Named after Tiburcio Vasquez, a notorious bandit who was known as the “Scourge of California”, Vasquez Rocks have been the movie industry's most recognizable film location. The rocks are located along the San Andreas Fault less than an hour north of Los Angeles. It is believed that the rocks were created 25 million years ago by a violent earthquake along the fault line. Literally hundreds of movies and television shows have used the hogback ridge as a backdrop for westerns and as alien landscapes for science fiction films and shows.

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Here is a partial list of the most well know movies and television shows:

Movies

A Fistful of Pistols 2018
A Single Man 2009
A Thousand and One Nights 1945
A Thunder of Drums 1961
A.I. Assault 2006
Across the Plains 1939
Alias French Gertie 1930
Alias the Bad Man 1931
Alien Nation: Dark Horizon 1994
Almost Brave 2014
Along the Oregon Trail 1947
Along the Rio Grande 1941
Alpha Dog  2007
Amazon Women on the Moon 1987
Andrew Rivas: Relentless 2013
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie  2014
Anthony Evans: Mercy Tree 2014
Apache  1954
Apache Rose 1947
Apache Uprising 1965
Apache Warrior 1957
Arizona Bushwhackers 1968
Arizona Nights 1934
Armed Response 1986
Army of Darkness  1992
Asphalnine Sapphire 2015
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery  1997
Avenging Angel 2007
Bagdad 1949
Bandit Queen 1950
Bandits of Dark Canyon 1947
Barricade 1950
Beyond the Sierras 1928
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey  1991
Biohazard 1985
Black Gold 1947
Blazing Saddles  1974
Bone Eater 2007
Booby Trap 1970
Border Cafe 1937
Border Rangers 1950
Branded Men 1931
Broadway to Cheyenne 1932
Bubble Boy  2001
Buckskin 1968
Calico Queens 2017
Call the Mesquiteers 1938
Camel Spiders 2011
Cameramen on Location 1941
Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere 1951
Cars  2006
Casa de mi Padre 2012
Cavalcade of the West 1936
Cave of Outlaws 1951
City of Bad Men 1953
Clearing the Range 1931
Cole Younger, Gunfighter 1958
Colorado 1940
Colt .45 1950
Commando Squad 1987
Conquest of Cochise 1953
Contact 1993
Copper Canyon 1950
Cow Country 1953
Cowboys and Idiots 2006
Cross Fire 1933
Crossroads 2014
Curse of Bigfoot 1975
Custer's Last Stand 1936
Dakota 1945
DANGER! DANGER!  2019
De La Soul: Breakadawn 1993
Dead Space 1991
Deathsport  1978
Delta Farce  2007
Desert Eagle 2016
Desert's Edge 1997
Dillinger: Home for Better Days 1991
Dinosaur Island 1994
Doorways 1994
Dracula  1931
Driftwood 1994
Dusting Cliff 7 1997
Epoch  2000
Executive Action 1973
Fairlane Road 2016
Fan-O-Rama 2016
Feud of the West 1936
First Daughter 2004
Flame of Araby 1951
Footprints on Sand 2006
For the Boys  1991
Forbidden World  1982
Forever Let's Dance 2015
Fort Utah 1967
Frame Up 1991
Frankenstein 1931
Free Enterprise  1998
Friends 'Til the End 1997
From the Mountaintop 2019
Fury at Gunsight Pass 1956
Fury of the Congo 1951
Galaxy Quest 1999
Galloping Dynamite 1937
Genesis 2006
Gone with the West 1974
Green Mansions 1959
Gun for a Coward 1956
Gunfighters 1947
Guns of El Chupacabra  1997
Hail, Caesar!  2016
Hearts of the West  1975
Hell Comes to Frogtown  1987
Hellbent 1988
Holes  2003
Horrific 2014
Horror of the Blood Monsters 1970
Hostile Guns 1967
How to Steal the World 1968
How William Shatner Changed the World 2005
Hybrid 1997
I Am Omega 2006
I Shot Billy the Kid 1950
Impala 1999
In the Aether 2015
In the Army Now  1994
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back  2001
Jesse James at Bay 1941
Jingle All the Way  1996
Joe Dirt  2001
John Carter  2012
Johnny Reno 1966
Jungle Jim: Fury of the Congo  1951
Just Outside Town 2020
Kentucky Rifle 1955
Kill Your Darlings  2006
King of the Wild Stallions 1959
Kiss of Fire 1955
L.A. Without a Map 1998
Land Shark 2017
Landscapes 2003
Law and Order 1932
Lawless Range 1935
Life 2016
Little Miss Sunshine  2006
Love Among Thieves 1987
Man from Oklahoma 1945
Masters of the Universe 1987
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn  1983
Michael Jackson: Black or White 1991
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie  1995
Minutes Past Midnight 2016
Missile to the Moon  1958
Mom and Dad Save the World  1992
Monkey Love 2002
More Dead Than Alive 1969
More Tea? 2013
My Stepmother Is an Alien  1988
Nick Knight  1989
Nickelodeon  1976
OAF: Our Alien Friend 2013
Once Upon a Time... In a Turquoise Blue Pontiac 2023
One Million B.C.  1940
Our Hopeful Journey 2014
Outlawed Guns 1935
Outpost: Gun to a Gunfight 2016
Painting in the Rain 2011
Panamint's Bad Man 1938
Parasite  1982
Paul  2011
Planet Dune 2021
Planet of Dinosaurs  1978
Planet of the Apes  2001
Playmaker 1994
Power 1986
Precious Find 1996
Princess of Mars  2009
Radar Men from the Moon 1952
Raptor 2001
Real Bullets 1988
Remote Control 1988
Return of the Roller Blade Seven 1993
Rim of the Canyon 1949
Robin Hood of the Pecos 1941
Romance of the Rio Grande 1940
Romance on the Range 1942
Rustlers of Red Dog 1935
San Antone 1953
San Antone Ambush 1949
Saul of the Mole Men 2007
Scarlet River 1933
SEAL Team VI 2008
Secrets  1933
Seven Minutes of Dreams 2021
Shadow of the Mandalorian 2019
Shadowcast 2002
Sheriff of Tombstone 1941
Short Circuit  1986
Shotgun 1955
Show and Prove 1998
Skin Game 1971
Slaves of Babylon 1953
Smoke Tree Range 1937
Sojourner 2018
Solar Crisis  1990
Son of the Border  1933
Sounds from Outer Space 2019
Space Raiders  1983
Spiders 2000
Star Trek  2009
Star Trek Into Darkness  2013
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home  1986
Sugababes: About a Girl 2009
Sugarfoot 1951
Sunday Punch 2010
Sundown on the Prairie 1939
Taza, Son of Cochise 1954
Telefon 1977
Texas Gun Fighter 1932
The Adventures of Marco Polo 1938
The Aliens Are Coming 1980
The Arizona Terror 1931
The Arizonian 1935
The Avenger 1931
The Badge 2010
The Big Sombrero 1949
The Bold Caballero 1936
The Charge at Feather River 1953
The Charge at Feather River  1953
The Crooked Trail 1936
The Death Merchant 1991
The Denver Kid 1948
The Dude Bandit 1933
The Duel at Silver Creek  1952
The Far Frontier 1948
The Feud 1977
The Flintstones (1994) 1994
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 2000
The Gallant Legion 1948
The Girl and the Gambler  1939
The Godchild 1974
The Golden Horde 1951
The Greatest Story of All Time 2005
The Hard Hombre 1931
The Invaders 1995
The Ivory-Handled Gun 1935
The Jedi Hunter 2002
The Jigsaw Murders 1989
The Killing Zone 1991
The Land of Missing Men 1930
The Last Bandit 1949
The Last Musketeer 1952
The Last Sunset: La Vendetta dell'Orbo 2010
The Late Great Planet Earth 1978
The Lawless Breed 1952
The Legend of the Lone Ranger 1981
The Legion of Missing Men 1937
The Lone Ranger Rides Again 1939
The Lost Planet 1952
The Magnificent Seven Ride  1972
The Magnificent Seven Ride! 1972
The Muppet Movie  1979
The Naked Monster  2005
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters 1966
The Night Follows Closely 2017
The Old West 1952
The Osiris Chronicles 1998
The Plunderers 1948
The Range Feud 1931
The Rapture  1991
The Return of the Cisco Kid 1939
The Return of Wildfire 1948
The Roller Blade Seven 1991
The Saracen Blade 1954
The Scorpion King 2002
The Sea of Grass  1947
The Shooter 1997
The Spoils 2018
The Sword: Cloak of Feathers 2013
The Ten Commandments  1956
The Terror Within  1989
The Texas Ranger  1931
The Throwback 1935
The Tonto Kid 1934
The White Shoes 2012
The White Squaw 1956
The Wild Colonial Boy 2002
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap 1947
Thief of Damascus  1952
Time Trippers 2012
To the Bone  2017
Toll of the Desert 1935
Tumbleweed 1953
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie 1997
Two Men on Planet Ten 2014
Untamed Women 1952
Vampire Blvd. 2004
Very Bad Things  2006
Virginia City 1940
Warlords 1988
Wavelength  1983
Way of a Gaucho 1952
We're in the Legion Now 1936
Werewolf of London 1935
Whistlin' Dan 1932
Wizards of the Demon Sword 1991
Young Buffalo Bill 1940
Zombies of the Stratosphere 1952

