Location
280 Private Drive 1708, Abiquiu, NM 87510
Access notes
A retreat and education centre on the land Georgia O'Keeffe painted. Day visitors are welcome at the museums and on booked tours; much of the ranch is private.
Parking
Visitor parking at the welcome centre.
Oppenheimer· 2023
LocationThe real Los Alamos has modernised too far to double for the 1940s, so the production built the wartime townsite here instead — the main security gate, Oppenheimer's office from the original blueprints, two Quonset huts, a church and a run of cabins.
Trivia
Much of the set is still standing about forty miles from the real Los Alamos, and Ghost Ranch runs ticketed tours of it.
Corporate Animals· 2019
NowLocationGhost Ranch's badlands, near Abiquiu, were used for scenes of the characters riding through rugged terrain in Hostiles.
Location
The Magnificent Seven· 2016
NowGhost Ranch's badlands scenery near Abiquiu was used for the Volcano Springs sequence in which Robicheaux and Vasquez are recruited.
Georgia O'Keeffe· 2009
LocationProduction was given rare permission to film at O'Keeffe's actual home and studio at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, the first (and to date only) O'Keeffe biopic granted access to the real site by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Foundation.
Trivia
The film received nine Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actress for Joan Allen as O'Keeffe.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull· 2008
NowGhost Ranch's open grassland and red sandstone cliffs stood in for the fictional 1957 Nevada setting where the kids race the military convoy.
Trivia
Despite being set in Nevada in the film, this and other 'Nevada' scenes were actually shot in New Mexico.
3:10 to Yuma· 2007
NowThe red cliffs above Abiquiu stand in for Arizona territory in the film's overland sequences.
Trivia
The same cliffs appear in dozens of westerns, and in Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings.
The Missing· 2003
LocationGhost Ranch's landscape was used for location filming on this Ron Howard-directed western starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett.
All the Pretty Horses· 2000
NowGhost Ranch's high-desert grassland and red-rock cliffs were used as one of the New Mexico filming locations for this Cormac McCarthy adaptation.
NowThe meeting between Emmett, Jake, Paden and Mal at a remote crossroads was filmed on the Ghost Ranch property near its red-cliff formations.
LocationScenes set at 'Mr. Mason's farm' and a helicopter chase between the buttes were filmed at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu for Red Dawn.
The Gatling Gun· 1971
NowGhost Ranch in Abiquiu served as one of the New Mexico filming locations for this 1969-shot cavalry western, alongside the Eaves Movie Ranch.
