Film Locations - Area Natural Resources

School of Forestry, Duke University
Erwin Rd

Duke Forest
  • 7,000 acres
  • Towering hardwoods and flowering dogwoods create forest canopies
  • New Hope Creek runs through Duke Forest in a natural valley setting
  • Gravel roads and fire trails are open for hiking and running

Eno River State Park
6101 Cole Mill Rd

Eno River State Park
  • One of Durham's 65 parks
  • Park embraces the Eno River through North Durham in a pleasant sequence of rapids and deep waters
  • Nature greenbelt connecting West Point on the Eno
  • Backpacking, hiking/walking trails, camping and wildlife

Rollingview State Recreation Area at Falls Lake
Off Wake Forest Hwy

  • 790 acres along scenic forested Falls Lake -- miles of undeveloped coastline, pristine water, rolling hills populated with a wide variety of lush vegetation
  • Rollingview State Recreation area includes public campgrounds, beaches for swimming, boating and windsurfing

Magic Wings Butterfly House

Magic Wings Butterfly House

Penny's Bend
Old Oxford Rd

  • Unique Nature area with plants (such as the prairie dock and the hoary puccoon) more common to the prairies of the Midwest than to the NC Piedmont
  • Rolling, open hills covered with grasses, brier patches and cedar trees

Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Duke University West Campus

Sarah P. Duke Gardens
  • 55 acres of landscaped and woodland gardens featuring more than 2,000 kinds of plants, 5 miles of walks and pathways with bridges, courts, lawns, waterfalls, ponds and pavilions
  • Dramatic plantings in the terraces, topped by a wisteria-covered gazebo
  • Multi-tier terrace is topped by the gazebo covered with wisteria, and at the base is the fishpond and rock garden made of New Jersey limestone
  • South lawn: perfectly contoured sweep of grass ornamented by the round reflecting pool

Trinity Park

Trinity Park
  • Turn-of-the-century variety of early Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival, English Tudor and Victorian homes, as well as bungalows in the English cottage style located by Duke University East Campus
  • Picturesque manicured lawns with mature hardwoods lining the sidewalks to create a canopy over the streets

West Point on the Eno
5101 N Roxboro Rd

West Point on the Eno
  • 371-acre nature and historic park located along a two-mile stretch of the Eno River
  • Rocky terrain: granite bluffs covered with mountain laurel, rhododendron and partridgeberry
  • Amphitheater and West Point Mill, a reconstructed 1778 working grist mill
  • Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography of historic photography
  • Recreation of 19th-century blacksmith shop in traditional timber-frame
  • McCown-Mangum house: Vernacular, Greek Revival farmhouse built in 1840s
  • Site of Festival for the Eno in early July