The hotel used for the Overlook’s exterior in The Shining movie is Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon, USA.

Quick Scoop

  • In the story, the Overlook Hotel is set in the Colorado Rockies, but that hotel is fictional.
  • For the 1980 film, Stanley Kubrick used Timberline Lodge (near Government Camp, Oregon) for the outside shots of the hotel.
  • All the main interior hotel scenes were filmed on custom-built sets at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England, not inside a real hotel.
  • Architecturally, the interiors were heavily inspired by the Ahwahnee Hotel (now The Majestic Yosemite Hotel) in Yosemite National Park, California.
  • Stephen King’s original inspiration for the Overlook in the novel came from staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, which later became a filming location for the 1997 TV miniseries of The Shining.

TL;DR: If you want to visit “the Shining hotel” from the movie, go to Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, Oregon; if you want the novel’s inspiration, visit the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado.

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