Twin Peaks Filming Locations in Washington: Pie, Falls and the Real Sheriff's Station

The Roadhouse: Fall City's old inn on the river

In Twin Peaks, the Roadhouse is the bar out on the highway where the town goes for a beer and live music. The real building is the Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn in Fall City, which says it's been feeding travelers since 1916. Its exterior played the bar in the series. The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust points fans to the first-season night Donna Hayward sneaks off to the bar and a brawl follows.

It's a sit-down restaurant now, with a few inn rooms named for the local rivers: the Snoqualmie, the Tolt and the Raging. Start your day here with lunch, or save it for dinner and a bed so you can skip the drive back to Seattle.

Visit: 4200 Preston-Fall City Road SE, Fall City. (425) 222-4800. fcroadhouse.com. Wednesday to Friday from 11 a.m., Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m.; closed Monday and Tuesday. Reservations are recommended, and parties of five or more should call.

Snoqualmie Falls: the opening credits

The show's title sequence lingers on a waterfall pouring into a misty gorge, with a big lodge perched on the cliff above. That's Snoqualmie Falls, 268 feet high, and the view costs nothing. The Snoqualmie Tribe holds the falls sacred as its place of creation, and it welcomes visitors to experience them in their own way.

Puget Sound Energy owns the 12-acre park and still makes power here. Charles H. Baker built the plant in 1898 and 1899, and PSE calls it the world's first hydroelectric plant built completely underground. In the upper park, short paved paths lead to cliffside viewing decks. For the view from below, a trail drops to the river, about 1.4 miles round trip with 250 feet to climb back up.

Visit: 6501 Railroad Ave. SE, Snoqualmie. pse.com. Free, sunrise to sunset every day. The big lot across Highway 202 is free, with a footbridge over the road; the lot by the gift shop is pay-to-park, listed at $7 an hour, and the lower lot is $7. PSE's free hydroelectric museum is a summer stop: its 2026 season ran May 27 to September 6, Wednesday to Sunday.

Salish Lodge & Spa: the Great Northern

Agent Dale Cooper's hotel, the Great Northern, is that lodge on the cliff. It started as the Snoqualmie Falls Lodge, an eight-room inn built in 1916 for travelers headed over the mountains, and it was rebuilt and reopened as the Salish Lodge in 1988. In 2019 the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe bought the lodge and about 45 acres by the falls for $125 million. Columbia Hospitality still runs it for the tribe.

The outside is the part you'll recognize, since most of the hotel's interiors were filmed elsewhere. If you want a meal inside, book the Country Breakfast. It dates to the inn's early days, and the server pours honey from the lodge's own hives onto your biscuits from high above the plate.

Visit: 6501 Railroad Ave. SE, Snoqualmie. (425) 888-2556. salishlodge.com. Breakfast 8 to 11 a.m. weekdays and brunch 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekends; reservations recommended for visitors as well as guests. The falls gift shop and visitor center is open daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Downtown Snoqualmie: a giant log and a sign you can stand beside

A paved walk of about a mile links the falls with historic downtown Snoqualmie. In Railroad Park, the Centennial Log Pavilion shelters an old-growth Douglas fir log under a preserved Weyerhaeuser mill building. The Greenway Trust puts the log at 12 feet across and says it shows up in the pilot.

Then go to City Hall. Its lobby holds original ink drawings by David Lynch, a full-size "Welcome to Twin Peaks" sign replica for your photo, and a guest book filled by fans from around the world. Pick up the city's self-guided tour brochure while you're there. Meadowbrook Bridge, on Meadowbrook Way in town, is another one for the list; the city says it appears in the pilot, in Fire Walk With Me and in Part 18 of the revival.

Visit: Railroad Park, 7971 Railroad Ave. SE, open dawn to dusk, free. Snoqualmie City Hall, 38624 SE River St. (425) 888-1555. snoqualmiewa.gov. Lobby open Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

DirtFish: the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department

A short drive from downtown, a small office building at the old Snoqualmie mill played the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department. The city says the mill opened in 1917 as the Snoqualmie Lumber Company, later became Weyerhaeuser and ran until 1989. According to the Greenway Trust, the office supplied the station's outside in the series and its inside in the pilot.

Today it's the main office of DirtFish Rally School. The city says DirtFish welcomes fans and usually has the sheriff's Ford Bronco parked for photos. It's a working school with rally cars out on its tracks, so keep to the office and the parking lot.

Visit: 7001 396th Drive SE, Snoqualmie. (425) 888-7715. dirtfish.com. Open seven days a week, typically 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call ahead if you're coming a long way.

Reinig Road: Ronette's Bridge and the welcome-sign view

Just down 396th Drive, an old steel railroad bridge crosses the Snoqualmie River where it meets Reinig Road. In the pilot, a dazed Ronette Pulaski walks across it. Trains on this line hauled lumber for the mill; today the bridge carries the Snoqualmie Valley Trail, a 31.7-mile crushed-rock path.

For now, take your photo from the road. King County closed the Reinig Bridge after repeated vandalism of its railing and expects it to reopen on December 31, 2026, or as soon as repairs are safely done.

Keep going east on SE Reinig Road to the open stretch where the "Welcome to Twin Peaks" sign stood in the opening credits, with Mount Si rising behind. It's a working rural road, so pull all the way off the pavement for pictures. February 24 is when Agent Cooper arrived in town, and on that day in 2027 fans meet at the sign spot for a group photo at 11:30 a.m.

Visit: Reinig Road at 396th Drive SE, Snoqualmie. kingcounty.gov. Bridge closed for repairs until about December 31, 2026.

Twede's Cafe: the Double R Diner

Twin Peaks ran on coffee and cherry pie, and so does Twede's. The corner of North Bend Way and Highway 202 has had a cafe since the early 1940s, when Roy Thompson moved Thompson's Cafe into this building. As the Mar-T Cafe, it played the Double R Diner in the 1990 pilot. Later episodes used a studio set, but Fire Walk With Me shot its diner scenes here, and so did the 2017 revival.

Kyle Twede bought the cafe in 1997 and gave it his name. Early on July 2, 2000, someone set two fires in the back to cover a break-in. The Seattle Times reported the haul was $450 and the damage was put at more than $250,000. The cafe was rebuilt in 2001, and in 2015 the revival turned it back into the Double R. Rachel Bennett and Max Spears bought it in March 2020, just as the pandemic reached Washington.

Order the cherry pie and a cup of coffee, then step outside. Mount Si fills the sky over town, and the City of Snoqualmie traces the show's name to the mountain's double-topped peak.

Visit: 137 W. North Bend Way, North Bend. (425) 831-5511. twedescafe.com. Open daily, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; holiday hours can change.

Side trip: Roslyn, for Northern Exposure

This one's a different show. If one '90s TV town isn't enough, keep driving east on I-90 over Snoqualmie Pass to Roslyn, the old coal town that played Cicely, Alaska, in Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995. The Roslyn Cafe's camel mural is the one from the opening credits. We cover Roslyn, its museum and its main street in our Washington themed towns guide.