The Hunger Games

I love the Hunger Games book and movie series. In December of 2024 and January of 2025 my husband and I visited Georgia with our son and his wife. I was excited to visit some of the Hunger Games filming sites in the area. These included:

* The Swan House in Atlanta, Georgia

* Sweetwater Creek State Park

* The Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia

Catching Fire was also shot on in Hawaii on Oahu.

* Turtle Bay Beach

* Waimea Valley

* Kahana Bay Beach Park

* Halona Blow Hole and Cove area

* Kualoa Ranch

Georgia Filming Sites

The Swan House

The Swan House was used in the filming of the Hunger Games movie series. It was President Snow's mansion. It is located at 130 West Paces Ferry Rd in Atlanta. Its google maps location is here: Swan House

The official website is here: Swan House at Atlanta History Center It is open on Tuesday through Sunday from 9 am to 4 pm. Tickets are $27 for adults. When you buy tickets at the History Center, you need to purchase a timed tour of the Swan House. This is the scene from Catching Fire at Swan House: President Snow congratulates couple and here's a scene at the Swan House from Mockingjay Part 2: Capitol Bombing in Mockingjay Part 2

Approaching the Swan House, which is on the grounds of the Atlanta History Center

Park in the main parking lot and go in the history center to purchase tickets. There are a lot of other things to see at the Atlanta History Center, including the famous Cyclorama in the basement of the center. Go out into the gardens and follow the path to reach the Swan House.

walking along the path to the Swan House

approaching the Swan House

The front of the house

the side of the house

You'll recognize President Snow's mansion - where he greeted guests at the big party

My husband acting as President Snow

President Snow's office

This side porch was used in filming of Hunger Games

The Swan House has a scrapbook of scenes from the Hunger Games filmed inside the house

A few shots from the movie at the Swan House:

They used CGI to add sides onto the mansion, to make it appear elongated

President Snow on the balcony

Party out on the side terrace

Sweetwater Creek State Park

Portions of the Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay Part 1 were filmed in Sweetwater Creek State Park. Sweetwater Creek State Park is located at 1750 Mt. Vernon Rd in Lithia Springs, Georgia. Its google maps location is here: Sweetwater Creek State Park

It is open every day from 7 a.m. until dark. A website with more information is here: Sweetwater Creek

There are a variety of hiking trails that you can take within the park. Take either the green, white, or red trails to reach the Mill Ruins where Gale and Katniss talk under the archway while on a hunt. One of the park rangers told us that if we take the white trail to where it intersects with brown that is where more of the hunting scenes were filmed with Katniss and Gale. We followed the brown trail from the river back up to where it joins the white trail, and then back to the parking lot. Some of the area that Katniss and Gale hunted during Mockingjay Part 1 is across the creek from the mill, and there isn't a trail system that leads to that so it isn't accessible without crossing the creek. Here's a video of our time at Sweetwater Creek and Marriott Marquis: Filming Locations in Georgia

Here is a scene from the movie that was filmed at Sweetwater Creek State Park: Hunger Games at Sweetwater Creek

Another park visitor really loves rubber duckies

This is the website from the QR code: Douglas Film Trail

Markers on the trees tell you which trail you are following -- we were on the red trail at the time

We ended up hiking the full loop, but this is starting at the river and hiking back to the parking lot, 2.2 miles. The bend in the road is near where the park ranger told us Hunger Games filming was done.

Walking beside the river on the red trail

A google maps screenshot of the Old Mill

The Old Mill right beside the creek

The mill inside the blue circle

The Old Mill is fenced off to visitors now.

The archway where Gale and Katniss sat together and talked. It is fenced off now.

This is the general area that the park ranger told us filming took place along the brown trail

I think it may have been this scene from Catching Fire: Katniss hunts a turkey

We didn't see any snakes

Shots from the movie at Sweetwater Creek State Park - the Old Mill

They are across the river from the Old Mill - you can see the mill in the background

Facing Sweetwater Creek

The Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia

The Marriott Marquis is located at 265 Peachtree Center Ave NE in Atlanta. The google maps location is here: Marriott Marquis Portions of Catching Fire & Mockingjay Part 1 were filmed here.

