Although the new season provides in a real ’80s star, The Terminator’s Linda Hamilton, it’s actually a return to the present’s beginnings, and that features the setting. After some latest travels, we’re again with outdated associates in the little city of Hawkins, revisiting some acquainted haunts whereas additionally discovering new elements of the neighborhood we’ve all come to know so nicely.
Here, we dig into the questions you’ll be asking while you watch, and run by all the main places from every season, prepared for our remaining go to.
Is Hawkins from Stranger Things an actual place?
No, Hawkins was invented by collection creators the Duffer Brothers as a traditional all-American small-town backdrop, in the fashion of each Steven Spielberg or Joe Dante film from the ’80s. In actuality, it’s filmed in a collection of small cities skirting Atlanta, Georgia—the state that turned one of the hottest places round the time Stranger Things started 9 years in the past, house to every little thing from The Walking Dead and Ozark as much as latest hits akin to horror breakout Weapons, Marvel’s Thunderbolts, The Naked Gun remake and TV comedy Chad Powers.
The notional coronary heart of Hawkins is Jackson, a city south-east of Atlanta that gave the manufacturing a readymade, unreconstructed traditional America. This offers Melvald’s General Store (actually the former Jackson Drug on 2nd Street), the place Joyce (Winona Ryder) works at the begin of the present, the Public Library (actually Butts County Probate Court on third Street) and the native cinema, the Hawk Theater (actually one other empty lot on Oak Street).
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Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in Season 4
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Can you go to Stranger Things filming places?
You actually can. Though there’s no single official tour, a fast search will discover quite a few locals prepared to point out you spherical, or you possibly can simply head to Jackson and discover the places your self—the city has even added large QR codes exterior the buildings featured in the present for additional data. Before heading additional afield from Jackson, it’s price noting that the majority of the household properties we all know are privately owned—and a ways away in East Point, to the south-west of Atlanta. If you’re discreet, you possibly can catch most of them alongside the similar street, Piney Road Drive, although the interiors are all recreated at Atlanta studio Screen Gems (and Steve’s home, house to the notorious pool celebration the place we final noticed unfortunate Barb, is in Riverdale, immediately south of Atlanta). Also in East Point is the Hawkins General Hospital—although what we’re seeing is definitely the First Baptist Church—and the inside of the library, at the Old East Point Library.