The Park County Travel Council is helping market the planned State Shooting Complex project south of Cody.

As of November’s board meeting, Executive Director Ryan Hauck said some of the $50,000 the council had approved for such funding was already underway, with council staff planning a big marketing push at the annual SHOT Show gun manufacturing expo in February in Las Vegas.

They’ll also, Hauck said, be helping to find an more specialized marketing firm to help takeover marketing of the state shooting complex for the long term.

“We need to find agency that can run PR for the complex because that will not be us,” Hauck said. “It really should be an agency in that world.”

The work being done now is with the hope the Legislature will approve the planned $10 million in funding to help build the complex. A state task force selected Park County as the best site for the complex in July over fellow finalist Gillette.

“This is all assuming in January the Legislature won’t go sideways and it won’t end up in Gillette,” Hauck said.

As Park County Commission Chair Dossie Overfield said, there isn’t time to wait final approval for the complex before preparing for it.

“We've only got a very short window to get it built and ready to use,” she said. “So we want to have as much in place as we can without spending a lot of money until we know what's going to happen.”