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James Bond filming locations in the USA
7 James Bond locations you can visit in the USA: Golden Gate Bridge, Fremont Street, French Quarter, Arecibo Observatory, Seven Mile Bridge, Key West, Fontainebleau. Where to stand, how to get there and the story behind each.
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA
The world's longest suspension span when it opened in 1937, built across fog, tides and open ocean swell.
In A View to a Kill: The finale on top of the bridge.
Where to stand: Battery Spencer on the Marin side, looking back across the bridge to the city.
2 filming spots: Golden Gate Bridge from Battery Spencer; San Francisco City Hall.
Best time: Late afternoon, as the fog rolls in.
Fremont Street, Las Vegas, USA
In the 1950s tourists watched atomic tests from hotel roofs here. The Atomic Museum tells the Cold War side of the city.
In Diamonds Are Forever: The car chase on two wheels.
Where to stand: Stand under the canopy in the middle of Fremont Street.
Best time: After dark for the canopy show.
French Quarter, New Orleans, USA
Birthplace of jazz and of the brass-band funeral, and still rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
In Live and Let Die: The jazz funeral.
Where to stand: Walk Royal and Chartres Streets. Second-line parades pass on Sunday afternoons in season.
2 filming spots: Dumaine and Chartres Streets; Madison Street, by Café du Monde.
Best time: Spring, or Sundays Aug–Jun for second lines.
Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, USA
In 1974 the dish beamed humanity's first deliberate message to the stars. It collapsed in 2020.
In GoldenEye: The finale on the dish.
Where to stand: The viewing area over the sinkhole where the dish once hung.
Best time: Check opening; it is now a science education centre.
Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys, USA
The old bridge carried Flagler's Overseas Railroad until the 1935 Labor Day hurricane wrecked the line.
In Licence to Kill: The armoured-truck escape.
Where to stand: Walk the old bridge from the Marathon end towards Pigeon Key.
2 filming spots: Old bridge, Marathon end; Pigeon Key.
Best time: Sunset.
Key West, Florida Keys, USA
The southernmost city in the continental US, closer to Havana than to Miami, where Hemingway wrote in a garden full of six-toed cats.
In Licence to Kill: M revokes Bond's licence at the Hemingway House.
Where to stand: Outside the Hemingway Home on Whitehead Street, one block from Duval Street.
Best time: December to April.
Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, USA
Morris Lapidus's 1954 curve, the founding building of Miami Modern style.
In Goldfinger: The poolside card game.
Where to stand: From Collins Avenue, take in the great curved frontage.
Best time: Any time.
Quick answers
Where were James Bond films shot in the USA?
Places you can visit in the USA include Golden Gate Bridge (A View to a Kill); Fremont Street (Diamonds Are Forever); French Quarter (Live and Let Die); Arecibo Observatory (GoldenEye); Seven Mile Bridge (Licence to Kill); Key West (Licence to Kill); Fontainebleau (Goldfinger).
Which Bond films have locations in the USA?
A View to a Kill, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, GoldenEye, Licence to Kill, Goldfinger.