A compass in a shop window · Ohio · 1994
In the film Red looks through a shop window on Main Street and sees a compass. It leads him to a tree in a hayfield. The shop is still on Main Street in Mansfield. Stand there, turn the needle, and see what lies on each bearing.
The bearing
The needle sits at the Mansfield Antiques Gallery on North Main Street, where the film’s compass was in the window. Turn it and see which place lies within 8 degrees. Bearings and distances are straight lines from the shop, worked out from the map positions.
0 of 8 places found
Heading 0 degrees: nothing on this bearing. Keep turning.
The window · 118 North Main Street, Mansfield
In the film Red looks through one of these shop windows and sees a compass, the trail page says. It later leads him to the oak.
It is no longer a pawn shop. The page calls it a boutique selling antiques, décor, furniture and upscale resale.
A working shop. Look in the windows from Main Street first; the trail page gives Monday to Saturday 10 to 5 and Sunday noon to 5, so check before you go.
The oak
It is the tree from the scene where Red crosses a hayfield and lifts stones from a rock wall to find Andy’s gift.
It came down in high winds on 29 July 2011 and again on 22 July 2016. The remains have since been removed.
The oak stood on private farmland off Pleasant Valley Road, near Malabar Farm State Park.
Private farmland, so it is not pinned. Do not trespass, climb the fence or stop on the road; the trail page names a pull-off on Malabar Farm land across the road.
It is the one place here with no pin, because the land is private.
The way there
Four places are in Mansfield, within a short drive of each other. Malabar Farm and Ashland, then Upper Sandusky, are separate drives, and Sandy Point is a flight away with a seasonal closure. The oak is private farmland and is not pinned.
9 places you can visit in Ohio and on St. Croix, plus the lost oak named by its road.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Ticketed tours from the operator; check event closures before you go.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Not open to the public. Look at the front from the pavement; parking is on the street and on the north side.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working shop. Look in the windows from Main Street first; the trail page gives Monday to Saturday 10 to 5 and Sunday noon to 5, so check before you go.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open sunrise to 11 p.m. Look for the green bench with the Shawshank plaque; it is a replica.
Mansfield · 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield, Ohio
The trail page says the Ohio State Reformatory played Shawshank State Prison, the film’s fictional prison in Maine.
Ticketed tours from the operator; check event closures before you go.
Mansfield · 193 North Main Street, Mansfield, Ohio
Only the front of the building appears in the film. It is the Portland Daily Bugle’s front office and stands in for the Brewer Hotel, where Brooks stays after his parole.
Not open to the public. Look at the front from the pavement; parking is on the street and on the north side.
Mansfield · 118 North Main Street, Mansfield, Ohio
In the film Red looks through one of these shop windows and sees a compass, the trail page says. It later leads him to the oak.
A working shop. Look in the windows from Main Street first; the trail page gives Monday to Saturday 10 to 5 and Sunday noon to 5, so check before you go.
Mansfield · Central Park, Main Street and Park Avenue West, Mansfield, Ohio
In the film Brooks sits on a Central Park bench feeding birds and waiting for his crow, Jake, who never comes.
Open sunrise to 11 p.m. Look for the green bench with the Shawshank plaque; it is a replica.
Stay
A hotel near downtown and the Carrousel District.
West Hanley Road, Mansfield
A hotel off I-71 that its page places near downtown Mansfield and the Carrousel District, where the shop window and Bissman Building stand. Pictured: Richland Carrousel Park, 2007.
Check roomsGo there
The Reformatory’s bus tour, the woodshop and a marketplace search.
Reformatory Road, Mansfield
The operator’s 2.5-hour tour: the 90-minute Hollywood Meets History tour inside the Reformatory plus ten filming locations around Mansfield. Listed at $99 a person, April to November, for ages 13 and over.
See the toursSouth Eighth Street, Upper Sandusky
Open by appointment only, by phone, with screen-used vehicles and props. Pictured: a street in Upper Sandusky, 2012, not the shop.
See the detailsMansfield, Ohio
Live marketplace results for Shawshank and Mansfield tours. Check each route and what it includes.
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Nothing dated for the film is listed at these places now.
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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.
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100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield, Ohio
The Ohio State Reformatory plays the fictional Shawshank State Prison in Maine.
193 North Main Street, Mansfield, Ohio
The front of the Bissman Building is the Portland Daily Bugle office and the Brewer Hotel.
118 North Main Street, Mansfield, Ohio
Red sees a compass through a shop window on Main Street; it later leads him to the oak.
Central Park, Main Street and Park Avenue West, Mansfield, Ohio
Brooks feeds birds in Central Park and waits for a crow that never comes.
Malabar Farm State Park, 4050 Bromfield Road, Lucas, Ohio
Andy waits in his car outside Pugh Cabin in the opening scene.
Pleasant Valley Road near Malabar Farm State Park, Lucas, Ohio
Red crosses a hayfield to the oak and lifts the stones from a rock wall.
19 West Main Street, Ashland, Ohio
Andy, as Randall Stephens, closes accounts at the Maine National Bank.
109 South Sandusky Avenue, Upper Sandusky, Ohio
The courtroom is where Andy is sentenced in the opening scenes.
226 South Eighth Street, Upper Sandusky, Ohio
The woodshop is tied to the Mozart aria scene and the woodworking scenes.
South-west St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
The film’s ending was shot on Sandy Point Beach on St. Croix.
Every place in The Shawshank Redemption leads somewhere else.
