Corriganville Movie Ranch

[1] Built on land purchased by Corrigan in 1937, the ranch provided scenery as well as man-made structures and sets, and served as the background scenery for movies and television programs such as Fort Apache, Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory, The Robe, The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Sky King, Circus Boy, and Star Trek.

In 2018, the park’s filmmaking roots were revived when transformed into Spahn Ranch for Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie all play key roles in this critically acclaimed film.

Other sets included Silvertown, a western street with saloon, hotel, jail, livery stable, corral, blacksmith, shops, and a bank.

[3] Cowboy stars who filmed there include: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Buster Crabbe, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Smiley Burnette, Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Charles Starrett, Ken Maynard, Kermit Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Tex Ritter, Robert Taylor and of course Crash Corrigan himself.

For an admission price of one dollar, visitors could experience a variety of stuntman shows, movie and TV actors (often Crash himself) signing autographs and posing for pictures, western street movie sets ("Silvertown"), frontier Army fort ("Fort Apache"), and Mexican village, many made up of real working buildings and not just set fronts as is common on many studio backlots.

In 1988, 190 acres (0.77 km2) of land comprising the principal working areas of the original Corriganville Ranch were purchased by the City of Simi Valley for use as a regional park.

Hiking trails provide views from dramatic rock formations that made the park a popular filming location from the 1930s to 1960s.

The park and the entire Santa Susana Pass area has many sites and vistas seen in movies and especially 1950s television westerns.