Scenes from 1987's "Dirty Dancing" were filmed in and around the town. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, stayed at the Lake Lure Inn while shooting.

Jim Proctor, who operates Pine Gables Log Cabins with his wife ... Lake Lure sits at the bottom of the Hickory Nut Gorge, a 20,000-acre, 14-mile-long canyon through the Blue Ridge Mountains ...

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