Golden Oak Ranch

Golden Oak Ranch
	Golden Oak Ranch entrance gate
Project
Status	operating
Website	goldenoakranch.com
Location
	Coordinates: 34°22′26″N 118°28′41″W / 34.374°N 118.478°W
Address	19802 Placerita Canyon Road, Santa Clarita, California 91321, United States
Area
• Total	360 ha (890 acres)

Golden Oak Ranch is an 890-acre (360-hectare) movie ranch owned by the Walt Disney Studios subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company that serves as a filming location and backlot. The ranch is off of Placerita Canyon Road outside of Newhall, Santa Clarita, California, less than an hour north of Los Angeles; its entrance is not far from Placerita Canyon Road's intersection with California State Route 14.^{[citation needed]}

The ranch is on land that was part of the Rancho San Francisco land grant. Its name honors the first discovery of gold in California at the site by Francisco Lopez, years before the discovery that precipitated the California Gold Rush.^[1] The ranch has a heliport, grassy meadows, two creeks, a waterfall, and various Western sets.^[2]

^ Worden, Leon (October 2005). "California's REAL First Gold". COINage magazine. Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
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