LOL...me, too. I lived in the White Mountains of Arizona for a while, worked in Wyoming, a bit in New Mexico, all over Washington, Oregon and California (CA from the lumber country in the far north to the deserts in the south). I traveled a lot in Colorado and Utah. Like you, I can spot authentic scene locations and get bugged when filming is done hundreds of miles away from the purported location. The Vasquez Rocks were real popular!
I always laugh when they show Mt. Whitney in the background and claim they are in the Gold Rush country. Or they show guys placer mining years after the placer deposits were picked clean and all the big mining capital investment was going into deep hard-rock mines. Or, worse, they show a guy in the desert placer mining with enough water to operate a rocker! There’s no water there for wet placer mining.
I used to complain about the boo-boos on HOUSE too.