Your Valley, Your Adventure: Make the Most of the MRV With Our Itinerary Builder
You’ll get directions and info links for every trail, restaurant, swim hole, event, gallery or shop you select for your itinerary. Even better it is toally shareable.
Some of the best Mad River Valley experiences start with a local recommendation. A favorite breakfast spot. A scenic hike you might otherwise miss. A backroad gallery worth stepping into. The perfect place to unwind after a day outside.
The Mad River Valley Chamber’s Itinerary Builder makes it easy to bring those discoveries together—and share them. Whether you’re planning your first visit, welcoming guests to your property, or introducing friends to your hometown, it’s a practical way to turn “you should check this out” into a day of exploring.
Spend More Time Enjoying the Valley
Vacation time is precious. Figuring out what to do, where things are, and how they fit together shouldn’t take up half the morning.
Our Itinerary Builder lets you explore an interactive map, choose the places that interest you, and create a personalized guide. Your selections appear together on one map, with links for more information and directions. You can text it, email it, or print it.
Build a day around outdoor adventure, food, shopping, arts, or a little of everything. Seeing your choices together helps you plan around where you’ll be—and discover what else is nearby. A morning outing can become lunch in the village, a stop at a local shop, and an evening out.
The goal is to help you spend your time well, with room for the unexpected discoveries that make a visit memorable.
A Better Welcome for Overnight Guests
For short-term rental owners, innkeepers, and lodging teams, the Itinerary Builder offers a simple way to share something valuable: your knowledge of the Valley.
Create a guide featuring your favorite local stops and include the link in reservation confirmations, pre-arrival messages, and welcome emails. Guests can begin exploring before they arrive and keep your recommendations handy throughout their stay.
Consider sharing a few different itineraries: a family day out, a relaxed weekend, a food-focused afternoon, or activities for a rainy day. Pair the builder link with a personal recommendation about why you love a particular place. That local perspective is part of what makes staying here special.
It’s also an opportunity for STR owners to strengthen their connection to the community. Helping guests discover nearby restaurants, shops, guides, and other businesses encourages them to participate in the Valley’s economy throughout their stay.
The Itnerary Builder is Google Map based so folks can easily find everything they want to do and can easily share with friends and family.
Share the Valley You Love
You don’t need to run a lodging business to put this tool to work.
Hosting family for the weekend? Have friends coming to ski? Always find yourself making a list of recommendations? Build an itinerary and send it along.
Every resident knows a slightly different Mad River Valley. Your favorites might revolve around farm stands and scenic drives, independent shops and galleries, or trails followed by a well-earned meal. Sharing those places gives visitors a more personal introduction to our community. It might even inspire you to explore somewhere new yourself.
Connecting Recreation and Community
The Itinerary Builder grew out of the Chamber’s work through the Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative (VOREC) grant, part of the broader effort behind the MRV Recreation Hub.
That work reflects a straightforward idea: helping people enjoy our outdoor resources should also help them connect with our villages, businesses, and community.
The Itinerary Builder carries that purpose beyond the Welcome Center. It puts a planning resource in the hands of visitors wherever they are and gives hosts and residents a way to help guide their experience.
A trail outing can lead to a visit downtown. A scenic drive can include a stop at a local business. Those connections help turn a trip to the mountains into a fuller experience of the Mad River Valley, while supporting the people who make this place what it is.
Build your own MRV itinerary, share your favorites, and help someone discover more of the Valley.
