California Western Films and Old West Sights

Do you love a good, old-fashioned Western film? Wish you'd live in the Old West? We've got some great Western film locations and Old West sites for you.

Los Angeles

• Gene Autry Museum of the American West
• Paramount Ranch

San Francisco

• Wyatt Earp's Burial Place, Colma

San Diego

• Gaslamp Quarter

Other Locations

• Bodie Ghost Town is one of the west's best-preserved and one of our favorites
• California Rodeo, Salinas is one of the top 20 in the country
• Lone Pine
• Columbia Gold Rush Town where scenes from High Noon were shot
• Railtown 1897 is home to historic steam engines that have been featured in over 200 films

Rest of the West

• Buffalo Bill Grave and Museum, Denver, Colorado
• Horseback Riding, Las Vegas, NV
• Mescal, Arizona
• Old Tucson Studios, Tucson
• Superstition Mountain, Phoenix
• Tombstone, Arizona

Return to the California Vacation Grab Bag to find more unusual and interesting places to go on your California vacation.