The exterior of the Overlook Hotel in the movie "The Shining" was filmed at the Timberline Lodge, located on the south face of Mount Hood in Mount Hood National Forest, Clackamas County, Oregon. However, the hotel that inspired Stephen Kings novel "The Shining" is the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. The Stanley Hotel hosted both the novelist and his wife Tabitha for one night in October 1974, and it is known as the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write "The Shining". The Stanley Hotel has embraced its spooky reputation and offers ghost adventure packages led by experts in the supernatural. In 1997, the author adapted his famous novel into a television mini-series and filmed it entirely at the Stanley Hotel.