The other site was the 1927 Lake Lure Inn located in Lake Lure, North Carolina. If you’ve seen films such as Dirty Dancing and Last of the Mohicans, this lake was featured in both. Like Kellerman's, the real Mountain Lake Hotel Resort also offers many indoor and outdoor activities for guests such as games like table tennis and billiards, water activities like paddle boating, canoeing, and fishing, and dry activities like Mountain Biking and hiking. The Chamber of Hickory Nut Gorge is happy to announce the return of the Dirty Dancing Festival of Lake Lure FESTIVAL DATE: Saturday, September 10th, 2022. In Lake Lure, North Carolina, near Chimney Rock, you can still stay at. The Stone Lodge stood in for "Kellerman's Resort", a fictional mountain retreat in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. When the end of summer comes, we can’t help but think of one of the all-time summertime classics ‘Dirty Dancing.’ In ‘Dirty Dancing’, all the drama takes place in New York’s famous Catskill Borscht Belt, but in real life, it was all shot in the South.
"Mountain Lake Hotel was the site for much of the on-location filming of the 1987 hit movie Dirty Dancing which starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Dirty Dancing was filmed in Appalachia, Firefly Cove (Lifting scene), Lake Lure, Mountain Lake Lodge, Rumbling Bald Resort (Golf scenes), The Esmeralda Inn. There was a memorial for Patrick at Lake Lure, North Carolina, recognizing the filming of the movie Dirty Dancing, at this site, recently. Dirty Dancing was filmed at Lake Lure, North Carolina.
It was actually filmed at a place called the Mountain Lake Hotel, in Virginia. The production company was changed to Vestron Pictures with Emile Ardolino as director and Linda Gottlieb as producer. In September of 2010 we debuted the first ever Dirty Dancing Festival, in beautiful Lake Lure North Carolina, where much of the classic movie was filmed. Dirty Dancing is set at a fictitious resort called Kellerman's, in the Catskill Mountains (Upstate New York).