Paramount Ranch

Medicine Woman Trail gives sweeping views of open grassland with mature valley live oaks located near Western Town.

 

When Paramount Pictures leased the ranch in 1927, they began an era of film production that continues today. You can experience the area where Bob Hope starred in “Caught in the Draft” (1941) and Jane Seymour had the leading role in “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” (1993-1998). In the 1950s, Western Town was created for television shows, such as “The Cisco Kid” (1950-1956). More recent productions at Paramount include HBO’s “Westworld” (2016-2017) and “American Sniper” (2014).

In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire swept through the area and destroyed much of what was known as Western Town, a real life Hollywood-adjacent motion picture set. The train depot used in the “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” series and the chapel used in HBO’s “Westworld” remain. The site is currently being reimagined and exciting plans are underway to remake the only site in the National Park Service dedicated to the ongoing creation of movies and television shows.

Paramount Ranch offers several miles of easy to moderate scenic hikes through chaparral, riparian, and valley oak savannah plant communities. Equestrians and mountain bikers may access these multi-use trails. Wildlife sightings might include red-tailed hawks, acorn woodpeckers, coyotes, and deer. Be on the lookout for our two native oak species—coast live oak and valley oak. Experience the rare valley oak savannah and be transported to far off destinations.

Film History – The Paramount Pictures Era

When Paramount Pictures leased the ranch in 1923, they began a historic era of film production. You can experience the area where Claudette Colbert was sentenced as a witch in 1692 Massachusetts in Maid of Salem (1937). Bob Hope played the part of a vain movie star whose biggest fear is to be drafted into the U.S. Army in Caught in the Draft (1941). 

A veritable "who's who" of Hollywood practiced their craft here for almost a century. From actors Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Marlene Dietrich, and many more! 

The diverse landscape, however, was the real star of the show. It offered filmmakers the freedom to create distant locales such as colonial Massachusetts to ancient China in The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938), a South Seas island in Ebb Tide (1937), and numerous western locations, including San Francisco in Wells Fargo (1937). The art of illusion was mastered on the landscape.

The golden era of moviemaking at Paramount Ranch came to an end when changes to the studio system prompted Paramount Pictures to sell the ranch. Paramount Ranch found renewed life as a film location when William Hertz bought the southeast portion in 1953. 

Hertz Era Western Town

An ardent fan of movie westerns, Hertz built a permanent western town utilizing Paramount Pictures' old prop storage sheds. As a result, television companies began shooting westerns at the ranch, such as The Cisco Kid and Bat Masterson. 

William Hertz sold the property in 1955 to three businessmen investors who renamed it the Paramount Sportsman's Ranch. The Paramount Raceway opened a year later. Some considered it one of the most challenging in the U.S., and it closed 18 months later after two fatal crashes occurred in December of 1957. The raceway was featured in The Devil's Hairpin (1957) and Disney's The Love Bug (1968). Most of the track still winds through the grass and oak woodlands of the park.

From 1957 to 1980, the ranch would see more ownership changes, but filmmaking continued. 

National Park Service Purchases Paramount Ranch

After purchasing a portion of the original Paramount property in 1980, the National Park Service revitalized the old movie ranch. 

In the early 1990s, Jane Seymour and Joe Lando captured hearts in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-1998), a television show that used Paramount Ranch as their permanent, everyday set. Members of the public would often camp out for the day and watch the show get created in real-time!

More recent productions at Paramount include The Lake House (2006) starring Sandra Bullock, HBO's Westworld (2016-2017), and American Sniper (2014). Find a complete list of films and T.V. shows filmed here, linked below. 

In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire swept through the area. It destroyed much of what was known as Western Town, a real-life Hollywood-adjacent motion picture set. The train depot used in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman series and the chapel used in HBO's "Westworld" remains. 

The site is currently being reimagined. Exciting plans are underway to remake the only location in the National Park Service dedicated to the ongoing creation of movies and television shows.

Visiting the Paramount Ranch Western Town

Cross the bridge to get to the chapel used in HBO's "Westworld," It will be on your left. The only other building that still stands on the former Hertz Era Western Town site is the train depot that was used in the T.V. show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. All trailheads extend from this area, except the trail that goes toward Mulholland highway.

