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A painted camel among palms under snowy mountains, framed by the words Roslyn Cafe and An Oasis, on a sandstone wall
The Roslyn Cafe’s camel mural on Pennsylvania Avenue at Second Street, July 2018. Photo by Burley Packwood. Burley Packwood · CC BY-SA 4.0

Northern Exposure

Roslyn, Washington · an old coal town of about 900 people, 1991

The café mural was here before the show. Tear a set in two

  • A young dark-haired man in a dinner jacket and bow tie, smiling
    Rob Morrow at the Governor’s Ball after the Emmy Awards, 25 August 1991. Photo by Alan Light. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0
    Rob MorrowJoel · 1991
  • A woman with short dark hair in a white strapless dress and a gold necklace
    Janine Turner at the Governor’s Ball after the Emmy Awards, 30 August 1992. Photo by Alan Light. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0
    Janine TurnerMaggie · 1992
  • An older woman in a gingham shirt, braces and jeans beside a tall man in a black cowboy hat and dinner jacket
    Peg Phillips and Barry Corbin at the Emmy Awards, September 1993. Photo by Alan Light. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0
    Peg Phillips, Barry CorbinRuth-Anne, Maurice · 1993

Production paperwork · Cicely, Alaska · nine sets

Tear.

Every set in Cicely has an outside and an inside. The outsides were mostly Roslyn’s main street; many insides were built in a warehouse in Redmond. Tear each set along its perforation and see where the halves went. Some will not tear.

  1. OutsideThe Brick, Roslyn
    Holling’s bar
    InsideA set in a Redmond warehouse
  2. OutsideThe company store, Roslyn
    KBHR
    InsideThe same building
  3. OutsideA storefront by the post office
    Joel’s office
    InsideThe same building
  4. OutsideCentral Sundries, Roslyn
    Ruth-Anne’s store
    InsideThe same shop, taped off
  5. OutsideThe Roslyn Cafe mural
    Roslyn’s Cafe
    InsideNot needed: the titles only pass the wall
  6. Outside—
    Joel’s house
    InsideA set in Redmond
  7. OutsideCle Elum Lake
    The lake
    Inside—
  8. OutsideEaston State Airport
    The airstrip
    Inside—
  9. OutsideA prop house
    Maggie’s house, burning
    Inside—

0 halves in Roslyn

0 in Redmond

0 out of town

0 prop

Nothing torn yet. Start with Holling’s bar.

Pennsylvania Avenue · Roslyn, Washington, playing Cicely, Alaska

The avenue.

Cicely’s main street is one block of Roslyn. Walk it west to east: the café and the museum at Second Street, the doctor’s office by the post office, the Brick at First Street, and the old company store across the road.

Where we read it

201 W · the mural

The camel mural on the side of a stone building, with the café’s neon sign and a flag at the corner
The Roslyn Cafe from the corner, July 2018. Photo by Burley Packwood. Burley Packwood · CC BY-SA 4.0

201 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

The Roslyn Cafe mural

The camel mural was there before the series. The production added an apostrophe and an s, so on screen it is Roslyn’s Cafe.

In the opening titles a moose strides past the mural.

Cast and crew posed for photographs in front of it.

A working café. The camel mural is on its outside wall at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Second Street.

Where we read it

203 W · the museum

A two-storey sandstone building on a quiet corner with tables outside
The café building at Pennsylvania Avenue and Second Street, where the museum stands next door, September 2012. Photo by gillfoto. gillfoto · CC BY-SA 4.0

203 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

Roslyn Historical Museum

The museum shows the Ausburg clock and other Northern Exposure memorabilia.

It keeps photographs from Joann Iverson, who helped with casting, was often an extra and volunteers at the museum, and from her family.

Roslyn once had people of more than 20 nationalities, and the museum tells the story of coal as the thread between them.

A small town museum next to the Roslyn Cafe. Check its schedule on the museum’s website before you go.

