Beacon Hills

Beacon Hills
Fictional City

Beacon Hills is the fictional setting for the U.S. 2011 television drama Teen Wolf. It is very similar to the fictional town of Sunnydale from Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Mystic Falls from The Vampire Diaries. Series creator Jeff Davis conceived the town as a representation of any generic California city. Local flora and soil composition as seen in all three seasons would indicate that Beacon Hills is located somewhere between Paradise, CA and Plumas National Forest, which rests about 90 miles north of Sacramento. However, in Season 3 Episode 1, two missing person posters are shown with a phone number attached to the bottom beginning with Area code 925. This being a real area code near San Francisco could indicate that Beacon Hills is set in either Contra Costa County or Alameda County. That would put Beacon Hills roughly 200 miles from where originally perceived, and does not support the surrounding environments from the show. Beacon Hills is a hub for mysterious incidents that occur and the entire setting of the series takes place here.

Beacon Hills itself

Beacon Hills' size and surroundings are implausible but justified given its origins — to sustain a human population for supernatural evils to prey upon. Beacon Hills possesses many common horror-movie characteristics, such as an abundance of dark alleyways, abandoned mansions and factories, and an adult population that is either clueless or perpetually in denial, in stark contrast to the werewolf-fighting, supernaturally aware teens.

Beacon Hills' surroundings

The town is situated near several acres of woods and forest, including Beacon Hills Preserve.[1]

Filming locations

Various southern Georgia locations are used as stand-ins for Beacon Hills:

History

After Scott Became A Werewolf

There was a large spree of gruesome murders that occurred in the year after Scott was turned. They were said to have happened due to a mountain lion. Due to the number and strange nature of these deaths, the Beacon Hills Police were able to link them together. The common connection was the Hale House Fire: every death could be linked to that event. In Season 2, a seemingly random set of deaths occurred again, but these deaths were not normal - the bodies of the dead had been poisoned by a strange rare chemical. Each death was eventually connected to the 2006 swim team from Beacon Hills High School.

References

  1. ↑ The woods in Wolf Moon (1.01) are named "Beacon Hills Preserve"

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