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Where was Escape at Dannemora filmed?

In June 2015, two men spent months hatching a complicated plan to escape from a prison in upstate New York.

Using smuggled hacksaw blades, they cut through the walls and steam pipes of the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora and exited through a nearby manhole.

Hiding from law enforcement, they led them on an exhausting chase through the North Country forests over the next three weeks that ended in gunfire miles from the Canadian border.

Director Ben Stiller recreated the scenes from that escape, which made international headlines at the time, in Showtime's “Escape at Dannemora,” now streaming on Netflix.

The series details the prison escape of David Sweat, played by Paul Dano; and Richard Matt, played by Benecio Del Toro; with the help of prison employee Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell, played by Patricia Arquette.

More: “Escape at Dannemora”: What you want to know about series on Netflix

Filming locations for “Escape at Dannemora.”

Stiller chose to film scenes for the show in upstate New York and the Hudson Valley – the production team filmed in Malone, Plattsburgh, Dannemora, Clinton Correctional Facility, and even the manhole from which Sweat and Matt escaped.

For further prison filming, the team traveled to other locations such as the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh.

Stiller even used his own backyard for scenes that served as stand-ins for the heavily forested Adirondacks inland, including Nannyhagen Road in Thornwood, an area bordering Harriman State Park in Montebello, and along Route 9W in Cornwall.

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