Steven Spielberg, whose story it was, at the White House in June 1982. White House Photographic Office · Public domain
Corey Feldman, who played Mouth, at the Academy Awards in March 1989. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0
Richard Donner, who directed it, in 1979. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0

Found in the attic · Astoria, Oregon · shot autumn 1984

The Goonies

A treasure hunt that starts in a real jail, runs past a real bowling alley, lines up a coin on the real coast, and ends under a sound stage in Burbank. Follow the dotted line.

Where this comes from

Duane Street and Exchange Street, Astoria

The jailbreak.
And the museum across the road.

A pale two-storey neoclassical building lettered Oregon Film Museum and County Jail, a black jeep parked out front — The old Clatsop County Jail, now the Oregon Film Museum, 2015. Constablequackers · CC BY-SA 4.0

The county jail

This is the jail the Fratelli brothers break out of in the opening car chase. It was a working jail from 1914 to 1976, and a working set for three films, The Goonies among them.

The second gallery is in the old cells and holds the Goonies material, with a station where visitors leave notes for the Goonies.

The museum is about 800 square feet; it had 54,000 visitors in 2024, and there is a plan to move to a larger space. A Fratelli Jeep Cherokee sits outside.

A narrow yellow corridor beside barred cells, framed photographs on the wall — Inside the old jail: the cell block, 2017. Jeff Hitchcock · CC BY 2.0

Open daily, 10am–4pm October to April and 10am–5pm May to September. Adults $6, youth $2.

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Astoria Museums

Oregon Film Museum

Astoria · Adults $6 · youth $2 · daily from 10am

The jail from the opening jailbreak, with the Goonies gallery in the old cells and a station for leaving notes.

Plan a visit

A tall Queen Anne house with a pointed corner tower, verandas and a picket fence — The Flavel House Museum, Astoria, 2011. Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0

The museum where Mikey’s dad works

It plays the film’s unnamed museum, where Mikey’s dad works as assistant curator.

The house was built in 1884–85 for Captain George Flavel, a Columbia River bar pilot, and designed by Carl W. Leick. The museum calls it one of the best-preserved Queen Anne houses in the Northwest.

Open daily, 10am–4pm October to April and 10am–5pm May to September; last entry half an hour before closing. Adults $7, youth $2.

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Astoria Museums

Flavel House Museum

Astoria · Adults $7 · youth $2 · daily from 10am

Captain George Flavel’s 1880s Queen Anne house, the film’s museum, across the road from the jail.

Plan a visit

Principal photography begins on 22 October 1984, the shoot moved to Astoria.

Lower Columbia Bowl, 826 Marine Drive

Chunk’s window.
Smear the glass, see the chase.

Chunk watched the chase through this window with a pizza in one hand. Make a mess of the glass, and the route comes through.

A low white bowling alley with a red Bowl sign and painted murals along its side, on a sunny street corner — Lower Columbia Bowl on Marine Drive, Astoria, October 2026. Steve Morgan · CC BY-SA 4.0

The glass is clean. Drag across it, or press Smear.

15% smeared
Still too clean to see.
35% smeared
Still too clean to see.
55% smeared
Still too clean to see.
75% smeared
Still too clean to see.

Dozens of brown sea lions asleep along a narrow wooden dock beside red pilings — Sea lions on the docks at the East Mooring Basin, Astoria, 2012. Rachel Samanyi · CC BY 2.0

A working bowling alley: check the opening times before you go.

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A working basin: watch the sea lions from the shore and keep clear of the boats.

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38th Street, Astoria

The Goondocks.
Pull the rope and let it run.

The Walshes’ front gate opened by a home-made chain reaction. Run ours one part at a time; every part tells you something true about the house.

The gate is shut.

