Every Time Hollywood Re-Used Expensive Props

59. Star Trek’s Rocks

Also Appears In: John Carpenter, Blazing Saddles, Austin Powers, Army of Darkness, and more
Estimated Savings: $80,000-$100,000*

Vasquez Rocks is a natural area park that stretches more than 900 acres. The park is located in northern Los Angeles in the Sierra Pelona Mountain Range. Vasquez is famous for its unusual rock formations, which are the result of layers of sediment forming, followed by seismic uplift.

Vasquez is also famous because it has been used in a lot of movies. The rocks were used in Star Trek, John Carpenter, Blazing Saddles, Austin Powers, Army of Darkness, and many more films. The Rocks were named after a bandit, Tiburcio Vasquez, who eluded law enforcement in the 1870s and became known as one of California’s most infamous bandits.