 

Movie List

Movie List With Paramount Ranch As A Location Theatrical Releases and Made for Video
 

Two Flaming Youths w/W.C. Fields 1927 The Showdown 1928 Avalanche 1928 Betrayal w/Gary Cooper 1928 The Water Hole w/Jack Holt 1928 The Big Killing w/Wallace Berry 1928 Under the Tonto Rim 1928 The Vanishing Pioneer 1928 The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu 1929 The Four Feathers 1929 Half Way to Heaven 1929 Stairs of Sand w/Wallace Berry 1929 The Sunset Pass w/Jack Holt 1929 The Wheel of Life 1929 Wolf Song w/Gary Cooper 1929 The Virginian w/Gary Cooper 1929 The Devil’s Holiday ** 1930 Mammy w/Al Jolson -Warner Bros. 1930 Morocco w/Gary Cooper 1930 The Border Legion 1930 The Light of Western Stars 1930 A Man from Wyoming 1930 Only the Brave w/Gary Cooper 1930 The Santa Fe Trail w/Richard Arlen 1930 Anybody’s War 1930 Derelict 1930 The Virtuous Sin 1930 Shadow Ranch -Columbia 1930 The Dawn Trail -Columbia 1930 The Lone Rider -Columbia 1930 The FighXng Legion -Universal 1930 Follow Thru 1930 The Mighty 1930 The Texan w/Gary Cooper 1930 The Spoilers 1930 Tom Sawyer w/Jackie Coogan 1930 The Painted Desert /Pathe 1931 Sooky w/Jackie Cooper 1931 Huckleberry Finn w/Jackie Coogan 1931 The Fighing Caravans 1931 The Magnificent Lie 1931 Caught w/Richard Arlen 1931 Unfaithful 1931 Border Law – Columbia 1931 Desert Vengeance - Columbia 1931 The FighXng Sheriff - Columbia 1931 Branded -Columbia 1931 Clearing the Range – Allied Arists 1931 The Conquering Horde 1931 Melody in Spring 1934 It’s a Gid w/W.C. Fields 1934 Dude Ranch w/Jack Oakie 1931 The Road to Reno 1931 The Avenger - Columbia 1931 Twenty Four Hours 1931 Gun Smoke w/Richard Arlen 1931 I Take This Woman w/Gary Cooper 1931 Hot Saturday w/Cary Grant 1932 Sign of the Cross w/Claude_e Colbert 1932 Million Dollar Legs w/W.C. Fields 1932 A Farewell to Arms w/Gary Cooper 1932 The Broken Wing w/Leo Carrillo 1932 Horse Feathers** w/Marx Bros. 1932 Lady and Gent 1932 Love Me Tonight 1932 The Man from Yesterday 1932 The Local Badman w/Hoot Gibson 1932 The Miracle Man 1932 Island of Lost Souls w/Charles Laughton1932 Shanghai Express w/Marlene Dietrich 1932 Sinners in the Sun w/Carole Lombard 1932 Heritage of the Desert 1932 The World & the Flesh 1932 The Thunder Below 1932 Make Me a Star w/Joan Blondell 1932 Ghost Valley -RKO 1932 One Man Law -Columbia 1932 Hello Trouble - Columbia 1932 White Eagle - Columbia 1932 Riding for Justice - Columbia 1932 Forbidden Trail -Columbia 1932 Blonde Venus w/Marlene Dietrich 1932 Wild Horse Mesa w/Randolph Scott 1932 The Man I Killed/Broken Lullaby 1932 Hello Everybody/Queen of the Air 1933 One Sunday Adernoon 1933 Phantom Thunderbolt -Fox Film Corp. 1933 King of the Jungle w/Buster Crabbe 1933 Man of the Forest w/Randolph Scott 1933 Under the Tonto Rim 1933 The Story of Temple Drake 1933 The Trumpet Blows w/George Rad 1934 Mrs.Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 1934 The Last Round-Up w/Randolph Scott 1934

