Malibu Creek State Park stretches from below Malibou Lake in the west to Piuma Road in the east.

In 1900 a group of wealthy Los Angeles businessmen created the Crags Country Club and purchased 2,000 acres (800 ha) along Malibu Creek.

[4] Other parts of the park, added later, were previously owned by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox for movie ranches.

[7] In 2014, adjacent Cameron Nature Preserve in Puerco Canyon was acquired by the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority.

It was later used by the Catholic Claretian Order as Claretville in the 1950s–60s,[11] then by several other spiritual groups, and finally by Soka University in the 1990s until the recent purchase for the park.

The new visitor center for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is located here in the historic Stables compound.

The landscape was particularly seen in the opening credits for the show as helicopters carrying wounded approach the hospital with the recognizable Goat Buttes in the background.

This was also a location for Robin Hood: Men in Tights where the Goat Buttes are seen in the background of the final wedding scene.