Category: Site Review
US-1404 Promised Land SP
I was on a POTA rove and the weather just wasn’t cooperating. I’d headed south from my QTH near Providence, Rhode Island on a trip to visit friends in North Carolina and Connecticut, and the plan was to spend a few weeks on the road activating parks along the way. You might recall the winter […]
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US-1299 First Landing SP
I don’t typically hunt for popular parks to activate. You’ll notice that the POTA Map color-codes references in a way that highlights parks that have been activated five or few times with a green spot, versus a red one for a park with more than five. That’s my personal bias, I like to explore places […]
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US-8423 Purgatory Chasm State Reservation
Near the end of the last ice age quite a bit of North America was covered in a thick layer of ice, in some place reaching a thickness of two miles. Around 12,500 years ago the planet began to warm rapidly, and the ice began to melt. Vast ice water lakes formed behind enormous dams, […]
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US-2440 Hopkinton SP
In the summertime you’ll be lucky to find a parking spot at this popular park in the eastern part of Massachusetts. You might recognize Hopkinton from the town’s distinction as the starting line for the Boston Marathon, held in April each year. Even though the marathon course does not pass all that close to the […]
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US-11678 Mill Brook Bogs WMA
You can’t go too far down the road in New England before running into a cranberry bog. Cranberries love the cool weather and grow on ground that might not support other crops, plus they are an easy crop to harvest. The first bogs in New England were planted on Cape Cod in the early 1800s. […]
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US-8385 Farnham-Connolly SP
At just six acres, this might qualify as the smallest POTA reference I’ve activated. I had great expectations going in – this is a small park on the site of the former Canton Airport, and on a satellite view you can still make out the outlines of the primary runways in their typical WWII-era triangular […]
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US-6979 Arcadia Management Area
You don’t so much summit Mt. Tom as notice that you’ve been walking on flat ground for a while. It tops out at just 400-something feet, and the views are somewhat obscured by high brush and knots of scrubby pine and birch. This is definitely one of those attractions where the journey is more enjoyable […]
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US-11573 West Hill Dam WMA
I’m slowly learning that Apple Maps does not really show you the way to POTA happiness. On some cases it can barely show you the way to the parking lot. The picture above is what you’ll be looking at when Apple Maps announces that you’ve “Arrived!” at West Hill Dam in her chipper little voice. […]
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US-8402 Blue Hills SP
When you ask people in Boston about the Blue Hills, many will tell you that they were built up during the expansion of the young city as the harbor was dredged. One has visions of long trains of horse-drawn carts pulling tons of dirt and sludge up the hillside to clear the way for trader […]
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