This one is a little iffy, usually I document the filming locations carefully, matching up the angle of my photos with screenshots from the movie and finding details that prove it but this one there just isn’t enough in the screenshots, normally when that happens I’ll just skip that location but I have heard and read several times that this was at the Storm Mountain Picnic Area in Big Cottonwood Canyon so we’ll go with that until I find out otherwise.
The possible location where they filmed the opening for Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) as he escaped the mine shaft, floated down the creek and found the hermit’s shack.
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Hey, just found this. I can confirm that the Storm Mountain Picnic Area was the location of the Hermit Shack. My parent owned the security guard company that worked at the filming locations and I was lucky enough to have visited the shack several times (location name the film crew used was Doctor Deaths Shack.). Sadly the area was completely changed a few years after the movie when they filled in the area to expand the picnic area. The exact spot is now under several feet of rock and dirt.
To see the location of the shack, you start in the main parking lot and head down to the river. The shack was across the river from there between the spillway to the right and the bridge to the left. The concrete culvert with the observation deck on top is about where they built the foot bridge across the river that was in front of the shack.
If you decide to go look at this spot, be sure to stop at the Old Mill at the mouth of the canyon. On the west side of The Old Mill you’ll see the door that was used as the hospital entrance in the movie. It’s behind a chain link fence, but it’s easy to see from the road.It’s close enough that you can get good pictures in front of it.
That’s really cool that you worked at the locations! I’m a little jealous! I’ll have to go look for the shack.
As for the old mill, I did get that one already here: https://jacobbarlow.com/2019/07/19/smiths-grove-exterior-movie-end/