Where was The X-Files (1993) filmed?
6 locations on the HorrorMeet Atlas.
- Riverview Hospital, Coquitlam
The closed 1913 psychiatric hospital supplied most of the show's hospital and asylum interiors from the pilot through season five, and it is one of the most filmed sites in British Columbia. The hospital shut in 1992 and the lands are being redeveloped.
- Lynn Canyon Park, North Vancouver
The old growth forest and suspension bridge stood in for the killer insect woods of Darkness Falls and many other monster-of-the-week forests. It is a free public park.
- Buntzen Lake, Anmore
Played Lake Okobogee, the Iowa lake where a girl is taken by lights in the first season episode Conduit. It is a BC Hydro recreation area open to the public.
- Britannia Mine Museum, Britannia Beach
The stepped 1920s copper mill became the Strughold Mining Company in the season two episode Paper Clip. Abandoned in the 1970s, it reopened as a museum in 2005.
- Ruskin Dam, Mission
The dam and the bridge across it were used for the alien abduction sequences in Patient X and The Red and the Black. It is a working BC Hydro dam.
- Garry Point Park, Steveston
Captain Scully's funeral was filmed at this park at the mouth of the Fraser River. It is a public waterfront park.