The exterior of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) was filmed at the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon.
Filming Details
Interiors were constructed and shot at Elstree Studios in England, with design inspiration from the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, California. The film's opening helicopter shots of Jack Torrance's car winding through mountains occurred along Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, Montana.
Real-World Inspiration
Stephen King's novel drew from the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, but Kubrick did not film there. The Timberline Lodge remains a ski resort and tourist draw for fans, though it lacks the movie's infamous hedge maze, which was a studio build.
