 The Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon was used for the front  exterior, but all the interiors as well as the back of the hotel  were specially built at Elstree Studios in London, England. The  management of the Timberline requested that Stanley Kubrick (qv)  not use 217 for a room number (as specified in the book), fearing  that nobody would want to stay in that room ever again. Kubrick  changed the script to use the nonexistent room number 237.