Where did they film The Shining with Jack Nicholson??
The establishing shots of the Overlook Hotel are of The Timberline Lodge located on the slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon. The Overlook, as seen in the film, doesn’t exist in real life, the interiors of the Timberline Lodge are different to Kubrick’s sets, however it is true to say the Overlook is an amalgamation of bits of real hotels located in the USA. For example, the blood red men’s room was modelled on a men’s room in a hotel in Arizona designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Colorado lounge was modelled on the lounge of the Ahwanee Hotel in the Yosemite Valley. Kubrick conceived the hotel with designer Roy Walker. Walker travelled around the USA photographing hotels which might be suitable for the story. Then they spent weeks going through the photographs making selections for the different rooms. Using the details in the photographs, working drawings were prepared from which small models were built. A mock up of a facade of the rear of the Timberline Lodge complete with hedge maze