 

Television Shows

24

The A-Team

The Adventures of Champion

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

Airwolf

Alias

Alias Smith and Jones

Alien Hunter

Alien Nation

Annie Oakley

Bat Masterson

Battlestar Galactica

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Valley

The Bionic Woman

Bonanza

Bones

Branded

Broken Arrow

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Buffalo Bill, Jr.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Charmed

Cheyenne

Cimarron Strip

The Cisco Kid

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Daniel Boone

Death Valley Days

Dinosaurs

Fantasy Island

The Fall Guy

Fastlane

Fear Factor

Firefly

For All Mankind

Friends

The Fugitive

The Gene Autry Show

The Greatest American Hero

Gunsmoke

Have Gun – Will Travel

Hell Town

The High Chaparral

Hondo

Hunter

The Incredible Hulk

The Invaders

JAG

Johnny Ringo

Korg: 70,000 B.C.

Kung Fu

Laramie

Las Vegas

Lassie

Logan's Run

The Lone Ranger

MacGyver

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Maverick

Medium

The Middleman

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Mission: Impossible

Monk

Mr. Show with Bob and David

NCIS

NCIS: Los Angeles

New Girl

New Monkees

Numb3rs

The Outer Limits (1963–65)

Paradise

Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Power Rangers Turbo

Power Rangers Zeo

The Pretender

Prey

Project U.F.O.

The Range Rider

The Rat Patrol

The Rifleman

The Rough Riders

Roswell

Saving Grace

Simon & Simon

The Six Million Dollar Man

Sliders

Space: Above and Beyond

Stage 7

Star Trek

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: Voyager

Stories of the Century

Street Hawk

Tales from the Crypt

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

Tales of Wells Fargo

The Tall Man

Teen Wolf

The Texan

Tombstone Territory

Touch

The Twilight Zone

Voyagers!

Wanted Dead or Alive

The Westerner

Westworld

The Wild Wild West

Zane Grey Theatre

Zorro

 

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