“South Park” :


Highway nine runs through the state of Colorado. It stretches along the foot of the Rocky Mountains and bisects the valley of South Park – a magical, neglected, nowhere in the middle of the western United States.

In the fall of 1998, on assignment from The Face magazine, I spent three days in the place that lent its name to that cult cartoon created by two guys from Denver. Of the typically American, one-horse towns you find in the region – such as Alma and Fairplay – one of the cartoonists said, “A very specific kind of person lives in South Park. In many ways, you don’t get more isolated than these people get. Unless you actually live in the area, there’s not a single, solitary reason for you to be there.” These oddly assorted remnants of the Gold Rush, towns that own up to their outsider status, where your next-door neighbor might be a bear or a wolf, are still each imbued with much local colour.



                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                  

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