Where was Brokeback Mountain filmed?

This quietly devastating love story is inseparable from its mountain setting, where soaring peaks and high summer meadows become a private world apart from everyday life. The landscape does so much of the film's emotional work that fans are drawn to stand among those same horizons and feel the scale of it for themselves.

Though the story is set on a Wyoming peak, the film was shot across the border in the Canadian Rockies, in the rugged grandeur of Alberta's Kananaskis Country. Its glacier-carved peaks, alpine meadows and sweeping valleys stand in seamlessly for the mountain that gives the film its name, a place of genuine wilderness beauty just southwest of Calgary.

Kananaskis is an outdoor playground of hiking trails, lakes and big-sky vistas, easily reached from Calgary and right next door to world-famous Banff. Visit in summer or early autumn to find the meadows and high country at their best, much as they appear on screen. Combine it with Banff and the wider Canadian Rockies for one of the great mountain road trips in North America.