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. The town featured in Roots: The Next Generations was also built on the Golden Oak Ranch. Most of the exterior scenes in Old Yeller were filmed here. The first movie shot at the ranch was Toby Tyler. The ranch was used to film the episodes of Spin and Marty, a popular segment of The Mickey Mouse Club and parts of Zorro. Subsequent purchases of adjacent land increased the area of the ranch to 890 acres (360 ha). It was named in honor of Francisco Lopez, the man credited with discovering gold in California, years before the discovery that precipitated the California Gold Rush.
The ranch is on land that was part of the Rancho San Francisco land grant. The ranch is off of Placerita Canyon Road in Canyon Country, California, less than an hour north of Los Angeles its entrance is about from Placerita Canyon Road's intersection with State Route 14. The Walt Disney Company’s Golden Oak Ranch is a movie ranch that serves as an interior and exterior filming location.
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