Q.
What is it supposed to be on the show?
A. A KOA Campground near World's End State Park.
Q.
Where is it supposed to be on the show?
A. In Pennsylvania.

Q. When did we see it on the show?
A. In Episode 1 of Season 2
Planning to kill Al (the serial killer known as Rapunzel), Dexter
tracks him down to a camping site in Pennsylvania, where Al and his
family are vacationing, while living in a giant RV.
Dexter shows up unexpectedly, pretending he just wants to be
friends, but Al is definitely not happy to see him. He likes to keep his
two worlds separate and doesn't like Dexter showing up around his family.
Dexter tells him that he is worried after what happened with Prater, and
when he heard about Al's most recent murder, he just wanted to get back
in touch with one of the former members of that macabre club.
That seems to mollify Al a little, and he agrees to meet Dexter at a
former body shop nearby. But both are planning to eliminate the other.
Q. What is it actually in real life?
A. A state park, but not in Pennsylvania.
Q.
Where can I find it in real life?
A. There actually is a World's End State Park, in Forksville, Pennsylvania. But this isn't it.
They filmed this scene at Tallman Mountain State Park, which is near the coast of upstate New York, just west of the little town of Sparkill, NY. This large park is a little out of the way for Dexter, but it's still in New York state.
Tallman Mountain State Park is a 687-acre state park in
Rockland County, New York, located near the Hudson River. The
official address is Route 9W, Sparkill, NY 10976.
You can find there website here.
The sign reading KOA stands for Kampgrounds of America, a real-life
chain of campgrounds throughout the country. But as far as I can tell,
there is no KOA campground at either Tallman Mountain State Park or at
World's End State Park, although they do have multiple campgrounds
in both New York and Pennsylvania. )
If that town name Sparkill sounds familiar, that's because it's the same hamlet where they shot the Iron Lake scenes in season one of Resurrection.
That included the early scene of Dexter escaping from the hospital
there, and the scene of him stopping at a store to buy new clothes. They
also shot the scene of Angel Batista talking to the deputy in Iron Lake, and
even the scene of Charley killing the Canton Clubber.
Here is a matching StreetView of the park entrance:
Here is an aerial
photo of the location. And here is a map
link.
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Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was?
A. This could have been extremely difficult to find, given the fake signs, but
fortunately it turned out to be very easy, because the casting calls the
production put out (asking for extras to play Al's family members) before they filmed this scene specified that they would be filming
at Tallman State Park.
And that made a lot of sense once I saw that it
was in Sparkill, New York, where they spent a lot of time last
season.
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