Where we read it

West block · the doctor’s office

A shop window full of gifts with an Open sign and the painted name Dr Joel Fleischman across the glass
Dr Joel Fleischman’s name still on the shop window, July 2018. Photo by Burley Packwood. Burley Packwood · CC BY-SA 4.0

West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

Dr Fleischman’s office

A storefront near the post office served as Dr Joel Fleischman’s office.

The storefront is the old Northwestern Mining Co. building.

When the series ended a gift shop opened there, with his name still painted on the front window.

Now Cicely’s Gift Shop. The doctor’s name is still on the glass.

Where we read it

Somewhere in town · Ruth-Anne’s

A row of old wooden false-front shops on a small-town street with cars parked and forest behind
The north side of West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, June 2020. Photo by Joe Mabel. Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0

Roslyn, Washington

Ruth-Anne’s store

Central Sundries, a Roslyn shop, served as the Cicely General Store, where Ruth-Anne works.

Months after the series was cancelled, its front counter and some shelves of food were still marked off with yellow hot-set tape.

Our sources name the shop but not its address, so it is not pinned. The photograph shows West Pennsylvania Avenue.

Where we read it

100 W · the Brick

A long pale brick building with arched windows and a painted Brick Tavern sign on a street corner
The Brick at Pennsylvania Avenue and First Street, October 2025. Photo by Guywelch2000. Guywelch2000 · CC BY 4.0

100 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

The Brick

The Brick was used as an outside location: on screen it is Holling’s bar.

The inside of the bar was a studio set in Redmond.

It dates from 1889 and calls itself the oldest continuously operating saloon in Washington.

A running-water spittoon runs along the foot of the bar, and the town holds spittoon races.

A working tavern with pub food, a big wood-burning stove and live music most weekend nights.

Where we read it

101 E · KBHR

A long red brick store front with a green Northwestern Improvement Co. sign and flags along the pavement
The Northwestern Improvement Company Store on Pennsylvania Avenue, July 2018. Photo by Burley Packwood. Burley Packwood · CC BY-SA 4.0

101 East Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

KBHR: the Northwestern Improvement Company Store

In the 1990s the building was the set for KBHR, Cicely’s radio station.

The set, home of Chris in the Morning, is on display in the window.

It was built in 1889 of local red brick as the coal company’s store; miners’ purchases came out of their pay.

Since 2011 the Roslyn Downtown Association has owned it. Heritage Distilling opened a tasting room inside in 2017.

Owned by the Roslyn Downtown Association, with a visitors’ centre, shops and a distillery tasting room. The radio set is on show in the window.

Where we read it
A long pale brick building with arched windows and a painted Brick Tavern sign on a street corner
The Brick at Pennsylvania Avenue and First Street, October 2025. Photo by Guywelch2000. Guywelch2000 · CC BY 4.0

The shoot, and after

Wrap.

May 1991: the show is in its second year.

  • About 900 people in town, and a film unit on the main street three days an episode.
  • Extras paid $50 a day.
  • Streets closed for filming; some neighbours tired of it.
  • The Brick’s door, the café wall and the shopfronts in use as Cicely.
Where we read it
A black and white view of rows of wooden houses in a cleared valley, with tree stumps and forest behind
Roslyn in 1890, four years after the town was platted. Photographer unknown; Washington State Archives. Unknown photographer (Washington State Archives) · Public domain
A faded photograph of a wooden mine head frame and a long timber tipple on a slope
A coal tipple and head frame at Roslyn, about 1913. Photographer unknown; Washington State Archives. Unknown photographer (Washington State Archives) · Public domain

Roslyn · 1886 onwards

Before Cicely.

Roslyn was built by a coal company, and the old company store is the building that became KBHR. The town’s mining past is on the same block as the show’s sets.

A bronze miner statue on a black plinth in front of a shop window lettered KBHR
The Coal Miners’ Memorial, with the KBHR set in the window behind, about 2006. Photo by Williamborg. Williamborg · CC BY-SA 3.0

East Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

The Coal Miners’ Memorial

The radio-station set stands in the window behind the memorial.

