, and in 2010 it was lifted and relocated inland within Rodanthe, where it now operates as a rental. The beach in the film no longer exists.
- Address
- Rodanthe, Hatteras Island, North Carolina
- Status
- Changed (relocated 2010)
- Access
- Private rental; visible from the road
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Wilmington historic district · Dawson's Creek (1998–2003)
The series' town was assembled from Wilmington and Southport. The riverfront, the Henrietta III dock and the Carolina Apartments all appear. The studio complex itself is a working lot and is not open to casual visitors.
- Address
- Water Street and Front Street, Wilmington, North Carolina
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Georgia, Alabama and the Deep South
Chippewa Square, Savannah · Forrest Gump (1994)
The bench was a prop. It was placed on the north end of the square for the shoot, removed afterwards, and now sits inside the Savannah History Museum. The square is otherwise exactly as filmed, which makes this the clearest gone in the index: the location is intact and the thing people come for is not there.
- Address
- Chippewa Square, Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia
- Status
- Gone (bench relocated to the museum)
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Whistle Stop Cafe, Juliette · Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
The cafe was created for the film in a disused hardware store and then kept as a working restaurant after the crew left, which is unusual enough to be worth the detour. The rest of the village is one street long.
- Address
- 443 McCrackin Street, Juliette, Georgia
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie · Interview with the Vampire (1994)
The quarter-mile avenue of twenty-eight live oaks predates the house by a century and is the reason the estate keeps being cast. Open daily; the avenue photographs best in the first hour.
- Address
- 3645 Highway 18, Vacherie, Louisiana
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Montgomery, Alabama · civil rights sites on screen
The Rosa Parks Museum stands on the corner where the 1955 arrest took place, and the route of the bus line has been used in several dramatisations. Our Montgomery file covers what is marked on the ground and what is only commemorated.
- Address
- 252 Montgomery Street, Montgomery, Alabama
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Chicago and Illinois
John Hughes filmed most of his career inside a thirty-mile radius of the Loop, which is why the northern suburbs carry more recognisable private houses than anywhere else in the country.
The Art Institute of Chicago · Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
The gallery sequence was shot in the museum itself and the paintings are still hung in the same rooms, including the Seurat the camera pushes into. The lion statues on Michigan Avenue are the establishing shot.
- Address
- 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Ben Rose House, Highland Park · Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
The glass-and-steel pavilion that held the Ferrari. It is a private residence set back in woodland and there is very little to see from the road; it is listed here because it is the most frequently misreported address on any Chicago location list.
- Address
- 370 Beech Street, Highland Park, Illinois
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Private, no access
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The McCallister house, Winnetka · Home Alone (1990)
A private family home on a residential street. The exterior, the front door and the staircase landing visible from the path are the ones in the film; the interior was partly recreated on a stage. Residents ask visitors to stay on the footpath, and that request is reasonable.
- Address
- 671 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka, Illinois
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Private; visible from the street
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Evanston and the north-shore suburbs · Uncle Buck (1989)
The house, the school and the diner all sit within a few miles of each other in the same suburbs Hughes used for everything else. The Uncle Buck file covers what survives and what has been rebuilt.
- Address
- Evanston, Illinois
- Status
- Changed
- Access
- Private; streets open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Chicago Union Station, Great Hall · The Untouchables (1987)
The staircase sequence was shot on the Great Hall stairs, which are unchanged and in daily use by commuters. Photography is allowed in the hall; the platforms are not the location.
- Address
- 225 South Canal Street, Chicago, Illinois
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Iowa and the Plains
Roseman Covered Bridge · The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
The bridge Francesca leaves the note on. It is the best preserved of the six surviving Madison County bridges and stands on its original abutments over Middle River. Our bridges file gives the driving order for all six.
- Address
- Roseman Bridge Road, south-west of Winterset, Iowa
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Field of Dreams · Field of Dreams (1989)
The diamond cut into the maize and the white farmhouse behind it were left in place after the shoot and are maintained as a visitor site. The corn is real and is replanted every season, so the outfield only closes in at the end of summer.
- Address
- 28995 Lansing Road, Dyersville, Iowa
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, seasonal
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Holliwell Bridge, Madison County
The longest of the county's bridges and the one used for the second bridge sequence. It is a short drive south-east of Winterset on a gravel road that is passable in a normal car in dry weather.
- Address
- Holliwell Bridge, south-east of Winterset, Iowa
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Utah, Arizona and the desert southwest
The southwest is where American cinema built its own landscape vocabulary, and almost all of it is on public land: which makes this the easiest region on the list to visit and the hardest to photograph without a very early start.
