{"id":9752,"date":"2018-10-31T20:38:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2018-10-31T20:38:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:38:38","slug":"sun-valley-discovery-map-connecting-community-with-its-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/31\/sun-valley-discovery-map-connecting-community-with-its-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Valley Discovery Map \u2013 Connecting Community With Its Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9753\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9753 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Map_Map_2018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2018 Discovery Map \u2013 local artist Leroy Robinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Mary Austin Crofts<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Mary Sauerbrey has always had a love of maps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Returning to the Wood River Valley in 1987 from a year spent bike touring\u2014and acquiring every map she could along the way\u2014Mary found herself partnered with her good friend Vicki Starr creating an illustrated map for the Ketchum\/Sun Valley community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Thirty-two years later, Sun Valley Discovery Map has connected over 4 million visitors to the Wood River Valley community and evolved into the country\u2019s leading provider of curated maps and guides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Illustrated maps have the ability to capture the unique character of a town while orienting a visitor within the community. Discovery Map serves as a tourism catalyst, supplying visitors with a necessary navigational tool, and offering businesses the chance to reach those visitors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9754\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9754\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Map_Mary_1987-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1987 original Discovery Map \u2013 local artist Tom Teitge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p3\">Today, Discovery Map can be found in over 130 top tourist destinations throughout North America and online at DiscoveryMap.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">People often ask Mary if she gets bored after 32 years in the same business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cAre you kidding me? Look at my clients! I work with small business owners in a destination resort market. These are some of the most interesting, passionate, resilient people you could find. I have tremendous pride in my town and the service I am able to provide. It\u2019s been quite a ride. Challenged? Yes. Bored? Never!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Mary Austin Crofts is the executive director of The Chamber of Hailey and the Wood River Valley.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For more info you can reach Mary at:<br \/>\n208-720-1111<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>mary@sunvalleymap.com <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>discoverymap.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mary Austin Crofts Mary Sauerbrey has always had a love of maps. Returning to the Wood River Valley in 1987 from a year spent bike touring\u2014and acquiring every map she could along the way\u2014Mary found herself partnered with her good friend Vicki Starr creating an illustrated map for the Ketchum\/Sun Valley community. Thirty-two years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-chamber-corner","7":"category-sponsored"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}