- Address
- 11020 Woods Bay Rd, Olanta, SC 29114
Use if the day has enough slack before Savannah NWR.
Project / POTA
2026 Rove to FL
I-95 corridor from Rhode Island to Singer Island, FL — activating parks along the way and arriving June 26 for Field Day 2026.
Fixed hotel anchors and selected POTA targets are now set through Florida. Petersburg National Battlefield now covers VA, Medoc Mountain covers NC, and Woods Bay is the early SC backup/add-on.
Map
Trip anchors and targets
Hotels / anchors Target parks Alternate park
Planning constraints
- Departure
- Jun 19 morning departure from Hope, RI
- RI activation
- Friday morning before work from Rhode Island
- Arrival target
- Jun 26
- Activation budget
- 60 min per stop
- Broad stop budget
- 2 hr per park stop
- Rove count
- unique POTA entities per UTC day
- Drive-by detour limit
- 30 min from I-95
- Charging cadence
- Tesla Supercharger: 30 min after about 2.5 hr driving
- Weekend load
- current working plan: make Sunday the DC Cheetah baseline day, with Ostrich as the stretch if the n-fer flow supports it
- DC activation
- Handle DC on Sunday June 21 from the Foggy Bottom hotel, with an optional friend meetup if timing works.
Activation goal: RI / CT / NY / NJ / PA / DE / MD / DC / VA / NC / SC / GA / FL
Multi-entity activations count once per unique POTA entity; a 2-fer counts as 2 entities. Evening activations can intentionally count toward the current UTC rove day and reduce the next local day's required load.
Current plan assumes RI is complete Friday morning before continuing to CT and the lower-Hudson work position.
For broad planning, count two hours per non-overnight park stop to cover leaving the highway, setup, activation, teardown, and returning to the route.
Field notes
Published trip notes
Jun 19: Rhode Island-to-Florida rove, day one Jun 20: Rhode Island-to-Florida rove, day two Jun 21: Washington DC POTA rove Jun 22: Rhode Island-to-Florida rove, day four Jun 23: Rhode Island-to-Florida rove, day five Jun 25: Ross Prairie morning twofer
Rockville, Silver Sands, and Tallman Mountain opened the southbound rove with 56 QSOs.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and the DC-area late stop added 51 QSOs.
A walking-and-driving DC route produced 106 Sunday-route QSOs and cleared the Cheetah threshold.
Fredericksburg and Medoc Mountain moved the rove from Virginia toward South Carolina with 23 CW QSOs.
Woods Bay, Savannah NWR, and Jekyll Island added South Carolina and Georgia with 46 CW QSOs.
A Florida hike-in twofer at Ross Prairie produced 13 CW QSOs before work.
Navigation
Coordinates to punch in
- Address
- 112 Abercorn Landing Rd, Rincon, GA 31326
Recommended by Bill W4ZDP and Stacy WA4IDS as the simple quiet activation spot just inside the refuge boundary.
- Address
- 178 S Beachview Dr, Jekyll Island, GA 31527
Booked overnight; the whole island counts as Jekyll Island State Park.
Working plan
High-level roadmap
Overnight rhythm: 2026-06-19 Edison, NJ hotel · 2026-06-20 Foggy Bottom hotel · 2026-06-21 Fredericksburg hotel · 2026-06-22 Florence hotel · 2026-06-23 Jekyll Island hotel / US-0636 · 2026-06-24 Ocala · 2026-06-25 Ocala / local Florida activation · 2026-06-26 Singer Island / Riviera Beach arrival.
Drive times and distances are planning estimates from route checks; park activation time is shown separately as the stay budget.
- Jun 19StartHope, RI
Home base before the RI activation and southbound work-positioning day.
- Jun 19POTARockville Wildlife Management Area, RI
Unactivated Rhode Island reference that fits the I-95 southbound route better than JL Curran.
- Jun 19POTASilver Sands State Park, CT
Friday morning Connecticut activation before the lower-Hudson work position.
- Jun 19Work blockStamford / White Plains work position
Position near the NY activation while avoiding the thickest NYC-area traffic.
- Jun 19POTATallman Mountain State Park, NY
New York activation after work; start promptly because the park is dawn-to-dusk.
- Jun 19HotelEdison, NJ hotel
Booked Friday anchor close to Cheesequake, with good Tesla Supercharger coverage nearby.
- Jun 20POTACheesequake State Park, NJ
Saturday morning NJ activation; local advice says any available lot works, but avoid playground, lake, and BBQ areas if crowded.
- Jun 20POTAJohn Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, PA
Selected PA branch; use the Lindbergh Boulevard entrance and main parking/pavilion area. Trails are sunrise-to-sundown.
- Jun 20POTAFox Point State Park, DE
Delaware activation; local advice points to the northeast corner of the first/main lot for the Northern Delaware Greenway 2-fer.
- Jun 20POTAC&O Canal / Anglers, MD
Selected late-arrival Maryland all-states anchor; lower count than Greenbelt but cleaner without a Greenbelt campsite.
- Jun 20HotelFoggy Bottom, DC hotel
Fixed DC anchor for the Sunday rove.
- Jun 21Detailed roveDC / NoVA rove sequence
Detailed stop order lives on the Sunday rove page; Meadowood and Mason Neck were the planned VA finishes, but VA now moves to Petersburg Monday morning.
- Jun 21HotelFredericksburg, VA hotel
Booked anchor before the Monday VA/NC southbound leg.
- Jun 22POTAPetersburg National Battlefield, VA
Selected Virginia activation on the way to Medoc Mountain; use the Eastern Front visitor-center area for a low-friction stop.
- Jun 22POTAMedoc Mountain State Park, NC
Selected North Carolina activation after banking VA at Petersburg.
- Jun 22HotelFlorence, SC hotel
Booked Monday anchor after the Medoc Mountain activation.
- Jun 23POTA backupWoods Bay State Park, SC
Early South Carolina backup/add-on before relying on Savannah NWR near the Georgia border.
- Jun 23POTASavannah National Wildlife Refuge
Use Abercorn Landing for the low-friction stop: a boat-ramp lot just inside the refuge boundary with a picnic table and no facilities. No wires or ropes in trees, and no ground stakes in the refuge.
- Jun 23Hotel + POTAJekyll Island, GA hotel / Jekyll Island State Park
Booked Tuesday anchor; the island is the Georgia POTA park, so this covers GA without a separate morning detour.
- Jun 24Family anchorOcala, FL
Family positioning before local Florida activations and Field Day arrival.
- Jun 25POTARoss Prairie State Forest / Marjorie Harris Carr Cross State Park, FL
Actual Thursday Florida stop was a Ross Prairie hike-in twofer with Marjorie Harris Carr Cross State Park.
- Jun 26POTAJohn D. MacArthur Beach State Park, FL
Final target activation near Singer Island.
- Jun 26DestinationSinger Island / Riviera Beach, FL
Arrival target for the June 27-28 Field Day weekend.
Remaining planning risk is concentrated in Sunday DC/NoVA access and timing, Mason Neck versus Meadowood, Woods Bay versus Savannah NWR sequencing, and Tesla Supercharger pairings.
Detailed roves
Breakout pages
Saturday positioning rove
Edison to Cheesequake, John Heinz, Fox Point, then the late Maryland all-states adjustment. This page carries the lighter Saturday route, UTC rollover target, and remaining access checks.
Open Saturday detailsSunday DC / NoVA rove
C&O Canal as the Sunday-UTC Maryland opener, then LBJ and the W8WZ-inspired expanded DC route through WWI. Meadowood and Mason Neck remain Sunday context; Petersburg now carries the VA requirement.
Open Sunday details