Is There A Real Brokeback Mountain? Much of Brokeback Mountain is set in Riverton, Wyoming, gateway to the Wind River Range and Gannett Peak. However according to the IMDB, the “gay cowboy flick†was made in the Canadian Rockies near Calgary, Albert; Fort Macleod in Alberta and La Mesilla, New Mexico.The USGS Global Names Information System shows no Brokeback Mountain although there is a Brokenback Creek/Narrows/Reservoir about 100 miles northeast of Riverton. Google MapAnnie Proulx was quoted in Planet Jackson Hole: Brokeback is not a real place. There is, on a map I once saw, a Break Back Mountain in...