Malibu Creek State Park, with the Goat Buttes in the background.

Malibu Creek State Park is a California state park near Malibu, in Calabasas. It opened to the public in 1980, using property purchased from 20th Century Fox that the studio had owned since 1946 along with adjoining properties. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1632x1224, 909 KB) Photographed and uploaded by user:Geographer. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1632x1224, 909 KB) Photographed and uploaded by user:Geographer. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... State park is a term used in the United States and in Mexico for an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, recreation, or other reason, and under the administration of the government of a U.S. state or one of the states of Mexico. ... Location of Malibu in California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1991-03-28 [2] Government  - Mayor Ken Kearsley [1] Area  - City  100. ... Location of Calabasas in California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1991-04-05 [2] Government  - Mayor Dennis Washburn [1] Area  - City  13. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the major American film studios. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Malibu Creek State Park stretches from below Malibu Lake in the west to Piuma Road in the east. It follows the creek down to the Pacific Ocean and includes the Adamson House on the beach. Tapia Park has recently been incorporated as a subunit of the park. The park includes three natural preserves:

• Liberty Canyon 730 acres (3 km²);
• Udell Gorge 300 acres (1.2 km²); and
• Kaslow Preserve 1920 acres (8 km²).

The area is habitat for mountain lions, bobcats, mule deer, golden eagles, and southern steelhead. In order to promote steelhead runs, the obsolete Rindge Dam is slated to be removed from Malibu Creek. Binomial name Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) The puma (Puma concolor) is a type of large cat found in North, Central and South America. ... Binomial name Lynx rufus Schreber, 1777 Bobcat (Lynx rufus, or commonly felis rufus) is a wild cat native to North America. ... Binomial name Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque, 1817) The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America. ... Binomial name Aquila chrysaetos Linnaeus, 1758 World distribution of the golden eagle Light green = Nesting area Blue = Wintering area Dark green = All year distribution The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. ... Binomial name Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum, 1792 Native range of Rainbow trout Subspecies See text. ... Malibu Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains. ...

In addition, the park is home to several culturally significant areas, including the remains of Reagan Ranch (which once belonged to the former US president), the Sepulveda Adobe, and the ruins of Mott Adobe. Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ...

The park has been used as a location in dozens of films, starting with a number of Tarzan movies: James H. Pierce and Joan Burroughs Pierce starred in the 1932-34 Tarzan radio series 1964 Edition of Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ...

• Tarzan Escapes! (1936), Tarzan's Revenge (1938), Tarzan Finds a Son (1939)
• Blockade (1938)
• Full Confession (1939)
• How Green Was My Valley (1941)
• My Friend Flicka (1943)
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
• Viva Zapata! (1952)
• The Defiant Ones (1958)
• The Second Time Around (1961)
• Posse from Hell (1961)
• The Sand Pebbles (1966)
• Planet of the Apes (1968), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• The Towering Inferno (1974) For miniature exteriors of a ficticious skyscraper.
• Logan's Run (1976)
• The Masters of the Universe (1987)
• Pleasantville (1998)
• The Hunter's Moon (1999)
• Secretary (2002)

The park was also a key filming location for the M*A*S*H series, both for the the feature film and the subsequent television series. 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. The exact location of the site is 34 05'47.43" N 118 44'39.39" W. How Green Was My Valley is a novel of 1939, by Richard Llewellyn. ... My Friend Flicka is a 1941 childrens novel by Mary OHara about Ken McLaughlin, the son of a Wyoming rancher, and his horse Flicka. ... This article is about the 1948 film. ... Viva Zapata! is a 1952 biographical drama film directed by Elia Kazan. ... The Defiant Ones is a 1958 film which tells about two escaped prisoners who are shackled together, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive. ... The Second Time Around is a 1961 album by Etta James, and the second LP release for the blues singer. ... The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 film based on the 1962 novel The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna. ... This article is about the book. ... Battle For the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 science fiction film and is the fifth and final entry in the Planet of the Apes series. ... Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 Western film made by 20th Century Fox which tells the story of two lighthearted outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid who seem more inclined to trade quips than shots. ... The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster movie adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Logans Run is a 1976 science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. ... The tone of this article is inappropriate for an encyclopedia article. ... Pleasantville DVD cover Pleasantville is a film first released in Canada on September 17, 1998 starring Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, and Jeff Daniels. ... The Hunters Moon is a novel by O.R. Melling about two teenagers and their journey through Ireland involving the fairy, published in 2005 in the United States. ... Secretary DVD Secretary is a 2002 romantic black comedy film based on a short story from Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill. ... M*A*S*H title screen from the television series M*A*S*H was a media franchise active, in various forms, from 1968 to 1986. ... MASH is a 1970 satirical American dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and based on the novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. ... M*A*S*H was an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart and inspired by the 1961 novel Catch-22, the 1968 Richard Hooker novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors and its sequels; and—primarily—the 1970 film MASH. It is the most well...

Other television programs that used the park to pass for a post-apocalyptic earth were the children's program Ark II and the Planet of the Apes TV series. Ark II was a live-action science fiction series aimed at children that aired on CBS beginning in 1976 as part of its Saturday morning line-up. ... Planet of the Apes was a short-lived science fiction television series that aired Friday evenings on CBS in 1974. ...

The park is still used for occasional filming.

Recreation activities in the park include: bird watching, hiking, mountain biking, rock climbing, fishing, and picnicking. Birding or birdwatching is a hobby concerned with the observation and study of birds (the study proper is termed American origin; birdwatching is (or more correctly, was) the commonly-used word in Great Britain and Ireland and by non-birders in the United States. ... Two hikers in the Mount Hood National Forest Eagle Creek hiking Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. ... Mountain biker riding in the Arizona desert. ... Climbers on Valkyrie at the Roaches. ... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water. ... Friends and family gather for a picnic in a public park in Columbus, Ohio, c. ...

See also

• List of California state parks

This is a list of state parks and reserves in the California state park system. ...

External links

• Website for the park
• Jerry Schneider's page on the parks history and filmography