Shawshank Trail Tour

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Shawshank Trail Tour

The Shawshank Trail Drive-it-Yourself Tour in Mansfield, Ohio! Explore the sites! Stand in the same location as Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman! See where this impressive movie was filmed! Hear the fascinating stories!

The Shawshank Trail Drive-it-Yourself Brochure will help you navigate your way around Mansfield, Ashland and Upper Sandusky, Ohio at your own pace visiting the same sites as Hollywood once did when they were filming Shawshank Redemption. Visitors and fans can print the brochure from www.shawshanktrail.com with directions for each destination.

Highlights of the tour let you see first hand the tunnel in which Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) dug his way to freedom, on display at the Historic Ohio State Reformatory. Or the opening scene at Pugh Cabin on the property of Malabar Farm State Park where Andy waited for his wife and lover. See where Brooks fed the pigeons in Central Park in downtown Mansfield. You can even sit in the very seats where the premier of The Shawshank Redemption was shown in 1993 at the Historic Renaissance Theatre. These are just a few attractions in the Mansfield area where Hollywood walked . . . now you can too!

The web site lists attractions that are open to the general public with their hours of operation. Visitors are encouraged to bring their cameras for great photo opportunities! Please note that the Oak Tree is located on private property and photos may only be taken from across the road on Malabar Farm State Park's property.

The majority of the movie was filmed in Mansfield, with scenes from Ashland, Butler, Upper Sandusky, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Portland, Maine.

Address

Mansfield
124 N. Main St.

Mansfield, Ohio 44902

Phone Number(s)

Toll-Free: (800) 642-8282

E-mail Address(es)

General Information: jpuster@mansfieldtourism.com

Special Hours: Self guided tour. Refer to map/website or check with individual stops for hours of operation.

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Admission

Self-Guided Tour: FREE
Some attractions require an admission price.

Parking

FREE

Front view of the Historic Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio.

DiscoverOhio Itineraries

The Shawshank Redemption
by Discover Ohio

Step into the lives of your favorite characters from one of the most popular movies of the past 15 years. The Shawshank Redemption, a blockbuster 1994 movie, was filmed largely in Mansfield, Ohio. A tour of the many Mansfield locations will lead you to Andy Dufresne's (Tim Robbins) jail-cell, the park where Brooks (James Whitmore) fed the pigeons, and the Oak Tree where Red (Morgan Freeman) found the note from Andy. For more information, visit www.shawshanktrail.com

Following are some of the most popular destinations along the "Shawshank" movie trail:

1) Ohio State Reformatory - The Historic Ohio State Reformatory was used as a fictional penitentiary, Shawshank Prison. See the hole that Andy dug through his cell wall to escape and the tunnel he crawled through. It is just 2-feet in diameter.

2) "Brooks Feeding the Pigeons in the Park" - Downtown Mansfield
The park offers visitors two acres in downtown Mansfield, a gazebo, gardens, picnic area, playground equipment, the Historic Vasbinder Fountain, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and monuments. "Brooks" sat down on the bench in Central Park to feed the birds, hoping his friend Jake (his pet crow) would show up to say hello, but he never did.

3) Andy's Home - Pugh Cabin at Malabar Farm State Park – a day-use facility
This authentic log home was featured in the opening scenes of The Shawshank Redemption. Don’t miss the ‘Big House’ at Malabar Farm, where stars of stage and screen used to come to the country to visit Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield. The home was the site of the prestigious 1945 wedding of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

4) Oak Tree - near Malabar Farm
*NOTE: The Oak tree was damaged by a storm, only half the tree remains.
As you drive east along Pleasant Valley Rd. just past the entrance to Malabar Farm State Park, look to your left to see the famous oak tree where Red walked along a hay field and removed stones from a rock wall where Andy kept his money.

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