Bellwood Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia, is an enormous granite quarry inside the city's largest green space, the 280-acre Westside Park. According to the Department of Watershed Management, the site holds over 2 billion gallons of water in its reserve to provide Atlantans with a supply of safe and clean drinking water for the next hundred years. However, its infrastructure aside, Bellwood Quarry is a beloved location featured in many movies and TV shows, most notably, Stranger Things, The Walking Dead and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.

The Bellwood Quarry is quickly reaching icon status, as several popular movies and TV shows have set up shop in the Atlanta reservoir, and rightfully so. This beautiful and awe-inspiring yet somewhat haunted setting is an incredibly adaptable filming location. With its towering cliffs and deep blue waters, this sweeping territory just west of downtown Atlanta feels like it's in the middle of the wilderness, not within a city's limits. So it's no wonder that some of the biggest blockbuster movies and TV shows have used the highly versatile nature of Bellwood Quarry to their advantage.

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Hopper Investigating Will's Disappearance at Sattler Quarry aka Bellwood Quarry in Stranger Things

Fans of Stranger Things will recognize the locale from Season 1 as the spot where the Hawkins Police Department recovered a fake of Will Byers body that the agents at Hawkins National Laboratory planted in the water. Known in the show as Sattler Quarry, the area is also where Troy, the resident bully of the series, terrorizes Mike and Dustin by knifepoint. He wants to know how they forced him to urinate himself at their school's assembly, an act of revenge Eleven is responsible for, but doesn't believe Dustin when he tries to explain what actually happened.

Alongside his best pal, James, Troy issues a threat, stating that he will cut out Dustin's teeth if Mike doesn't leap off the cliff and into the water. Troy holds the weapon to Dustin's neck and counts down as Mike inches closer to the edge. Then, foolishly and with good intentions, he makes the jump, a fall that would have surely killed him if not for Eleven's surprise intervention. Coming to his rescue, she levitates Mike to safety with her telekinesis, and then uses her powers to throw James on the ground and break Troy's arm.

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Bellwood Quarry is also famously featured throughout the first season of The Walking Dead as the survivor's base of operations. Dubbed the Atlanta Survivor Camp, the main characters of the series, including favorites Rick, Daryl and Carol, take shelter from the zombie outbreak there, beyond the dangers of the city. However, the infected eventually overrun the campsite, forcing the group to seek safety elsewhere after numerous group members are tragically bitten and turned. Consequently, Rick and company take a gamble and head back into Atlanta to the Center for Disease Control, where Season 1 meets its dramatic conclusion.

Rather notoriously, Bellwood Quarry is also a significant setting in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 during one of the most memorable scenes in the entire franchise. With a film crew in tow, Katniss Everdeen and her childhood friend Gale rest next to the reservoir after escaping the Capitol of Panem. At this point, Pollux, a rebel and former slave who had his tongue cut out, beckons Katniss to sing a song. As the film crew documents her performance, Katniss intones a chilling rendition of "The Hanging Tree," a folk ballad her father taught her, while various images of the rebellion against Panem flash across the screen. Ultimately, the resonant song is used as anti-Capitol propaganda to stir the Mockingjays and oppressed districts to action.

Indeed, this breathtaking expanse of land is becoming an increasingly recognizable location on and off-screen. And although the reservoir has predominantly been spotlighted in sci-fi, fantasy and horror films and TV series, including Season 4 of The Vampire Diaries and The Divergent Series: Allegiant, the formerly abandoned space has also featured in quite a few movies outside of those genres. In fact, before appearing in Stranger Things, it was the final destination of the road trip in The Fundamentals of Caring, the site of the whitewater rafting scene in National Lampoon's Vacation and the area where Dom and Brian leap out of a Corvette and plummet into the water in Fast Five.

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