where was fort apache filmed

“Fort Apache” (the 1948 John Ford western with John Wayne and Henry Fonda) was filmed mainly in Monument Valley on the Arizona–Utah border, with the fort itself built on a movie ranch in Simi Valley, California.

Main filming locations

• Monument Valley, on the Navajo Nation along the Arizona–Utah border, was used for many of the sweeping outdoor cavalry and landscape scenes, as in several of John Ford’s other westerns.

• Additional exterior scenes were shot around Moab and Arches/Dead Horse Point–style locations in Utah, which provide the dramatic desert mesas and canyons seen in the film.

• The fort set and trading-post exteriors were built and filmed at Corriganville Movie Ranch in the Simi Hills, Simi Valley, California, which later became a regional park.

Quick extra note

• Corriganville’s Fort Apache set was reused in later productions, including the TV series “The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin,” before the ranch facilities were eventually damaged by fires in the 1970s.

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