Looking to climb Brokeback Mountain?
Head to Canada
By Jayne Clark, USA TODAY - Feb 2006.
The hottest spot on Wyoming's
tourist map these days doesn't truly exist.
It looks like Wyoming: The Canadian Rockies were the setting for much of Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain.'
But that isn't stopping fans of Brokeback Mountain from ringing up the state's tourism office with queries about how to get there.
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"The way it's set up, it would be hard to think it wasn't Wyoming," says tourism spokesman Chuck Coon. "Even people who live here think it's Wyoming. We're not claiming it, but we're sure enjoying the fruits of this movie."
ps.: One place name in the film that does exist is Riverton, Wyo., though many in the community of 10,000 aren't particularly thrilled with the inclusion. It's an emotion shared by many old-school ranchers and farmers around the state who aren't big on the movie's homosexual content, [tourism spokesman Chuck] Coon acknowledges.
At The Boot, one of two bars in Riverton, owner Sally Lozier says that the movie has stirred up "a whole lot of controversy around here. The ranchers, the cowboys are really upset."