EM50/60 Ham Radio POTA Leaderboards

Public Parks on the Air leaderboards for grid squares EM50 and EM60 — no sign-up, no roster, nothing to join. These two grids run along the Gulf Coast of the United States from eastern Louisiana across south Mississippi and Alabama into the Florida panhandle: 22 parks in Florida, 17 in Alabama, 15 in Mississippi and 5 in Louisiana. Those add up to 59, not 57 — two parks sit in two states at once.

Map of the Gulf Coast from eastern Louisiana to the Florida panhandle, showing every POTA park in grid squares EM50 and EM60 as dots sized by activation count, with the 88 degree west grid line marked through Mobile Bay

The underlying data all comes from POTA’s own public record: each park publishes its grid square, and each uploaded log publishes the call sign that made it. The rankings, the time windows and the totals are worked out here — POTA doesn’t publish a by-grid leaderboard of its own. If you’ve activated a park in these two grids and uploaded your log, you’re already counted, alongside every other operator activating the same parks. These are activator logs only; hunters aren’t counted. The boards show the top ten in each category; the full park list further down covers every park.

If you would rather not appear here at all, mail AE4JC@ae4jc.com and your call sign comes off the boards — no reason needed.

Figures here follow POTA’s, so they move on POTA’s timing. Logs reach POTA at different times — an activator may be on the road for days — and POTA notes that even once a QSO appears it can take up to 48 hours for all statistics to finish updating. A number that looks low is usually just early. Every call sign links to that operator’s own POTA profile.

Data as of Monday, 5 October 2026 at 2:50 AM CDT (2026-10-05T07:50:45Z) — 57 parks across EM50 and EM60, 10,279 activations by 957 operators.

Page last published Monday, 5 October 2026 at 1:25 PM CDT. The figures are pulled from POTA once a day, about 02:50 US Central; the page itself rebuilds every few minutes. So if these two are more than about a day apart, the data pull stalled rather than the page.

POTA counts a log as an activation only at 10 or more QSOs; below that it's an attempt. These boards apply that same rule, so each park's activation count here lines up with the figure POTA publishes for that park — 10,677 outings have been logged across these two grids, 10,279 of which reached the threshold. QSO totals count every contact, attempts included, which is how POTA reports a park's contact total in our checks. POTA does not publish a by-grid leaderboard itself; this page is an aggregate built from their public park and log data.

October 2026 month-to-date

17 activations from 18 logged outings, 463 QSOs, 10 operators.

Activations

#	Call	Activations
1	W5DUI	3
1	KX4TT	3
3	KQ4TPD	2
3	KN4VTX	2
3	W6DFM	2
6	K8SNH	1 of 2 outings
6	WS4Y	1
6	N5VJX	1
6	W3LEL	1
6	WF5W	1

Where a second figure appears, that operator logged more outings than the count shows: the difference is trips that finished under 10 QSOs. POTA counts those as attempts rather than activations, and this board follows POTA so the numbers match your profile. The trip still happened — it is shown here rather than dropped.

QSOs

#	Call	QSOs
1	KQ4TPD	123
2	KN4VTX	92
3	W5DUI	79
4	K8SNH	44
5	KX4TT	39
6	W6DFM	23
7	WS4Y	21
8	N5VJX	19
9	W3LEL	12
10	WF5W	11

Different Parks

#	Call	Different Parks
1	KX4TT	3
2	KQ4TPD	2
3	W5DUI	1
3	KN4VTX	1
3	W6DFM	1
3	K8SNH	1
3	N5VJX	1
3	W3LEL	1
3	WF5W	1
3	WS4Y	1

Most-Activated Parks

#	Park	Grid	Activations	QSOs
1	US-11292 Historic Blakeley State Park Historic Site	EM60	3	88
1	US-0661 Gulf Islands National Seashore	EM60	3	79
3	US-1837 Big Lagoon State Park	EM60	2	92
3	US-0388 Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge	EM50	2	23
5	US-11376 USS Alabama Battleship Park	EM50	1	58
5	US-4614 Blackwater River State Forest	EM60	1	44
5	US-1873 Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park	EM60	1	21
5	US-12996 Fowl River Access Site BLM Recreation Management Area	EM50	1	19
5	US-0298 Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge	EM50	1	15
5	US-0384 Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge	EM50	1	12
5	US-3691 Grand Bay Savanna Complex Wildlife Management Area	EM50	1	12

2026 Year to Date

2,151 activations from 2,224 logged outings, 80,243 QSOs, 331 operators.

