The Complete Friday the 13th Crystal Lake Locations

The Camp Crystal Lake setting synonymous with the Friday the 13^th film series has never been filmed at the same lake twice. The locations of the eerie lake are as follows:

Friday the 13^th (1980) – Sand Pond at Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, Hardwick, New Jersey, USA.

Friday the 13^th Part 2 (1981) – North Spectacle Pond, Kent, Connecticut.

Friday the 13^th Part III (1982) – Valuzet Movie Ranch. The “lake” for this movie was specially created by the art department.

Friday the 13^th: The Final Chapter (1984) – Zaca Lake, Santa Maria, California.

Friday the 13^th: A New Beginning (1985) – no Jason Voorhees, so no Camp Crystal Lake! The movie was shot in California.

Jason Lives: Friday the 13^th Part VI (1986) – Lake Rutledge at Camp Daniel Morgan in Hard Labor Creek State Park, Rutledge, Georgia, USA.

Friday the 13^th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) – Byrnes Lake, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA.

Friday the 13^th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) – Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) – The shots of the lake were archive footage from the Paramount library and were actually taken from the original Friday the 13^th movie. The “lakeside” footage was filmed in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.

Jason X (2001) – Set mostly in space therefore there was no lake. However there was a sequence set within a holographic Camp Crystal Lake but this was shot in a studio using green screen and a digitally created lake and background.

Freddy vs. Jason (2003) – Buntzen Lake, Anmore, British Columbia, Canada.

Friday the 13^th (2009) – Lake Bastrop, Bastrop County, Texas, USA – I was informed by director Marcus Nispel that three lakes were used to make Camp Crystal Lake in the film. He said, “The party house (Trent’s Summer cabin) was not on a lake but the owner built a dam at a creek to create a sizeable pond where we shot smaller set-ups and tied it all in with Lake Bastrop. Altogether three lakes were pieced together to create Crystal Lake.”

Taken from Incredible Horror Movie Facts

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