Where was Jurassic Park filmed?
1993 film by Steven Spielberg
Jurassic Park (1993) was filmed in Kauaʻi — 1 recorded filming location in the United States. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
Part of the Jurassic Park film series
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Filming locations
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Kauaʻi
🇺🇸 United States
northernmost populated island of the Hawaiian archipelago
“The three-week Kauaʻi shoot was focused on exterior scenes, many of them set on Isla Nublar during daytime.” Wikipedia
Also per Wikipedia's article
The article names 14 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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🎬 Studios & sets
Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank
🇺🇸 United States
filmmaking facility owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
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🎬 Studios & sets
Universal Studios Lot
🇺🇸 United States
television and film studio complex in Universal City, California
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Oahu
🇺🇸 United States
island of Hawaii, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Jerusalem
🇵🇸 Palestine
city in the Middle East, holy to the three Abrahamic religions
“The exterior design of the park's visitor center was loosely based on a Jerusalem temple.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Kualoa Ranch
🇺🇸 United States
human settlement in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, United States of America
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Maui
🇺🇸 United States
second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands, in the United States
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Red Rock Canyon State Park
🇺🇸 United States
California state park in Kern County featuring scenic desert cliffs, buttes, and spectacular rock formations
“Filming moved to Stage 23 for scenes involving the maintenance shed interior, before moving to Red Rock Canyon, which stood in as Grant's paleontological dig site.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
National Tropical Botanical Garden
🇺🇸 United States
nonprofit organization in United States of America
“The raptor enclosure set was built at Limahuli Garden and Preserve, operated by the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG).” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Manawaiopuna Falls
🇺🇸 United States
waterfall in Kauai, Hawaii, United States
“Scenes of the park's visitors arriving and departing Isla Nublar, via helicopter, were filmed at Mānāwaiopuna Falls, which became commonly known as Jurassic Falls after the film's release.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Mount Waialeale
🇺🇸 United States
mountain
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Allerton Garden
🇺🇸 United States
botanical garden located in Kauai, Hawaii, United States
“Allerton Garden, another NTBG property, was used in two instances: a set depicting the maintenance shed exterior, and a scene in which Grant discovers a dinosaur nest and realizes the animals are breeding.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Ho'opi'i Falls
🇺🇸 United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Kapaʻa
🇺🇸 United States
unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Limahuli Garden and Preserve
🇺🇸 United States
botanical garden and nature preserve on the north shore of Kauaʻi island, Hawaiʻi
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Hawaii, 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
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- The Conjuring 2 2016
- The West Wing 1999–2006
- Space Jam: A New Legacy 2021
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Set in the same places
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Jurassic Park have?
1 place recorded on Wikidata, and 14 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across the United States.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Jurassic World (2015), The Big Bang Theory (2007–), The Exorcist (1973) and 8 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.