Disney's Golden Oak Ranch

USA / California / Santa Clarita /
 interesting place, film/video production studio/facility, movie ranch
The Walt Disney Company’s Golden Oak Ranch is an 890-acre outdoor ranch that serves as an interior and exterior filming site. The ranch has plans to redevelop to include sound stages and support facilities, which will make it a complete "old fashioned" movie studio that will include both front and back lots. Plans have been put on hold.

The ranch is off of Placerita Canyon Road in Canyon Country, California, less than an hour north of Los Angeles.

The ranch is on land that was part of the Rancho San Francisco land grant. It was named in honor of Francisco Lopez, the man credited with discovering gold in California, years before the Gold Rush in Northern California
Disney bought the 315-acre ranch in 1959 for $300,000. Subsequent purchases of adjacent land increased the area of the ranch to 890 acres (360 ha).

The ranch was used to film the episodes of Spin and Marty, a popular segment of The Mickey Mouse Club. The first movie shot at the ranch was Toby Tyler. The town featured in Roots II was also built on the Golden Oak Ranch. Segments of Pete's Dragon were shot on this location as well, as were The Apple Dumpling Gang, Treasure of Matecumbe, The Muppet Movie, The Electric Horseman, Little House on the Prairie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Colonel Sanders commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken. A covered bridge spans the man-made stream featured in Follow Me, Boys! and episodes of Bonanza and The Greatest American Hero. The exterior house featured in the original 1961 film The Parent Trap was also shot on the ranch.

A portion of the property was formerly known as the Trem Carr Movie Ranch and Republic Pictures Ranch..

www.goldenoakranch.com/
www.mouseplanet.com/8736/The_Golden_Oak_Ranch
studiosattheranch.com/tour
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Oak_Ranch
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Coordinates:   34°22'51"N   118°28'50"W

Comments

  • While some of the TV show "Little House on the Prarie" was mostly shot in north Simi Valley at upper Tapo Cyn Rd, some of the 'greener' shots were shot at this location.
  • Disney's "Old Yeller" was filmed here as well.
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