The Thundering Herd 1934 The Man Trailer -Columbia 1934 Melody in Spring 1934 It’s a Gid w/ W.C. Fields 1934 Six of a Kind w/W.C. Fields 1934 Sullivan’s Travels w/Joel McCrea 1941 Buy Me That Town 1941 The Old Fashioned Way w/W.C. Fields 1934 The Last Outpost w/Cary Grant 1935Goin’ To Town w/Mae West 1935 Peter Ibbetson w/Gary Cooper 1935 McFadden’s Flats 1935 Millions in the Air 1935 Rumba w/George Rad 1935 So Red the Rose w/Randolph Scott 1935 Rose of the Rancho 1936 Till We Meet Again 1936 Valiant Is the Word for Carrie 1936 Desert Gold 1936 It’s A Great Life 1936 Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936 Nevada w/Buster Crabbe 1936 Woman Trap 1936 The Preview Murder Mystery 1936 The Jungle Princess w/Ray Milland 1936 The Robin Hood of El Dorado -MGM 1936 Su_er’s Gold - Universal 1936 High, Wide and Handsome 1937 The Toast of New York** – RKO 1937 Nothing Sacred w/Carole Lombard 1937 Maid of Salem w/Claude_e Colbert 1937 Wells Fargo w/Joel McCrea 1937 Borderland w/Wm. Boyd 1937 Mountain Music w/Martha Raye 1937 Ebb Tide w/Ray Milland 1937 Partners of the Plains/Wm. Boyd 1937 It Happened in Hollywood -Columbia 1937 Tropic Holiday w/Ray Milland 1938 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -UA 1938 Bar 20 JusXce/Wm. Boyd 1938 In Old Mexico/Wm. Boyd 1938 The Texans w/Randolph Sco_ 1938 Cassidy of the Bar 20/Wm. Boyd 1938 Pride of the West w/Wm Boyd 1938 Adventures of Marco Polo -Goldwyn 1938 Beau Geste w/Gary Cooper 1939 The Lady’s From Kentucky 1939 Never Say Die w/Bob Hope 1939 Geronimo w/Preston Foster 1939 Hotel Imperial w/Ray Milland 1939 Undercover Doctor 1939 Remember the Night 1940 Dr.Cyclops 1940 Those Were the Days w/Wm. Holden 1940 Northwest Mounted Police 1940 Caught in the Drad w/Bob Hope 1941 Hold Back the Dawn 1941 Sullivan’s Travels w/Joel McCrea 1941 Buy Me That Town 1941 The Remarkable Andrew 1941 Ball of Fire w/Gary Cooper -Goldwyn 1942 I Married a Witch w/Fredric March 1942 Lucky Jordan w/Alan Ladd 1942 The Great Man’s Lady 1942 The Forest Rangers 1942 And the Angels Sing 1943 The Good Fellows 1943 So Proudly We Hail 1943 And Now Tomorrow 1944 Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout 1944 Miracle of Morgan’s Creek 1944 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Welcome Stranger w/Bing Crosby 1948 Five 1951 Soldiers Three w/David Niven MGM 1951 Bwana Devil w/Robert Stack 1952 The Silver Star – Lippert Pictures 1955 The Lonesome Trail – Lippert Pictures 1955 The Devils Hairpin w/Cornel Wilde 1957 Eighteen and Anxious 1957 Roadracers – AIP 1959 Tickled Pink aka Magic Spectacles 1961 Pajama Party -AIP 1964 How to Stuff a Wild Bikini -AIP 1965 Spinout – Elvis Presley -MGM 1966 Munster Go Home -Universal 1966 The Split -MGM 1968 The Love Bug - Disney 1968 The Illustrated Man -Warner Bros. 1969 Black Angels 1970 Angels Hard as They Come 1971

