DVD capture

Contributed photo

Travel Directions:
At 1st Avenue and 6th Street, face the Beiseker Village Office (a former Canadian Pacific Railway station), turn south (left) on 1st Avenue and go 0.8 km. Turn right at the “Dump Gate” sign and go 0.3 km. The site is on the right, enclosed by a white wooden fence.

Remarks:
The Brokeback Mountain story begins and ends in, of all places, trailers. What remains of Ennis’s trailer site is limited to a grassy clearing, the roadway, and the field we see at the movie’s powerful conclusion. A white fence surrounds the trailer location to protect this special ground. See:

http://ca.epodunk.com/profiles/alberta/beiseker/2000191.html

Locals were not allowed on site during the filming of the movie’s conclusion, but they certainly knew something was going on “out by the dump.” One group of barn roofers working nearby was told to “quit hammering” whenever the cameras were rolling. That request has a familiar ring to it, doesn’t it?

Quotation:
“Troy? Daddy, that was two years ago.”