March 12, 2026 11:55 AM UTC

Boebert Is Latest Colorado Republican to Commit Mountainous Geographical Gaffe

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• by: Erik Maulbetsch

(There’s always room for one more in the Moving Mountains Club — Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder

Last week, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert released a “February Recap” video, an official communication which updates constituents on the recent work she’s been doing on their behalf.

The video opens with her in front of the U.S. Capitol before cutting to an aerial shot of two people biking on a wide-open trail.

“First, I headed home to tackle some of CD4’s top priorities,” Boebert says, as the camera pans over the bikers towards the foothills in the background.

There’s only one problem: those foothills and that trail aren’t in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District (CD4) – they’re in Golden.

The stock video clip Boebert’s team used is lovely to be sure, but it’s also very much in the 7th Congressional District, Jefferson County’s North Table Mountain Park, to be specific.

The clip is titled: “Two Cyclists Cycling on a Trail in North Table Mountain Park in Autumn Sunny Morning. Aerial View. Golden, Colorado, USA.”

Boebert moved from her hometown of Rifle on the Western Slope across the state to the Front Range town of Windsor in 2024 to run for the much more safely conservative CD4 seat.

Opinions may vary as to whether this mistake qualifies Boebert for membership in an informal but storied Colorado Republican club: the fellowship of the “Wrong Mountains.” Most of the previous GOP politicians who’ve made similar errors have missed by at least a state, if not a country, or even a hemisphere. That said, Boebert made her geographical gaffe as part of an official communication, which means we taxpayers paid for its production and distribution either via a vendor contract or staff salary.

Most recently, former gubernatorial Heidi Ganahl launched her conservative media site, Rocky Mountain Voice, over a spectacular image of the Himalayas. Prior to that, 2016 state Senate candidate Laura Woods’s campaign mailer featured her superimposed over the Canadian Rockies, the snowy peaks of which also so charmed Scott McInnis (now a Colorado River District board member), that he used them on his campaign website back in 2009 when he ran for governor. His goof was preceded only by Bob Schaffer’s U.S. Senate campaign the previous year, which, as the long-gone Rocky Mountain News reported at the time, “moved mountains by running a TV ad with Alaska’s Denali.”

Boebert’s office did not respond to an email inquiry as to the source of the video. This article will be updated with any response received.