Roslyn was platted in 1886 as a company town for the Northern Pacific Coal Company.

In 1892, 45 miners died in an explosion at Mine No. 1, the worst mining accident in Washington’s history. The last mine closed in 1963.

On the pavement outside the old company store, free to see.

Where we read it
Rows of white headstones in a mown clearing among pine trees, with a sign reading Slovak
The Slovak plot, one of the separate burial grounds of the Roslyn Cemetery, about 2006. Photo by Williamborg. Williamborg · CC BY-SA 3.0

Roslyn, Washington

The Roslyn Cemetery

Not a filming place. The Roslyn Cemetery is 26 separate plots side by side, laid out by nationality and lodge.

Working burial grounds. Walk quietly and keep to the paths.

Where we read it
A long blue lake between forested mountains, seen from a slope of pines
Cle Elum Lake from the hills, June 2008. Photo by Jerzy Gronostalski. Jerzy Gronostalski · CC BY 3.0

Cle Elum Lake · Easton · Redmond

Out of town.

Cicely’s water and its airstrip were nearby: a long lake to the north-west and a grass runway off the interstate. The rooms you see inside were mostly built in Redmond.

A long blue lake between forested mountains, seen from a slope of pines
Cle Elum Lake from the hills, June 2008. Photo by Jerzy Gronostalski. Jerzy Gronostalski · CC BY 3.0

North-west of Roslyn, Kittitas County, Washington

Cle Elum Lake

The museum names the lake, about eight miles north-west of Roslyn, as a filming place.

It is a natural lake held back by Cle Elum Dam, built in 1933, and is up to 7.4 miles long.

A large lake north of Interstate 90. The photograph is from the hills above it.

Where we read it
Suncadia Resort

Suncadia

Cle Elum · Rates for your dates on the resort’s booking page

A resort in Cle Elum, next door to Roslyn, with the newly renovated Lodge, the Inn, condos and vacation homes. The photograph shows Cle Elum Lake nearby.

See the rooms
A wide empty road through a small mountain town under a cloudy sky
Easton, Washington, the town by the airfield, June 2009. Photo by Kgrr. Kgrr · CC BY-SA 3.0

Easton, Kittitas County, Washington

Easton State Airport

The museum names the Easton airport, off Interstate 90 about 20 miles west of Roslyn, as a filming place.

It is owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation and has one grass runway, 2,640 feet long.

A grass airstrip about two nautical miles north of Easton. The photograph shows the town.

Where we read it
An aerial view of a green suburban town with low buildings and trees
Redmond, Washington, from the air, April 2023. The studio building is not shown. Photo by Spicypepper999. Spicypepper999 · CC0

Redmond, Washington

The Redmond studio

The main production base, Northern Exposure II, was in Redmond, in the building that is now Genie Industries’ headquarters.

Interiors were shot in a converted warehouse in Redmond on the days the unit was not in Roslyn.

The inside of the Brick and Dr Fleischman’s home were studio sets.

A working company building, not open to visitors and not pinned here. The photograph shows Redmond.

Where we read it

The people · Emmy Awards, 1991–1993

Who made it.

Two women and a man in evening dress standing arm in arm at a party
Cynthia Geary, Rob Morrow and Janine Turner at the Governor’s Ball after the Emmy Awards, September 1993. Photo by Alan Light. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0
Two men in dinner jackets talking at a crowded party
John Corbett and Rob Morrow at the Emmy Awards, 30 August 1992. Photo by Alan Light. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0

Joshua Brand and John Falsey created the series. It ran on CBS from 12 July 1990 to 26 July 1995: 6 seasons, 110 episodes. On screen, Cicely’s zip code is 99729, which belongs to the Denali Borough of Alaska. The photographs are from the run itself, by Alan Light at the Emmy Awards.

