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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Snake Den, named for a sinuous natural rock feature, is one of Rhode Island’s most interesting trails for folks who are interested in geology. Especially in the northern part of […]