US 163, Monument Valley · Forrest Gump (1994)
The running scene was shot on the highway north of Mexican Hat, looking south at the buttes. It is a live road with a 65 mph limit and no shoulder at the exact spot, which is the one genuine hazard in this index. The Monument Valley file gives the safe pull-off.
- Address
- US 163, near mile marker 13, north of Mexican Hat, Utah
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Public highway: park safely, do not stand in the road
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park · John Ford westerns
The valley floor is on Navajo Nation land with its own entry fee, separate from the National Park system. The Ford Point overlook is the sightline used repeatedly from Stagecoach onwards and is reachable on the scenic drive.
- Address
- Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Dead Horse Point State Park · Thelma & Louise (1991)
The canyon rim used for the final shot is not the Grand Canyon, as the film implies, but a Utah state park two thousand feet above a bend in the Colorado. The overlook has railings and a car park and is a short walk from either.
- Address
- Dead Horse Point State Park, near Moab, Utah
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Double Arch, Arches National Park · Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The opening sequence was staged beneath the twin spans. The approach is a short, flat walk from the Windows Section car park; the park operates a timed-entry system in the busy months, so the ticket has to be booked in advance, not bought at the gate.
- Address
- Double Arch, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, timed entry
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Horseshoe Bend, Page, Arizona
A modern establishing shot rather than a classic location: the meander has appeared in a stream of features and series since the site was paved and railed in 2018. The walk from the car park is three-quarters of a mile with no shade.
- Address
- Horseshoe Bend, off US 89, Page, Arizona
- Status
- Changed (railed and surfaced 2018)
- Access
- Open, parking fee
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Texas and the southern plains
The Alamo, San Antonio
The mission chapel has been filmed since the silent era. What visitors are often not told is that most feature-length Alamo pictures were shot on a purpose-built replica at Brackettville, ninety minutes west, so the chapel is the establishing shot and not the battle set.
- Address
- 300 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Texas
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Marfa and the Reata site · Giant (1956)
The mansion facade built on the plain outside Marfa was a timber frame, and only a few uprights remain standing on private ranch land. It is visible from US 90 at distance. The town itself has become a location in its own right for productions wanting west Texas without the drive further out.
- Address
- US 90 west of Marfa, Presidio County, Texas
- Status
- Gone (frame remnants only)
- Access
- Private land; visible from the highway
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Colorado and the Rockies
The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park
The hotel that prompted the novel behind The Shining, and the location used for the 1997 television adaptation, but not for the 1980 film, whose exteriors were shot in Oregon. Both facts matter if you are travelling to stand in a specific shot.
- Address
- 333 Wonderview Avenue, Estes Park, Colorado
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open (hotel; tours ticketed)
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Pacific Northwest
Seattle and the Oregon coast supply a particular kind of American exterior (water, timber and low cloud) and the region has two of the most-visited private houses on this list.
The Lake Union houseboat · Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
A private floating home on a gated dock on the western shore of Lake Union. There is no public access to the dock; the house is best seen from the water, and the Seattle file gives the boat routes that pass it.
- Address
- Westlake Avenue North, Lake Union, Seattle, Washington
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Private; visible from the water
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Pike Place Market, Seattle
The market arcade and the first Starbucks frontage appear in a long run of Seattle-set productions. It is a working produce market and is at its emptiest before nine.
- Address
- 85 Pike Street, Seattle, Washington
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood · The Shining (1980)
The Overlook's exterior. The lodge is a working hotel and ski base at six thousand feet, open year round; the maze in the film did not exist here and was built on a stage in England.
- Address
- 27500 East Timberline Road, Government Camp, Oregon
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Goonies house, Astoria · The Goonies (1985)
A private Victorian house on a steep street above the Columbia River. Access has been opened and closed repeatedly by successive owners in response to visitor numbers; treat it as private and view from the road below.
- Address
- 368 38th Street, Astoria, Oregon
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Private; visible from the street
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Salish Lodge, Snoqualmie Falls · Twin Peaks (1990)
The Great Northern Hotel exterior, above a two-hundred-and-sixty-eight-foot waterfall. The lodge is open and the falls have a free public viewing platform and a lower trail.
- Address
- 6501 Railroad Avenue SE, Snoqualmie, Washington
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the one city on this list where the film industry is the local industry, and where a location may be a genuine building, a standing set, or both at once.
Griffith Observatory · Rebel Without a Cause (1955), La La Land (2016)
The planetarium terrace and the bust of James Dean on the west lawn. Admission to the building is free; parking on the hill is limited and the shuttle from the Greek Theatre is the reliable way up in the evening.
