Where was How the West Was Won filmed?
1962 film by John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall
How the West Was Won (1962) was filmed in Inyo National Forest, Alabama Hills, Custer State Park and Uncompahgre National Forest — 4 recorded filming locations in the United States. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Alabama Hills
🇺🇸 United States
mountain range in the Owens Valley of Inyo County, California, United States
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Inyo National Forest
🇺🇸 United States
national forest in California and Nevada, United States
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Custer State Park
🇺🇸 United States
state park in South Dakota, United States
“Movies filmed in Custer State Park, include The Last Hunt (1956), How the West Was Won (1962) and A Man Called Horse (1970).” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Uncompahgre National Forest
🇺🇸 United States
national forest in Colorado, United States
Also per Wikipedia's article
The article names 8 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Rocky Mountains
🇺🇸 United States
major mountain range in western North America
“Parts of the film were shot in Monument Valley, Utah and in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California, Ohio River Valley, the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Colorado Rockies, the Rogue and McKenzie Rivers in Oregon.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Thousand Oaks
🇺🇸 United States
city in Ventura County, California, United States
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🛣 Streets & squares
Golden Gate Bridge
🇺🇸 United States
suspension bridge on the San Francisco Bay
“For instance, in the final shot, the Golden Gate Bridge appears to curve in perspective as the camera flies underneath it whereas in the Cinerama version, it breaks into three straight sections at different angles.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Wildwood Regional Park
🇺🇸 United States
regional park in Ventura County, California, United States
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Black Hills
🇺🇸 United States
mountain range in South Dakota and Wyoming and holy site of Native Americans
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🏙 Towns & cities
Oljato–Monument Valley
🇺🇸 United States
census-designated place in San Juan County, Utah, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Paducah
🇺🇸 United States
city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Ohio River
🇺🇸 United States
river in the midwestern United States
Places whose own article says it was shot there
1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.
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Grace Cathedral United States
“The short epilogue of the 1962 film How the West Was Won shows sweeping views of how the West had evolved into its modern self, including an aerial shot of San Francisco that flies directly over Grace Cathedral, showing some of its ongoing construction.” Wikipedia
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Also shot in these places
- Iron Man 2008
- Star Trek Generations 1994
- Tremors 1990
- Gunga Din 1939
- Dr. Strangelove 1964
- Little Big Man 1970
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does How the West Was Won have?
4 places recorded on Wikidata, and 8 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across the United States.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Iron Man (2008), Star Trek Generations (1994), Tremors (1990), Gunga Din (1939) and 2 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.