🏞 Landscapes & nature
Grandfather Mountain
mountain in North Carolina, United States
🇺🇸 United States · 36.1111, -81.8114
Grandfather Mountain is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 2 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.
“The scene in the 1994 film Forrest Gump where the title character runs on a curvy mountain road was filmed here.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Grandfather Mountain as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- Forrest Gump 1994
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Safe Haven
2013
“Parts of it were filmed in Louisiana and the opening scene with Katie on the Coach America bus is on the Linn Cove Viaduct along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Grandfather Mountain in Linville, North Carolina.” Wikipedia
Filming locations nearby
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Linville Falls
🇺🇸 United States
waterfall in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina
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🏙 Towns & cities
Linville
🇺🇸 United States
unincorporated community in Avery County, North Carolina
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Grandfather Mountain?
2 productions are recorded as filmed at Grandfather Mountain, including Forrest Gump (1994) and Safe Haven (2013). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Grandfather Mountain?
Forrest Gump (1994), covered by 136 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Grandfather Mountain?
Grandfather Mountain is in the United States, at 36.1111, -81.8114.
What other filming locations are near Grandfather Mountain?
Linville Falls and Linville, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Original uploader was KyleAndMelissa22 at en.wikipedia, Public domain.