For The Time of Your Life
PEMBROKE, Va., July 26,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Now, fans within driving
distance can enjoy one of the summer's newest day trips as the
award-winning Mountain Lake Lodge – where the iconic movie Dirty
Dancing was filmed 38 years ago – holds its Dirty
Dancing Days Summer Festival. The first-ever event, on
August 16 and 17, 2024, is open to
the public and especially for Dirty Dancing fans to
visit for the day and go back to where the magic began – a
nostalgic experience normally reserved only for the resort's
Dirty Dancing Weekends.
Dirty Dancing-themed days run from 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16 and
from 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on
Saturday, Aug. 17. Live performances with music from the
60's and 80's and a Latin band include Cassette Rewind,
Marcel Portilla Band, FlashBack, The
Party Band, and Riverside. Also on tap are scavenger hunts; 80's
dress-up dance competitions; dance lessons; watermelon races; Dirty
Dancing trivia contest; food and drink specials; Dirty Dancing
merchandise, and screenings of the original film.
"This is an exciting day trip for locals and those within
driving distance to experience Dirty Dancing with the real
'Kellerman's Mountain House' as the backdrop – complete with Baby's
Cabin, the famous Gazebo and many more filming locations – right in
their own backyard without staying overnight," said Heidi Stone, president and CEO, Mountain Lake
Lodge.
Tickets for both days are $75 and
available online at bit.ly/3VcP8Am. Mountain Lake Lodge is located
at 115 Hotel Circle, Pembroke, VA
24136.
Situated in the center of a 2,600-acre nature preserve and bird
sanctuary in Virginia's Blue Ridge
Mountains, Mountain Lake Lodge is still the ideal place "to have
the time of your life" as it mixes numerous activities with
nostalgia and reminders of the cult classic scattered around the
property.
Highlights of resort venues filmed in the movie include
Stone Lodge with its great stone
hearth and magnificent mountain views; adjoining Harvest Restaurant
and Patio where main characters "Johnny" and "Baby" saw each other
for the first time; the Gazebo for salsa lessons, and Baby's Cabin,
the fictional Houseman family home.
In addition, Kellerman's Gift Shop, the region's first
brick and mortar store for official Dirty
Dancing® merchandise, offers a collection of Dirty Dancing
clothing and memorabilia. Fashioned after the studio where Baby
first learned to dance, the shop is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Merchandise is also
available at https://mtnlakelodge.shop.
Mountain Lake Lodge is recognized in TripAdvisor's Travelers
Choice Awards 2024, The Knot Best of Weddings for 2024,
and was recently inducted into The Knot Best of Weddings Hall of
Fame. In addition to Dirty Dancing, activities run the gamut
from hiking and the new onsite Giles County Trail Center at
Mountain Lake Lodge, to the Artist's Studio, Nature Center with
guided hikes, nature crafts and bird-watching, excursions through
the mountains, Salt Pond Pub Sunday Mountain Music and Dog Days,
two new Escape Rooms, golf, fly fishing and family floats on the
New River.
For information, visit www.mtnlakelodge.com.
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