Maps of Movies

The Ring (2002)

Where The Ring says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

The island in the story does not exist: its beach is in Port Townsend and its lighthouse is on the Oregon coast

Scenes and places

Rachel's Seattle: newsroom, school and a ringing phone (2002)

Rachel, a Seattle journalist, buries her niece Katie and agrees to find out why four teenagers died on the same night. Her son Aidan, who was close to Katie, is already drawing strange pictures.

Set in Seattle — Rachel is a Seattle journalist; her niece Katie's funeral sends her investigating.

Washington's largest city, chosen because the director found it wet and isolated.

Cabin 12 at Shelter Mountain Inn (2002)

Rachel follows Katie's trail to a remote inn and takes the same cabin her niece used. She finds the tape and watches it alone; the phone rings as soon as it ends.

Set in Shelter Mountain Inn (fictional) — A mountain inn where Katie and her friends stayed and saw the tape.

A fictional mountain inn; the sources opened do not say where it was filmed.

The horse that jumps off the ferry (2002)

Rachel crosses to Moesko Island to find the dead horse breeder's widower. A horse on the ferry panics and throws itself overboard, as the tape's horses did.

Set in Ferry to Moesko Island (fictional) — The ferry Rachel takes to Moesko Island.

An island ferry route in the story; no verified ferry line for the shoot.

Noah at Eola Psychiatric Hospital (2002)

While Rachel is away, Noah talks his way into the hospital's record rooms to learn what happened to Anna Morgan. He finds a file on Samara with a missing tape.

Set in Eola Psychiatric Hospital (fictional) — The hospital where Anna Morgan was committed and where her file is kept.

A fictional county hospital; the film shoot location is not documented in the opened sources.

The horse on the beach (2002)

On the island Rachel finds the shore where a horse's body washed up, the kind of death the tape showed. The island's isolation closes in around her.

Set in Moesko Island beach (fictional) — The shore of Moesko Island where the drowned horse is found.

A former coastal fort turned state park near Port Townsend.

Filmed at Fort Worden State Park beach, Port Townsend (Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, United States) — Where the horse's body is found washed up, per a local newspaper. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there:

The Moesko Island lighthouse (2002)

Rachel keeps following the horses' trail on the island, where the lighthouse stands over the coast.

Set in Moesko Island lighthouse (fictional) — A lighthouse on Moesko Island.

An Oregon coast lighthouse, far from the Washington locations.

Filmed at Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, Oregon (Yaquina Head, Newport, United States) — Named as a filming location; that it plays the island's lighthouse rests on a single source. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The Morgan farm and the barn loft (2002)

Rachel meets Richard Morgan, who says writers come asking about the horses. At the farm she and Noah find the loft where the Morgans kept their adopted daughter Samara apart.

Set in Morgan family farm (fictional) — The farm of Richard and Anna Morgan on Moesko Island, with a loft in the barn.

A fictional island farm; no verified shooting location.

Filmed at Columbia River Gorge, Oregon — Story location not given Google Maps · Apple Maps

Characters

• Rachel Keller — A Seattle journalist who investigates her niece's death and a cursed videotape.
• Noah — Rachel's video-analyst ex-husband, who helps her trace the tape.
• Aidan — Rachel and Noah's 8-year-old son, who was close to his cousin Katie.