Evel Knievel -MGM 1971 The Student Teachers 1973 Herbie Rides Again -Disney 1974 Foxy Brown -AIP 1974 Big Bad Mama – Angie Dickenson 1974 Crazy Mama 1975 Posse from Heaven 1975 Death Race 2000 – Sylvester Stallone 1975 Hollywood Boulevard 1976 Breaker! Breaker! – Chuck Norris 1977 Mule Feathers 1977 Texas Detour – Cinema Shares Inter. 1978 Hi-Riders 1978 Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys 1978 Don’t Go Near the Park 1979 Angel’s Brigade, aka Angel’s Revenge, aka Seven from Heaven 1979 Without Warning 1980 The Boogey Man 1980 Galaxina – Crown International 1980 Without Warning 1980 The Boogey Man 1980 The Return 1980 Red’s w/Warren Beatty 1981 Scream 1981 Young Warriors aka The Young Graduates of Malibu High 1983 The ShooXng: The Story of the Kane  Brothers* – Groat Brothers 1983 The Philadelphia Experiment 1984 Action Impossible II 1984 Nomad Riders 1985 Lightning, the White Stallion 1986 Wisdom 1986 Commando Squad 1987 House II: The Second Story 1987 Deep Space* 1987 Big Bad Mama II 1987 The Great Outdoors 1988 The Big Picture  1988 Mutant on the Bounty 1988 LA Heat 1989 Easy Wheels 1989 The Border of Tong aka Massacre* 1990 Frogtown II aka Return to Frogtown* 1992 Mad at the Moon 1992 Sweet Justice* 1992 The Naked Truth aka Glitch II* 1992 Seedpeople* 1992 Alien Intruder* 1993 Lost in Africa 1993 Time Wars* 1994 Joe Joe Angel & the Dead Guy 1997 Home Fries 1997 The Face of Alexander Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask 1998 Blast from the Past 1999 Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas - Univ. 1999 The Rowdy Girls* 2000 Gunshy 2000 Escape to Grizzly Mountain* 2000 The Stoneman* 2002 Van Helsing - Universal 2003 The Long Ride Home* 2003 Missing Brendan* 2003 Gang of Roses 2004 The Girl Next Door 2004 Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing And Charm School 2005 Devil’s Highway 2005 Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun* 2005 The Lake House - Warner Bros. 2006 Norbit - Dreamworks 2006 Crazy 2008 Shadowheart* 2009 Big Money Rustlas 2010 6 Guns* 2010 The Scarlet Worm aka Cowboy Vengeance 2011 Wyatt Earp’s Revenge* 2012 Gang of Roses II: Next Generation* 2012 Revenge 2013 Doc Holiday’s Revenge* 2014 American Sniper -Warner Bros.2014 Un Hombre DesXnado a Hacer Justicia 2015 Bone Tomahawk 2015 Traded 2016 Miracle in the Valley, aka Boonville Redemption* 2016 Hickok 2017 Cannibal Corpse Killers* 2018 Gone Are the Days* 2018 The Mercenary* 2019 The Outsider*** 2019

*Denotes Xtles made for direct Video, DVD or Blu Ray release. Includes some that had brief theatrical, fesXval or special screenings & some intended for theatrical release for which that didn’t happen.
**DocumentaXon indicates Paramount Ranch filmed scenes were cut from movie.
***Last movie to film in the Western town before the November 2018 Woolsey Fire.

Documentation sources: Production Files, Photographs, Photo Captions, Press books, Industry Publications, National Park Service records and viewing the films. This list is not all-inclusive, as ongoing research continues to uncover unknown titles.

Updated Nov. 2021

TV Show List

TV Shows, Made for TV Movies, Mini-Series and Internet/Streaming Programs
With Paramount Ranch as a Filming Location

1950’s
The Cisco Kid – “Witness”, “School Marm” (17 episodes total, all Season 6)
The Rough Riders – “The Reluctant Hostage”
Hotel de Paree* (As Georgetown, CO - porJons of all episodes)
Gunsmoke – “Box O’ Rocks” (No town)

1960’s
Tombstone Territory – “The Injury”
Klondike* (As Skagway, Alaska - Episodes 2-17)
Bat Masterson – “The PrescoW Campaign”, “MeeJng at
Mimbres”, “The Marble Slab”
The FugiJve – “Home is the Hunted” (Racetrack)
Perry Mason – “The Case of the Runaway Racer” (Racetrack)
Mannix – “Huntdown” (No town)

1970’s
Call O’ the Faire (Renaissance Faire Promo Special)
Ark II – “The Cryogenic Man” (Town), “Robin Hood”, “Don
Quixote (Renaissance Faire site, both)
Helter Skelter (TV Mini-Series)
The Starland Vocal Band Show – Episodes 1 & 4
(Renaissance Faire featured)
The Next Step Beyond – “Ghost Town”
Happy Days – “Westward Ho!” Parts 2 & 3
BeWer Late Than Never (TV Movie)
CHIPS – “Death Watch”, “Moonlight”, “Satan’s Angels”

