Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) filming locations
- Documented locations
- 42
- Year
- 1991
- Directed by
- James Cameron
- Cities
- Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Burbank, Littlerock, Lancaster, Palmdale, El Mirage, Arcadia, Malibu, Fremont, Fontana, Long Beach, Santa Clarita, Santa Fe, San José
12002 Osborne Street (Lake View Terrace)
Los Angeles, United States
The motorcycle bar The Corral once occupied this address; it has disappeared and the Lake View Terrace Branch Library now stands in its place.
The scene : 6 min — Just arrived from the future, the T-800 enters a biker bar naked and comes out equipped: leather jacket, black glasses, motorcycle, and rifle taken from his clients.
19828 Valerio Street (Winnetka)
Los Angeles, United States
Single-family home of 1,324 square feet (approximately 123 m²) built in 1956, located in the Winnetka neighborhood, between Reseda and Canoga Park.
The scene : 13 min — Todd and Janelle Voight's house, John’s adoptive parents: the T-1000 arrives there just after John and his friend Tim leave, then returns later to confront the couple.
14400 Roscoe Boulevard (Panorama City)
Los Angeles, United States
The former bank agency is now a pharmacy.
The scene : 18 min — At the back of the agency, John hacks an ATM with the technique his mother taught him and makes easy money.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : 29 min — The T-800 spots John riding in the concrete canal and starts pursuing him.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : 34 min — On this street in Northridge, the T-1000 is chasing young John who is trying to escape on a motorcycle.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : 35 min — At the wheel of a Freightliner truck, the T-1000 crashes through the parapet of the Plummer Street bridge and plunges into the Bull Creek canal to catch up with John, who is speeding on a motorcycle; this is the moment when the T-800 comes to his rescue. A little further north, John forks into a narrower canal and the chase continues. Just south of the bridge, the T-800 also rides down into the canal on a motorcycle through the gated entrance of Hayvenhurst Avenue.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : 39 min — In the alley behind this building, after the rescue, the T-800 and John question each other and take stock.
11844 Foothill Boulevard (Lake View Terrace)
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : 42 min — From the telephone booth of the store, John calls his adoptive parents to warn them; two bodybuilders then attempt to wrest him away from the T-800, who ultimately promises him that he will no longer kill anyone.
Lancaster, United States
Location of the former Cactus Jack's, a market and gas station isolated in the Antelope Valley desert; the site has since been fenced off.
The scene : 1 hr 17 min — John, Sarah, and the T-800 stop at this isolated desert market to eat, on their way to Enrique Salceda's ranch.
47131 Bayside Parkway (Fremont)
Fremont, United States
Office building in the Fremont business area, occupied by the company Mattson Technology.
The scene : 1 hr 44 min — The building serves as the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems, where Skynet will be born: Sarah, John, and the T-800 enter to destroy the research, then the building is blown up and the T-800 takes care of the police while a SWAT truck rushes into the lobby.
Fremont, United States
The scene : 1 hr 44 min — View of the intersection on the road leading to the Cyberdyne laboratory.
Elysian Park (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : Sarah Connor sees in a dream a children's playground at the moment when Skynet triggers Judgment Day, the city of Los Angeles sprawled below. The setting opens the film and then reappears during Sarah's nightmare.
Los Angeles, United States
Art Deco bridge from 1932 spanning the Los Angeles River, one of the most filmed viaducts in the city; the original structure was demolished in 2016 and then reconstructed. It is designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
The scene : The T-1000 emerges from the future beneath the viaduct of 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles, before taking down a police officer and stealing his car.
600 Mesquit Street (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : At the foot of the viaduct on 6th Street, by Mesquit Street, the T-1000 arrives from the future, kills the police officer who came to see what was happening, and dons his uniform.
11600 Eldridge Avenue (Lake View Terrace)
Los Angeles, United States
Built in the early 1970s as a medical facility under the name Lake View Medical Center, the building closed — due to seismic damage or lack of funding, according to different accounts — before hosting film shoots, and then became the Phoenix House Academy.
The scene : The establishment serves as the high-security psychiatric hospital where Sarah Connor is confined; she escapes after neutralizing a guard and a nurse, joined by John and the T-800.
Northridge Fashion Center
Los Angeles, United States
Northridge Mall severely damaged by the 1994 earthquake, then extensively renovated.
The scene : The exterior of the shopping mall where the two Terminators chase John and confront each other for the first time.
Santa Monica Place
Santa Monica, United States
Shopping center with 162 shops at the corner of Broadway and 4th Street; it had previously served as "Ridgemont Mall" in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
The scene : It is in the halls of this shopping center in Santa Monica that the interiors of the confrontation between the T-800 and the T-1000 chasing John were filmed.
