page_title: Mountain Lake (Virginia)
section_title: Filming Dirty Dancing
hierarchical_section_title: Mountain Lake (Virginia) / Filming Dirty Dancing
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial stone to Patrick Swayze at the Mountain Lake Hotel where "Dirty Dancing" was filmed.
context_page_description: Mountain Lake is a freshwater lake located in Giles County near Newport, Virginia in the United States. Along with Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp, it is one of only two natural lakes in Virginia. It was originally known as Salt Pond, as it was where cattle were given salt.
context_section_description: Mountain Lake Hotel was the site for much of the on-location filming of the 1987 hit movie Dirty Dancing which starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. The Stone Lodge stood in for "Kellerman's Resort", a fictional mountain retreat in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. Like Kellerman's, the real Mountain Lake Hotel Resort also offers many indoor and outdoor activities for guests such as games like table tennis and billiards, water activities like paddle boating, canoeing, and fishing, and dry activities like mountain biking and hiking.
  The other site was the 1927 Lake Lure Inn located in Lake Lure, North Carolina.
caption: Memorial stone for Patrick Swayze dedicated in 2009, at Memorial Lake Hotel
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