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Hotel de Paris
409 6th Street, Georgetown

The historic Hotel de Paris was among the Georgetown-area sites temporarily begrimed by 1998's Phantoms, a tepid adaptation of a Dean Koontz shocker featuring Ben Affleck. Clint Eastwood did better by the community with 1978's Every Which Way But Loose, which also shot in several locations along Colfax. The final face-off between Clint and a motorcycle gang was staged in the middle of Georgetown, with an actor named Clyde proving to be every inch Affleck's equal as a thespian. Oh, yeah: Clyde was an orangutan.

Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
28194 U.S. Highway 6, Keystone

Colorado ski areas have ranged across many a movie. Who can forget Snowball Express, a 1972 Walt Disney production fronted by Dean Jones? (Okay, pretty much everyone.) Still, none of these hits the heights of Arapahoe Basin. Location manager Brooke Johnson points out that an A-Basin peak posed as Mount Everest in 2007's The Bucket List, which also starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. That's a mighty big performance.