the hotel that served as the exterior of the overlook hotel in the film the shining was located at the colorado rockies.
where was the hotel that served as the exterior of the overlook hotel in the film the shining located?
the colorado rockies
while most of the interior shots, and even some of the overlook exterior shots, were shot on studio sets, a few exterior shots were shot on location by a second-unit crew headed by jan harlan. saint mary lake and wild goose island in glacier national park, montana was the filming location for the aerial shots of the opening scenes, with the volkswagen beetle driving along going-to-the-sun road. the timberline lodge on mount hood in oregon was filmed for a few of the establishing shots of the fictional overlook hotel; notably absent in these shots is the hedge maze, something the timberline lodge does not have.
the shining (film)
"the shining" was published in 1977 and became the third great success of king's career after "carrie" and "'salem's lot". the primary setting is an isolated colorado resort called the overlook hotel which closes for the winter. in the front matter of the book, king tactfully states, "some of the most beautiful resort hotels in the world are located in colorado, but the hotel in these pages is based on none of them. the overlook and the people associated with it exist wholly in the author's imagination." king locates the overlook hotel near the fictional town of sidewinder which is supposed to be near estes park. the stanley hotel is never mentioned. notwithstanding king's efforts to explicitly differentiate the overlook hotel from the stanley, it seems that king imagined the stanley hotel as the setting of "the shining". room 217 of the overlook features prominently in the novel, having been the room where king spent the night at the stanley. this is the room on the second floor in the center of the west wing with a balcony overlooking the south terrace. room 217 remains the stanley's most requested accommodation.
the stanley hotel