Stanley Kubrick is reported to have based The Shining's red bathroom on the men's room of the Biltmore Hotel in Arizona. The design of the Biltmore is usually attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright, which is only partly true. The architect of record is Albert Chase McArthur who had been commissioned by his brothers to design a luxury hotel for them in Phoenix. McArthur studied under Wright, who had built the McArthur house in Chicago for McArthur's father in 1892, and Wright was the consulting architect for the Biltmore.

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The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park served as the inspiration for parts of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The Overlook's Colorado Lounge in the movie was modeled after the lounge in the Ahwhanee and built on a soundstage at Elstree Studios.

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Kubrick's use of ghost twins in the hallways of The Shining is said to be inspired by Diane Arbus' photograph Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967.

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The Timberline Lodge is a ski lodge in the Mt. Hood National Forest.

It is also the exterior filming location for The Shining- the 1980 psychological horror-thriller directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Stephen King, and starring Jack Nicholson.

This is where all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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