Visiting the Stranger Things Filming Locations

With Stranger Things Season 5 currently dropping on Netflix, I know we're all binging and dissecting every frame, right? 🍿⏳ But let me take you back to summer 2024, when I traveled to Jackson, Georgia and joined the "Stranger Tour"—and literally stepped into the Upside Down! This small town served as the real-life Hawkins for so many iconic scenes from earlier seasons. Walking its streets feels like you're about to bump into Eleven or see a Demogorgon around the corner. The nostalgia is OVERWHELMING. 😭 🚲 The Real Hawkins Library: Perfectly Quiet Just like in the show, but peacefully eerie. You half-expect the lights to start flickering. The silence hits different when you're standing where Will might've researched the Upside Down. 📚✨ 💚 The Green Liquid Tubes: I Saw Them IRL Those neon-green glowing containers? NOT CGI. I stared at them with my own eyeballs. The chills were absolutely real. Science lab vibes so authentic you'll start looking for Dr. Brenner. 🔬👀 🍕 Surfer Boy Pizza Truck: Familiar AF Seeing that actual pizza truck triggered instant Season 4 flashbacks. Argyle's energy was practically floating in the air. I could almost smell the free sprinkles and hear his "dude" drawl. 🏙️ Every Street Corner: Pure Memory Lane Each vintage sign, every weathered brick wall, all those small-town details—they're perfectly preserved time capsules. It's like the Duffer Brothers froze Hawkins in amber just for us fans to discover. The memories of binge-watching, theorizing with friends, and those summer nights—all came flooding back. 💛 Your favorite characters, the storylines that kept you up at night, the summers Stranger Things defined—they all get "caught" by reality here in the most beautiful way. And Jackson holds those memories intact, waiting for you. ✨ 💛 If You're a Stranger Things Fan, Jackson Is Your Pilgrimage Trust me, you'll leave feeling like I did—emotionally KO'd by pure nostalgia. Every location is a love letter to the show we grew up with. P.S. I just binged the first four episodes of Season 5. Fun fact: I actually visited Jackson WHILE they were filming Season 5! 👀 No major spoilers here, but let's just say... many iconic Season 5 moments were captured right here in this magical town. So when you watch and think, "That looks familiar..."—yep. You know exactly where that is now. 😉 Pack your Eggo waffles and your curiosity. Hawkins is waiting. #US #Florida #Jacksonville