Where Is Friday The 13th's Camp Crystal Lake Located?

Camp Crystal Lake is a key location in the Friday The 13th movie franchise, and here's where its located within the world of the series. Where is Friday The 13th's Camp Crystal Lake supposed to be located within the movie franchise? The makers of Friday The 13th were eager to replicate the success of John

Camp Crystal Lake is a key location in the Friday The 13th movie franchise, and here's where its located within the world of the series.

Summary

  • Camp Crystal Lake, the iconic setting of the Friday The 13th franchise, is located in the fictional Cunningham County, New Jersey, named after the director of the original film.
  • Despite being a fictional location, the camp was actually filmed at a real place called Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Hardwick, New Jersey, which is still a working Boy Scout camp today.
  • Tours of the filming locations at Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco are offered through Crystal Lake Tours, but they are scheduled to not interfere with the camp's use by Boy Scout troops.

Where is Friday The 13th's Camp Crystal Lake supposed to be located within the movie franchise? The makers of Friday The 13th were eager to replicate the success of John Carpenter's then-recent Halloween, which became the highest-grossing independent movie at that time. Friday The 13th took Halloween's basic blueprint of teenagers being stalked by a killer in an isolated locale and ramped up the gore and sexuality. Jason would return in various entries in the years that passed. The original Friday The 13th and many of its sequels take place at Camp Crystal Lake.

The movie revealed that a young Jason was bullied and teased by other children at the camp, who later pushed him into the water. Crystal Lake camp counselors failed to notice and he drowned, and Pamela vowed to prevent the camp from reopening, leading to her rampage in the 1980 movie. Despite Friday The 13th villain Pamela Voorhees being very dead by the end, a sequel was quickly greenlit. This saw her presumed deceased son Jason Voorhees picking up the machete, and massacring his way through almost annual sequels throughout the 1980s. A potential reboot or legacy sequel for the Friday the 13th movies would revisit Camp Crystal Lake, but it's been stuck in development.

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Where Friday The 13th's Camp Crystal Lake Is Located

In the world of the Friday The 13th franchise, Camp Crystal Lake is located in Cunningham County, New Jersey. Cunningham County itself is named for Sean S. Cunningham, the director of the original Friday The 13th. The location of the camp led to a famous continuity issue during Freddy Vs Jason, where the movie's teen heroes have to drive an unconscious Jason from Springwood, Ohio to Camp Crystal Lake in New Jersey. While this trip would be an estimated 600 miles, the movie fudges this timeline to make it look like the two locales are close together.

Camp Crystal Lake also went by other names in the Friday The 13th movie series, including Camp Forest Green in part 6 - which was an attempt to rebrand the camp and forget about Jason's exploits - while locals dubbed it "Camp Blood." Camp Crystal Lake itself is a fictional location, but it was filmed in a real place.

Friday The 13th Was Filmed At A Totally Different Camp

The original Friday The 13th wasn’t filmed at a real location called Camp Crystal Lake. The movie was filmed in New Jersey in late 1979 around the towns of Hardwick, Blairstown, and Hope. Camp scenes, however, were filmed at Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco.

Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco is in Hardwick, New Jersey. At the time of filming, it was a working Boy Scout Camp. Operating since 1927, it’s still a working camp and operating under the same name today. In fact, the camp welcomes Boy Scout troops from all over the United States regularly. Though it operates as a summer camp, it does offer year-round camping opportunities for troops as well.

Tours are offered of the iconic filming locations for Friday The 13th at Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco through Crystal Lake Tours as well so that the legacy of the movie is preserved. Tours, however, are never scheduled when Boy Scout troops are using the campgrounds so as not to interfere with the organization.

  • Friday the 13th
    Release Date: 1980-05-09 Budget: $550,000 Cast: Peter Brouwer, Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Jeannine Taylor, Kevin Bacon, Robbi Morgan, Harry Crosby Director: Sean S. Cunningham Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller Runtime: 95 minutes Writers: Victor Miller Story By: Victor Miller Distributor(s): Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Sequel(s): Friday the 13th Part 2, Friday the 13th Part 3, Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, Freddy vs. Jason, Jason X Franchise(s): Friday the 13th
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