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.

Richardson Mountains, Beaufort Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada, near Aklavik, inside the Arctic Circle, roughly 125 miles (150 km) north of it and about 150 km from the Alone season 11 filming site near Inuvik landscape
Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Richardson Mountains, Beaufort Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada, near Aklavik, inside the Arctic Circle, roughly 125 miles (150 km) north of it and about 150 km from the Alone season 11 filming site near Inuvik

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

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

Reindeer Lake, northern Saskatchewan, 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)

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

Chilko Lake, British Columbia, Canada

East Arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories (near Łutselk'e) landscape
Photo: Paul Gierszewski (Public domain)

East Arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories (near Łutselk'e)

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

Khonin Nuga valley, Selenge Province (near Züünkharaa)

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

Quatsino Territory, Vancouver Island, near Port Hardy, 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)

West Coast Range, lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia landscape
Photo: Nasher (CC BY-SA 4.0)

West Coast Range, lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia

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.