Where is Upload filmed? The Lakeview Hotel & the House Location

Posted by Ra Moon

The Amazon series featuring the fictional Lakeview Hotel is set in New York and Los Angeles. However, apart from some establishing shots, Upload was almost entirely filmed in Vancouver.

Now back for the third season, this science-fiction comedy takes place in 2033, in a world where life expectations go beyond organic existence, if you can afford it.

Young and attractive Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell, who also stars in the Netflix movie featuring a luxury hotel, Desperados), suffers a fatal car accident.

After he checks out of this world, his consciousness is uploaded to a premium software-based version of the afterlife called Lakeview.

The main cast is completed by singer-songwriter Andy Allo as Nora Antony, Nathan's handle virtual angel who works for Horizen, the company that owns Lakeview. Nathan's girlfriend, Ingrid, is played by Allegra Edwards.

Welcome to Lakeview and to our guide to the filming locations of Upload. Contains no spoilers!

The real Upload hotel

The exterior of the Lakeview Resort was filmed at the Mohonk Mountain House, a large castle hotel in Hudson Valley.

Perched atop the spectacular Shawangunk Ridge on the shore of Lake Mohonk, the historic building of the spa was constructed at the turn of the 20th century-

Surrounded by lush nature, the closest town is the village of New Paltz in Ulster County, New York estate.

(You can open all the locations on Google Maps by clicking on the links below in the captions ↴)
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The cast and crew filmed in Mohonk Mountain House for only four days (the balcony scene in the first episode).

Horizen's ads claim that the luxurious Lakeview complex is a digital afterlife environment, modeled after the grand Victorian hotels of the United States and Canada.

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For the pilot episode, the Lakeview Hotel hall was shot at Castle Green in Pasadena, a historic 1898 event venue that mixes Moorish Colonial and Spanish styles with Victorian interiors.

However, for the rest of the episodes, a replica of the lobby and surrounding rooms inspired by Castle Green was built at the studios in Burnaby, near Vancouver.
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The Upload House

Exterior scenes in the garden outside the residence were filmed in the Cecil Green Park House in Vancouver.

Bordering Howe Sound in the University Endowment Lands, this Tudor-style heritage manor is a very popular filming location in the city: episodes of Riverdale, Nancy Drew, The X-Files, The Hunting of Bly Manor, and movies like Fifty Shades Freed were also shot here.
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Nora lives in a tiny flat in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The exterior footage of her office (the Horizen headquarters), is the Fairway Market on Red Hook, also located in Brooklyn.

The building hosts a 52,000 square-foot large store and cafe on the Hudson's river waterfront. Notice how the set designers lengthened some skyscrapers of Manhattan's skyline.
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However, the entrance to Horizen employees' offices is situated at 100 Powell Street in Gastown, Vancouver.

Upload creator, Greg Daniels, was also involved in the making of the legendary comedy series The Office and Parks and Recreation.
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The supermarket night scene with the capsules cars from the first episode is not located in Vancouver: A few shots from the pilot were filmed on Fountain Avenue and N Edgemont Street in East Hollywood, Los Angeles.
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The Lakeview dock scenes were shot at Deer Lake Park in the center of Burnaby.
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The uploaded residents can also enjoy the facilities and gardens of the heritage venue Stanley Park Pavilion.

The real-world side of the funeral digital chapel in Los Angeles is Lord Stanley's Ballroom, also located here.
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Fran, Nathan's cousin part-time lady detective, has some trouble with the car at the historic Malibu Farm Pier Cafe.
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The Grey Market of the dark web from episode five was recorded in the Telus Studio Theatre in the Chan Centre on the UBC (University of British Columbia).
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The AfterTravel digital life extension agency offered a Paradiso TuttiTempo experience in Italy.

The salesman shows Viv (Nathan's mother) a demo of several 'IR' environments. Before the turquoise waters of Tahiti and the African savanna, they fly over the medieval towers of San Gimignano, the Manhattan of the Middle Ages town in the heart of Tuscany, pictured.
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The chase from the first season finale, Freeyond, starts in East Pender Street and Columbia Street in Vancouver's Chinatown, near Nora's apartment.

The lift scene was shot in the hall of the Dominion Building situated on the edge of Gastown.

This magnificent Beaux-Arts-style structure was also one of the locations where The Mother was filmed.
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The Choak Tower from the sixth episode of the second season is the MacMillan Bloedel Building at 1075 W Georgia Street in Downtown Vancouver.

The scenes in Chinatown were filmed in and around E Georgia Street.