Filming Locations
Many of the scenes were filmed around Chicago:
- Belushi's character works for the Chicago Sun-Times with many scenes filmed in and around the now demolished Sun-Times building on the Chicago River (now the site of the Trump International Hotel and Tower).
- Belushi and Brown's character meet in Chicago while she is giving a lecture at the Field Museum of Natural History next to Lake Michigan.
Many of the mountain scenes were filmed in Colorado:
- Custer County, Colorado
- Crystal Mt, Washington
Other scenes were filmed at:
- The train depot where Belushi's character says goodbye to Blair's character, but later gets back on the train is the Michigan Central Railroad Niles Depot in Niles, Michigan about 90 miles east of Chicago. It's a large sandstone building built in 1892. The depot appeared in Midnight Run with Robert De Niro and Only the Lonely with Maureen O'Hara and John Candy.
- Glacier National Park, Montana.
- Crystal Mountain, Washington which is 40 miles south of the city of Enumclaw.
- All tent scenes were filmed in the Cascades at Crystal Mountain with Mt. Rainier nearby. It was still 6872' elev., and the snow was real, but behind the cameras was the Summit House restaurant.
- The final scenes of the movie were filmed in an old train station in Cedar Falls, Washington with an added Amtrak station sign (a movie prop) that read "Victor, WY".
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