Vampire Visitors flock to Forks
With the release of New Moon, the second film in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga, tourism to Forks, Washington has escalated as legions of fans have become "vampire visitors."
Although New Moon was filmed in Vancouver and Italy, fans continue to flock to film locations in Washington and Oregon where the saga's first movie, Twilight, was filmed and where events in the book take place.
Meyer chose Forks, an old logging town located in Washington's Olympic Peninsula as the setting for her books when she discovered it's the rainiest place in the continental US. Forks averages 10 to 12 feet of rain per year -- the perfect place for vampires who shun the sun to live and and attend school in the daytime.
Since Twilight was released in November, 2008, Forks has been transformed by the thousands of vampire fans who have descended upon the town.
As Diane Bair and Pamela Wright say in their Miami Herald article You're entering Forks, an area we call... the 'Twilight' zone,
"'Twi-hard' fans have embraced Forks in a big way, and they're happy to fork over their tourist dollars to capture some of the magic."
If you'd like to join the 67,000 people who have already visited Forks this year, or if you'd like to see the New Moon filming locations in Vancouver, here are a few suggestions:
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