Contributed photo

Contributed photo

Travel Directions:
From I-80 take WY Exit 313, “3rd Street / US-287 / Fort Collins”
Turn South onto S 3rd Street / US-287; go 0.7 mile.
Turn Right (W) onto Blackfoot Street; go 0.2 mile.
Turn Left (S) onto Fort Sanders / Old US-287; go 1.6 miles.
Turn Right (W) at Sand Creek Road. The Mountain Cement Company plant is just ahead, opposite the rail tracks.

Remarks:
The Laramie cement plant is something to behold. It is almost a mile long and incorporates an exotic assortment of geometric forms and hyper-technical elements assembled in a way that suggests, well, anything but the kiss. But, thankfully, genius prevailed!

Annie Proulx drove by this complex many times as she was writing Brokeback Mountain. Her home then was 30 miles away in the picturesque town of Centennial, where industrialization is unknown and unwanted.

See:
http://www.mountaincement.com/

Important:
Always obtain appropriate permission before entering private property.

Quotation:
“The scene for the kiss when Jack and Ennis reunite after four years occurred in its entirety as I drove past the Laramie cement plant—so much for scenery.” [1]

[1] Brokeback Mountain - Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Scribner) ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9416-4, page 132.