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"Twilight" Walk of Fame, "Edward Cullan, Bella Swan, Forever", View Point Inn, Oregon.
Image taken June 27, 2009.
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"Twilight" ... the movie ...
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The vampire romance movie Twilight was released in 2008 and was the first film the a saga of five films. The first movie was filmed in many locations throughout southwest Washington and northwest Oregon.
A few of the filming locations are:
- Bridge of the Gods, Washington to Oregon ...
- Cape Horn, Washington ...
- Ecola State Park, Oregon ...
- Kadow's Marina, Vancouver, Washington ...
- Kalama, Washington ...
- Multnomah Falls, Oregon ...
- Oregon City, Oregon ...
- Oxbow Regional Park ...
- Prindle, Washington ...
- Silver Falls State Park, Oregon ... (non-Columbia River)
- St. Helens, Oregon ...
- Vernonia, Oregon ... (non-Columbia River)
- View Point Inn, Corbett, Oregon ...
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Some Columbia River filming locations ... (alphabetical)
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Bridge of the Gods ...
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Bridge of the Gods, Cascade Locks.
From the Oregon side, looking across the Columbia River at the toe of the Table Mountain Landslide.
Image taken May 13, 2005.
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Cape Horn, Washington ...
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In the scene where Edward and Bella are high in the trees, a wide-angle camera pan of the Columbia River shows the view from Cape Horn, Washington. Scene was shot at the Cape Horn (Nancy Russell) Overlook, a short hike in from the end of Strunk Road. This general view can also be seen from a pullout on Washington State Highway 14. Cape Horn is located 26 miles east of downtown Vancouver, Washington.
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Nancy Russell Overlook, Cape Horn Trail, Cape Horn, Washington.
Image taken August 24, 2013.
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Columbia River looking upstream from Cape Horn, Washington.
Skamania Island and Beacon Rock are in the distance.
Image taken April 22, 2006.
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Ecola State Park, Oregon ...
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View of the Oregon coastline, looking south, with Haystack Rock (far right), as seen from Ecola Point, Ecola State Park, Oregon.
Indian Beach is north of Ecola Point and not in this view.
Image taken July 14, 2010.
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Kadow's Marina, Vancouver, Washington ...
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Kadow's Marina is located on the Washington side across from Caterpillar Island. The marina is private but can be seen from the Lower River Road, eight miles west of downtown Vancouver, Washington. The houseboats where Charlie's friend Waylon was attacked were shot here.
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Kadow's Marina.
Image taken July 1, 2009.
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Kalama, Washington ...
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The outside of the Kalama High School and its parking lot were used as the Forks High School. Inside scenes however were filmed at the Madison High School in Portland.
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Kalama, Washington, "a Twilight location", as seen from Interstate 5.
Image taken July 6, 2011.
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Kalama High School, Kalama, Washington.
Image taken March 6, 2016.
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Multnomah Falls, Oregon ...
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Multnomah Falls is located on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, approximately 30 miles east of Portland. Take Interstate 84 east to the parking lot. In the movie "Twilight", as Bella and Edward are on their way to the vampire ballgame, Multnomah Falls is visible in the background. The baseball field was filmed on private land near Prindle, Washington.
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Multnomah Falls, Oregon, Benson Bridge.
Image taken March 6, 2005.
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"... we passed several beautifull cascades which fell from a great hight over the stupendious rocks which cloles the river on both sides nearly ... the most remarkable of these casscades falls about 300 feet perpendicularly over a solid rock into a narrow bottom of the river on the south side. it is a large creek, situated about 5 miles above our encampment of the last evening. several small streams fall from a much greater hight, and in their decent become a perfect mist which collecting on the rocks below again become visible and decend a second time in the same manner before they reach the base of the rocks.
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[Lewis, April 9, 1806]
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Oregon City, Oregon ...
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The "Grisham Mill", was really Oregon City's Blue Heron Paper Mill.
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Blue Heron Paper Company, Oregon City, Oregon.
View from moving car while heading east on Highway 99E.
Image taken January 8, 2015.
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Blue Heron Paper Company, Oregon City, Oregon.
View from moving car while heading east on Highway 99E.
Image taken January 8, 2015.
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Oxbow Regional Park, Portland, Oregon ...
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Oxbow Park was the location where Bella revealed that she knew Edward was a vampire.
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Prindle, Washington ...
St. Helens, Oregon ...
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The house that Bella and her father moved into was located in St. Helens, Oregon and the "Olde Towne" district in St. Helens stood in for Port Angeles, plus a few other scenes used St. Helens' buildings were used. The "Thunderbird & Whale" bookstore in the movie is really an attorney's office in real life and the "Bloated Toad" restaurant is a private residence. The parking lot where Edward came to save Bella is located off 2nd Street behind the 1st Street buildings. The big painted "Worthington" sign is still visible.
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"Worthington" sign, St. Helens, Oregon.
Image taken July 16, 2018.
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"Worthington" sign, St. Helens, Oregon.
Image taken July 16, 2018.
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Vernonia, Oregon ...
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Vernonia, Oregon, located _____ miles south of the Columbia River, was transformed into Forks, Washington, for filming many scenes. The opening hunting shots and some of the tree climbing scenes were shot here.
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View Point Inn, Corbett, Oregon ...
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The View Point Inn was the location of the Bella and Edward's high-school prom in the 2008 vampire hit "Twilight".
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View Point Inn, view from Chanticleer Point (Portland Women's Forum).
Image taken June 28, 2009.
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Sign, View Point Inn, Oregon.
Image taken June 27, 2009.
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View from the View Point Inn, Oregon.
Image taken June 27, 2009.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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