Fun Fact Friday | Star Wars Filming Near Yuma

The filmmakers decided to stay in sand dunes around Yuma for making Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Buttercup Dunes, California was used as the filming site for the Great Pit of Carkoon sequence on the Dune Sea. Filming took place in April 1982, though construction had taken place over the previous five months. The crew stayed in the nearest town, Yuma, Arizona while filming, logging over 5,500 man days in hotel rooms for set construction and filming