It’s often claimed that this famous scene was filmed at Lake Lure in North Carolina, but it wasn’t. The real-life Mountain Lake Lodge that provided much of the movie.
Like Kellerman’s the real Mountain Lake Lodge also offers many indoor and outdoor activities for guests. The Stone Lodge stood in for ‘Kellerman’s Resort’, a fictional mountain retreat in the Catskill Mountain of upstate New York. It’s unlikely you’ll find enough water to practice your lifts like Baby and Johnny in the spot just down the path from the gazebo. The fictional Kellermans resort was supposedly located in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Mountain Lake Lodge was the site for much of the on-location filming of Dirty Dancing. The main building still overlooks what was the Houseman family’s cabin and the waterside gazebo where Mr Houseman ( Jerry Orbach) sulks after beloved daughter Baby ( Jennifer Grey) admits spending the night with cocky dance instructor Johnny Castle ( Patrick Swayze).īut what has happened to the lake? A geological anomaly has seen the water of Mountain Lake fluctuate dramatically until today it’s rarely more than a dry bed. She took an ailing property, the Mountain Lake Lodge in Virginia, capitalized on its history as the filming location for the hit film, Dirty Dancing, and turned. The main location is the hotel itself, which is the Mountain Lake Lodge, Pembroke, off I-460 west of Roanoke, Virginia.
The film knits together two separate locations to represent the resort, neither of which is in the Catskills or even New York. The fictitious ‘Kellerman’s Mountain House’ was based on Grossinger's Catskill Resort, which stood near the town of Liberty from the Twenties until closing down in 1986, just a year before the film was released. More formally the Catskill Mountains, the area is in the southeastern part of New York State, about100 miles northwest of New York City or 40 miles southwest of Albany. The Houseman’s destination is the Catskills area of New York State, home to hotels owned by and catering to Jews – becoming dubbed the ‘Borscht Belt’. It’s the summer of ’63, Kennedy is still President and the Houseman family heads off for the annual holiday at a time when many resorts were still openly anti-Semitic in their policies.
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Looking back, I was a bit sniffy about Dirty Dancing in the first edition of The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations but it’s stood the test of time both as a musical romance and as a reminder of that period when the Fifties began to morph into the Sixties.
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