If you fly, you’ll need to rent a car to get there. The trip up and down only took us about 30 minutes, and the view at the top is worth it. The longest one is steep, but only a mile. Put your heels down and take a hike! There are several hiking trails on site with stunning views. We felt prices were reasonable and the cabins are nice with great patio space! We looked wonderful out there, I’m pretty certain. It’s a great vacation spot, and not just for chicks. We saw families with children, couples, bachelorette parties, men and women friend groups, and a group staying as part of a corporate retreat. One night the retreaters set up a karaoke machine in the pub. Here’s a massive hamburger we shared in the bar, mainly just to see what it would look like. Since Mountain Lake Lodge is in a rural location, other options are limited and about a 20-minute drive. There is one small market-slash-deli with few options for lunch, a pub menu, and a dinner restaurant (which is also another filming location). If you plan to visit more than one night, bring food, snacks, and beverages of your choice. Speaking of dinner and White Claw, this is important to know before you go. You can rent the Dirty Dancing DVD at the front desk. We watched while primping for dinner. Yes, that happened (image cropped to protect the guilty). They may even give you a shot of Fireball. You can rent Baby’s cabin, which means others can’t see inside. BUT, if you’re like me and muster up a little White Claw courage, you can butter up the group of friends who rented the cabin. Just outside the pool area, you can play croquet, sand volleyball, corn hole or badminton. I won a paint-it-yourself ceramic llama bank, of all things. Get your spaghetti arms to the pool – it’s fun! It’s located right in the heart of the grounds, and they hosted bingo, just like they did in the movie! We didn’t envy the gift shop employees for having to endure that, but the staff was always helpful to answer any movie-related questions.
It burned down in 2012, but you can buy “I carried a watermelon” sweatshirts and other merchandise inside the gift shop.įunny note: the Dirty Dancing soundtrack plays on loop inside the gift shop. You can’t “carry a watermelon” up the steps or visit the dance hall because that was filmed at a separate location in North Carolina. We laughed about it and recreated the scene anyway. The lodge added a pool and hot tub in its place. Conveniently, there was no mention of this on the website. A natural phenomenon evaporated the lake in 2008. Yes, turned out our trip to Baby’s playpen wasn’t a lesson on the mambo, but science. So, we went to the front desk and asked for help finding it. “Where is that lake? That gazebo was in front of a large body of water!” The scavenger hunt clue read, “visit the location where Baby had a heart-to-heart with her dad in the gazebo.” I looked at my friend. It was during that scavenger hunt when we realized there is no lake. Baby’s cabin is there, the main lodge house, the location of “The Lift,” and others.
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Mountain Lake has fully embraced their place in film history. The lodge offers a QR code scavenger hunt and self-guided tour to visit 11 locations from the movie. We didn’t get that classic stairsteps photo opp. I found out it still exists while watching an episode of Netflix’s “Movies that Made Us,” and immediately texted my two girlfriends. It’s not in the Catskills as depicted in the movie, but rural Pembroke, Virginia. Ga-gong.ģ5 years later, fans of Dirty Dancing can book a room at the real-life resort, which is named Mountain Lake Lodge. That was the summer we went to Kellerman’s.”Īhhh… Dirty Dancing’s opening lines are some of the best in film, aren’t they?īecause of those lines, and the story that followed, it was the summer of 1987 when millions of girls dreamt they could time travel to 1963, violate Johnny’s dance space, and feel their heartbeats lakeside at Kellerman’s. It was before Kennedy got shot, before The Beatles, when I wanted to join the Peace Corps and I didn’t think I’d ever find a guy as great as my dad.
“It was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me Baby and it didn’t occur to me to mind.
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