The 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove was filmed across several locations in Texas and New Mexico, with Texas ranch country standing in for the story’s borderland and New Mexico often doubling for Wyoming and Montana.

Main filming locations

  • Moody Ranch, near Del Rio, Texas – A primary base for outdoor scenes and the Hat Creek Cattle Company setting, about seven miles south of Del Rio.
  • Alamo Village, Brackettville, Texas – Old West town set first built for John Wayne’s The Alamo , used for parts of the Texas town environments in Lonesome Dove.
  • Bonanza Creek Ranch, near Santa Fe, New Mexico – A classic Western movie ranch whose streets and landscapes appear in various town and trail sequences.
  • Cerro Pelon Movie Ranch, Galisteo, New Mexico – Large private ranch with sweeping views, used for trail and open-country shots.
  • Eaves (J.W. Eaves) Movie Ranch, near Santa Fe, New Mexico – Western backlot town used for additional street and town scenes.
  • Angel Fire, New Mexico – Mountain village used for snowy, high-country sequences.
  • Black Lake, New Mexico – Used to portray parts of Montana late in the cattle drive.
  • Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico – Listed as one of the production’s filming locations for regional scenes.

Very short TL;DR

Lonesome Dove was mainly filmed on ranches and Western town sets in Texas (Moody Ranch, Alamo Village) and New Mexico (Bonanza Creek, Cerro Pelon, Eaves, Angel Fire, Black Lake, Santo Domingo Pueblo), which together created its wide-open cattle-drive look.

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