![]() ![]() The bridge – at the end of those steps – is gone. One is visible the by boat that was used in one scene, but the steps where Baby (Jennifer Grey) practiced her dance steps is on private property and is out of public view. There are two sets of rock stairs in that general area. “People would take pieces of Johnny’s cabin or a rock from the rock wall. “Over the years people would just come and see what was left,” Michelle Yelton, co-founder of the town’s annual Dirty Dancing Festival, said. However, there are only a few rocks remaining. (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri) Our boat tour of Lake Lure, at the edge of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, had just pulled into Firefly Cove. It served as the fictional quarters for the movie’s resort staff. Most of the filming in Lake Lure happened at a closed boys’ camp. The other was at Mountain Lake Lodge in Virginia. Western North Carolina was one of two locations used to create the “Kellerman’s Resort” for the movie set in the Catskills during the summer of 1963. More specifically, the exteriors scenes at. Mountain Lake Hotel in Virginia was one of the filming locations for the 1987 blockbuster movie Dirty Dancing starring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Gray. Like Kellerman's, the real Mountain Lake Hotel Resort also offers. The Kellerman Resort featured in Dirty Dancing is actually the Mountain Lake Lodge in Pembroke Virginia. Anyone who has seen Dirty Dancing knows that the lake is an integral. Step into Johnny and Babys dancing shoes at Mountain Lake Lodge. Celebrate the now iconic 1987 film at a festival in the North Carolina mountains this weekend. The Stone Lodge stood in for 'Kellerman's Resort', a fictional mountain retreat in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. The hotel is instantly recognizable to fans of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing as Kellerman’s Resort, the luxurious summer. (WSPA) – It’s been 35 years since moviegoers started having the time of their lives.ĭirty Dancing debuted in movie theaters on August 21, 1987, and much of the film was shot in Lake Lure. Mountain Lake Hotel was the site for much of the on-location filming of the 1987 hit movie Dirty Dancing which starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Virginia Places /CC BY-NC-SA 3. Voted one of the Top 10 'Most Beautiful Man Made Lakes in the World' by National Geographic, it is easy to see why Hollywood had chosen Lake Lure and this picturesque part of the country to film these two successes.LAKE LURE, N.C. The famous lake gazebo from the fictional Kellermans Resort in 'Dirty Dancing' now juts into a sea of grass and weeds. 'The Last of the Mohicans' was also filmed at Lake Lure. 'Dirty Dancing' was not the only film that put Lake Lure on the map. Swayze and Grey stripped down to light summer clothing, to repeatedly dive into the cold water.ĭespite her character's enjoyment, Grey later described the water as 'horrifically' cold, and she might not have gone into the lake, except that she was 'young and hungry'. Heres how the Dirty Dancing resort looks today and Mountain Lake Lodge, the backdrop for many scenes in the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing. ![]() The crew wore warm coats, gloves, and boots. ![]() The uncooperative weather then took a different turn, plunging from oppressive heat to down near 40 ☏ (4 ☌), causing frigid conditions for the famous swimming scene in October. Located in the heart of the Western North Carolina mountains, near Chimney Rock State Park.Īfter the Boys Camp reluctantly closed its doors in 1982, Hollywood discovered the property’s captivating setting and subsequently used the landscape – as well as the camp’s original cabins, gym and dining hall – to film the blockbuster hit, Dirty Dancing.ĭelays in the shooting schedule pushed filming into the autumn, which required the set decorators to spray-paint the autumn leaves green. Its based in Southwest Virginia which is much further south. Firefly Cove offers mountain and lakefront properties on Lake Lure. Mountain Lake Lodge is the name of the real resort where the majority of Dirty Dancing was shot. ![]()
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