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Stanley Kubrick used Oregon’s Timberline Lodge for the exterior shots of The Shining’s Overlook Hotel. He filmed the interior scenes in England. But the original inspiration for the famed fictional lodge came from Estes Park, Colorado’s Stanley Hotel, which reportedly spooked a young Stephen King when he passed through in the 1970s. Now, the Stanley plans…

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