Activations

#	Call	Activations
1	W5DUI	219
2	KQ4TPD	174 of 176 outings
3	K4BOS	132
4	WS4Y	75
5	NL5Y	73
6	K5DZR	63
7	N5VJX	55
8	W9FTR	33
9	WF5W	29
9	W8WZ	29 of 30 outings
9	KF4PGW	29
9	KF0BWR	29

319 more operators not shown.

QSOs

#	Call	QSOs
1	KQ4TPD	8,770
2	K5DZR	5,847
3	W5DUI	5,331
4	K4BOS	3,609
5	NL5Y	2,896
6	N5VJX	2,830
7	WS4Y	2,492
8	N0BPM	2,442
9	NE4MW	1,880
10	W9FTR	1,598

333 more operators not shown.

Different Parks

#	Call	Different Parks
1	K4BOS	26
2	W8WZ	24
3	KC1YL	22
4	KQ4TPD	21
4	W4ER	21
6	KC9RF	19
7	NJ9L	17
8	WY7BW	16
9	N5VJX	15
10	KG5LRB	12

321 more operators not shown.

Most-Activated Parks

#	Park	Grid	Activations	QSOs
1	US-0661 Gulf Islands National Seashore	EM60	414	11,094
2	US-1042 Gulf State Park	EM60	164	9,878
3	US-11376 USS Alabama Battleship Park	EM50	135	9,640
4	US-1873 Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park	EM60	117	4,885
5	US-1047 Meaher State Park	EM60	77	3,002
6	US-11292 Historic Blakeley State Park Historic Site	EM60	71	2,454
7	US-12996 Fowl River Access Site BLM Recreation Management Area	EM50	57	2,460
8	US-1837 Big Lagoon State Park	EM60	52	1,308
9	US-2532 Buccaneer State Park	EM50	51	1,916
10	US-4614 Blackwater River State Forest	EM60	50	2,305

All Time

10,279 activations from 10,677 logged outings, 428,076 QSOs, 957 operators.

Activations

#	Call	Activations
1	K4AA	714
2	WS4Y	607
3	W5DUI	532
4	KQ4TPD	341 of 343 outings
5	N4SAX	295 of 296 outings
6	N5BO	207 of 212 outings
7	N5VJX	177 of 180 outings
8	K4BOS	172
9	N5PWD	137
10	AE4JC	131 of 133 outings

947 more operators not shown.

QSOs

#	Call	QSOs
1	K4AA	27,741
2	WS4Y	22,635
3	N5BO	21,991
4	KQ4TPD	19,764
5	N4SAX	17,947
6	W5DUI	13,870
7	N4LEQ	10,717
8	N5VJX	8,344
9	N5PWD	7,809
10	KI5HBS	6,946

988 more operators not shown.

Different Parks

#	Call	Different Parks
1	K4LLL	57
2	W6ZD	51
3	KE8SZL	50
4	KG5YMI	48
5	N4MTE	47
6	W8WZ	46
7	WS4Y	39
8	N5BO	38
9	K4AA	37
10	W5DUI	36

947 more operators not shown.

Most-Activated Parks

#	Park	Grid	Activations	QSOs
1	US-0661 Gulf Islands National Seashore	EM60	1,303	46,517
2	US-1873 Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park	EM60	1,051	48,900
3	US-1042 Gulf State Park	EM60	643	33,860
4	US-11376 USS Alabama Battleship Park	EM50	397	25,968
5	US-1047 Meaher State Park	EM60	355	17,726
6	US-4614 Blackwater River State Forest	EM60	313	14,108
7	US-8327 Blackwater River State Conservation Area	EM60	287	12,332
8	US-0300 Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge	EM50	281	12,773
9	US-2532 Buccaneer State Park	EM50	264	11,575
10	US-0388 Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge	EM50	228	6,681

Big Movers

Who grew the most inside EM50 and EM60 from August 2026 to September 2026 — ranked by percent increase, not raw count. This is a grid-scoped figure, not your POTA-wide total: an operator active outside these two grids will see a smaller number here than on their own POTA profile. Percent means a small operator doubling from one activation to two can outrank someone going from 50 to 90 — that's the board doing what it's for, not a bug. Brand-new operators aren't ranked here at all; see "New in September 2026" below for them. Only increases are shown — if a callsign isn't listed below, it likely held steady, dropped, had no activity in either month, or asked to be left off these boards.

