Most of the Lake Lure locales are now gone, but some major ones-the gazebo, the main sand stone-front hotel and dining room, the front lawn, the kitchen, the Houseman family cabin-can still be found at Mountain Lake. (The ballroom where we see Baby and Johnny’s final dance, complete with Baby’s corner, was actually a converted gym located in North Carolina, which has since been demolished).
#Dirty dancing location now movie#
But the movie itself was shot at the Lodge, in Pembroke, Virginia, and various areas of Lake Lure, North Carolina. In the film, Kellerman’s Mountain House is located in upstate New York. Now people flock each summer to see the lake where Johnny and Baby practiced their lift-and the Mountain Lake Lodge is all too happy to welcome their devotees. Who could’ve imagined this would be the legacy of a movie whose initial test screenings were so bleak that it almost went straight to video? After producers took a gamble with a theatrical release, Dirty Dancing became one of the highest-grossing movies of 1987, producing a Grammy-winning original song and overnight stars in Patrick Swayze (as sultry Johnny Castle) and Jennifer Grey (as idealistic Baby Houseman). (Much of the movie was filmed at the Lodge, an able stand-in for the script’s fictional Catskills resort.) On any given year, the Lodge welcomes over 1,000 fans for these events this year, which marks the film’s 30th anniversary, they added another weekend due to increased demand.
The Lodge goes through roughly 100 watermelons during its peak summer months, when it hosts guests from all points of the globe for a series of Dirty Dancing-themed getaways. Perhaps it was a surprise there weren’t more. On a cloudless Sunday in late July, there was a smashed watermelon strewn across the otherwise pristine front lawn of the Mountain Lake Lodge.
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