The parade was filmed in Las Vegas – not the glitzy casino city of Nevada but the tiny frontier town in New Mexico, on US Route 85 about 50 miles east of Santa Fe. There’s room for five or six people in the naturally heated pools and clothing, as they say, is optional.Ībout 60 miles to the south is the town where Billy and Wyatt cheerfully tag along on their bikes behind a marching band. The spring where Billy and Wyatt go skinny dipping with two girls is Manby Hot Springs, in the Rio Grande gorge, a couple of miles southwest of Arroyo Hondo, north of Taos. Although there was a commune in these parts, its privacy was fiercely guarded and the scene was recreated in Malibu, back in California.Īnd there’s also a leap of a few hundred miles east sneaked in here to New Mexico. There’s a bit of a cheat when they eventually drop off the hitcher with his family at the hippie commune, where they’re given acid, for “the right place, with the right people”. Still carrying their passenger, Billy and Wyatt ride northeast through the pink, red and grey strata of the spectacular Painted Desert and onto that great screen favourite, Monument Valley, made famous by John Ford in films such as Stagecoach and The Searchers. Continue on to find Wupatki National Monument, Cococino, where they camp for the night in the ruins of the Wupatki Pueblo.Ī little further north, the Sacred Mountain gas station, where the stranger they picked up insists they don’t pay for gas, has closed – but the building is still there, on the west side of US Route 89 at 150 Road, about 20 miles north of Flagstaff.Įasy Rider film location: biking across Arizona, Billy and Wyatt pass by the Mittens: The Mittens, Monument Valley, Arizona Loop Road runs east toward Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, which is where the pair pick up the hitchhiking stranger ( Luke Askew). The abandoned gas station and the motel itself can still be seen crumbling away on the bar’s grounds about a mile to the east.įrom here, it’s a few miles east to Flagstaff, and a north turn onto US Route 89 for a few miles. There’s a Harley-Davidson dealership, and the Route 66 Roadhouse Bar and Grill, 11840 West Route 66, Bellemont, displays the film’s original ‘No vacancies’ sign over the bar.
Ironically, the site is now a biker mecca. The stretch of Route 66, on which it stood, is now a disused section of East Bellemont Road, running alongside I-40.
This was the Pine Breeze Motel at Bellemont, about 12 miles west of Flagstaff, Arizona. Just to the east on I-40, they cross the Colorado River into Arizona at Topock, and its three bridges (the old Trails Arch Bridge is the one crossed in the opposite direction by the Joad family in John Ford’s 1940 film of The Grapes Of Wrath).Īnd on to the motel, where the owner hurriedly turns on the ‘No vacancies’ sign once he realises his potential customers are bikers. Route 66 has log since been superseded by modern highways but it can roughly be followed in dribs and drabs.īehind the credits, Billy and Wyatt ride south on Park Moabi Road, from Park Moabi itself over the railtracks to what is now I-40, south of Needles on the California/ Arizona border. As you can see, there’s little left of this ghost town (named after the Australian gold town), apart from crumbling ruins, though there is now a little store where you can pick up the basics. The key scene of Wyatt tossing his Rolex to the ground was staged in Ballarat, east of Route 178, between Trona and Stovepipe Wells on the western edge of Death Valley.
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The profitable drugs sell-on (a cameo from legendary record producer, now convicted murderer, Phil Spector) was shot at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), but from there on the movie was filmed on the hoof across the American southwest.
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The cross-country journey proper, which follows much of the famed old Route 66, begins in LA. The opening scene, of Billy ( Dennis Hopper) and Wyatt ( Peter Fonda) buying their coke wholesale in ‘Mexico’, was filmed at ‘La Contenta’, which stood at 1302 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte in El Prado, just north of Taos, not in ‘Mexico’ but in New Mexico. This surprise low-budget smash of the Sixties, revolutionising the studios and launching not only dozens of variable quality imitations but the career of Jack Nicholson, was shot in sequence, apart from the New Orleans Mardi Gras scene, which was actually first in the can.
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