‘Forks Police Station’ is a local bank, Wauna Federal Credit Union, 1010 Bridge Street ( Nehalem Hwy) at Weed Avenue in Vernonia. The screen version of ‘Forks’ is generally Vernonia, a logging town (looking like it’s been twinned with David Lynch’s Twin Peaks) on the Nehalem River, about 35 miles northwest of Portland, Oregon. It's just a few minutes away from the 'Arizona' high school seen in 1990 teen comedy-drama Pump Up The Volume, with Christian Slater. The house is not ‘Arizona’ at all, but 22301 Cataro Drive off Catala Avenue, Saugus, north of Santa Clarita, about 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles in southern California. There’s a short detour to dry and dusty desert country as Bella Swan ( Kristen Stewart) leaves her ‘Phoenix’ home. Stunning shots of Bella with Edward in the treetops were also filmed in the park. What you want is the cool light, the mist and the breathtaking scenery – and where better than Silver Falls State Park, 26 miles east of Salem, near Silverton, where a deer is attacked by some unseen creature during the prologue. The central plot point, that five kids can cut school whenever the sun shines without any serious consequences, hardly seems a great advert for the local weather but, to be honest, you won't be visiting the Northwest to get a killer tan. Although Forks is a real town, and the book mentions recognisable locations, the film was made for practical reasons, largely around Portland in Oregon, with just a little Washington and even California. ![]() ![]() Stephenie Meyer’s series of hugely popular vampire novels is set in Forks, Washington State, in the heart of the Pacific Northwest’s Olympic Peninsula.
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