On The Road With The Winchesters...

During the hellatus, many of us will be pulling out our DVD's to get our weekly fix of the Winchester boys. So we thought it might be fun to do the tour again, only this time by location.

So here's where we can take a look at the actual cities and places visited and anyone who is actually been to or is from that city can jump in and give their impressions of how close the show got to what it's really like. It's also a chance to revisit some old episodes and discuss them if you like.

With seven years of episodes, we should have plenty to keep us busy until the hiatus is over. So dust off your DVD's and join us as we fall in love with the show all over again.

Your SN.Tv Staff


List of Episodes

1.01 Pilot Episode

1.02 Wendigo

This post has been edited by Raven524 on May 30 2012, 02:11 AM

1.01 Pilot Episode:

So let's start the discussion with the very first episode. The Pilot took place in three different places:

Lawrence, Kansas






Palo Alto, California




Jericho, California is a fictional town that no longer exists, however if Wikipedia is correct, it did exist until 1873 and is now considered a ghost town. Hmmm...I wonder if that's why they picked Jericho?

Can't say as I've ever been to/lived in any of these cites...but as I kid, I was a major Little House on the Prairie Fan and my ambition in life was to move to Kansas and live in a dugout on the prairie. SN didn't have any dugouts...but I did like the wild west epi.

I've been to Palo Alto, California. I live in California, and I pass it for trips up the coast of Cali all the time. Plus, Stanford is there, so they got that right. I always wanted to go to Stanford, but I never applied. I figured we just wouldn't be able to afford it. The university is a huge part of that town. I can't say I have seen the campus, but Stanford is a focus.

I've driven through Palo Alto, but never really got to see the city. One year, while on a business trip I decided to drive down Hwy 101 from San Francisco to San Jose, which as I recall, Palo Alto was not far from San Jose. It was a beautiful drive down the coast with fantastic ocean views.

I don't know if Hwy 101 is still all there (I heard that mud slides destroyed part of the road), but if it is, I encourage anyone interested to take the trip

I think they're working on opening it back up!

I really hope they do, I loved the drive. Of course, the fact that I got to do it on a sunny day driving a rented convertible while listening to classic rock may have added to the thrill

Did they close the whole road down or just part of it?

i was near by Palto too. Visited Oakland and San Francisco once. I can't believe i forgot about Sam going to school there. Did they ever say how Sam got into Stanford? i know he had a full ride but how exactly did he get in? Scholarships?

I think he said he had a 'full ride' which generally would mean he had scholarships. I wonder if he went to the beach while he was there?

1.02 Wendigo

Our next stop with the Winchester Brothers is to the wooded area of Pike Forest (Lost Creek Wilderness) to locate a Wendigo. While Blackwater Ridge does not exist, the coordinates do put you in the Lost Creek Wilderness area, near Denver CO.


The first town they roll into is:

Grand Junction, CO



After they pass through Grand Junction, they head east towards Denver. The map below shows the approximate area for the Lost Creek Wilderness Area:



This is the description of the area (from Wikipedia):

The Lost Creek Wilderness is a 119,790-acre (485 km2) wilderness area located in central Colorado in Jefferson and Park counties south of the town of Bailey. The area is situated entirely within the boundaries of the Pike National Forest.

The area is named for Lost Creek, a perennial stream that disappears and reappears before finally joining Goose Creek which empties into the South Platte River at Cheesman Reservoir just east of the Wilderness area. The entire water system of the area forms a watershed for the Platte River Basin. The area is notable for its many rock formations, natural arches, and rounded granite domes and knobs,. These are contained in two ranges of low alpine foothills of the Rocky Mountains: the Kenosha Mountains and the Tarryall Mountains. 12,431-foot (3,789 m) Bison Peak is the highest peak in the wilderness.

Because of its proximity to Denver, the area is quite popular for outdoor recreation in both summer and winter months. Typical activities in the area include hiking, backpacking, rock-climbing, as well as cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and winter camping. There are 130 miles (210 km) of trails in the wilderness, including a section of the Colorado Trail that crosses Lost Creek then parallels the northeast boundary toward Kenosha Pass.

It is approximately a 16 hour drive between Palo Alto (Pilot Episode) and Grand Junction. Then add another 4 hours to Lost Creek—no wonder poor Sammy was so tired and cranky!

^LOL. I feel like I'm taking a tour across America to all the places they've nee. the Supernatural tour. This is awesome. But how could Dean drive for that long and not let his brother drive? I'm still interested to know how he got his scholarship. Did he get it from Basketball? He looks like he played Basketball. Oh wait. Duh. He played Soccer so he probably got one from playing Soccer. lol

Could also have been strictly academic.

Oh, that's awesome!

You know, I'm not too sure. Maybe we should Google it? Lol!

I tried to google it and couldn't find out, but then I didn't spend hours doing it either

Angel, that's the idea for the thread and you kind of pointed out the first little issue--time. 20 hours is a long drive and apparently Dean did all of it. He must have had one giant cup of coffee

I guess because Sam's scary smarts were alluded to, I figured he got a scholarship based on academics--that's how I went to college (me and sports were a very very bad idea )

I'm glad you're enjoying the thread...I'm actually enjoying looking the stuff up. I've traveled extensively in the US and still I find out things I didn't know