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Travel Directions:
Entering Riverton from the west, US-26 becomes Main Street.
The laundry is to the right (S) side at 611 W Main Street, one block east of the Seventh Street W intersection.

Remarks:
It is hard to miss Riverton’s prominent laundry building and the tiny walk-up apartment above it. Coincidence or inspiration? Come visit it and decide for yourself. The laundry is now closed, as is the adjacent motel.

We stood outside of the laundry for a few minutes, taking pictures, when the apartment’s occupant came out to greet us. Just as our fantasy was starting to get interesting, he asked, “Do you want to buy this place?”

Though the irony is undoubtedly lost on (or ignored by) the town’s ambitious tourism promoters, Riverton bills itself as “The Rendezvous City.”

See:
http://www.riverton.wyoming.com/
http://www.rivertonchamber.org/

Important:
Always obtain appropriate permission before entering private property.

Quotation:
“When the Hi-Top folded they moved to a small apartment in Riverton up over a laundry.” [1]

[1] Brokeback Mountain - Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Scribner) ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9416-4, page 9.