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US-11635 Hyannis Pond WMA

First impressions can be deceiving. What looked like yet another open space being destroyed for a building project turned out to be the start of major improvements for not just this but another popular Cape POTA reference.

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POTA and WWBOTA at a 38cm Cannon

All along the Norwegian coast you’ll find heavy fortifications, most of which were either built or improved during WW2, where they took part in the German Atlantic Wall defenses. One of the most epic remaining parts of it is one of the 38 cm cannons at Batterie Vara, which protected the Skagerrak Sea between Norway and […]

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US-1704 Old Furnace State Park

The 'furnace' part of the park's name refers to an iron smelting furnace that operated on the property in the 1700s. Iron processed here was used to make horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. This is an easy park with great views, and an adjacent park if you'd like to go for two.

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US-11481 Rainbow Beach WMA

The area is every bit as bleak as the photos indicate. There was quite a bit of trash back here, old mattress springs and car parts, and plastic barrels that I had no intention of looking into. Clothing, toys, just a mess. Even the trees look angry here.

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GB-0279 Ribble and Alt Estuaries SPA Protected Area (3-Fer)

The original plan for a trip to this area was an overnight stay for our wedding anniversary, we have visited Lytham St Annes on numerous occasions in the past and is a typical seaside resort albeit a small one. Lytham and St Annes, while geographically connected and often referred to collectively as Lytham St Annes, […]

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US-2416 Ames Nowell SP

I’m not a mountain-biker, but boy, do I love those guys. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, and for state parks and forests in my area there are often just a small number of marked trails, mainly loops that cater to casual hikers and dog-walkers. When the bikers move in, they create intricate meshes […]

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US-7714 Buck Hill WMA

In a remote corner of New England, three state boundaries meet, commemorated by a four-foot granite pillar. It's one of those rare locations where you can walk along with one foot in one state and your other in another!

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US-2664 Monadnock State Park

This is the mountain that inspired Henry David Thoreau to write, in 1858, “I think I could spend a year on the mountain, wandering over its table-lands or sitting on its peaks, and then I should be compelled to go down and begin a new life below.” He spent a lot of time on Mount […]

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US-1663 Dinosaur State Park

The size and stride, about four feet, of the Eubrontes tracks suggest they were made by a large, meat-eating dinosaur, likely a kind of Dilophosaurus, which lived in the American southwest around the same time.

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US-4368 Wachusett Mountain Reservation State Park

Wa! Wa! WaaaaaCHUsett! If you lived in New England in the 1990s you knew the jingle of central Massachusetts' biggest ski area by heart. It was heavily advertised during the season and if you didn't know quite exactly where it was situated, you knew the name.

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