Dante's Peak / Wallace, Idaho (Comparison Pictures) 

My mom and I were driving from Washington to Montana to visit my grandpa back in 2000. We stopped in Wallace to get gas and some food, but I noticed that the place seemed familiar. We drove by a shop and I saw a big sign that said "Welcome to Dante's Peak" and I freaked out. I loved this movie so i was very familiar with it. We drove around to find where the mine was and stopped to get some souvenirs. I still have a post card with the banner from the festival they had in the movie and pictures of how they made the huge piles of ash around the town. It is still one of the coolest things I've ever stumbled upon.

I lived here when they filmed. I was on the bridge watching them film the scene when they cross the river with the SUV and I worked in the restaurant where the bar was. Very cool to see what they did.

Just watched the movie again. Still great even after all.these years. This movie is a classic. Great special effects!

The bridge photos give you a sense of how high the lahar flow was.

I lived in Wallace when they were filming. It was fun!

This is really neat, gives a whole new perspective on how they digitally added in the mountain. And given this film came out in 97, I think they did a hell of a job for when it was made.

I'm glad they moved that volcano. Could have been disastrous.

Although they were filming this around Wallace, I'd like to add that Pierce Brosnon was residing in Post Falls. It was my 2nd year having a car, so I was driving around a lot. I would pass by Pierce as he jogged alone through the neighborhood. I saw him several times, and nobody believed me until one of our neighbors confirmed it. I remember waving and he saw me, returning the kind gesture. He wasn't the only movie star or professional athlete who we'd see. It was kind of a community pride thing, where they could be here and not become hassled by any of us. Maybe more than 5 years ago, I was driving away from a job site in Coeur d'Alene and passed by a house with a guy 100% identical to Kid Rock, just didn't think anything of it. He was standing in front of a random house alone but with some dog. Kept it to myself, and later people lit up social media with their reported sightings & pictures. He was visiting friends/family. Travolta has been up here...his mom lives nearby, so he'd visit often, too, until she passed away (I believe she did).

I've always wanted to live at a place like this. Without the eruptions though

Awwww... the fictional town of Dante's Peak is where I want to live!!! 😢

Great job ! It's odd this place looks so "empty" without the volcano in the distance. It's as if it misses something...😎

We were on a trip out west a few years back and spent a night in Wallace. The lady at the hotel told us a lot of interesting stuff about the movie. One was that they used wet newspapers for the lava ash. She said they had a time cleaning it up. Lot more stuff but I can’t remember...lol

Wow, incredible how they cleaned up after all of that devastation. And to think the volcano's eruption was so powerful that it reduced the mountain to less than a quarter of its size, you can't even see it in the pictures anymore. Just amazing! So glad Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton made it out okay. I heard they were filming some kind of romantic comedy in the town there when all hell broke loose.

Thanks for doing this! I was always curious about the town after the film. It's so cute!

If I lived in Wallace I would want them to leave the mountain there after they finished filming. The town looks much nicer with the mountain. And house prices would probably be higher if they left the mountain.

I have gone to filming locations and tried to match shots for films like _Vanishing Point_ and _Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry_ You did a great job in matching the shots. The one thing is They used a number of miniature models for some of the shots. Example, the army trucks going across the bridge and the town covered in ash is all miniatures. Just shows how well they made it look.

Awesome! Thank you for sharing this

Wow thanks for doing this video, this is just what I was looking for without even knowing. :P

I watch Dante's peak about 3 times a day. Love that movie so much.

If you have a chance to go to Wallace I highly recommend it. It’s a beautiful little town. I grew up in Spokane and drive back often, and we always stop in Wallace.

I really love this movie and I think the town is really beautiful never know this is a real town.

Great video. Going up there in a few weeks. Any chance you wouldn’t mind revealing the exact addresses for these locations? Thank you.

Great, thanks!...You sure know the movie since you could find all those places. When were you there? (The same year you oploaed this on youtube?).. And what did the people living there think of the movie?

This movie is very similar to the eruption activities in Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines. Like fast movement of phyroclastic clouds and What we call it in tagalog is "Lahar" at the end of the movie

Great job. More more.

It’s amazing how they put movies together Just like the movie pet cemetery was made at many different locations put together

It actually looks better with the peak there

God I miss the 90s

0:52 This bridge where Paul died when his van gets stuck?

cool. tks for sharing.

what volcano is that? They did took a real volcano as model or it has been created ex novo?

But doesn't the volcano exist?Did they make it with a computer and special effects?it seems a real mountain

I would have moved there if it had the mountain in real life as in the movie...

I was just watching Dante's Peak before, a great disaster movie :D

Nice video! Do you know where they shot the scenes looking down on the town from the hot springs area?

Is Dante's Peak a True Life Real Volcano over in the state of Idaho?

sooo.. you cant see the mountain from anywhere in the town?

Such a good movie. Waaaaaaay better than Volcano.

would be cool if the mountain were actualy their

Rip to this beautiful town 😢😢😢 it’s now nothing but waste lands

I genuinely didn't know that the volcano wasn't real.

Que chingon

wow well made cgi i alwyays thought this was a real mountain

That ending explosion of dantes peak the first explosion was bad enough that ending was like a valcano orgasmic of epic disaster

Lies all lies.My childhood was a sham.Dang you dante

That be fucked up lol that volcano was really there

Is Linda Hamilton still the mayor there?

Alberts landing in Kingston Idaho!!! Yay!!!

Nice, we are building a replica of the suburban from the movie. Our goal is to have this project completed by May 2014. The vehicle will be driven to Wallace Idaho for their car show. More info at coloradok5.com and on facebook

I didn't see hot lava hot springs. Lol

Best disaster movie ever!

Lava is dangerous.

A fictional volcano

Bellissimo, per Dio

i wish the volcano was real and make it on wallace but make the volcano extinct

my life is a lie there was no volcano-

Then There Is Not a Real Volcano In The Real Life?

The mountains just actually cgi animation

The actaul mountian they shot erupting was footages of the real Mount Staint Helens Volcano when it erupted way back in 1980!That was the real deadly Volcano rupting in that movie!👍