Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania Woodstock, Illinois2 February ·
Day 1
The square inside is Woodstock, Illinois, where Phil wakes up every morning. Shake it and the same day starts again; each time, one more Punxsutawney name gives up its real place.
The same day
Every morning in the film is the same morning in the same town. Every morning here turns one Punxsutawney sign over, and behind it is Woodstock.
The radio comes on. The same song, the same cold, the same Square.
Day 1. Nothing is real yet.
Wake up to turn the first sign.
The city’s walking-tour map has 15 stops. These 5 are on it too, without a photograph here:
The city’s map of 15 movie points of interest names the bachelor auction (Woodstock Moose Lodge), the bowling alley (Wayne’s Lanes), the gas station (Frisbie & Lohmeyer Insurance), old man’s alley (Benton Street at East Judd Street), the piano teacher’s house (A private home).
Woodstock Groundhog Days committee: Movie points of interest, walking-tour map (2024)
The Moose Lodge is the bachelor auction; the bowling alley is where Phil drinks before the drive along the tracks.
Wikipedia: Groundhog Day (film)Movie Locations: Groundhog Day filming locations
Starts at the Woodstock Opera House · Free · self-guided
The city’s free map of fifteen filming sites, from the Opera House round the Square to the Cherry Tree Inn. Many are marked with engraved plaques. Download it and walk it any day.
Get the mapCass Street at Benton Street
Ned’s Corner is where Cass Street meets Benton Street, on the north-east corner of the Square. Here Phil runs into Ned Ryerson. Ned, an insurance salesman, is played by Stephen Tobolowsky. A plaque marks the spot where Phil meets Ned.
A street corner on the north-east of the Square. Free, any time.
Get away from Ned and you reach the kerb outside 108 Cass Street, about 30 metres on. There is a puddle in it.
Ned is coming. Move.
Steps in the puddle: 0
The puddle is real ground: a plaque sits in the kerb. Keep going to find it.
Gobbler’s Knob
The film’s Gobbler’s Knob was a corner of a park in Illinois. The real one is a hill in Pennsylvania, 800 km (500 miles) east as the crow flies.
Pick a sky, then lift the groundhog out of his stump.
On 2 February 2026 he saw his shadow at 7.25am: more winter.
In the film · Woodstock, Illinois
For the film a Gobbler’s Knob set was built to scale in Woodstock Town Square. The city’s map puts Gobbler’s Knob at the south-west corner of the park, and the bandstand dance in the park itself. A plaque marks the pavilion where Phil and Rita dance. In 1992 the crew roped off the Square and played the Pennsylvania Polka over and over.
A public park, open daily. The Gobbler’s Knob spot is its south-west corner; the bandstand is in the middle.
The real one · Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
The real Groundhog Day happens at Gobbler’s Knob, outside Punxsutawney. The first official trek here was in 1887. Punxsutawney was ruled out for filming: too few locations, nowhere to house the crew, and about 80 miles from Pittsburgh. In the year after the film more than 35,000 people came. The festival once drew a few hundred.
Entry is free. The Knob closes at 4pm on 1 February and reopens at 3.30am on the 2nd; Phil gives his forecast at sunrise, about 7.20am. Buses run from 3am from three stops in town, $5 a person in cash. On foot it is almost two miles uphill.
Phil has lived at the library’s address since the 1970s. His burrow has a window at the front and another in the children’s section. Gobbler’s Knob is about a mile away. Library staff often have to tell visitors that the film was mostly made in Woodstock, Illinois. The Groundhog Club’s Inner Circle feeds him every day and keeps the burrow at a controlled temperature.
Look in through the window at the front of the library, or from the children’s section when the library is open.
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Punxsutawney Phil’s home since the 1970s, seen through a window at the front of the library or from the children’s section inside.
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344 Fremont Street
The film’s Cherry Street Inn, where Phil wakes every morning, is a Queen Anne house at 344 Fremont Street. Only its outside was filmed. It was a private home then, and the inside was a set.
It has been a bed and breakfast, the Cherry Tree Inn, since 2017. One room looks over Madison Street: the view in the film. Away from Groundhog Days a night cost $238 to $279 in 2025. Guests staying for the festival had waited five to eight years. On festival tour days the walking tour ends here, and visitors can go inside.
A bed and breakfast. See it from Fremont Street; go in as a guest, or at the end of the festival walking tour.
344 Fremont Street, Woodstock · $238–$279 a night outside Groundhog Days (2025)
Phil’s Cherry Street Inn, a bed and breakfast since 2017, with five suites in the house and more rooms in a guest house about a block away; one room looks over Madison Street, the view in the film. Book online or by phone. Festival stays carry a long waiting list.
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Harold Ramis directed and co-wrote the film with Danny Rubin; Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell and Chris Elliott star.
The groundhog bit Murray on the knuckle during the drive scene, and again in the same spot on a later take.
Ramis first said the loop lasted about ten years, and later thirty or forty. Murray and Ramis fell out during filming and did not speak again until shortly before Ramis died in 2014.
In 2018 MacDowell said a sequel would never happen.
Heidi II, the film Phil sees at the Alpine.
The Woodstock Theatre is the film’s Alpine cinema, where Phil takes a date to see Heidi II. Its main screen is named after Harold Ramis, for the director’s affection for his time working in Woodstock.
A working cinema, a minute north of the Square. Buy a ticket to go in.
