Where is Tracker filmed in Canada? Enjoy those locations while you can — the production is packing for LA
For three seasons, Colter Shaw has crisscrossed America finding missing people — without the production ever really leaving British Columbia. If those moody forests and small towns have become part of the show's appeal for you, savor them on the rewatch. Season 4 is being shot somewhere else entirely.
Where seasons 1–3 were actually filmed
Tracker has been based at Martini Film Studios in Langley, about 30 miles southeast of Vancouver, since it premiered as CBS's post-Super Bowl show in February 2024. From there, the production turned southern British Columbia into whatever the script needed:
- Fort Langley and Anmore — village stand-ins for Northern California towns, appearing throughout the series.
- Long Beach on Vancouver Island — doubling as a Northern California beach.
- An Okanagan winery — dressed up as a Napa Valley vineyard.
- Downtown Vancouver — filling in for various American cities as cases demanded.
It's the classic "Hollywood North" trick: one province playing an entire country.
Why the show is leaving
Money — specifically, a record-setting amount of it. In March 2026, the California Film Commission awarded the series a $48 million tax credit to relocate, the largest ever given to a relocating show, ahead of the $42 million that moved Fallout from New York. The credit, based on $129 million in qualified spending, was granted under the mysterious name "Untitled Disney Entertainment Television Project 13" before Deadline confirmed in May 2026 it was Tracker.
Season 4 production is set for 176 filming days in California, employing 250 crew members and 275 actors, with cameras rolling from summer 2026 for the 2026–27 season.
What the move means on screen
Showrunner Elwood Reid framed it as a creative opportunity as much as a financial one, with California offering coastline, mountains, and desert in one state:
"Location is a huge part of the storytelling on Tracker," Reid said, thanking the Vancouver crew who made the first three seasons possible.
One practical upside: Colter has largely avoided the American Southwest on screen — outside a lone Texas episode, "No Man's Land" — because BC simply doesn't look like it. Desert stories just became possible.
For the record: seasons 1 through 3 will always be the Canadian era. Every forest you see in them is British Columbia wearing an American name tag.