Filming Locations Guide: Where is Legion Filmed?

Head-tripping Legion is one of the most interesting projects on TV and definitely one of our favorite shows, and we are not short of it.

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The first season of Legion was filmed in Vancouver and in British Columbia. In season 2, the series moved down to Los Angeles.

Welcome to our guide to the filming locations of Legion. No spoilers ahead:

For season 1, the production was based in a temporary huge studio built in a former supermarket warehouse off 11th Avenue in Burnaby in the southeast of Vancouver.

Here were located the sets for the fictional Clockworks Psychiatric Hospital.
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Exteriors for the hospital were filmed at 5255 Heather Street in Vancouver.

The crew also was spotted shooting at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Burnaby.
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Wish You Were Here. Syd Barrett (Rachel Keller) sitting at the University of British Columbia's Buchanan Courtyard.
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Pictured, the Koerner Library in the campus of the UBC, as seen in the first episode.

The Belgrave University from The Order series was also set here; you can find all the locations in our report: Where is The Order filmed?
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David passed by Martha Piper Plaza, the fountain at the intersection of University Boulevard, before continuing on to the Buchanan Complex.
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Legion was also shot on location at the BlueShore Financial Environmental Learning Centre from the Cheakamus Centre.

This amazing eco-friendly high-tech building is a rural campus of the North Vancouver Outdoor School.
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The Halloween scene was filmed in West 11th Avenue near Manitoba Street.

The Amazon Prime series Tales From the Loop created by Nathaniel Halpern, also the writer of Legion, was shot in Manitoba.
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The last scene of episode one was shot at Whytecliff Park in West Vancouver.
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More outdoors: In the second episode, David and Syd talk on the shore of Deer Lake Park in Burnaby.

Also, there's a short scene from the seventh episode filmed here.
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Also in episode 7, David has an illuminating talk with himself at Telus Studio Theatre, located at Chan Centre on the UBC.

This is also one of the locations where the Netflix movie The Unforgivable was filmed.
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The lighthouse of Dr. Poole from episode four was located at Barnet Marine Park.
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In season 2, the team somehow has ended up in a government base, Division 3.

The building is the Oviatt Library at California State University in the Northridge neighborhood, minus the hexagonal tower and the skyscrapers.
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Also, the Donald E. Bianchi Planetarium from the same university appears in the series.
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Most of the sets were built in a studio in Los Angeles, as you can check in this article from Newsweek.

The swimming-pool opening scene was filmed in a house in Hollywood Hills.

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