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10 places you can visit: eight in Woodstock, most of them round one square, and two in Punxsutawney.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working theatre owned by the City. See it from Van Buren Street; buy a ticket to go in. The walking tour starts here.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public park, open daily. The Gobbler’s Knob spot is its south-west corner; the bandstand is in the middle.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Shops, an arts centre and a restaurant now. Go in during opening hours.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A plaque in the pavement at the kerb, on the north side of the Square. Free, any time; mind the traffic.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A restaurant on the north side of the Square. Go in when it is open.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A street corner on the north-east of the Square. Free, any time.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working cinema, a minute north of the Square. Buy a ticket to go in.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A bed and breakfast. See it from Fremont Street; go in as a guest, or at the end of the festival walking tour.
121 West Van Buren Street, Woodstock
The Opera House is the outside of the Pennsylvanian Hotel, where Rita stays.
A working theatre owned by the City. See it from Van Buren Street; buy a ticket to go in. The walking tour starts here.
The Square, between Van Buren, Johnson, Cass and Benton Streets
For the film a Gobbler’s Knob set was built to scale in Woodstock Town Square.
A public park, open daily. The Gobbler’s Knob spot is its south-west corner; the bandstand is in the middle.
101 North Johnson Street, Woodstock
The bar scenes were filmed inside the Old McHenry County Courthouse.
Shops, an arts centre and a restaurant now. Go in during opening hours.
The kerb outside 108 Cass Street
At the kerb outside 108 Cass Street a plaque marks where Phil steps in the same puddle, morning after morning.
A plaque in the pavement at the kerb, on the north side of the Square. Free, any time; mind the traffic.
108 Cass Street, Woodstock
The Tip Top Café was built for the film on Cass Street.
A restaurant on the north side of the Square. Go in when it is open.
100 Cass Street, at Benton Street
Ned’s Corner is where Cass Street meets Benton Street, on the north-east corner of the Square. Here Phil runs into Ned Ryerson.
A street corner on the north-east of the Square. Free, any time.
209 Main Street, Woodstock
The Woodstock Theatre is the film’s Alpine cinema, where Phil takes a date to see Heidi II.
A working cinema, a minute north of the Square. Buy a ticket to go in.
344 Fremont Street, Woodstock
The film’s Cherry Street Inn, where Phil wakes every morning, is a Queen Anne house at 344 Fremont Street.
A bed and breakfast. See it from Fremont Street; go in as a guest, or at the end of the festival walking tour.
Stay
The film’s Cherry Street Inn is a bed and breakfast; festival nights go years ahead.
344 Fremont Street, Woodstock · $238–$279 a night outside Groundhog Days (2025)
Phil’s Cherry Street Inn, a bed and breakfast since 2017, with five suites in the house and more rooms in a guest house about a block away; one room looks over Madison Street, the view in the film. Book online or by phone. Festival stays carry a long waiting list.
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The city’s free map, the library window in Punxsutawney, and day trips from Chicago.
Starts at the Woodstock Opera House · Free · self-guided
The city’s free map of fifteen filming sites, from the Opera House round the Square to the Cherry Tree Inn. Many are marked with engraved plaques. Download it and walk it any day.
Get the mapEast Union Street, Punxsutawney · Free
Punxsutawney Phil’s home since the 1970s, seen through a window at the front of the library or from the children’s section inside.
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On Tuesday 2 February 2027: Woodstock Willie on the Square, and Phil on Gobbler’s Knob.
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An original 1993 poster from our own store, the BFI book and the soundtrack CD.
An original 1993 one-sheet, 27 × 40 inches, rolled, in very good condition.
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View posterRyan Gilbey · BFI Modern Classics
A short book on the film by the critic Ryan Gilbey, 2004.
Find the bookGeorge Fenton and others · CD, Epic Soundtrax, 1993
The soundtrack on its first US CD release, March 1993.
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That was Day 1. Go round once more and another sign turns.
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121 West Van Buren Street, Woodstock
The Opera House plays the outside of the Pennsylvanian Hotel, where Rita stays.
Phil is seen falling from the Opera House once he realises the day is repeating.
The Square, between Van Buren, Johnson, Cass and Benton Streets
A Gobbler’s Knob set is built to scale in Woodstock’s town square.
Phil and Rita dance at the bandstand in the park.
The crew ropes off the Square and plays the Pennsylvania Polka over and over.
Filming runs from 16 March to 10 June 1992, mostly in Woodstock.
Harold Ramis, from Chicago, wants a town near the city and picks Woodstock for its timeless look.
101 North Johnson Street, Woodstock
The bar scenes are shot inside the old courthouse.
The kerb outside 108 Cass Street
Phil steps in the same puddle at the kerb on Cass Street.
108 Cass Street, Woodstock
The diner is built for the film on Cass Street, where Phil predicts what everyone will do.
100 Cass Street, at Benton Street
Phil runs into Ned Ryerson on the corner of Cass and Benton Streets.
209 Main Street, Woodstock
Phil takes a date to see Heidi II at the Alpine cinema.
344 Fremont Street, Woodstock
Phil wakes every morning at the Cherry Street Inn; only the outside is filmed here.
1548 Woodland Avenue Extension, Punxsutawney
The real Groundhog Day is held at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, as it has been since 1887.
Punxsutawney Memorial Library, East Union Street, by Barclay Square
Punxsutawney Phil lives at the town library.
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