This afternoon I decided to totally waste my life and create a map of the actual filming locations of movies about Alaska. It is a map of where films that all take part (or have large chunks) in the great state of Alaska. This all came up when my coworker Jane walked up to me and asked “Is Sitka as beautiful as it was in the movie The Proposal?” To which I could only reply… “That was filmed in Massachusetts.”

With an increased interest in the state generated by shows like Northern Exposure and Deadliest Catch, I decided to weed out most of the lies that the entertainment industry would want you to believe. I decided to try to mostly stay away from Discovery Channel shows (except for Deadliest Catch) just because those are more or less documentaries and it would be tough to fake actual things going on.

Some people are having trouble understand it, so I’ll try to explain it a little more clearly.

The titles listed are placed above the locations they were filmed, so…

Northern Exposure was shot in Washington

Baywatch: White Thunder at Glacier Bay was shot in Juneau and Glacier Bay

I don’t want people to think this was a completely original. I got the idea from Dan Meth’s series of pop culture charts. I also understand this may be incomplete, please leave updates in the comments and I’ll get to it when I feel so inclined.

Related posts:

1. I’m Going To Alaska Where The Animals Can Kill You
2. Spectrum Culture: Year One: Movies
3. Alaska Wrap-up