Much of Jurassic Park Was Filmed on This Hawaiian Island
Jurassic Park was filmed on a Hawaiian island. Here you'll find out exactly which island and what locations from there appeared in the movie.
Jurassic Park is an iconic movie, well known to audiences around the world. Steven Spielberg's masterpiece about a park with cloned dinosaurs that come out during a power outage has become a global hit, and despite being a couple of years old, is still eagerly watched. The movie starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Samuel L. Jackson and Wayne Knight, among others.
Some viewers after the screening probably wondered where this dinosaur park was filmed and set. Spielberg and his crew found most of the shooting locations on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and this is where much of the Jurassic Park scenes were shot. Others, meanwhile, were filmed at Universal Studios in North Hollywood when interior or night scenes were needed, in addition to also Red Rock Canyon State Park in California and the island of Oahu.
The main location, however, remains the Hawaiian island of Kauai, which Steven Spielberg had already become familiar with while working on Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
And what exact locations on Kauai were chosen? The prologue was shot in Limahuli Garden, part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden, which tourists can visit. The area around Hoopia Falls was used as the Mano de Dios Amber Mine in the Dominican Republic. The Jurassic Park crew and cast also visited Mount Wai'ale'ale, Allerton Garden, Hanapepe Valley, Puu Ka Ele Reservoir on the Jurassic Kahili Ranch, Na Pali Coast, Valley House Plantation Estate in Kealia, Olokele Valley.
