Description
Malibu Creek State Park is a sprawling, 8,200-acre natural reserve in the Santa Monica Mountains that serves as one of Southern California’s most versatile cinematic backdrops. Located just 35 miles from downtown Los Angeles, this former 20th Century Fox studio ranch features a diverse terrain of dramatic volcanic gorges, craggy canyons, expansive grasslands, and dense oak woodlands. Its distinctive skyline, anchored by the jagged Goat Buttes, famously doubled for the South Korean mountains in the M*A*S*H television series and provided the primitive, futuristic landscape for the original 1968 Planet of the Apes film. From the deep, textured rock walls of the secluded Rock Pool to the calm, reflective waters of Century Lake, the park provides filmmakers with an array of distinct ecosystems that can seamlessly represent untamed wilderness, historical periods, or alien worlds, all within the studio zone.