  • Rob MorrowDr Joel Fleischman, a New York doctor sent to Cicely
  • Janine TurnerMaggie O’Connell, a bush pilot
  • Barry CorbinMaurice Minnifield, businessman and former pilot
  • John CullumHolling Vincoeur, owner of the Brick
  • Cynthia GearyShelly Tambo, who works at the Brick
  • John CorbettChris Stevens, the disc jockey
  • Peg PhillipsRuth-Anne Miller, who runs the general store
  • Darren E. BurrowsEd Chigliak
  • Elaine MilesMarilyn Whirlwind, Joel’s receptionist

It won the Emmy for outstanding drama series in 1992, Golden Globes for best drama series in 1992 and 1993, and Peabody Awards in 1991 and 1992. CBS developed a revival with Rob Morrow in 2018 and dropped it in 2019.

Where we read it

Both halves of Cicely.

Where it is now

9 places you can visit, on one block of Roslyn and out of town. Ruth-Anne’s store has no published address and the Redmond studio is a working company building, so both are named but not pinned.

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 café. The camel mural is on its outside wall at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Second Street.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working tavern with pub food, a big wood-burning stove and live music most weekend nights.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Owned by the Roslyn Downtown Association, with a visitors’ centre, shops and a distillery tasting room. The radio set is on show in the window.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Now Cicely’s Gift Shop. The doctor’s name is still on the glass.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A small town museum next to the Roslyn Cafe. Check its schedule on the museum’s website before you go.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. On the pavement outside the old company store, free to see.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Working burial grounds. Walk quietly and keep to the paths.

  1. A painted camel among palms under snowy mountains, framed by the words Roslyn Cafe and An Oasis, on a sandstone wall
    The Roslyn Cafe’s camel mural on Pennsylvania Avenue at Second Street, July 2018. Photo by Burley Packwood. Burley Packwood · CC BY-SA 4.0

    201 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    The Roslyn Cafe mural

    The camel mural was there before the series. The production added an apostrophe and an s, so on screen it is Roslyn’s Cafe.

    A working café. The camel mural is on its outside wall at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Second Street.

    Where we read it
  2. A long pale brick building with arched windows and a painted Brick Tavern sign on a street corner
    The Brick at Pennsylvania Avenue and First Street, October 2025. Photo by Guywelch2000. Guywelch2000 · CC BY 4.0

    100 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    The Brick

    The Brick was used as an outside location: on screen it is Holling’s bar.

    A working tavern with pub food, a big wood-burning stove and live music most weekend nights.

    Where we read it
  3. A long red brick store front with a green Northwestern Improvement Co. sign and flags along the pavement
    The Northwestern Improvement Company Store on Pennsylvania Avenue, July 2018. Photo by Burley Packwood. Burley Packwood · CC BY-SA 4.0

    101 East Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    KBHR: the Northwestern Improvement Company Store

    In the 1990s the building was the set for KBHR, Cicely’s radio station.

    Owned by the Roslyn Downtown Association, with a visitors’ centre, shops and a distillery tasting room. The radio set is on show in the window.

    Where we read it
  4. A shop window full of gifts with an Open sign and the painted name Dr Joel Fleischman across the glass
    Dr Joel Fleischman’s name still on the shop window, July 2018. Photo by Burley Packwood. Burley Packwood · CC BY-SA 4.0

    West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    Dr Fleischman’s office

    A storefront near the post office served as Dr Joel Fleischman’s office.

    Now Cicely’s Gift Shop. The doctor’s name is still on the glass.

    Where we read it
  5. A two-storey sandstone building on a quiet corner with tables outside
    The café building at Pennsylvania Avenue and Second Street, where the museum stands next door, September 2012. Photo by gillfoto. gillfoto · CC BY-SA 4.0

    203 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    Roslyn Historical Museum

    The museum shows the Ausburg clock and other Northern Exposure memorabilia.

    A small town museum next to the Roslyn Cafe. Check its schedule on the museum’s website before you go.

    Where we read it
  6. A bronze miner statue on a black plinth in front of a shop window lettered KBHR
    The Coal Miners’ Memorial, with the KBHR set in the window behind, about 2006. Photo by Williamborg. Williamborg · CC BY-SA 3.0

    East Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    The Coal Miners’ Memorial

    The radio-station set stands in the window behind the memorial.

