Picnic's Filming Locations:
STERLING
Sterling, Kansas: (75 miles Northwest of Wichita); The swimming hole/dock scenes were filmed in Sterling: (June 19, 1955); 1 day of shooting; (This was last day of shooting in Kansas; the stars left Kansas that afternoon);
- June 19, 1955); 1 day of shooting;The swimming hole/dock scenes were filmed in Sterling: (This was last day of shooting in Kansas; the stars left Kansas that afternoon);
- Where everybody goes swimming at "Sterling Lake" and Hal jumps off the diving board;
- A: The approximate location of the old wooden dock that Hal and Millie jumped from; (note that it is no longer there);
- B: The approximate location of the shot of Alan & Madge's kiss by the Sterling Lake (notice grain elevator in the upper left, the footbridge in the lake middle left and bath house in the middle area);
- Note that a swimming pool now occupies some of the sandy beach area that was shown between the swimming dock and the bath house;
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