In what U.S. state is the fictional town of Twin Peaks located?

The fictional town of Twin Peaks is located in Washington state. The setting is presented as a forested Pacific Northwest community near the Canadian border, with mountains, waterfalls, logging businesses, and long rainy seasons shaping its identity.

Although Twin Peaks is fictional, the production used many real Washington locations. The pilot and later scenes were filmed around Snoqualmie, North Bend, and Fall City, east of Seattle. These locations supplied the waterfalls, forests, roads, and small-town buildings that became visually inseparable from the series.

The Washington setting is more than scenery. The region’s timber economy, isolated roads, and dense evergreen forests support the show’s contrast between ordinary small-town life and uncanny supernatural events.

Viewers sometimes confuse the state with Oregon because both are part of the Pacific Northwest and share similar landscapes. However, the series explicitly places Twin Peaks in Washington. The town’s fictional geography is flexible, while the production’s real-world visual identity is strongly tied to the Snoqualmie Valley.