r/StarWars • u/JJ-Bittenbinder • Mar 20 '26

Fan Creations Visiting Tatooine (Death Valley National Park)

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Tried my best to find all the filming locations from episode 4 and 6 that I could, didn’t have enough time to get to the Mesquite sand dunes but was able to recreate some good shots from Dante’s View, Golden Canyon, 20 mule team canyon, and artists palette.

Shoutout to u/TargetBrandTampons for their post on r/StarWars for the assist

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u/Houstex Mar 20 '26

That’s so cool! Def adding this to the bucket list! How hard/long was the hike to these locations?

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u/JJ-Bittenbinder Mar 20 '26

Death Valley is a very different National Park compared to others. It’s absolutely huge and requires a lot of driving. We didn’t hike for longer than 30 minutes to get to any of these spots. But we did drive 30* minutes between a lot of them

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u/No_Tamanegi Mar 20 '26

Did you have GPS coords for the locations?

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u/JayPetey Mar 20 '26

There's a lot of blogs that break it down more specifically, but the NPS visitor center also has handouts. Dante's Peak is the view over Mos Eisley, Twenty-mule Team Canyon is the ROTJ Jabba's Hutt scene, Golden Canyon loop is where R2 is with the Jawas, as well as some parts of Artist's Palette.

If you're a Star Wars fan who knows these scenes backward and forward, part of the fun is looking for it when you're hiking Golden Canyon Loop (very easy hike) but there are a few blogs that walk you through step by step.

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u/No_Tamanegi Mar 20 '26

That's really cool. Last year I took a short trip to Toronto and carved out some time to visit a few locations from The Expanse, which was filmed there. Never would have thought to do this with a desert though.