Where is stranger things filmed: 8 Places Georgia

Where is stranger things filmed: Georgia,It’s been the subject of a Secret Cinema experience in London, and even has its own Upside Down Lego set. Now the trailer for Season Four, set to air later in 2020 or even early 2021, has been released. Details are tantalisingly few and far between, but with filming taking place in Lithuania, and Wizard of Oz-style allusions to plotlines moving outside Indiana.

‘We’re not in Hawkins anymore’– we could see a very different Stranger Things emerging, with more of the action taking place in Russia’s wintry Kamchatka, the setting for the post-credits sequence at the end of Season Three.

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Hawkins Community Pool

Season 3 is the first season that takes place over the summer, so naturally, Hawkins Community Pool, where Billy works as a lifeguard, is featured prominently. It’s a real community pool in Atlanta called South Bend Pool that you can swim in during the sweltering summer months. In fact, it’s located only a half mile from Screen Gems Studios, where many of the interior shots of Stranger Things were filmed.

Stone Mountain Park

Spanning more than 3,200 acres, Stone Mountain Park is Georgia’s most-visited attraction. Located 15 miles east of Atlanta, it’s open all year and features activities such as ropes courses, cable cars that take you to the top of the mountain, and even theme park–like thrills such as a nightly laser and fireworks show.

Hawkins Laboratory

A drab, gray building of brutalist design on Emory University’s Briarcliff Campus in Atlanta served as the show’s Hawkins Laboratory, where all sorts of suspicious activity occurred.

The building was the location of the Georgia Mental Health Institute from 1965 to 1997; actual research projects were conducted there, but today it solely serves as a shooting location for film and television, including the 2017 horror film Rings.

Starcourt Mall

In season 3, Starcourt Mall serves as the primary location where the gang hangs out, and they soon discover the mall is hiding a secret Russian base. But in real life, Starcourt Mall is Gwinnet Place Mall, a normal shopping mall in Duluth, Georgia, that thankfully doesn’t have any ties to nefarious activities.

In preparation for filming the third season, part of the mall was closed down and remodeled to resemble a mall straight out of the ’80s, including recreating the interiors and facades of 40 stores.

The Palace Arcade

One of Season 2’s first scenes takes place at the Palace Arcade, a huge 1980s wonderland with games like Dragon’s Lair, Centipede, and Pac-Man. In reality, the arcade is an old laundromat located at 6501 Church Street in Douglasville. The set designers painted the exterior to look like it’s straight out of the ’80s, and it still looks like that now if you’re looking for a good Stranger Things photo opp.

Benny’s Burgers

In Season 1, right after Eleven escapes Hawkins Lab, she breaks into Benny’s Burgers where she steals some fries. Tiffany’s Kitchen, off of I-20 a few miles west of Atlanta, served as the real-life filming location. It’s an adorable local establishment that serves your typical diner food, including huge housemade waffles. (Sorry, no Eggos here.)

Downtown Hawkins

Throughout the series, downtown Jackson (south of Atlanta) was portrayed as the town of Hawkins, where key characters played by Winona Ryder and Sean Astin worked. Businesses in Jackson are benefiting from new customers in town.

Lucy Lu’s Coffee Cafe opened downtown in 2017, about a year after the first season’s release. Within months, the café had created a “Stranger Drinks” menu. Popular beverages include the Sheriff Hopper, a hazelnut and vanilla coffee drink, and the Demogorgon, a frappé with blood-red food coloring named after the monster that rampages through Hawkins.

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