Northwest Portal Products

Tell your story with custom print or interactive maps.

Affordable maps for your area or event!

Our recreation map template lets us quickly create custom maps that tell your story. You pick the size, area and topic, title and add your logo for our base price. Add your businesses, routes or customize any aspect of the map for an additional price.

Northwest Portal has the most comprehensive data set of recreation in Washington State with information on all types of recreation managers, from federal and state agencies to local communities, non-profits and more. Our information on over 20,000 recreation opportunities is carefully managed to minimize errors and show the latest information as recreation opportunities change, and it includes information like recreation passes and facilities that help people find the perfect destination.

Want a map to tell a different story. We can create fully custom maps for any topic or area.

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Prices & Products

Examples

Printable recreation maps starting at $200

Pick from outdoors, off-roading, winter, biking or boating basemap. Customize with area, logos and more.

Upgrade to add locations, get a full layout or choose an interactive map

Highway 31 Yard Sale for Innovate Ione

Custom interactive map

Watchable Wildlife Map: Produced for Mid Columbia Fisheries in an English and Spanish version.

Prices & Products

No charge to add public recreation resources to the map - let us

Print Maps

$200 for the first map, $125 for additional maps ordered at the same time. Updates 50% off. Price includes the following customization.

Price is for a map file that the customer can print. Contact us for a quote on printed maps on standard or waterproof paper.

  • Pick the basemap: outdoors, biking, off-roading, boating or winter sports.

  • Select a size: letter, tabloid or poster. Other sizes available as an upgrade.

  • Identify the area that you want shown on the map.

  • Select a category to highlight or label (for example, campgrounds, boat launches, winter trail access), turn contours on or off, show/hide bathroom icon, choose single color icons or show which recreation pass is required, and have default labels on or off.

  • Add your logo and name the map.

  • Choose the output format: pdf (GeoPDF), jpg, png, tiff or .ai.

  • Interactive maps that can be accessed through a browser

    Interactive maps allow users to scroll, zoom in, get more information and use search and filters to highlight specific places. Interactive maps can be paired with print maps or produced independently. Maps use the Northwest Portal recreation data set as the base - this data is updated at least 2x/month to reflect seasonal and temporary closures, plus new or changed facilities.

  • Map configuration and hosting.

    • Configure the map and first year hosting: $600,

    • Hosting for additional maps: $250/year

    • Additional maps for the same client 50% off.

Upgrades to print and web maps

Fee is only charged once even if the upgrade is applied to multiple maps. Upgrades can apply to both print and web maps.

  • Add your businesses or event locations to the print or web maps:

    • Add business to the Northwest Portal Database. This allows us to put the location on any print maps of the area and also adds the location to the Northwest Portal web maps. $25/location, includes location on all print maps and on Northwest Portal web maps for one year, $10/year to keep the location on the Northwest Portal maps after year one.

    • Add locations from a spreadsheet that you manage. These locations can then be included on print and/or interactive maps.

      • $75 to configure the table,

      • $5/point or $40/hour, whichever is less, to add locations (coordinates or parcel numbers) if they are not in the table,

      • $35 to update the table.

  • Add a route or loop: $40 to map the route, $20 to update.

  • Customize map design including colors, fonts, icon style, and what information is shown: $80/hour.

  • Get a custom print layout including multiple map frames, and a table of locations: $80/hour. Layout is provided as a PowerPoint so the customer can easily make additional edits.

    Fully Custom maps

    Maps to tell any story. Billed at $80/hour rate, can provide a not-to-exceed cap depending on task.

  • Maps for studies,

  • Legal documents,

  • Real-estate listings,

  • To illustrate articles, books or lectures.

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Custom Maps

Grant County Tourism Study: 30 maps on different topics with an interactive map that allows users to navigate information on each map.

Access all of the maps from the study page.

18x24” PDF map of birding locations

Maps to illustrate articles, books or lectures

Map for a series of lectures on basalt flows in the Pacific Northwest.

Interactive map with birding locations highlighted

Wildfire Maps

Updated daily during the wildfire season. Posted to a fire page, shared on social media, and available for publication.

Map for a newspaper article on visual impact of proposed windfarms

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Email a description of the map or maps, or fill out the form below. We will reach out to you to confirm details before sending a draft map for approval.