Print Media and Bloggers

Add the “Where” to your recreation stories or blog posts

and help people connect to your stories.

Guide readers to your story’s location

And help people planning their next adventure find your content

  • Use the web maps to illustrate a story - showing people the area, trail, or facility

  • Media Partners can load any of the maps so it highlights the places in the article

  • Request a printable map/image that you can add to your story to show the subject location

  • Use our maps with your stories and we will add a link to your blog post, article, or page on the places you have discussed. We will also share links on the Community page on our website and through our social media.

Let us add the “where” to your why

Print maps illustrate stories. Link to Web map so people can navigate and explore.

Limited time only, publications can get one free printable map/organization/month if the credit Northwest Portal and link to the web map.

Embedding the web map is free.

Maps used in an Ellensburg Daily Record article about the Rat Pac Trail and the trail highlighted on the web map.

Use the web map as an index to all of the places highlighted in your articles/post or all of the places in a single post.

Northwest Portal will add a link to your article/post if you link back to our maps. You can then load the map with a search for the article url that highlights every place linked to that article.

Embed the map on your blog or article so people can see the places you have discussed and navigate the trip.

Web map highlighting all of the places mentioned in a blog about a blossom drive.

Media Partners

Take it to the next level as a paid media partner.

$600/Year

Sign up now for a 25% Discount - $450/year

Media package includes:

  • Add your advertisers to the outdoors and community map at a basic level for just $15/business/year - and load the map on your page with your advertisers highlighted.

  • Include your community’s local events on the community map, and allow people to filter to highlight upcoming opportunities.

  • Get a custom map interface that has your logo and link, and filters selected to meet the needs of your readers.

  • Free initial print map (maximum 2 hours of design) plus a 33% discount on print map design services: $50/hour instead of the normal $75/hour. Discount applies to maps published under your brand and maps you are making for clients.

  • Link to your publication from our Community/Media page.

Special offer for new media organizations. Not sure if this project will work for you, try a one year trial membership. There is no up-front, but the cost to add a business is $50/year for the first 16 businesses. After 16 businesses, additional businesses are $15/business/year and you will be eligible for the reduced price of $50/hour for print maps.

Omak Chronicle ORV Guide

Northwest Portal created a set of 17 recreation maps for the Omak Chronicle’s 2023 Okanogan & Ferry County ORV Guide.

Selkirk Sun

The Selkirk Sun version of the Community map can be loaded highlighting supporting businesses, the business filters only apply to the Sun’s advertisers, and the recreation filters have been customized to be relevant for Northeast Washington.

Examples of prints maps used in publications

  • Recreation in the Yakima Canyon

  • Trail article

  • Public lands article

  • Print map