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Come to Wyoming – I Mean, Montana

By Dana Green, 4-17-06

The May issue of Sunset magazine listed five top Montana campgrounds – unfortunately, four of them were actually in Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park.

What gives? Well, the editors were full of apologies and mea culpas, and Montana’s tourism director brushed off the mistake, pointing out that the surrounding states all lay claim to Yellowstone, and the error only stokes the friendly rivalry between the two states.

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Comments

By Margie Wilson, 4-18-06

Several years ago while I was enjoying a cup of joe in a local coffee shop in Banff, I glanced at a sugar packet only to find the startlingly beautiful edifice of Maroon Bells staring back at me with a caption stating that these were the Canadian Rockies near Jasper, Alberta. Colorado has never been located in Canada to my knowledge, and the Maroon Bells consistently ring in Pitkin County just outside Aspen.

Several other inconsistencies were noted in the Sunset Magazine article about National Parks. Perhaps we should invite the article's author to actually visit some of the places described in the May issue.

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