Unfortunately, the most iconic shot of the bunch – you know the one, the lake lift scene – didn't feature due to the fact that the lake has sadly dried up since filming wrapped all those years ago.
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Photo: Andrea David | Splendor Filmsįrom the gazebo in which dancer Penny Johnson led guests of the resort in a dance class, to Baby and Johnny's lush hiding spot from her family, the series perfectly taps into key moments of the film. Photo: Andrea David | Splendor Films (5_Blogger matches Dirty Dancing locations with stills from the cult film) Baby and Johnny hide out from her family in a lush part of the resort. (3_Blogger matches Dirty Dancing locations with stills from the cult film) Onscreen dancer Penny Johnson led guests of the resort in a dance class, Mountain Lake Lodge, Virginia. Therefore, it was clear that I wanted to make a stop there." David said. When I planned my big filming location road trip through the US (June 2017) I realised that the 'Kellerman Resort' would be on my way between Washington DC and Atlanta. Photo: Andrea David | Splendor FilmsĩHoney Travel caught up with the creative behind the lens, and as we suspected, David is a huge fan of the Patrick Swayze romance. Yes, Lake Lure, southeast of Asheville, is the film’s other location but it hasn’t fared so well as Mountain Lake in terms of what’s left to see.(1_Blogger matches Dirty Dancing locations with stills from the cult film) Real-life hotel Mountain Lake Lodge, Virginia, USA aka the 'Kellerman resort' featured in the film Dirty Dancing. Photo: Andrea David | (2_matches Dirty Dancing locations with stills from the cult film) Mountain Lake Lodge, Virginia. It’s often claimed that this famous scene was filmed at Lake Lure in North Carolina, but it wasn’t. It’s unlikely you’ll find enough water to practice your lifts like Baby and Johnny in the spot just down the path from the gazebo. The main building still overlooks what was the Houseman family’s cabin and the waterside gazebo where Mr Houseman ( Jerry Orbach) sulks after beloved daughter Baby ( Jennifer Grey) admits spending the night with cocky dance instructor Johnny Castle ( Patrick Swayze).īut what has happened to the lake? A geological anomaly has seen the water of Mountain Lake fluctuate dramatically until today it’s rarely more than a dry bed. The main location is the hotel itself, which is the Mountain Lake Lodge, Pembroke, off I-460 west of Roanoke, Virginia.
The film knits together two separate locations to represent the resort, neither of which is in the Catskills or even New York. The fictitious ‘Kellerman’s Mountain House’ was based on Grossinger's Catskill Resort, which stood near the town of Liberty from the Twenties until closing down in 1986, just a year before the film was released. More formally the Catskill Mountains, the area is in the southeastern part of New York State, about100 miles northwest of New York City or 40 miles southwest of Albany. The Houseman’s destination is the Catskills area of New York State, home to hotels owned by and catering to Jews – becoming dubbed the ‘Borscht Belt’. It’s the summer of ’63, Kennedy is still President and the Houseman family heads off for the annual holiday at a time when many resorts were still openly anti-Semitic in their policies.
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Looking back, I was a bit sniffy about Dirty Dancing in the first edition of The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations but it’s stood the test of time both as a musical romance and as a reminder of that period when the Fifties began to morph into the Sixties.
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