APRS COVERAGE IN THE NATIONAL PARKS 20 Oct 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Oct 2020 new data from Eric W3GK 1 Nov 2012 updated Grand Tetons and Mammouth Cave If you have better info, let us know! If an HT has coaverage, let us know. Otherwise 50W MObile is assumed. This file was put together to help make sure that we had digis to cover the National Parks. Since 0.5% of the USA population are hams, and with thousands of visitors a day in some parks, this means that there can be as many as 32 hams a day in the Grand Canyon for example. May as well let them find each other on APRS! TOURIST AREA VISITRS/YR HAMS/DAY APRS CALL -or- REPORTED BY ----------------- ---------- -------- ---- --------------------- Acadia Natl Pk 2,469,000 16 ? N1DP-5 Arches NP 786,000 6 yes N0NHJ BALD? Assateaque Is 1,810,000 12 some WB4APR Badlands ND 1,105,000 7 ? KD0S-1 Banff, Yoho, Kootenay ? ? YES VE6SZR Big Bend (W.TX) no KD4LXC-1 Biscayne N.P. ? ? yes K4HG Bryce Canyon NP 1,099,000 7 no KE7JVX-10 Blue Ridge Pkwy 19,153,000 130 yes BlackCanyon of Gun yes WATRDG Black Rock Desert in Nevada yes N3GXH Ed Carlsbad Caverns DARKCN C&O Canal (MD) 3,115,000 21 yes Hrprs Fy to Whites Fy Canyonlands NP 401,000 3 yes N0NHJ (2005) Cape Cod Seashore 4,581,000 30 yes N1CCK-15 in Brewster Chatahoochee Rvr 2,659,000 18 yes Cape Hatteras 2,647,000 18 yes KB4DOH-10 @ 1200' Crater Lake 450,000 4 yes WLKMTN Colorado Natl Mnt ? ? yes N0NHJ Death Valley 1,179,000 8 none in valleys. OK to E & S Denali Natl Park AK yes KL1SF-3. Devils Tower 383,000 2 no N2IPH & KC5JIF Dry Tortugas N.P. ? ? yes K4HG Dinosaur Natl Mnt ? ? yes N0NHJ Everglades 1,000,000 7 yes N4TCW Gateway Arch K0ATT-10 I-gate Garden of the Gods ? ? spottyWA8LMF Gettysburg 1,542,000 10 yes Glacier NP 1,728,000 12 ? HUDBAY Grand Tetons 2,590,000 17 no REX Great Basin N.P ? ? no ELY Great Smokies 14,486,000 95 yes spotty Great Sandunes ALMOSA Grand Canyon 4,460,000 32 yes N7XYR-1 CANYON Glen Canyon 2,568,000 17 no WB4APR (99) Gunnison NP some N0NHJ (2005) Black Canyon Guadalup Mtns DARKCN Haleakala yes NH7C-5 Hawaii Volcanoes 1,514,000 10 WH6FQI-10 Hot Springs yes HOTSPR Indiana Dunes 1,820,000 12 yes W9LRT-3 Joshua Tree yes AA3JY (2016) Lake Meade 8,755,000 60 yes N7ZEV Lasson Volcanic yes KF6VAN-10 Mamouth Cave 1,749,000 12 no Visited 1 Nov 2012 Mesa Verde 452,000 4 yes PARRTT Mount Rainer 1,344,000 9 ? Mt Rushmore 1,868,000 12 no N2IPH & KC5JIF Natchez Trace Pky 5,737,000 38 some? Spotty near Nashville North Cascades no Olympic packet Ozarks 1,568,000 10 ? Petrified Forest ? ? no PORTER Pinnacles no Redwood KE6SLS-3 Rocky Mountain 3,185,000 21 some one near Estes Park Shenandoah NP 1,419,000 9 probably San Antonnio(Alamo)1,394,000 9 yes K5ZZT Sequoia 838,000 6 some KG6JVE Saguaro yes KFOX-10 Shiloh 80,000 1 yes KA4BNI-4 (KB4YTM) Virgin Islands 704,000 6 no WB4APR (1995) White Sands yes LRIDGE Yellowstone 3,100,000 20 P REX Yosemite 3,400,000 22 yes KF6HJO sysop for K6IXA-2 Zion Natl Pk 2,432,000 16 no KF6RAL-13 The criteria here are those areas that are remote from the existing terrestrial APRS infrastructure and which probably do not have enough permanent locals to support a digi... "Coverage" means that you can communicate from the parking lot of the biggest Campground or Headquarters (Hiking to the TOP of the mountain doesn't count). If you can supply any info above, please send to me and I will update this list... Including of course, adding other areas. de WB4APR, Bob