Parking Structure 8 (Santa Monica)
Santa Monica, United States
The scene : The parking lot of the shopping center, where the chase continues in a stairwell.
Sherman Oaks Galleria
Los Angeles, United States
Shopping center opened in 1980 in Sherman Oaks, demolished and then completely rebuilt as an open-air shopping center.
The scene : IMDb, MovieMaps, and TerminatorFiles count this shopping mall in Sherman Oaks among the settings for the scenes set in the shopping center.
Bull Creek (North Hills)
Los Angeles, United States
Concrete canal for flood control that descends towards the Sepulveda basin, in the San Fernando valley.
The scene : John plunges on his motorcycle into this concrete flood canal, followed by the T-1000's truck speeding into the wide spillway of about twelve meters, and then by the T-800.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : During the chase, John takes a left turn at this spot, according to the blog Reel to Real.
Burbank, United States
The scene : John and his friend Tim head south on North Lamer Street, cross Peyton Avenue, and reach the entrance to the canal at the end of the street.
Burbank, United States
The scene : At the end of Peyton Avenue, the two boys descend into the concrete bed of the canal that leads to the Los Angeles River.
Burbank, United States
The scene : The T-800 follows John and the T-1000 from a distance as they are caught in the chase.
Burbank, United States
The scene : The T-800 follows the chase, speeding southeast along Morgan Avenue.
Burbank, United States
The scene : The chase continues on Church Street, at the point where the street meets Morgan Avenue.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : Right behind 10640 Vinedale Street, the T-800 launches off the ledge along Glencrest Drive on a motorcycle and dives into the canal, about 150 meters north of the Nettleton Street bridge.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : The T-1000's truck crashes under the Nettleton Street bridge, about 150 meters south of the T-800's jump; it's also where a cut scene was filmed in which the T-1000 steals a police car.
Petersen Automotive Museum (parking garage)
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : The underground parking lot of Pescadero Hospital, the site of Sarah's escape, was filmed in this garage, likely at its lower level.
38350 90th Street East (Littlerock)
Littlerock, United States
The scene : The gas station where the trio stops on the desert road.
Alpine Butte Ranch
Palmdale, United States
The scene : At the intersection of 120th Street East and Avenue K-8, in the heart of the Antelope Valley desert, lies the refuge of Enrique Salceda, towards which John, Sarah, and the T-800 are driving.
El Mirage, United States
The scene : This dried lake in the Mojave Desert is listed among the filming locations recorded by IMDb, MovieMaps, and TerminatorFiles, although none of these sources specify the scene that was filmed there.
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
Arcadia, United States
Arboretum and Botanical Garden of Los Angeles County, located in Arcadia, arranged on the former estate of Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin; its vast gardens, lagoon, and Victorian mansion have served as a backdrop for countless films and series.
The scene : Set of the epilogue never shown on screen: in a park supposedly located in Washington, an aged Sarah realizes that the Last Judgment has not occurred and delivers a final monologue.
30065 Pacific Coast Highway (Malibu)
Malibu, United States
Private residence along the Pacific Coast Highway, invisible from the road.
The scene : Sarah comes there to kill Miles Dyson, the Cyberdyne engineer whose work will lead to Skynet; the T-800 then proves its machine nature by scraping its arm.
Kaiser Steel Mill (Fontana)
Fontana, United States
Former Kaiser Steel integrated steel mill of Fontana, largely dismantled in the 1980s; the site now hosts California Steel Industries and still serves as a film set.
The scene : The Kaiser Steel mill in Fontana serves two purposes. The ruins of a partially demolished section of the steelworks represent the war of the future that opens the film; the nearby factory, which is now inactive, hosts the final sequence when John, Sarah, and the T-800 confront the T-1000 amidst the vats of molten metal.
118 Pier S Avenue (Long Beach)
Long Beach, United States
The scene : The FilmOblivion blog attributes the exterior shots of the factory where the final act takes place to this parcel of Terminal Island, in the port of Long Beach.
Los Angeles, United States
A four-lane highway approximately five kilometers long, oriented north-south, connecting Sepulveda Boulevard to the former naval base of Terminal Island, in the port area of San Pedro.
The scene : Theatre of the night chase between the T-1000, piloting a helicopter, and the tanker truck.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : The bridge of the Pacific Coast Highway under which the T-1000's helicopter passes during the chase.
Santa Clarita, United States
The scene : IMDb lists the Valencia Studios among the filming locations, without specifying which scenes were filmed there.
Santa Fe, United States
The scene : IMDb and TerminatorFiles cite Santa Fe as one of the filming locations, without specifying the scene in question.
San José, United States
The scene : IMDb and TerminatorFiles list San Jose among the filming locations, without specifying what was filmed there.
Los Angeles, United States
The scene : IMDb places part of the motorcycle chase in this canal of the San Fernando Valley.
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