Figures for September 2026 can still be settling: POTA logs sometimes arrive late and can take up to 48 hours to finish updating once they do, so the first few days after a month closes are the ones most likely to move.

Activations — Big Movers

#	Call	Change	August 2026	September 2026
1	KF4PGW	+1100%	1	12
2	KE6MYV	+300%	1	4
3	W3LEL	+266.7%	3	11
4	KR4FWK	+200%	1	3
4	W9FTR	+200%	1	3
4	WF5W	+200%	1	3
7	KN4VTX	+100%	1	2
8	WS4Y	+12.5%	8	9

New in September 2026: AC4WC, AD4TM, AD4XT, AE5MU, AI5BE, AK4EX, K0KEV, K3CBK, K4CBW, K4MJC, K4RWM, K8SNH, KA5CRL, KC4ZMB, KD9ZNA, KF0TTM, KG5YJW, KJ4BED, KJ5GKK, KJ5HZL, KJ5QGS, KJ6NA, KK4JOE, KN4SVY, KO4JVB, KO4NDP, KQ4TAX, KQ4WLV, KQ5LVA, KR4ETX, KR4KNZ, KZ4YP, N0KWA, NR5NN, W4ER, W4KMZ, W4MMI, W4NNF, W8XP, WB4FAY and WS8O — first activity in these grids, so there is no prior month to compare against.

QSOs — Big Movers

#	Call	Change	August 2026	September 2026
1	KF4PGW	+2018.2%	11	233
2	W9FTR	+827.8%	18	167
3	KE6MYV	+735%	20	167
4	W3LEL	+356.1%	57	260
5	WF5W	+300%	11	44
6	KR4FWK	+241.7%	12	41
7	KN4VTX	+82.1%	39	71
8	WS4Y	+11.1%	189	210
9	AA5UY	+10.9%	46	51
10	AA5UZ	+3.4%	59	61

New in September 2026: AC4WC, AD4TM, AD4XT, AE5MU, AI5BE, AK4EX, K0KEV, K3CBK, K4CBW, K4MJC, K4RWM, K8SNH, KA5CRL, KC4ZMB, KD9ZNA, KF0TTM, KF0UVL, KG5YJW, KJ4BED, KJ5GKK, KJ5HZL, KJ5QGS, KJ6NA, KK4JOE, KN4SVY, KO4JVB, KO4NDP, KQ4TAX, KQ4WLV, KQ5LVA, KR4ETX, KR4KNZ, KZ4YP, N0KWA, NR5NN, W4ER, W4KMZ, W4MMI, W4NNF, W8XP, WB4FAY and WS8O — first activity in these grids, so there is no prior month to compare against.

Park to Park

Park-to-park contacts involving an EM50 or EM60 park, excluding same-park contacts. 2778 visible so far — 28 with a park at both ends. These are floors, not totals.

POTA's public API returns each operator's 25 most recent hunter QSOs, so this list is built from that rolling window and grows from 2026-08-07. Operators can see their own full history on POTA; there is no public API to aggregate park-to-park by grid, which is why these counts start here rather than reaching back.

Park to park inside the grids

A park at both ends, both of them here. Three ways that can happen, and two of them have not happened yet:

