Where was it filmed?
I've scanned the databases with no success. Where was the movie filmed?
Thanks,
Mike
Oregon.
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It was filmed in Baker City, Oregon. The museum in Baker has a wonderful scale model of No-Name City and lots of film memorabilia.
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shareThe site of the filming was actually East Eagle Creek in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, about sixty miles from Baker. The shooting location was not Baker itself.
shareThe headquarters were in Baker City, in sparsely populated but beautiful Northeast Oregon. Almost all of Paint Your Wagon was filmed in the nearby Wallowa-Whitman National Forest on the edge of the Eagle Cap wilderness. Getting to the location involved driving on gravel Forest Service roads.
The filming location is "just plain lovely." How they found it I will never know. I visit every now and then.
Here is a video of the location, now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfPDy82y-c
To give you an idea of how remote it is, here are the driving directions:
Paint Your wagon Directions to the Site:
You can visit the Paint Your Wagon Movie Site In the summer months. It is located in Northeastern Oregon in Baker County, about 43 miles from Baker City. It is on rough but fair mountain roads. You will need to take enough gas, food and water to make the trip back to Baker City.
Warning !!!!!!!
Remember high mountain roads and this site is secluded.
Start at I-84 Highway 86 Interchange 0 miles (North Baker City)
Go on highway 86 east 20.9 miles to (mile post 23) turn left on Sparta Road (signs says Sparta 9 Miles) Gravel roads from here.
Turn left on East Eagle creek road at 25.7 miles
You will come to Forshye Meadows. (This is where the opening scene, wagons going across meadow was filmed. You should recognize it.
Keep going you will pass a old Cabin on your left at 30.5 miles
Take Empire gulch road 7015
36 miles Bridge over Eagle Creek Turn left (Very nice scenery)
38.7 miles Take East Eagle Road 7745
42.4 miles You are at the site and on the edge of the Eagle Cap Wilderness.
The "locations" site here says it was filmed in Big Bear CA as well as Baker, OR.
shareThe shots from the air of the wagon train at the beginning and the end were filmed near big bear lake. The close up shots of the individual characters at the end of the film were filmed outside of Baker City, OR.
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