    On the pavement outside the old company store, free to see.

    Where we read it
  7. Rows of white headstones in a mown clearing among pine trees, with a sign reading Slovak
    The Slovak plot, one of the separate burial grounds of the Roslyn Cemetery, about 2006. Photo by Williamborg. Williamborg · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Roslyn, Washington

    The Roslyn Cemetery

    Not a filming place. The Roslyn Cemetery is 26 separate plots side by side, laid out by nationality and lodge.

    Working burial grounds. Walk quietly and keep to the paths.

    Where we read it

Stay

Next door, in Cle Elum.

A resort with a lodge, an inn and cabins a few minutes from Pennsylvania Avenue.

Suncadia Resort

Suncadia

Cle Elum · Rates for your dates on the resort’s booking page

A resort in Cle Elum, next door to Roslyn, with the newly renovated Lodge, the Inn, condos and vacation homes. The photograph shows Cle Elum Lake nearby.

See the rooms

Go there

Into the Cascades.

Tours around Cle Elum and Roslyn, and day trips out of Seattle, from the marketplace.

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Cle Elum

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What’s on

Winter on the avenue.

The winter bazaar in the post office building, Old Town Christmas, and Christmas Eve outside KBHR.

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Take it home

The music, and two books.

The 1992 soundtrack, and two tie-in books from the run.

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Northern Exposure: Music from the Television Series

Various Artists · CD, 1992

The 1992 soundtrack album on MCA Records.

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Letters from Cicely

Ellis Weiner

A 1992 tie-in book of letters from the town.

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The Northern Exposure Cookbook

Ellis Weiner

A 1993 tie-in cookbook.

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Dates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.

The register

Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

11 of 11 places · 16 of 16 Moments

  • The Roslyn Cafe mural

    201 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    • The apostrophe

      The café’s mural gains an apostrophe and an s and becomes Roslyn’s Cafe.

    • The moose in the titles

      For the opening titles the crew fenced off Roslyn, set a moose loose and lured him past the café mural.

  • The Brick

    100 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    • Holling’s, outside

      The Brick is the outside of Holling’s bar.

    • Gone fishing

      After the cancellation the Brick is locked, with a sign saying everyone has gone fishing.

  • KBHR: the Northwestern Improvement Company Store

    101 East Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    • KBHR

      The company store is the set for KBHR, the station where Chris is the disc jockey.

  • Dr Fleischman’s office

    West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    • Dr Fleischman’s office

      A storefront near the post office is Joel Fleischman’s office.

  • Ruth-Anne’s store

    Roslyn, Washington

    • Ruth-Anne’s

      Central Sundries is the Cicely General Store, where Ruth-Anne works.

    • Hot set, after the end

      Months after the cancellation, yellow tape still marks off the counter and shelves.

  • Roslyn Historical Museum

    203 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    • The collection

      The museum keeps the Ausburg clock, memorabilia and the Iverson family’s photographs of the shoot.

    • Extras wanted

      Extras were found through notices posted round town, and paid $50 a day.

    • Night of the Dead

      The museum keeps photographs of crews dressing Roslyn for a segment called Night of the Dead.

  • The Coal Miners’ Memorial

    East Pennsylvania Avenue, Roslyn, Washington

    • Mine No. 1

      In 1892, 45 miners die in an explosion at Roslyn’s Mine No. 1.

  • The Roslyn Cemetery

    Roslyn, Washington

    • Twenty-six plots

      The town’s dead lie in 26 separate plots side by side.

  • Cle Elum Lake

    North-west of Roslyn, Kittitas County, Washington

    • On the lake

      Cle Elum Lake is a filming place for the series.

  • Easton State Airport

    Easton, Kittitas County, Washington

    • The airfield

      The Easton airport is a filming place for the series.

  • The Redmond studio

    Redmond, Washington

    • Inside, in Redmond

      The inside of Holling’s bar and Joel’s home are sets in a converted Redmond warehouse.

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