Pairing	Recorded
EM50 to EM60 (across the bay)	22
EM50 to EM50	5
EM60 to EM60	1

When	Pairing	Operator	Their park	Worked	At	Band	Mode
2026-10-03	EM50-EM60	W5DUI	US-0661	KX4TT	US-3691	20M	DATA
2026-10-03	EM50-EM60	KX4TT	US-0384	W5DUI	US-0661	20M	DATA
2026-09-27	EM50-EM60	KQ4TPD	US-1047	AE5MU	US-0388	20M	PHONE
2026-09-27	EM50-EM60	KQ4TPD	US-1047	AE5MU	US-0388	20M	PHONE
2026-09-27	EM50-EM60	KQ4TPD	US-1047	W3LEL	US-0388	20M	PHONE
2026-09-27	EM50-EM60	KQ4TPD	US-1047	WF5W	US-0388	20M	PHONE
2026-09-12	EM50-EM60	KF4PGW	US-13011	KJ5GKK	US-0025	40M	PHONE
2026-09-07	EM50-EM60	W5DUI	US-0661	W3LEL	US-0388	20M	DATA
2026-09-07	EM50-EM60	W3LEL	US-0388	W5DUI	US-0661	20M	DATA
2026-08-30	EM50-EM50	KQ4TPD	US-0042	K4BOS	US-12996	2M	PHONE
2026-08-30	EM50-EM50	KQ4TPD	US-0042	K4BOS	US-12996	70CM	PHONE
2026-08-29	EM50-EM60	KD7DPS	US-11376	KQ4TPD	US-1042	20M	PHONE
2026-08-22	EM50-EM50	K4BOS	US-12996	NE4MW	US-11376	20M	DATA
2026-08-22	EM50-EM50	K4BOS	US-12996	NE4MW	US-11376	20M	PHONE
2026-08-21	EM50-EM50	N5VJX	US-12996	KQ4TPD	US-11376	20M	DATA
2026-08-21	EM50-EM60	KQ4TPD	US-3699	N5VJX	US-12996	20M	DATA
2026-08-16	EM50-EM60	W5DUI	US-0661	W3LEL	US-0388	20M	DATA
2026-08-16	EM50-EM60	K4BOS	US-0042	AI5BL	US-1042	20M	DATA
2026-08-16	EM50-EM60	KQ4TPD	US-0136	K4BOS	US-12996	20M	PHONE
2026-08-16	EM50-EM60	K4BOS	US-0042	KQ4TPD	US-1047	20M	PHONE
2026-08-16	EM50-EM60	W3LEL	US-0388	WF5W	US-0661	2M	PHONE
2026-08-12	EM50-EM60	KQ4TPD	US-11292	K4BOS	US-3692	40M	DATA
2026-08-09	EM50-EM60	K4BOS	US-12996	KQ4TPD	US-3699	70CM	PHONE
2026-08-09	EM50-EM60	K4BOS	US-12996	KQ4TPD	US-3699	2M	PHONE
2026-08-09	EM50-EM60	N5VJX	US-12996	W3LEL	US-0661	20M	DATA

Most park-to-park contacts

#	Call	P2P
1	W5DUI	663
2	KQ4TPD	427
3	KF4PGW	189
4	N5VJX	143
5	K4BOS	119
6	KO4GIA	110
7	W9FTR	73
8	W3ZZT	64
9	WS4Y	63
10	KE6MYV	59

Working another park inside these grids takes an antenna aimed at the next county rather than across the country: 40m NVIS, a 6m Moxon, a 2m Yagi, or CW/digital. Most park-to-park happens on 20M, whose skip zone lands hundreds of miles away.

The Biggest Single Activations

The biggest single activation on record here is 685 contacts, by W3UR at US-0661 Gulf Islands National Seashore on 2022-02-19.

One activation means one log — one call sign, one park, one UTC day. Note call sign, not operator: club stations are one log and many operators, and these tables don't mark which rows are which — read any entry as possibly a club. A log needs 10 contacts to count as an activation at all, so everything below cleared that bar; shorter outings are covered under What the Hunters Did.

Two things this cannot see. A session that runs past 0000Z — 6 PM here in winter, 7 PM in summer — becomes two logs, and if the later one falls under 10 contacts it is filed as an attempt rather than as part of the same sitting, so some evening totals are split. And an n-fer, where one sitting sits inside two parks at once, files one log per park with the same contacts in both, so it can appear here twice.

All time

#	Contacts	Call	Date	Park
1	685	W3UR	2022-02-19	US-0661 Gulf Islands National Seashore
2	663	NE4MW	2024-06-01	US-11376 USS Alabama Battleship Park
3	650	KQ4TPD	2026-08-22	US-11376 USS Alabama Battleship Park
4	520	N5BO	2022-03-12	US-6300 Escribano Point Wildlife Management Area
5	507	N5BO	2022-04-17	US-1040 Lake Jackson RV Park at Florala State Park
6	451	N4MZ	2023-01-29	US-1047 Meaher State Park
7	436	NE4MW	2026-06-06	US-11376 USS Alabama Battleship Park
8	430	NE4MW	2025-06-07	US-11376 USS Alabama Battleship Park
9	427	K4AA	2023-10-05	US-8332 Escambia River State Conservation Area
10	420	N5BO	2025-04-20	US-8335 Yellow River Water Management Area

The top of 10,279 activations, all time.

