The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

WAITSBURG - Touchet Valley Publishing, the hold­ing company for The Times based in Waitsburg, has put its Touchet River Valley Visi­tors Guide on line. The guide offers travelers a compre­hensive resource to plan their trips to Waitsburg, Dayton, Prescott, Walla Walla and their surroundings.

The URLs daytonvisi­torsguide.com and waits­burgvisitorsguide.com both go to the site, which draws on the sectionalized tabloid- sized print guides that ap­pear in spring and in fall. It provides details and updates on sightseeing, recreation, history, arts & culture, lodg­ing and dining in the valley north of Walla Walla.

The twice-annual guide, co-founded by The Times and the former Blue Moun­tain News, has 24 to 32 pages and a press run of 10,000 copies distributed in the Waitsburg-Dayton area, Walla Walla, Tri Cities and Lewiston-Clarkston. It is also sent to the newspaper's subscribers.

"The website is the per­fect complement to the hard copy guides because the first provides a planning resource for travelers when they prepare for their trip and the second while they're here or on their way," Times Publisher Imbert Matthee said. "It should give our ad­vertisers additional exposure to prospective customers and help put our area on the map as a destination."

Ad sales and production of the 2013 Spring/Summer Touchet River Valley Visi­tors Guide will begin in Feb­ruary. For more information, please call Larry Davidson at 509-337-6631.