Montana's travel and recreation infrastructure is the defined as follows: Infrastructure means supply and visitation equals demand. Both are excellent indicators of the future of Montana's travel and recreation industry.

When looking at the accommodation capacity in Montana, there are 58,325 commercial rooms or campground sites, which assumes that Montana could house 416,992 groups or 959,081 people on any given night. Some other interesting facts are; there are 521 guides or outfitters located in Montana, 16 ski areas, 89 golf courses, 104 museums, mansions, missions or similar facilities, 75 tour guides, 22 cattle drives or wagon trains and 181 special events. Finally, there are 15 commercial jet airports. This added to two national parks, a national monument, one national battlefield, 43 state parks, 9 national forests, 20 wildlife refuges and 231 fishing access sights for rivers and 76 fishing access' for lakes makes Montana one of the most accessible regions in American, especially, by density of population use. The airport in Gallatin County located just West of Bozeman, near Belgrade, has the second highest number of boardings in Montana at 256,134 boardings. It is interesting to note that one dollar out of seven spent in Gallatin County is that of nonresident travel. Also to be noted is are the facts that West Yellowstone is the West entrance to Yellowstone National Park and on many days throughout the summer the traffic going in and out of Yellowstone Park exceeds 10,000 cars per day. Likewise the majority of roads traveled to get to Yellowstone National Park take place in Gallatin County, either on Highway 191 going North and South from Bozeman to West Yellowstone and also Interstate 90 which travels East and West between Seattle and the East Coast.

Gallatin County is also the home of five blue ribbon trout streams, so designated because they contain 4,000 fish per mile. Additionally, the mountains, foothills and forest land in and around Gallatin County contain world class deer, elk, buffalo, mountain goat, big horn sheep and other species highly desired by seasonal hunters. All this combined with the natural beauty and scenic wonder make Gallatin County one of the top destinations in Montana for the travel and recreational client.