October 2026 month-to-date

#	Contacts	Call	Date	Park
1	67	KN4VTX	2026-10-03	US-1837 Big Lagoon State Park
2	65	KQ4TPD	2026-10-04	US-11292 Historic Blakeley State Park Historic Site
3	58	KQ4TPD	2026-10-02	US-11376 USS Alabama Battleship Park
4	36	K8SNH	2026-10-03	US-4614 Blackwater River State Forest
5	28	W5DUI	2026-10-01	US-0661 Gulf Islands National Seashore
6	27	W5DUI	2026-10-03	US-0661 Gulf Islands National Seashore
7	25	KN4VTX	2026-10-04	US-1837 Big Lagoon State Park
8	24	W5DUI	2026-10-02	US-0661 Gulf Islands National Seashore
9	21	WS4Y	2026-10-03	US-1873 Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park
10	19	N5VJX	2026-10-04	US-12996 Fowl River Access Site BLM Recreation Management Area

The top of 17 activations this month.

What actually tops this board is usually a station set up to work a pile-up: a club or multi-operator setup, often on an organised event weekend. Three of the all-time ten are the same club call at the same park on the first Saturday in June, three years running. Conditions, time on site and a park near a population centre do the rest. None of that makes a quiet activation a lesser one — the park table is the better place to look for what is genuinely under-activated.

What the Hunters Did

Every activation on this page needed somebody on the other end. POTA counts a log as an activation at 10 contacts and not one below it, so on a leaderboard like this the hunters are not the audience — they are the measurement.

In EM50 and EM60, all time
Contacts made inside the 10,279 activations	426,537
Activations that finished on exactly 10	398
Logs that stopped short of 10	398
Contacts inside those shorter logs	1,539

398 of those activations finished on exactly 10 contacts. Some operators stopped once they had the minimum; others only just reached it. A log does not record which, and either way the tenth contact is the one that made it an activation.

These bands add up rather than divide up — each row includes the rows above it, so the shares are not meant to be summed.

Activations finishing on	Count	Share of all 10,279
exactly 10 contacts	398	3.9%
10 to 11 contacts	880	8.6%
10 to 12 contacts	1,477	14.4%
10 to 14 contacts	2,327	22.6%

The 398 logs that stopped short are the part worth reading twice, because the hunters in them were credited anyway. Credit flows from the log, not from the activation succeeding — POTA's rules say, “Hunters do not submit logs to the program… Hunters earn credit through the activator’s logs,” and describe submitting a short log as the courteous thing to do: “Courteous activators will still submit logs for unsuccessful activations to ensure their hunters get credit for the QSOs.” So those 1,539 contacts counted for the people on the other end even though the day did not count for the operator. Why each log was filed is not something a log records, and this page does not guess at it — but whatever the reason, calling these failures describes only one end of the contact.

The two contact totals on this page are both right and count different things: the boards above report 428,076 QSOs, every contact logged in these grids, while 426,537 is the part made inside activations that reached 10. The difference is exactly the 1,539 in the shorter logs. Counted from POTA's own public activation records for all 57 parks, the same records every board on this page is built from. Log submission has no deadline, so a log that reads short today can be completed later; these figures are recomputed nightly rather than frozen.

Top Local Hunters

Operators based in EM50 or EM60 who worked an activator at a park in these grids — from home, from the car, or from a park themselves. Home grid comes from each operator's own POTA profile.

October 2026

#	Call	Home grid	Parks hunted
1	K4BOS	EM50	1
1	KQ4TPD	EM60	1

All time

#	Call	Home grid	Parks hunted
1	KQ4TPD	EM60	15
2	K4BOS	EM50	11
3	N5VJX	EM50	9
4	K4LLL	EM60	5
5	K4AA	EM60	3
5	KF4PGW	EM60	3
7	W3LEL	EM50	2
8	KT4GH	EM60	1
8	NE4MW	EM50	1
8	W9FTR	EM60	1

Counts start 2026-08-07 and grow — POTA's public feed shows each operator's 25 most recent hunter contacts, so this reaches back only as far as tracking has been running. Nobody is added by hand: the operators checked are those POTA shows activating in these grids, which means a local who only hunts and never activates will not appear here yet. That is a gap in the data, not a judgement about anyone.

Top Spotters

The other way people help an activator: putting them on the POTA spotting page so everyone else can find them. A spot is a small act of work — you stop what you are doing, type somebody else's call sign and frequency, and hand them a pileup. Nothing in POTA's own record keeps score of it.

This board counts spots, not contacts. POTA's rules say so plainly: “anyone (including hunters) can also spot/respot you, regardless of whether they are working that activator.” Plenty of the people below did work the operator they spotted. The public record cannot show which, so this page does not guess — it credits the spot, which is a real thing somebody did.

