Disappointingly, although there is a small overhang here, and you can walk behind the falls, there is no cave behind Bridal Veil Falls – this was a studio set.ĭuPont State Forest later became the wilderness in which Katniss Everdeen must survive in The Hunger Games – it’s alongside the Triple Falls that she discovers the disguised Peeta. It’s behind these falls that temporary shelter is offered by a hidden cave. The Last Of The Mohicans filming location: the canoe goes over the falls: Hooker Falls, DuPont State Forest, North Carolina | Photograph: DuPont State Forest / North Carolina Forest ServiceĪ couple of miles south, west of Lake Julia, are Bridal Veil Falls. Hooker Falls itself is the cataract over which their canoes plunge. In fact, several waterfalls in the area are seen in later in the film, as Hawkeye and company once again flee Magua’s men.

You can find these falls on a track running east from the Hooker Falls car park on Staton Road, about a mile north of Dupont Lake. They follow the Little River through the forest, negotiating the Triple Falls. The vengeful Magua, meanwhile, leads Heyward’s party into a trap, and only the intervention of Mohican trapper Chingachgook ( Russell Means) and his two sons saves the major and the Munro sisters.Īs Chingachgook, with Uncas and adopted son Hawkeye ( Eric Schweig and Daniel Day-Lewis), continue to lead the party toward the fort on foot, they’re actually trekking through DuPont State Forest, Staton Road, Cedar Mountain, about 40 miles to the south of Asheville. Her former rooms are now known as the Princess Suite.

When 1956 romance The Swan was filmed on location at Biltmore House, star Grace Kelly stayed at the Manor Inn. The building came close to demolition (it was in a state of serious disrepair during filming) but has since been bought, restored and turned into private apartments – retaining some of the interior features added for the film. It’s the Manor Inn Apartments, 265 Charlotte Street.Īs you might deduce from the name, this was an inn, until it closed in 1990. In north Asheville, you’ll find the British HQ, at ‘Albany, New York’, where the settlers are promised leave to protect their homesteads, and from which Magua ( Wes Studi) is dispatched to guide Heyward and Colonel Munro’s daughters, Cora and Alice ( Madeleine Stowe and Jodhi May) to ‘Fort William Henry’. The entrance to the estate is on McDowell Street, at Lodge Street, south of Asheville. You’ll probably recognise it from Being There or as the home of Mason Verger in Ridley Scott’s Hannibal. This 250-room mansion is the centrepiece of the estate, though it’s not seen in The Last Of The Mohicans. The estate has its own winery, and Bass Pond Bridge is on Winery Approach Road as it crosses Bass Pond, south of the main house. Much of the filming was on the Biltmore Estate, just south of Asheville which is where you can see the graceful brick arch over which Major Heyward ( Steven Waddington) and his troops ride. James Fenimore Cooper’s story, set in 1756 during the war between the French and English, is set in upstate New York, but was made on location around Asheville, in the Blue Mountains of North Carolina. The Last Of The Mohicans location: the final confrontation between Chingachgook and Magua: Hickory Nut Falls, Chimney Rock Park, North Carolina

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