Gallatin County, Montana

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Gallatin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. With its county seat in Bozeman, it is the second-most-populous county in Montana, with a population of 118,960 in the 2020 census. The county's prominent geographical features are the Bridger Range in the north and the Gallatin Range and Gallatin River in the south, named by Meriwether Lewis in 1805 for Albert Gallatin, the United States Treasury Secretary who formulated the Lewis and Clark Expedition. At the southern end of the county, West Yellowstone's entrance into Yellowstone National Park accounts for around half of all park visitors. Big Sky Resort, one of the largest ski resorts in the United States, lies in Gallatin and neighboring Madison Counties, midway between Bozeman and West Yellowstone.

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