- Address
- 2800 East Observatory Road, Los Angeles, California
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Bradbury Building · Blade Runner (1982)
An 1893 office building whose skylit atrium of open ironwork and hydraulic lifts has been cast repeatedly as the future. The lobby and the first landing are open to visitors during office hours; the upper floors are private offices.
- Address
- 304 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Lobby open on weekdays
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Angels Flight, Bunker Hill · La La Land (2016)
A hundred-metre funicular that has been closed and reopened several times in its life, including a four-year closure that ended in 2017. It runs again, takes a card, and the ride lasts under a minute.
- Address
- 351 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, California
- Status
- Changed
- Access
- Open, fare
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Vasquez Rocks, Agua Dulce
The tilted sandstone slabs north of Los Angeles have stood in for other planets, the old west and prehistory since the 1930s. It is a county natural area with a free car park and marked trails, forty minutes from the city.
- Address
- 10700 West Escondido Canyon Road, Agua Dulce, California
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Warner Bros. lot, Burbank
A working studio with a public tour that goes onto the backlot streets and into standing sets. It is the one entry here where the location is only reachable with a ticket and a guide: our studio tour file covers what the tour does and does not include.
- Address
- 3400 West Riverside Drive, Burbank, California
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Guided tour only, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Northern and coastal California
Bixby Creek Bridge, Big Sur
The most filmed piece of road engineering in the country and the establishing shot for a long list of coastal productions. Parking is a handful of unsurfaced pull-offs at the northern end; the southbound approach gives the classic angle. Our coast road file sets it in the wider drive.
- Address
- Highway 1, Big Sur, Monterey County, California
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open (road subject to landslide closures)
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Mission San Juan Bautista · Vertigo (1958)
The mission, the courtyard and the stable are the ones on screen. The bell tower is not: it had already been demolished before filming and was added as a matte painting, which makes this the most famous location in America that never existed.
- Address
- 406 2nd Street, San Juan Bautista, California
- Status
- Changed (tower never existed)
- Access
- Open, donation
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Fort Point, San Francisco · Vertigo (1958)
The brick fort directly under the southern anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge, where the bay scene was shot. It is a national historic site with free entry and limited opening days.
- Address
- Long Avenue & Marine Drive, Presidio, San Francisco
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open on scheduled days, free
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Potter Schoolhouse, Bodega · The Birds (1963)
The schoolhouse the children run from is in Bodega, several miles inland from Bodega Bay, which is where most visitors look for it. It is a private property; the road outside is public.
- Address
- 17110 Bodega Lane, Bodega, California
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Private; visible from the road
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay
The cell house, the yard and the dock have been used by a long run of prison pictures. Ferry tickets sell out weeks ahead in summer and are the only lawful way onto the island.
- Address
- Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, ferry ticket required
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Hawaii
Kualoa Ranch, Oahu · Jurassic Park (1993)
The valley floor with the fallen tree, and a long list of productions since. The ranch is private working land and can only be entered on one of its tours, which is also the only way to reach the specific meadow.
- Address
- 49-560 Kamehameha Highway, Kaneohe, Hawaii
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Guided tour only, ticketed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Turtle Bay Resort, Oahu · Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
The hotel is the one in the film and is still trading, but it was rebuilt and rebranded in a major refurbishment, so the reception and the pool deck no longer match the shot. The beach and the headland are unchanged and are public.
- Address
- 57-091 Kamehameha Highway, Kahuku, Oahu, Hawaii
- Status
- Changed
- Access
- Beach public; hotel open to guests
- Checked
- Aug 2026
What this index leaves out, and why
Three categories of film and TV location are deliberately missing, state by state. Sound-stage interiors are excluded because there is nowhere to stand. Locations whose address cannot be established from a source better than another location list are excluded, which removes a surprising number of frequently repeated entries. And private homes whose owners have asked not to be listed are excluded even where the address circulates elsewhere.
Entries move between statuses over time, and that is the point of dating each one. A building that was standing in 2019 may be changed now; the Rodanthe house on this list has physically moved, and the bench in Savannah has left the square entirely. If you are planning a trip around a single location, the status line and the check date are the two lines to read.
For a filterable view of the same material, use the location index. For the regional deep files, start with the United States hub, and for the practical side of an American trip (SIM cards, tipping, road distances) see travel tips.
