Park County Commissioner Lee Livingston first thought it was a hoax when he heard about a Beartooth Highway sign that refers to the scenic route as the “Beartooth American All Road.”

But Livingston saw it for himself on Monday, and by the end of the day, he was reaching out to the Wyoming Department of Transportation to figure out what was going on.

On Tuesday, WYDOT officials confirmed work was already underway to replace it and another sign that misprinted the highway’s logo.

“We’re going to fix it,” department spokesman Cody Beers said. “We rushed a correction on that. [It] should be fixed next week.”

Beers said the errors were made by the department printing shop in Cheyenne that produced the overlay — “basically a big sticker” that covers the signs. He said informational signs are more likely to have errors than the regulatory signs such as speed limits.

Local wildlife photographer Ross Gorman heard about the errors from a friend visiting the area. The most egregious — which has the “All” and “American” reversed — sits right before Wyo. Highway 296’s junction with U.S. Highway 212, the Beartooth Highway. Driving south on Wyo. Highway 120 from Clark toward Cody, one can spot another sign that’s missing much of the highway’s logo.

Gorman noted that none of the highway signs have the hyphen in All-American, either.

He said his friend reported the issues to WYDOT, but said she initially heard Yellowstone National Park handled those signs. Gorman said that frustrated him, as he’d hoped all those impacted would at least work to get them fixed.

“It’s embarrassing to me and everybody else in Wyoming,” he said.

Beers said WYDOT is also embarrassed by the mistake, but he said staff simply unrolled the print and installed it as they were told as part of a full day of work.

“We literally produce hundreds of signs a year and we have to replace a lot of signs that are vandalized, bleached out by the sun, hit in crashes, damaged by wind,” he said. “When we make a mistake, we print our mistake — I don’t know why it wasn’t caught.”

WYDOT Region 5 Traffic Engineer Jack Hoffman said Tuesday that a new sign print for “American All” had already been ordered. Beers said work on replacing the sign with the missing logo was also in the works.

“We appreciate people who have a lot of time to monitor and critique us,” he said. “If they’d take the same amount of time to track down the people who vandalize our signs, that would help, too. We appreciate citizen involvement at WYDOT, we really do.”

For people who are concerned about WYDOT’s work, he added that there are more than 100 job openings in the department around the state.

To report a vandalized or incorrect WYDOT sign, call Beers at 307-431-1803.