<div dir="auto"><div>Sadly, local parks are not PoTA parks. You can go there and operate, but you don't get credit for an activation in the PoTA universe. PoTA parks in the US are either state or federal. Not all state and federal parks are on the PoTA list. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://pota.app/#/map">https://pota.app/#/map</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Will take you to the map of PoTA sites </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Chris </div><div dir="auto">W2BPL</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from my phone.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 8, 2025, 10:26\u202fAM Leandra MacLennan via bars <<a href="mailto:bars@w1hh.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bars@w1hh.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Unfortunately only state and national parks are eligible to be \u201cPOTA\u201d parks. The official POTA parks are shown on the map on the POTA website.
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<div>A gathering at Simonds could be a good dry run for an activation of a POTA park on another day.</div>
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<div>I just asked Brendan Egan at Burlington.org, head of Parks and Recreation, to see if they would allow us to activate Simonds Park.</div>
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<div dir="auto">time to start group POTAS</div>
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<div dir="auto">for all pota info <a href="http://www.parksontheair.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">
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<div dir="auto">lets make a few plans:</div>
<div dir="auto">where is the closest parks to the meeting location:</div>
<div dir="auto">US-4742. - warren manning state forest</div>
<div dir="auto">US-2435 - great brook farm state park</div>
<div dir="auto">US-4735. - carisle state forest</div>
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<div dir="auto">is anyone available to do potas on a weekday</div>
<div dir="auto">is 10 am good on weekday or weekend</div>
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<div dir="auto">the link above will help you understand what you need to bring to the pota site</div>
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<div dir="auto">i am going to go check out warren manning</div>
<div dir="auto">and i will schedule a time and day</div>
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