The Walking Dead in Senoia

Though Senoia, Georgia was not part of my dad and I's road trip across the country this past summer, I visited the town back in April 2017 and had the privilege of seeing all sorts of locations from The Walking Dead (2010-present.)

(I have included a few spoilers, so proceed with caution if you have not watched the show fully.)

My dad paid for us to go on a walking tour throughout Senoia and, if you are a big fan of the show, I could not recommend anything cooler. The town includes everything from "Alexandria" to "Woodbury" to the railroads which are often featured in the television show.

One of my absolute favorite scenes from all eight seasons is the iconic shot where Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) eats a giant can of chocolate pudding on the roof of a house in the ninth episode of season four. The prison they had been staying in was just utterly destroyed, and Carl is then left to defend his father after their whole group has been separated. He went off on his own expedition to gather food and other needs, but ended up losing a shoe in a fight with a walker and wrote in chalk the quote, "walker inside, got my shoe, didn't get me," onto a door. To celebrate, he took to the roof with no one but himself and the walker through the window.

These are two iconic scenes that go hand in hand and are often quoted and referenced. I was so excited to see the home for myself. If you'd like to watch the scene, click here!

The high-up shots are interesting to me because you can recognize the spot by the two elongated busches in front of the home. In the show, leaves and natural dirt was added to the house itself just to make it a bit more apocalyptic.

The main shopping and restaurant strip in Senoia is located at 1 Main Street and is disguised as Woodbury. In season three, Andrea and Michonne were walking through the woods only to be captured by Merle and taken to the Governor. This is the first "community-like" area where a decent amount of survivors live with a pre-apocalyptic style. Maggie and Glenn, however, are tortured here without the two women even being aware of it for quite a while.

The Walking Dead team had plants put in, along with a stack of tires a sign that looks almost exactly like the Senoia sign, but of course it says Woodbury instead.

Just on the other side of Woodbury is where the fence surrounding Alexandria is! Many houses and buildings within this specific area were built specifically for the show, but a lot were already there, as well. This is a pretty large section of space and, though it is completely surrounded and blocked off, a few families do still live there!

Something that really caught my eye at Alexandria, however, was the gate opening. The most important aspect of their building of the area is, of course, how they get in and out. In the show, it consists of vertically parallel bars that are layered with a massive sheet of metal to be manually moved, but in real life, specifically during breaks when filming is not happening, it is nothing more than a simple bar that moves up and down like at a toll.

There are plenty of other locations spread all around Senoia that you can visit, as well as locations in Atlanta. When in Georgia, I highly recommend taking the time to stop by as many filming locations as you can!

Sources:

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/filming-locations-walking-dead-13-stop-tour-of-the-show-s-best-filming-locations-thrillist-nation

http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(TV_Series)