Twin Peaks (fictional town)

Twin Peaks, Washington is a fictional town that serves as the primary setting of the television series Twin Peaks, created by Mark Frost and David Lynch, and the associated films Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) and Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (shot 1991, released 2014). Although the series states that the town is "five miles south of the Canadian border, and twelve miles west of the [Washington-Idaho] state line" (i.e., within the Salmo-Priest Wilderness), most of the show's stock exterior footage was shot in the neighboring Washington towns of Snoqualmie, North Bend, and Fall City, around 25-30 miles from Seattle.

Lynch and Frost started their location search in Snoqualmie on the recommendation of a friend of Frost. In the area, they found all of the locations that they had written into the pilot episode.^[1] Common locations within the series originally filmed in the Snoqualmie area include the characters' various homes, the Sheriff's Department, the Double R Diner, The Great Northern Hotel, Big Ed's Gas Farm, and Twin Peaks High School. In addition, two supernatural locations are accessible through portals in the forests surrounding Twin Peaks: The Black Lodge and The White Lodge.

Although the pilot, Fire Walk with Me, The Missing Pieces, and many scenes in season 3 of the television series (2017) were shot on location in Washington state, for convenience, much of the filming for seasons 1 and 2 took place in the Los Angeles area. Many exterior scenes were filmed in wooded areas of Malibu, California,^[2] and most of the interior scenes were shot on standing sets in a San Fernando Valley warehouse.