But this wasn’t the case with everyone – neighbours for whom I regularly babysat were cast as extras and can be spotted briefly on a lakeside beach (now a playground), just before the wig scene. I was 15 in 1986 and, although I grew up in Virginia, I didn’t know a Swayze movie was being filmed in this Blue Ridge Mountains location. After following the trail to a gravel road, you’ll climb steeply to Bald Knob, a rocky outlook that rewards with mountain and valley views. The bridge and staff quarters were filmed 375km away, in Lake Lure, North Carolina. You won’t come across any evidence of dance parties along this path, though. A short walk away is the path Baby takes towards the staff area, just before she encounters Johnny’s watermelon-carrying cousin Billy on a bridge and, soon afterwards, some seriously raunchy dancing in a staff cabin. Today, guests drive towards the back of the lodge to check in to the 350-guest lodge’s traditional rooms, cabins, cottages, and fully furnished homes, parking near an underpass that Swayze’s character, Johnny, drives through after smashing in his car window. Kara Murphy attempts one of Baby's moves on the bridge at Mountain Lake Lodge. See also: You won't believe tourists still want to go here See also: 20 movie locations you can actually visit Signs point out locations such as the gazebo where Penny gave salsa lessons the historic three-bedroom Virginia cottage where Grey’s character Baby Houseman stayed with her family and the grand 1936 sandstone lodge, which presides over the lake’s southern end and featured as the fictional Kellerman’s Resort. The lake – on the ridges of Salt Pond Mountain and cyclically empties and fills due to a natural phenomenon – isn’t the only site at this Pembroke, Virginia, lodge you’ll recall from the movie. Sometimes, says Adam, a few zealous fans move the blocks to a different location, where they believe the move was performed. Someone hiding under the chilly waters held Swayze’s legs during this scene to make the lift a little easier today, cinder blocks mark this spot. Adam, recreation manager at Mountain Lake Lodge, where much of the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing was filmed in September 1986, nods. Cruises several times a day.“Patrick Swayze lifted Jennifer Grey there?” I ask, pointing towards a bare patch of earth in Mountain Lake’s vegetated lakebed, about 40m from a former boat dock. Just park in the adjoining parking lot and walk down to the little cabanna and dock at the lakefront and sign up. The tour is right in front of the LakeView restaurant which is a few feet past the entrance. Type in Fox Run Blvd if you have a GPS and it will take you right to the security gate where you will need to get a free pass to enter. The resort is about 5 miles from town center. The guide had very little information except about the dirty dancing site. We went on it last year and they only covered about 50% of the lake. :) The competition is theTown Marina pontoon boat cruise. You can google "Blue Heron Point Lake lure" for the whole story. It was one women who inherited the land from her father who purchsed large tracks of the lake during the 1930's depression. As for the shaky facts, Just for the record there were no "two sisters" owning Blue Heron Point or family fighting to get a piece of the land when they died. Now the lady from Boise was our guide and she was a hoot. No waves, for those with motion sickness. You will see the site of the filming of the Dirty Dacing movie at Firefly cove as well as some beautiful mansions along the lake. They also have a lunch cruise and diner cruise which you can check out on the Rumbling Bald web site. Takes about 1 hour 45 minutes to 2 hours so hit the bathroom, if you have a weak bladder, before you get aboard. It encomposses 90% of the lake and the "captian" was informative though some of her "facts" about the lake properties a little shaky.
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