Planning a USA trip around these filming locations
The fifteen regions above do not combine. A useful rule for the United States is that any two states which do not share a border are a flight rather than a drive, and that holds for almost every pairing on this list. What follows are the four circuits that actually work, each built from entries in this index.
| Circuit | Days | Entries covered | Base |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Carolina coast | 3–4 | Southport, Wilmington, Rodanthe, and the South Carolina Notebook locations | Charleston and Wilmington |
| The desert southwest | 5–7 | Monument Valley, Dead Horse Point, Double Arch, Horseshoe Bend | Las Vegas or Phoenix |
| The Californian coast | 3 | Bixby Creek, San Juan Bautista, Fort Point, Bodega, the Los Angeles entries | San Diego to San Francisco |
| The north-east | 4–5 | New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Salem, Mystic | New York, mostly by train |
The Midwest entries (Chicago, Madison County, Dyersville) sit awkwardly in all four and are best treated as their own two-day trip out of Chicago.
Private houses, and how to behave at them
Roughly a quarter of the entries above are somebody's home. The owners did not choose to live in a landmark, several have had visitors on their lawns and cameras at their windows, and at least two of the most famous have been sold partly because of it.
The rules are short. Stay on the public footpath or the road. Do not photograph through windows. Do not go up a driveway, ring a bell, or ask to look inside. Do not park across a private entrance. If a house has a sign asking visitors not to stop, that request is the owner's and it stands regardless of what a tour map says.
This index gives a street number only where the property is a public building, a business, or a house whose address is already published by its owner. Where it gives a street or a district instead, that is deliberate.
Seasons, by region
- The southwest: March to May and September to November. Summer on the desert floor is dangerous, not merely hot, and several of the entries have no shade at all.
- The Carolinas and the Deep South: spring and late autumn. Summer is humid and is hurricane season from August.
- New England and the north-east: September and October for the light, December for the towns, and April for the fewest people.
- The Pacific north-west: July to September. The rest of the year is wet, and the Oregon coast entries are exposed.
- California: September and October are the clearest. Summer mornings on the coast are fogged in until midday.
How this index is maintained, state by state
Every entry above appears in the location index, which is generated from these pages after each build, so a row there and an entry here cannot disagree about an address, a status or a check date. Nothing is typed into that table by hand.
Entries move between statuses. A building standing in 2019 may be changed now; the Rodanthe house on this list has physically moved, the bench in Savannah has left the square, and the Seattle waterfront has lost the viaduct that ran along it. That rate of change is the reason each entry carries a month rather than a claim to be current, and the reason a gone entry keeps its place rather than being deleted.
Two more North Carolina and California entries
Biltmore Estate, Asheville · Richie Rich (1994)
The Rich family mansion is Biltmore, the largest privately owned house in the United States, built for George Vanderbilt and completed in 1895. The exterior, the front lawn and the approach were used; the interiors in the film were sets.
The estate is open daily on a timed ticket that also covers the gardens and the winery, and it is a full day, not a stop. It is four hours west of the Carolina coast locations, in the mountains, and does not combine with them in a single trip.
- Address
- 1 Lodge Street, Asheville, North Carolina
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Open, ticketed, timed
- Checked
- Aug 2026
The Warner Ranch, Burbank · Hart of Dixie (2011–2015)
The small southern town in the series is a standing backlot set in Burbank, several miles from the main studio lot, and not a town in Alabama. The square, the shopfronts and the gazebo are permanent facades that have played small-town America for decades under different names.
The ranch is not on the public tour route and cannot be visited. It is listed here because it is the clearest example of the category this index otherwise excludes: a place that is not a place. The studio tour file covers what of the Burbank operation can actually be seen.
- Address
- Warner Ranch, Burbank, California
- Status
- Standing
- Access
- Private, no public access
- Checked
- Aug 2026
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations in the USA does this index cover?
Around sixty entries across fifteen regions, each with an address or a landform description precise enough to navigate by. The count is deliberately lower than the hundred-plus the title has carried since 2019: an entry only ships once its location can be pinned to a real place, and a production that cannot be pinned is left out, not described vaguely.
Are all of these film and TV addresses open to the public?
No, and each entry says which it is. Roughly half are public land, parks or businesses you can walk into. The rest are private houses, working studio lots or gated sites that can only be seen from the street. Where a location is private, the entry says so and describes what is visible from public ground.
What does the status on each entry mean?
Standing means the building or landform is still there and still recognisable. Changed means it survives but has been rebuilt, repainted, relocated or converted enough that the shot no longer matches. Gone means it has been demolished or removed. A gone entry keeps its place in the index instead of being deleted, because a reader who drives to a car park has been failed either way.
How often is this filming locations index checked?
Each entry carries the month it was last checked, and the date on the page header is the most recent sweep across all of them. A dated check that has aged is more useful than an undated claim to be current, which is why the month is printed rather than implied.
Where do the illustrations on this page come from?
Every image on this site is made for it. Stills, posters and publicity photographs belong to the studios that made them, so the entries describe what the camera pointed at instead of showing it: which is also the more useful thing when you are standing in the same spot.