If you remember Reese Witherspoon throwing her boots off a mountain ridge in the 2014 movie “Wild,” or recognize familiar places in “Animal House,” “The Goonies,” “Twilight,” “Stand By Me” or “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” then you know Oregon is home to many big-screen moments. How fitting, then, that we even have the world’s last Blockbuster store, in Bend. (There’s a film about that, too.)
Since 2020 alone, more than 50 films have been produced in Oregon, including big-screen favorites “Pig,” “First Cow” and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” — a stop-motion animated feature film that was named the Golden Globes’ best animated film of 2022. More recently, “Paradise Records” was filmed in downtown St. Helens, and “Breakup Season” was completely filmed in La Grande. Sci-fi horror film “New Life” was also partially filmed in Eastern Oregon, with the backdrop of the Wallowas setting the stage. Here’s how you can visit just about any Oregon film location that catches your imagination.
Our friends at Travel Oregon lay it all out. And follow the Oregon Film Trail using the SetJetters app while you’re at it!