1980’s
BJ & the Bear – “Fire in the Hole”
Charlie’s Angels – “An Angel’s Trail”
The Dukes of Hazzard – “The Late J.D. Hogg” (Racetrack)
Best of the West* (As Copper Creek, Montana)
The Fall Guy – “Colt’s Angels”, “The Silent Partner” (5 episodes total)
The Quest – “He Stole-A My Art” (No town)
CHIPS – “The Spaceman Made Me Do It” (No town)
Falling for the Stars (Disney Channel TV Special)
Johnny Cash: Cowboy Heroes (TV Special)
Bizarre (Several Super Dave Osborne skits)
No Man’s Land (TV Movie)
The Fourth Wise Man (TV Movie – Jerusalem, Bethlehem & Egypt streets)
Two on the Town
The A-Team – “The Sheriffs of Rivertown”, “Mission of
Peace”, “The Say U.N.C.L.E. Affair” (6 episodes total)
Hardcastle & McCormick – “Too Rich and Too Thin” (No town)
Airwolf – “LiWle Wolf”, “And A Child Shall Lead” (No town)
MacGyver – “Three on the Run”
Falcon Crest (MulJple episodes; No town)
Unsolved Mysteries (MulJple episodes)
Sledge Hammer – “They Shoot Hammers, Don’t They?”
Reading Rainbow – “RumpelsJltskin” (Renaissance Faire)
Mathnet – “The Case of the Map with a Gap”
Out of This World – “Go West, Young Mayor”
Shelley Duvall’s Nightmare Classics - “Eyes of the Panther”
Comic Relief (TV Special)
Our Gang Special (TBS SuperStaJon TV Special)
The UlJmate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson - (TV Special)
Caddie Woodlawn (TV Movie)

1990’s
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman* (Series home 1992-1998, as
Colorado Springs, CO)
California (Unaired Dr. Quinn Spinoff Pilot)
The Nanny – “The Unkindest Gin”
Rebecca’s Garden
Entertainment Tonight
Extra
Access Hollywood
CNN Showbiz Tonight
100 Years of the Hollywood Western (TV Special)
CBS: The First 50 Years (TV Special)
Hollywood’s Amazing Animal Actors (TV Special)
Salute to Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV Special)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: RevoluJons (TV Movie)
If Someone Had Known (TV Movie)
Lifestyle Magazine Thanksgiving Special (TV Special)
The Real West (MulJple episodes)
Civil War Journal (MulJple episodes)
Unsolved Mysteries (MulJple episodes)
The Great Empire - Rome
Sliders - “Way Out West” (No town)
Tots TV - “The Tots Western Adventure” (BriJsh Children’s Series)
Tales of the Gun – “The Gunslingers”, “The Shotgun”
E! Mysteries & Scandals (Several stories)
Cousin Skeeter – “The Hoo, I’m Wild Wild West”, Parts 1 & 2
History’s Mysteries – “Discharged Without Honor: The Brownsville Raid”
Grand Slam
Camp Cucamonga (TV Movie)
The SixJes (TV Mini-Series)
Everything You Wanted to Know… (TV Pilot)

2000-2009 
Diagnosis Murder – “FronJer Dad” 
Diagnosis Murder: The Town Without Pity (TV Movie) Sabrina, the Teenaged Witch – “The Wild, Wild Witch” Modern Marvels: Then and Now – “Gunslingers” Dream Drives – “Mulholland Drive” 
Hopalong Cassidy: Public Hero #1 (TV Special) 
Escape: True Stories of Suspense (TV Special) 
A Woman’s a Helluva Thing (TV Movie) 
The X Files – “Existence”, Part 2 
VIP – “The Uncle from V.A.L.” 
Masada 
VendeWas – “SuWon vs. Taylor”, “The Johnson County War” 
Yes, Dear – “Dances with Couch” 
Before We Ruled the Earth: Hunt 
UlJmate Revenge “Western Mayhem” 
OperaJon Junkyard – “Master Water Blaster” 
Lizzie McGuire – “Grubby Longjohn’s Olde Tyme Revue” Firefly – “Safe”
Carnivale* (HBO) (MulJple episodes, as Mintern, CA) John Ratzenberger’s Made in America (Story intro’s -Season 1 episodes) 
Love Comes Sonly (TV Movie) 
The Trail to Hope Rose (TV Movie) 
Love’s Enduring Promise (TV Movie) 
Hidden Places (TV Movie) 
Meet the Santa’s (TV Movie) 
For BeWer or for Worse – “Hitched at High Noon” NaJonal Parks: Great Train Rides 
Unsolved History – “Shootout at the OK Corral” 
TV Road Trip (1 episode) 
Wild West Tech (MulJple episodes) 
Movies’ Greatest Cars (BriJsh TV Special) 
Jesse James: Legend, Outlaw, Terrorist 
Shootout! – “Wild West”
Big Love – “Affair” 
Bible BaWles 
Secret History of Religion 
Unlocking Ancient Secrets of the Bible 
The Conquerors – “Cortez: Conqueror of Mexico” 
CBS News Sunday Morning – Eric Clapton interview 
Love’s Unending Legacy (TV Movie) 
Love’s Unfolding Dream (TV Movie) 
Lilly’s Light (Pilot for Children’s Show) 
Prairie Fever (TV Movie) 
The Valley of Light (TV Movie) 
Rock of Love with Bret Michaels – “Riff it Good” 
The Bachelor 
The BacheloreWe – Season 5, Episode 3 
The O.C. – “The Avengers” (No town) 
GeWysburg: The Speech that Saved America (No town)
Tube Tales: TV’s Real Stories (Canadian TV) “Baywatch/Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman/Murphy Brown” 

