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Where was Dawson's Creek filmed?

1998 TV show.

  • North Carolina

The story is set in North Carolina, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
North Carolina; Massachusetts; Capeside
Filmed in
North Carolina
Distance
About 644 miles (1,036 km) between Massachusetts and the nearest filming location.
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About Dawson's Creek

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First aired
1998
Cast
James Van Der BeekKatie HolmesMichelle WilliamsJoshua JacksonKerr SmithMeredith MonroeBusy PhilippsMary-Margaret HumesJohn Wesley ShippMary Beth Peil
Genre
YouthDramaLgbt-relatedRomance

Dawson Leery is an introspective 15-year-old aspiring filmmaker in the small New England town of Capeside, Massachusetts.

Since childhood, he has been best friends with Josephine "Joey" Potter, who routinely comes over to his house through a ladder into his bedroom for movie-watching and platonic sleepovers.

Tomboy Joey, who lost her mother to cancer and whose father is in prison for drug trafficking, lives with her older sister Bessie, who runs the restaurant The Icehouse.

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