You Shouldn't Have Come Here

Dubois, Wyoming—a major setting of You Shouldn’t Have Come Here—is a real community lying along the Big Wind River in central western Wyoming, a part of the Wind River Mountain Range and south of Yellowstone National Park. The small-town atmosphere, as described by Jeneva Rose, is accurate in that Dubois has fewer than 1,000 permanent residents. During the summer, the population doubles with tourists and part-time residents, adding credence to the notion that locals could offer their homes as vacation rentals. The area around Dubois, recognized as a grizzly bear habitat by the Wyoming Fish and Game Department, is replete with wildlife. Thus, Grace and Calvin’s encounter with a mountain lion is realistic. Other animals native to the area are represented as taxidermized heads in Calvin’s house. Furthermore, the area’s river and mountains, as described by Grace, are also realistic—with Grand Teton National Park, Shoshone National Forest, and Yellowstone in particular drawing vacationers. Grace’s choice of this scenery is unsuspicious, given its picturesque environment and high tourist traffic. This run-of-the-mill tourist destination sets the stage for the final reveal that Grace is actually Avery Adams, a serial killer on the hunt, as she has chosen a completely innocuous vacation destination to remove any possibility of suspicion around her motives.