California (Chapter 15)

Since the Antelope Valley is located within California, there are many similarities between the AV and the California region discussed in Chapter 15.

In particular, the Antelope Valley has become a location source for many Hollywood films, TV shows, and commercials, which is part of the entertainment industry that is integral to the economy of California. The Antelope Valley Film Office serves to recruit new film productions into the Antelope Valley, and it has largely been successful in bringing many famous films to the AV, as shown in the video below:

(Source: http://antelope-valley-film-office.hollywoodserve.com/videos.php)

There are also several iconic locations located within the AV that have been used repeatedly in film productions, such as the famous "Club Ed", shown below, which has been used in a Brittany Spears music video, a Backstreet Boys music video, and numerous commercials and movies.


(Source: http://clui.org/ludb/site/club-ed)

Out of the many commercials that have been filmed in the Antelope Valley, one of the most famous is a Honda commercial for which the producers constructed a "musical road" in Lancaster. This musical road is the only such road in the United States, and it was grooved to play the William Tell Overture when driven across at 50 mph. Currently, it is maintained by the City of Lancaster as a major tourist attraction. The video below shows what the road sounds like, which I have personally driven across:

(Source: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/19149)

Finally, the Antelope Valley is home to a California State Park, Saddleback Butte State Park. According to the California State Parks website:

 Saddleback Butte, elevation 3,651 feet, is a granite mountaintop that towers some thousand feet above the broad alluvial bottom land of the Antelope Valley about fifteen miles east of Lancaster, on the western edge of the Mojave Desert. The state park surrounding Saddleback Butte was created in 1960 to protect the butte (one of many similar land features in the Antelope Valley) and examples of native Joshua Tree woodlands and other plants and animals that were once common throughout this high desert area.

Thus, this State Park is responsible for preserving some of the Antelope Valley's most iconic geographic features and native wildlife, and it is pictured below:

  

(Source: http://www.parks.ca.gov/mediagallery/?page_id=618)

Ultimately, as a part of Los Angeles County, the Antelope Valley is a part of the one of the most well-known counties within California: