High-quality recreation contributes significantly to life satisfaction. In recent decades, this field has experienced intense changes. Recreational activities and their popularity are changing, even if the core of the most common activities (walking, hiking, cycling, swimming...) remains fairly stable. Many of the most widespread recreational activities are linked to specific recreational infrastructure, so the existence of an adequate and accessible recreational infrastructure is also important in terms of quality of life. In addition, recreational activities, especially outdoor recreation activities, also play a significant role in the context of tourism. In tourism areas, tourists are an important segment of recreational infrastructure users, and an attractive recreational infrastructure is often one of the factors influencing the choice of a particular destination. Accordingly, Slovenian tourism policy also pays a lot of attention to the tourism potential of outdoor recreation. Nevertheless, knowledge about the state of recreational infrastructure in Slovenia is very patchy, and data on recreational infrastructure is usually not systematically collected or does not exist at all. In order to enable the analysis of this important content area, we have created a typology of recreational infrastructure and compiled its inventory through extensive data collection. Various categories of recreational infrastructure are presented in the form of specific spatial layers with different attributes. Our research focused on the question of what are the main characteristics of recreational infrastructure in Slovenia, what is its spatial distribution and what are its specific characteristics in tourist areas. The characteristics of recreational infrastructure are influenced by demand, the specific environmental/geographical requirements of individual recreational activities as well as by various policies. The growing heterogeneity of recreational infrastructure and the emergence of new types of infrastructure are evident.