Where is Twin Peaks? The mythical community featured in the eponymous 90s television series isn’t that difficult to locate. The weather is perpetually soggy, primeval forests surround, and the coffee is an obsession; this must be the Pacific Northwest.  

Twin Peaks was actually filmed just an hour east of Seattle, in a quintessential corner of Washington State, near the towns of Snoqualmie and North Bend. The rugged profile of Mount Si, looming over the area.

In the end, the series’ precise location is incidental, even obstructive to its narrative. Stories that require the suspension of disbelief benefit from a suitably fuzzy, or completely fictional setting. The same applies to morality tales, which are most effective when set in some kind of anonymous location typical enough to keep the audience guessing.

In the uncomfortable space in between quirky horror story and all-American soap opera, Twin Peaks falls well within both genres. When asked to reveal where the town was located, series creator David Lynch demurred and suggested that Twin Peaks was in “a state of confusion.”