where does friday the 13th take place

The original 1980 film Friday the 13th takes place at the fictional summer camp Camp Crystal Lake in New Jersey.

Within the story, Camp Crystal Lake is a wooded lakeside camp where a boy named Jason Voorhees supposedly drowned years earlier, and where a series of murders then occur when the camp is later reopened.

If you’re asking about the real place: the primary filming location for Camp Crystal Lake was Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, a Boy Scout camp near Blairstown/Hardwick, New Jersey, plus nearby town areas like Blairstown and Hope.

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