Many of thee broad lake scenes were then cut into the film and those were from the lake in Virginia where the hotel and dining hall were located. The actual lift scene was film in a small pond on the golf course at Rumbling Bald Resort because it was during cold weather and they were able to heat the pond. If you want to get your Instagram shot, though, you’ll have to make do at the Lake Lure Welcome Center down the road. From a boat, you can see the steps where Jennifer Grey practiced her dancing. Some ruins are there, but they’re back in a residential development called Firefly Cove, and it’s blocked by a big fence and a gate.
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The dining hall from the movie was from an abandoned boys’ camp, and it’s long since gone.
I had my moment of joy.Įither way, though, there’s not much left of the actual Dirty Dancing set on the banks of Lake Lure. Maybe I was in the right place? Maybe not? I didn’t care. I took a beaming picture at what I assumed to be exact spot, only to notice later that the newspaper was not actually the same as the one in the movie. I found the place where Jim Carrey looks at an old newspaper headline about the moon landing and excitedly shouts “ We landed on the moon! ” as he walks out of the bar. But really, and I say this with love, who cares? Earlier this summer, I found myself at the hotel in Colorado where parts of Dumb & Dumber, the most formative movie of my youth, were filmed. The New York Times talked to Dirty Dancing ’s production designer a few years ago, who confirmed from notes that the lake lift happened in Virginia. This sort of confusion about movie filming locations tends to happen quite a bit.
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