Approximate location — plotted from published sources, not a site visit, and not a guarantee of access.
Mentryville sits at the mouth of Pico Canyon in the Santa Clarita Woodlands. Charles Alexander Mentry drilled Pico No. 4 here in the 1870s; the well became the first commercially successful oil producer in the western United States and ran until 1990. A company town of more than a hundred families grew around the field and largely emptied by the early 1930s. Still standing are Mentry’s thirteen-room house, a one-room schoolhouse, and a period barn, reached on foot from a fee parking lot at the end of Pico Canyon Road.