The Great Northern Hotel

The Great Northern Hotel
Snoqualmie Falls and exterior of the Snoqualmie Falls Lodge, used for The Great Northern Hotel, upper left, in June 2008
Country	USA
Created by	David Lynch, Mark Frost
Genre	Drama
Type	Hotel
Notable locations	Twin Peaks

The Great Northern Hotel is a fictional setting featured in the television series Twin Peaks. It is where much of the series takes place. The lead character, FBI Agent Dale Cooper, is a resident of the hotel for the length of the series. The exterior of The Great Northern Hotel is the Snoqualmie Falls Lodge in Snoqualmie, WA. (In 1988, the building was completely remodeled and reopened as the Salish Lodge.) The lodge that inspired The Great Northern Hotel is the Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington. The Kiana Lodge was built in the late 1920s and is furnished with alder bentwood pieces dating from that era.

The hotel is owned by Ben Horne, a business associate of Leland Palmer; the death of whose daughter Laura Palmer is the catalyst for the series.