Survival Show Guide

Where is Alone filmed?

Short answer: all over the world, and almost always somewhere cold, wet, and hard to reach. The show started on northern Vancouver Island and has since gone to Patagonia, Mongolia, the Canadian subarctic and Arctic, South Africa's Karoo, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Here is every region the franchise has used, with the seasons filmed there.

Quatsino Territory, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia landscape
Photo: fouquetteaboutit (CC BY 3.0)

Quatsino Territory, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Patagonia, Andes foothills near Lago Escondido, Lago Soberanía, and Lago Montes (Río Negro Province) landscape
Photo: flavouz (CC BY 2.0)

Patagonia, Andes foothills near Lago Escondido, Lago Soberanía, and Lago Montes (Río Negro Province)

Khonin Nuga valley, Selenge Province (near Züünkharaa) landscape
Photo: Christopher Michel (CC BY 2.0)

Khonin Nuga valley, Selenge Province (near Züünkharaa)

East Arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories (approx. 400 km south of the Arctic Circle, 120 km south of the arctic tree line) landscape
Photo: Paul Gierszewski (Public domain)

East Arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories (approx. 400 km south of the Arctic Circle, 120 km south of the arctic tree line)

Chilko Lake, British Columbia, Canada landscape
Photo: Sam Beebe (CC BY 2.0)

Chilko Lake, British Columbia, Canada

Big River, Nunatsiavut region, northern Labrador, Canada (approx. 35 km / 21 mi south of Makkovik) landscape
Photo: Paul Gierszewski (Public domain)

Big River, Nunatsiavut region, northern Labrador, Canada (approx. 35 km / 21 mi south of Makkovik)

Reindeer Lake, northern Saskatchewan, Canada landscape
Photo: Rnewton02 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Reindeer Lake, northern Saskatchewan, Canada

Mackenzie River Delta, ~125 miles north of the Arctic Circle near Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada landscape
Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Mackenzie River Delta, ~125 miles north of the Arctic Circle near Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada

Great Karoo, a semi-arid desert region in the Eastern/Western Cape, South Africa landscape
Photo: Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Great Karoo, a semi-arid desert region in the Eastern/Western Cape, South Africa

South West Tasmania, Australia (Tasmanian wilderness) landscape
Photo: Nasher (CC BY-SA 4.0)

South West Tasmania, Australia (Tasmanian wilderness)

Fiordland, New Zealand's South Island (Te Waipounamu) landscape
Photo: Krzysztof Golik (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Fiordland, New Zealand's South Island (Te Waipounamu)

No single filming site, each of the three head-to-head competitors in a given episode builds on their own home turf/terrain across the continental US (contestants' home regions include Georgia/Ohio/Virginia, Washington State, Arizona/Iowa, Oregon, Idaho, Florida/Idaho, and Indiana); the judge does not appear on-site. landscape
Photo: John Brighenti (CC BY 2.0)

No single filming site, each of the three head-to-head competitors in a given episode builds on their own home turf/terrain across the continental US (contestants' home regions include Georgia/Ohio/Virginia, Washington State, Arizona/Iowa, Oregon, Idaho, Florida/Idaho, and Indiana); the judge does not appear on-site.

Wondering what people are allowed to bring to these places? See the rules and approved item list.