Twin Peaks Fan Fest Memories – Kiana Lodge Kitchen

In the Pilot episode of Twin Peaks, Catherine Martell is reading a newspaper in the kitchen at Blue Pine Lodge as Pete Martell tells her he’s “gone fishing.” The Blue Pine Lodge is actually Kiana Lodge located in Poulsbo, Washington. I first visited this location on August 9, 1996 when I attended the 1996 Twin Peaks Fan Festival.

BLUE PINE LODGE KITCHEN AT KIANA LODGE

The Pilot episode is only time the kitchen location was used was used in Twin Peaks. For the remainder of the first two season, the kitchen was a set (look for a future “Setting the Stage” article about the Blue Pine Lodge kitchen).

Kiana Lodge was the first real Twin Peaks film location I visited during the festival. I took a few additional photos of the location, frozen in time from the mid-1990s.

I wish I would have photographed this location the way it was seen in the Pilot episode (InTwinPeaks.com style).

Nevertheless, I was delighted to visit the location in 1996 as it had not dramatically changed from the time when the Pilot episode was shot.

For example, the windows behind Pete look similar to the windows in my second personal photo above. Look carefully at the photo above and you’ll spot a mug from McDonald’s.