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When the entire Novel Holiday series of Tour the Twilight Saga travel guidebooks are completed, Twilighters (regular fans) and Twihards (die-hard Twilight Saga devotees) will easily be able to decide which Twilight-related sites deserve the time and expense of visiting, and which do not.
Tour the Twilight Saga Book One—The Olympic Peninsula
The Novel Locations found in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State (USA).
Forks, Washington became the primary setting for Stephenie Meyer’s first novel, Twilight, after she Googled, “What place has the most rainfall in the U.S.?”
“It couldn’t have been more perfect if I had named it myself.”
● Head to the Forks Visitor Center, sign the city’s guestbook, and have your photo taken beside both of Bella’s trucks.
● Hop on one of the local Twilight-themed bus tours and enjoy being chauffeured to Twilight-related places within Forks, such as the Police Station, the Community Hospital, the High School, and two houses that fit Stephenie’s descriptions of Chief Swan’s home and the Cullen house. The bus may also take you outside of Forks for a photo op at the Treaty Line, the Jacob Black’s House look-alike, and a brief visit to First Beach–aka “La Push, Baby!”
● After the bus tour, our travel guidebook will direct you to several other novel-related places in Forks.
OR, you can skip the commercial bus tours, and use Tour the Twilight Saga Book One to visit only those Forks and La Push locations you’re actually interested in, in your own time.
Visit the Quileute Nation Reservation. Book One will take you to points of interest on the RES that aren’t included in Twilight bus tours—such as the Tribal School that Jacob attended.
Most importantly, we’ll help you schedule plenty of time for fully exploring First Beach, and provide directions for finding the magnificent Tide Pools that Bella loved so much—also not included in tours.
In Port Angeles, Washington, visit the real-world Bella Italia Restaurant to relive Bella and Edward’s first date. Prior to being made famous by Twilight, Bella Italia’s Mushroom Ravioli was a seasonal dish only offered in the Fall. Now it is an incredibly delicious entrée that can be enjoyed year-round.
See the Movie Theater frequented by Forks’ teens, and browse in the Book Store.
As for visiting Port Angeles film sites, they’re found in Vancouver, BC (Tour the Twilight Saga Book Two) and the US state of Oregon (Tour the Twilight Saga Book Three).
Tour the Twilight Saga Book Two—Vancouver, British Columbia
TTTS Book Two will lead you to a number of screenshot-worthy Twilight Film Sites located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and nearby areas, including:
● The Gulf of Georgia Cannery dock, where Eclipse opening scenes of Victoria attacking Riley were filmed.
● A New Westminster location, where Bella’s dangerous motorcycle ride with a stranger and “Seattle” scenes of rampaging New-Born Vampires were shot.
● The Belcarra Regional Park beach where Riley and his New-Born army were filmed emerging from the water (enroute to attacking the Cullens).
● Jacob Black’s House! The structures used for filming exterior scenes at Billy and Jacob’s Quileute Nation home still exist, and can be found in the Minnekhada Park region of Coquitlam, just northwest of Vancouver, BC.
Tour the Twilight Saga Book Three—Oregon and Washington
This Novel Holiday travel guidebook features Twilight Film Sites found in the US states of OREGON and WASHINGTON (places apart from the Washington Olympic Peninsula novel sites featured in Book One).
More than a dozen Twilight Saga film sites are found within a 50 mile radius of two US cities: Vancouver (located in the southwestern area of Washington State), and Portland (found in the northwestern area of Oregon State).
Tour the Twilight Saga Book Three film sites include:
● The Carver Café, where Bella and Charlie—and Stephenie Meyer!—were filmed having dinner.
● Kalama High School in Washington and Madison High School in Oregon:
One school was used to shoot exterior Forks High School scenes (the parking lot, where Edward saved Bella from being crushed by Tyler’s van), and the other was where some interior Forks High School footage was filmed.
● The Twilight Vampire Baseball field film site—also used to shoot the Eclipse Vampire Battlefield scenes. Yes, someone found it! And Tour the Twilight Saga will take you there.
● The house originally used to film exterior scenes of Charlie Swan’s home is in Saint Helens, Washington.
● Saint Helens is also where several “Port Angelus” novel locations were filmed, such as the Thunderbird & Whale Bookstore, the alley where Bella was stalked by four drunken men, the place where Edward repelled her stalkers with a marvelously menacing snarl, and the building where La Bella Italia restaurant scenes were shot.
● The film site used for Bella’s Ballet Studio is in Portland, Oregon, not Phoenix, Arizona!
[As a matter of fact, absolutely nothing of the Twilight Saga was filmed in Phoenix.]
Tour the Twilight Saga Book Four—USA and Around the World!
Locations featured in Tour the Twilight Saga Book Four are dedicated to Twilighters who happen to be traveling to California, Louisiana, Brazil, or Italy, and Set-Jetting Twihards who plan trips to these obscure Twilight film sites.
● Santa Clarita, California—just north of Los Angeles—is home to two exterior “Phoenix, Arizona” Twilight film sites: Bella’s mother’s house, and the Hyatt hotel where Alice and Jasper attempted to hide Bella from James.
● Louisiana Breaking Dawn filming was limited to sets within Baton Rouge’s Raleigh Studios. Since there is absolutely nothing to see here, we have declared Louisiana to be a SKIP-IT site.
However, just in case some Twihards are divinely inspired to visit Baton Rouge, we provide all the information we could find about Breaking Dawn Louisiana filming. Maybe you can eat in a restaurant visited by cast or crew during filming. Apart from places like that, there is absolutely nothing to see in Louisiana!
● Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is home to two real-world Breaking Dawn Part One film sites: the Lapa District where street party scenes were shot, and the Marina da Glória where Edward and Bella were filmed boarding a fancy speed boat and heading to Isle Esme.
● Paraty is a small Brazilian village near the private island where Isle Esme honeymoon scenes were shot.
Wealthy Twihards can rent Casa Em Paraty—the private island beach house used for filming!
Twilighters can book a less expensive boat tour that will ferry you to several Breaking Dawn film sites. You won’t be able to land on Casa Em’s private beach, but you’ll get to swim at the base of the waterfall seen in the movie.
● Volterra, Italy, was Stephenie Meyer’s inspiration for naming the Italian Vampires Volturi, and a real-world location originally considered for filming.
● Montepulciano, Italy—a village very near to Volterra—is where the exterior New Moon Volterra scenes (the courtyard and clock tower scenes) were actually filmed.
Tour the Twilight Saga guidebooks offer the most extensive amount of information available, so that Twilight Fans of all types can plan and enjoy the most efficient, economical, and Twilicious Novel Holiday possible! No other single source—no Internet website or previously published guidebook—provides as much Twi-important information in one place.
Even if you’re not yet ready to embark upon a Twilight Saga trip, each Tour the Twilight Saga travel guidebook is fun to read! Nowhere else will you find such interesting information about each and every Twilight-related site.