2010-2019 
Huell Howser California’s Golden Parks – 
“Paramount Ranch” 
Weeds – “Gentle Puppies” 
CSI: Las Vegas – “CSI Down” 
Excused 
The Aquabats! Supershow! – “Cowboy Android” Smokewood (TV Pilot) 
Deadliest Warrior – “Comanche vs. Mongol” 
Paul Merton’s Birth of Hollywood, Episode 3 (BBC) Custer’s Last Man: I Survived LiWle Big Horn 
How Booze Built America – “Westward, Ho” 
Quick Draw* (Hulu Series) (As Great Bend, KS, all episodes & Nicodemus, two episodes) 
Hotel Secrets & Legends (MulJple episodes) 
Castle – “Once Upon a Time in the West” 
Next Stop Hollywood (Australian TV) 
Episodes (No town) “Episode Six” 
Sons of Anarchy – “Poor LiWle Lambs” (No town) 
Funny or Die (Internet) – “Dr. Quinn, Morphine Woman” Scorpion – “Once BiWen, Twice Die” 
Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story (TV Movie) (No town) 
Face Off – “Full Steam Ahead” 
Bones – “The Cowboy in the Contest” 
Drunk History (MulJple episodes, Seasons 3 & 5) RocketJump: The Show – (Hulu) “High Plains Driner” Manson’s Lost Girls (TV Movie) 
ExpediJon Unknown – “Legendary Stories: The Real Lewis & Clark” 
Aquarius (Final 4 episodes of Season 2) 
Adam Ruins Everything – “Adam Ruins the Wild West” Declassified (CNN) (2 episodes) 
Westworld** (HBO series) – MulJple episodes - Seasons 1, 2 & 3 
Escape the Night* (Season 3) (YouTube Series) 
Badland Wives – (Demo Reel for Proposed Series) 
Lost Gold (Travel Channel) 
The Great Food Truck Race (2 Episodes, Season 9) 
Hell’s Kitchen – “Hell’s Riders”, S18-Ep3 
SMILF – “Single Mom is Losing Faith” S2-Ep9 
Eye on LA (MulJple stories about the ranch) 

2020-2029 
Everything’s Gonna to be OK – “Banded Argiope Spider” 


*The Paramount Ranch Western town set was the main featured town in these series. For Hotel de Paree, Klondike & Best of the West – exterior scenes; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Carnivale, Quick Draw & Escape the Night made use of both exterior and interior spaces.
**Scenes for the town of Escalante and addiJonal scenes in open landscape areas were filmed at Paramount Ranch for Westworld. 

TV producJons that used Paramount Ranch have filmed everything from just brief scenes to enJre episodes to mulJple episodes. Many used the town, but many only used the open landscape around the ranch. (Episodes on this list used the town, except where otherwise noted.) See the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for more detailed episode informaJon for all listed shows. DocumentaJon here comes from NaJonal Park Service filming records (1981 to present), from viewing the shows and from photographs. This list is not all inclusive, as ongoing research conJnues to reveal unknown titles. 

Last Updated February 

 

Activities

• Hiking
• Picnicking
• Mountain Biking
• Horseback Riding
• Dog walking
• Wildlife Viewing

 

Directions

2903 Cornell Road, Agoura Hills, CA, 91301

GPS Coordinates: N 34.1181 W -118.7525

Take Ventura Freeway (U.S. 101) to Kanan Road exit. South on Kanan 0.5 mile. Left on Cornell Way and veer to the right. South 2.5 miles, entrance is on right side of the road.

 

Good to Know

Parking	Yes	Ample parking everywhere.
Restrooms	Yes
Water	Yes
Pets	Yes	Dogs are allowed but must remain on a leash, not to exceed six feet, at all times. Please pick ­up after your dog.
Cell Service	Yes/No	Depends on cell service provider. Unreliable cell service in the backcountry.

 

Hertz Era Western Town was a real-life motion picture set that has been used for many films and TV shows.