Where in Wyoming was Brokeback Mountain filmed?
Proulx placed it somewhere in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. The movie’s director, Ang Lee — because it was cheaper — shot the film in Alberta, along the Canadian Rockies, primarily in the Kananaskis Country area near Banff National Park.
Is Brokeback Mountain a real place?
But people won’t find the real Brokeback Mountain there — because it doesn’t exist. In fact, the movie was filmed in Canada. … Nominated for eight Academy Awards, “Brokeback Mountain” is a love story between two sheep-herding cowboys, and it’s a love story about the Big Horn Mountains of eastern Wyoming.