The phrase "a hiding spot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a place where someone or something can be concealed or kept out of sight.
Example: "The children found a perfect hiding spot behind the large tree during their game of hide and seek."
Alternatives: "a concealed location" or "a secret place".
To his relief, the police did not confiscate his film; film that included pictures he'd taken at dawn, from a hiding spot, of Vladimir Shukhov's latticework radio tower.
Ashley discovered the perils of using a computer as a hiding spot when she took digital photos of a few postcards before mailing them to PostSecret.
I took a number of pictures of the event, until the red fox had eaten its fill, and picked up the remains to find a hiding spot for a later meal".
When chased by guards you must run until they have lost sight of you, then quickly jump into a hiding spot or simply sit on a bench and pretend you're an innocent bystander.
"Hotel Pool" seems as if it might, especially when the creatures first zoom out from under a hiding spot in the pool, the colorful ribbons of Kelly Cobb's costumes streaking behind them like the feathery tails of Siamese fighting fish.
In the movies, a pattern of shootings with the same gun is the work of a serial killer, but in New York, it is more likely a result of a community gun passed from hand to hand, and then to a hiding spot under a streetlamp, or a girlfriend's apartment, or across town to be used by a friend of a friend.
As several of the dancers hold hands and circle a bust of John Wesley in a small square at the top of a wide stairway, Erika Eichelberger and Nicholas Bruder rush out from a hiding spot and face away from each other, rigidly clasping hands.
Rum-runners used the vast Everglades as a hiding spot: there were never enough law enforcement officers to patrol it.
She told police she noticed Dear watching her from a hiding spot in the bushes on Memorial Day in 2001.
