Golden Oak Ranch

The Golden Oak Ranch, which is also known as the Disney Ranch, is a movie ranch owned by the . The Ranch is located at 19802 Placerita Canyon Road, Santa Clarita Valley, Newhall, California, USA.
The large ranch, which today spans 827 acres (335 hectares), was bought by Walt Disney in 1959. A well-known and often-seen filming location, the Golden Oak Ranch has been seen in television series such as 90210, , , , , General Hospital, , Jericho, Bonanza, , , , The Dukes of Hazzard, The Big Valley, , North & South, , The Twilight Zone, , , Zorro, Roots: The Next Generation, How the West Was Won, , , , , My Name is Earl, , The Adventures of Spin and Marty, The New Adventures of Spin and Marty, (2011), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and (2013, episode "Wedding in Red").
Film productions that have used this location include the adventure Old Yeller (1957), the comedy The Parent Trap (1961), the comedy The Love Bug (1968), the western Death of a Gunfighter (1969), (1985), the television pilot Kung Fu: The Movie (1986), the musical comedy Cry-Baby (1990), the TV movie remake version of Escape To Witch Mountain (1995), (1996), the thriller Fire Down Below (1997), the thriller Letters from a Killer (1998), (2001), the thriller Red Dragon (2002), the horror thriller The Garden (2006), (2006), and (2007).
== Star Trek ==
On Thursday , Friday , and Monday , two and a half days were spent at the Golden Oak Ranch, filming the Omicron colony scenes for . Originally all three days were to be spent on location, but on the third day, due to the illness of guest star Jill Ireland, director Ralph Senensky moved to Desilu Stage 9 to film Enterprise interiors. The company was unable to return to the Ranch later, as it was already booked for another production, so the remaining colony scenes had to be shot at Bronson Canyon.
On Wednesday , the production of the episode filmed the surface scenes of the Melona colony at the Golden Oak Ranch. Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, Susan Diol, and 25 background performers were directed by Cliff Bole with a set call at 7:00 a.m. Sunrise on this day was at 6:08 a.m. and sunset at 7:48 p.m. During the filming, the Directors Guild Educators Workshop visited the production. A map of the location was attached to the call sheet for this day.
In , two scenes for , the pilot episode of , were filmed there. The scenes filmed there were Benjamin Sisko and Jake Sisko's holodeck fishing program and Sisko's picnic with Jennifer Sisko. ()
In , the scenes depicting the surface of Archer IV were filmed at the Ranch for the episode . ()
In the summer of , the Golden Oak Ranch was used to film the night flashback scenes of a young Martin Wells accidentally meeting two Vulcans in the episode . 
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