Twin Peaks tour?

October 1, 2015 8:04 AM

Is there a tour that will take you to the Twin Peaks locations?

We're headed to Seattle in April, for Emerald City Comic Con. We thought we'd make a week out of it, maybe, and visit a friend and see the city while we are there.

We'd love to visit the Twin Peaks locations - I found a tour that does Seattle and Snoqualmie Falls, but it's not specifically a Twin Peaks tour.

Does anyone know of one? Or is this a DIY sort of situation?

posted by needlegrrl to Travel & Transportation around Seattle, WA (6 answers total)

I can't speak to whether there is one now, but one thing to check if you do find one, is exactly where they go. I did a combo tour (about 20 years ago) that was billed as visiting both Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure locations. It had lots of time in Roslyn (where NE was filmed), but IIRC the Twin Peaks element turned out to be just a quick drive past the diner that sold the damn fine cherry pie, and a photo stop to look across to the hotel above the falls.
posted by penguin pie at 8:29 AM on October 1, 2015

In Twin Peaks would be the best place to make a DIY list of such things. Oddly enough, lots of the locations were filmed down in California, but listed on the site is a clunky list of washington locations linked to google maps.
posted by furnace.heart at 8:42 AM on October 1, 2015

Salish Lodge has a Twin Peaks package where if you stay overnight they give you a damn fine cup of coffee and a piece of apple pie and a map of local Twin Peaks locations. My boyfriend and I are going there this weekend. He's a big Twin Peaks fan. I'll let you know if it's worth the money.
posted by ilovewinter at 9:45 AM on October 1, 2015 [3 favorites]

Response by poster: ilovewinter, I saw that package on their website - please do let me know how it is!
posted by needlegrrl at 9:48 AM on October 1, 2015

I did that package at Salish in July! It was a lot of fun, though the Dale Cooper cocktails and Amazon gift card (so you can watch the first season) felt kinda superfluous, and while the cherry pie there is delicious, it doesn't compare to having THE cherry pie at THE diner. The best part--other than, y'know, staying at the Great Northern--was taking the brochure/map of local filming locations and spending the day driving around to them.

Note: There is no actual Welcome to Twin Peaks sign, so don't drive around looking for it like we did. :) But once you realoize that it's not too hard to find the spot where it was, and it's delightfully evocative.

Note 2: There's some cool Twin Peaks-related merchandise and art in the Salish's gift shop.
posted by rhiannonstone at 9:54 PM on October 1, 2015 [1 favorite]

The entire Olympic Peninsula is like the Land that Time forgot. Twin Peaks is more of a vibe, than a place, and that vibe is rampant in places like Aberdeen, Shelton, and even Olympia.

Just driving into Shelton with the timber mill looming over the whole town makes David Lynch's inspiration wildly apparent.

The double R sucks. I think. I seem to recall it's on the way to Packwood though, which is cool as fuck. I highly recommend Packwood if you want spooky PNW vibes... one of the odder experiences I've had was driving through the mountain pass to Packwood on a foggy morning, in the middle of a pack of elk. They were out for a stroll along the highway, and didn't seem to mind that one of the "elks" in the pack was in fact a red toyota.
posted by special agent conrad uno at 3:30 AM on October 2, 2015