1
Rope: not yet.
2
Ball: not yet.
3
See-saw: not yet.
4
Kettle: not yet.
5
Pulley: not yet.
6
Gate: not yet.

Wooded hillside streets of Astoria running down to the Columbia River and the long bridge — Astoria’s hillside streets and the Astoria-Megler Bridge from the Astoria Column, 2011. The Walsh house is a private home in this hillside neighbourhood, further east on 38th Street; it is not shown here. Another Believer · CC BY-SA 3.0

A private home: look from the street only. Park where the owners’ guide out front says, keep off the drive, and stay out of the neighbours’ gardens.

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Josh Brolin in close-up at a premiere, in a dark suit and white shirt — Josh Brolin, who played Brand, 2013. GabboT · CC BY-SA 2.0

Martha Plimpton on a stage in glasses and a striped shirt, a small white dog on her lap — Martha Plimpton, who played Stef, 2025. Joe Peacock · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ecola State Park, north of Cannon Beach

Hold up the doubloon.
Line up all three holes.

This is where the Goonies use the pirate’s doubloon to line up where the treasure hunt begins. Haystack Rock and Tillamook Rock Lighthouse both appear in the film, and both can be seen from Ecola on a clear day.

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Drag the coin with a finger or mouse, or focus the button and use the arrow keys (Shift for bigger steps).

Cold. Slide the coin towards the headland.

Line up the coin to see what is at the spot.

Haystack Rock

Puffins nest on the rock from April to July; June and July are best for seeing them. Climbing above the barnacle line is prohibited, and nothing may be taken within 300 yards of the rock.

Walk out at low tide to the pools, but never climb above the barnacle line, and take nothing within 300 yards of the rock.

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A wave bursting white over a small lighthouse on an offshore rock — Tillamook Rock Lighthouse in a winter storm, seen from the shore, 2018. Jwyoung · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse

Out at sea off Tillamook Head: look for it from the viewpoints in Ecola State Park on a clear day.

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A green headland dropping to a rocky cove with surf breaking on the rocks — Indian Beach, Ecola State Park, 2024. Casey Helton · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ecola today

The park wraps round Tillamook Head, along 9 miles of coast between Seaside and Cannon Beach. A 1961 landslide at Ecola Point damaged 125 acres and closed the park for ten months; the Ecola Point viewing deck has since been removed.

Buy a day-use parking permit on site. No overnight parking. The west section of the Clatsop Loop Trail has been closed since 17 April 2026 by an active landslide.

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From the jail in Astoria to Haystack Rock is 35 km as the crow flies.

Oregon State Parks

Ecola State Park

Cannon Beach · Day-use parking permit

Nine miles of coast round Tillamook Head, with the views of Haystack Rock. Buy a day-use parking permit on site; check the trail alerts first.

Park alerts

Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce

Haystack Rock at low tide

Cannon Beach

The Haystack Rock Awareness Program runs talks at the rock at daytime low tides from mid-February to late October. Puffins nest April to July.

Plan a visit

Stage 16, Burbank

Under the stage.
Play the bones.

The pirate cavern and ship were built on the lot then called The Burbank Studios. Strike each bone: every one rings out a number from the stage where the ship was built.

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Silence in the cavern. Strike a bone.

Stage 16 is the largest stage on the lot: 32,130 square feet, and 65 feet from the floor to the lighting grid. The Inferno was 138 feet long and 42 feet from the tank floor to the top of its rear deck. It was built full size in about six months, with crews working round the clock in shifts.

With both tanks in use the stage holds almost 2.3 million gallons, which take about 16 hours to fill. There were not enough experienced plasterers for the cave walls, so the plaster foreman brought his father out of retirement.

Play every bone to hear what happened to the ship.

A working lot. The studio tour runs from 3400 Warner Boulevard, but it does not promise Stage 16.

Where this comes from

Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood

Burbank · From $79 · tours 8:30am–3:30pm

A three-hour guided tour of the working lot where the cavern and ship were built. The tour does not promise Stage 16.