Here is a scene from Catching Fire that was filmed in the hotel: In the elevator with Johanna

Here is a film of them creating the rescue scene in the Marriott Marquis: Making of the rescue

And here is the actual scene from the movie in the Marriott Marquis: Peeta Rescue Scene from

Mockingjay 1

The Marriott Marquis

Shot from Hunger Games in the elevator of Marriott Marquis

Shot from the rescue scene in the Marriott Marquis

Rescue footage inside Marriott Marquis

Hawaii Filming Sites

The arena from Catching fire was filmed in Hawaii. I visited Kualoa Ranch in April of 2026 and saw major filming sites for several movies, including Jurassic Park & Jurassic World. On their list of movies, they do not list Catching Fire. However, online I found references to some of the filming for Catching Fire taking place on Kualoa Ranch, and at one point I'm pretty sure I recognized the ranch in the movie. I could be wrong, but our tour guide on our Jurassic Adventures Tour at Kualoa Ranch told us that some movies do not want to be identified as having filmed at Kualoa, and I wondered if Catching Fire might have been one of them. 50% of the time when I googled whether Kualoa Ranch was used in filming Catching Fire, it said that it was a filming site, and 50% of the time it said that it wasn't. It is a mystery, but either way, Kualoa Ranch is well worth visiting and you will get to see lots of other movie sites on your tours there. Here is a video about the making of Catching Fire in Hawaii: Behind the Scenes in Hawaii

Kualoa Ranch on Oahu, Hawaii

Only about 45 minutes from the Honolulu Airport is the site where a large portion of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies were made -- Kualoa Ranch. There are many tours you can take, but we chose the Jurassic Adventure Tour. Their official website is here: Kualoa Ranch Its google maps location is here: Kualoa Ranch The Jurassic Adventure Tour costs $150 and takes about 2 1/2 hours. You ride in an open, covered shuttle to different parts of the park where Jurassic Park or Jurassic World were filmed. We got out several times for photo ops. I enjoyed the tour very much. They also point out where several other movies were made on the Ranch.

the free parking lot

We ate at Auntie Pat's cafe

Birds were hanging out everywhere, as you see all over Hawaii

enjoying our lunch

There are specific meeting places for each tour

our meeting place

We had a bit of fun with the wall decorations

getting on our shuttle

Our tour guide took this photo next to this fake stump that was in the spot from one of the films, just before T Rex jumped out

and then T Rex did jump out!

our tour guide gave us these tiny dinosaurs as souvenirs

Halona Blow Hole & Sandy Beach

I also found references online to Halona Blow Hole and Cove area being used for filming some of Catching Fire. The terrain there does appear to be like the movie, although the Blow Hole itself is definitely not in the movie. From my research on the internet it sounds like they may have shot at Halona Cove but didn't use a large amount of the footage in the actual film. This is another mystery because I find conflicting information online about whether Halona Cove was used or not. Either way, Halona Blow Hole is a fascinating place to visit on Oahu, as is Koko Crater arch across the street. The black lava rock at Halona Blow Hole greatly resembles the spikes of the cornucopia which were constructed for the movie. At one point during the arena scenes, it did appear to me that they were sitting on the actual black lava rock at Halona, but I can't be sure.

Across the street from the Koko Crater arch trailhead and just a little bit north along the highway is the Halona Blow Hole parking area. The blow hole is fenced off so that you can't walk all the way to it, but there is a lot of evidence that people go down there quite often. That would be dangerous, though, as you could get swept out to sea quite easily, especially on a day like the one we visited. We also went to enjoy the beach next door. We could see the Halona Blow Hole from where we parked for Koko Crater Arch trailhead, from the Halona Blow Hole parking area, and from Sandy Beach. A video of our visit to the Halona Blow Hole and Sandy Beach is here: Halona Blowhole & Sandy Beach The google maps location for the Halona Blow Hole is here: Halona Blow Hole The blow hole was formed thousands of years ago during volcanic eruptions. The hot lava formed lava tubes in the water, and when waves come in, water rushes up the blow hole into the sky. It was fun to watch the water shooting high into the air while we were there.