Park Explorer
Park Explorer is the third entry in the Parks on the Air group in the sidebar, next to Hunting and Activate. It shows every POTA park in the world on one map — no live activator required and nothing to start. Use it to scout parks around your home, plan a trip, or just wander the globe.
Park Explorer is available when you're signed in.
The map
Parks stream in as clustered bubbles over the whole world. The clusters grow for a few seconds while the park database loads — that's normal. Zoom in and clusters split apart; zoom in far enough and every park stands alone as its own glyph.
Tap any park glyph to open its detail view, with:
- The park's name, reference, and location, plus a photo when one is available.
- Current weather at the park.
- Activation history and success statistics from POTA.
- For popular parks, a See park facts disclosure with geography, history, and a fun fact.
Finding a specific park
The side panel has a park search box. Type at least part of a park's name or
its reference (like US-0817) and pick a result — the map flies to that park
and opens its details.
Parks near me
Tap Find parks near me to list the closest parks within 50 miles, nearest first. Hamtrax checks your location once, only when you tap — opening the page never asks for location.
If your browser is currently blocking location access, Park Explorer falls back to your saved location — the same one shown on the map — and tells you it did. That fallback is unique to this page: the activation setup form and Hunting's "Hunting from a park?" quick start always require a fresh location fix, because they select the park you are physically at.
From browsing to activating
Every park detail view has an Activate Here button. Tapping it leaves Park Explorer and lands on the new-activation setup with that park pre-filled — the same setup screen you'd reach from Activate, ready to configure gear and start.
Park Explorer itself never logs, spots, or starts anything. It's a map you can't accidentally commit anything from.