See tours

A tall cream sound stage with a big studio shield on its gable and a truck parked below — Stage 16 at Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, 2026. Alexis Doine · CC0

Sean Astin on a stage, waving with one arm raised high, grinning, in glasses and a blue T-shirt — Sean Astin, who played Mikey, in 2025. We found no free photograph of him from the 1980s. Joe Peacock · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ke Huy Quan smiling in round black glasses and a denim jacket — Ke Huy Quan, who played Data, in 2026. We found no free photograph of him from the 1980s. John Manard · CC BY-SA 4.0

Jenner, California

The last beach
is in another state.

A wide sunny beach with driftwood in the foreground and Haystack Rock and the Needles offshore — Haystack Rock and the Needles from the sand at Cannon Beach, 2019. King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0

A long sandy spit and breaking surf below green bluffs, sea stacks offshore — Goat Rock Beach and the mouth of the Russian River, Jenner, California, 2021. Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0

The film’s final scene was shot here, where the Russian River meets the Pacific. That is 830 km (516 miles) south of Haystack Rock as the crow flies.

It is part of Sonoma Coast State Park, reached off Highway 1 just south of the Russian River in Jenner. The end credits thank Astoria, Cannon Beach and Bodega Bay.

The film opens in Los Angeles and New York on 7 June 1985 and takes $9.1 million on 1,705 screens in its first weekend.

Reached off Highway 1, just south of the Russian River in Jenner. Dogs only where the signs allow.

Where this comes from

See it with the cast

X marks the spot.
Here is where it all is now.

Where it is now

9 places you can visit, from downtown Astoria to the Sonoma coast. The Walsh house on 38th Street is a private home: it is named, not mapped, and you look at it from the street.

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. Open daily, 10am–4pm October to April and 10am–5pm May to September. Adults $6, youth $2.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open daily, 10am–4pm October to April and 10am–5pm May to September; last entry half an hour before closing. Adults $7, youth $2.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working bowling alley: check the opening times before you go.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working basin: watch the sea lions from the shore and keep clear of the boats.

The old Clatsop County Jail, now the Oregon Film Museum, 2015. Constablequackers · CC BY-SA 4.0
732 Duane Street, Astoria
Oregon Film Museum (the old Clatsop County Jail)
This is the jail the Fratelli brothers break out of in the opening car chase.
Open daily, 10am–4pm October to April and 10am–5pm May to September. Adults $6, youth $2.
Where this comes from
The Flavel House Museum, Astoria, 2011. Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0
714 Exchange Street, Astoria
Flavel House Museum
It plays the film’s unnamed museum, where Mikey’s dad works as assistant curator.
Open daily, 10am–4pm October to April and 10am–5pm May to September; last entry half an hour before closing. Adults $7, youth $2.
Where this comes from
Lower Columbia Bowl on Marine Drive, Astoria, October 2026. Steve Morgan · CC BY-SA 4.0
826 Marine Drive, Astoria
Lower Columbia Bowl
Chunk watches the Fratelli car chase through this window, and smears his pizza across the glass.
A working bowling alley: check the opening times before you go.
Where this comes from
Sea lions on the docks at the East Mooring Basin, Astoria, 2012. Rachel Samanyi · CC BY 2.0
Leif Erickson Drive, Astoria
East Mooring Basin
The Astoria stretch of the Fratelli car chase ends at these docks.
A working basin: watch the sea lions from the shore and keep clear of the boats.
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Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa

Cannery Pier Hotel

Astoria · Rates on booking

A hotel 600 feet out into the Columbia at No. 10 Basin Street, Astoria. Every room looks at the river and the Astoria-Megler Bridge; there is a spa and Bar 600.

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On the river, on the beach.

A hotel on pilings out in the Columbia at Astoria, and beachfront rooms facing Haystack Rock.

Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa

Cannery Pier Hotel

Astoria · Rates on booking

A hotel 600 feet out into the Columbia at No. 10 Basin Street, Astoria. Every room looks at the river and the Astoria-Megler Bridge; there is a spa and Bar 600.

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Surfsand Resort

Cannon Beach · Rates on booking

Beachfront rooms at 148 W. Gower, Cannon Beach, looking out at Haystack Rock, with a pool, hot tub and the Wayfarer restaurant. Check-in 4pm.

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