October 2026

#	Call	Spots	Parks	Operators
1	KE2DC	4	15	15
1	N1PHR	4	5	3
1	NT0C	4	2	2
1	W0KEG	4	9	10
5	HI8D	3	1	2
5	KE5YYC	3	4	4
5	N3FMC	3	13	15
5	N8OFP	3	7	6
5	W6IJL	3	7	6
10	HK3AVR	2	4	3
10	K2YF	2	1	1
10	K7BDG	2	3	2
10	KA3MAJ	2	4	5
10	KC0FSH	2	2	2
10	KC2SPZ	2	6	6
10	KE6IMS	2	1	2
10	KF9R	2	5	4
10	KG5ZID	2	1	1
10	KJ5LNI	2	5	5
10	N0GRP	2	2	2
10	N5REW	2	3	3
10	N8LEM	2	1	1
10	N9UVS	2	7	10
10	NB1T	2	4	4
10	PY2MP	2	1	1
10	VE3GLN	2	4	5
10	VE3SRW	2	6	5
10	W1BTB	2	4	4
10	W5HF	2	2	1
10	W7YBY	2	7	4

All time

#	Call	Spots	Parks	Operators
1	KC7UXM	45	18	25
2	KE2DC	24	15	15
2	W0KEG	24	9	10
4	N3FMC	20	13	15
5	KQ4TPD	19	1	1
6	N8OFP	18	7	6
7	K3VAT	17	7	7
8	N5VJX	16	6	3
8	VA3YTM	16	12	11
10	K0BHB	15	12	10
10	N9UVS	15	7	10

What this board leaves out

Two kinds of spot are left out. Automated skimmer spots — the Reverse Beacon Network hears a CW or digital signal and posts it with nobody choosing to — and operators spotting themselves, which logging software often does for them. Neither is a person deciding to help somebody else.

Measured on every spot this has actually looked at, not on a sample:

Kind of spot	Seen	Share
Automated skimmer spots (RBN and similar)	8,731	72.5%
Counted on the board below	2,114	17.6%
Operators spotting themselves	1,193	9.9%

The skimmer share is normally the large one, and on a live sample it was most of the traffic. That is the RBN doing its job, not a flaw in the feed.

Counts start 2026-08-14 and grow. POTA keeps no history of spots — they leave the spotting page about 30 minutes after the last one, or sooner if a comment marks QRT — so this is built by watching every five minutes and can only ever reach back to the day it started. Unlike the board above, this one has no home-grid requirement: spot an activator in EM50 or EM60 from anywhere in the world and you are on it.

The All Parks Award

Activating every park in EM50 and EM60 is the hardest thing these two grids have to offer, and for years nobody had done it. The operators below have. Being first is the one thing here that can only happen once.

#	Call	Completed	Parks	Sheet
1	K4LLL	2026-08-13	57	print

Each row shows the number of parks in these grids on the day that operator finished. POTA adds parks, so a later row can need a larger set — which is why the figure is fixed at the date earned rather than recounted. An award already earned is not taken back when a new park appears.

Chasing the Sweep

There are 57 parks in EM50 and EM60, and every one has at least one uploaded activation — no untouched parks left in either grid. So the scarce thing here isn't a new park to find, it's a complete set. This is how far along each operator is. Anyone showing 57 here has finished, and is named under the award above.

#	Call	Parks	Left	What's left
1	K4LLL	57 / 57	0	—
2	W6ZD	51 / 57	6	—
3	KE8SZL	50 / 57	7	—
4	KG5YMI	48 / 57	9	—
5	N4MTE	47 / 57	10	—
6	W8WZ	46 / 57	11	—
7	WS4Y	39 / 57	18	—
8	N5BO	38 / 57	19	—

Parks are named once an operator is within five of the finish; above that it's a list, not a plan.

The Hard Ones

The least-activated parks in both grids. For scale, the busiest park here has more activations than all eight of these combined.

Park	Name	Grid	State	Activations
US-9849	Deer Island Coastal Park	EM50nj	US-MS	14
US-7109	Old River Wildlife Management Area	EM50cs	US-MS	18
US-7111	Red Creek Wildlife Management Area	EM50nq	US-MS	25
US-9916	Blackwater River State Nature Preserve	EM60gl	US-AL	26
US-7108	Pascagoula River Wildlife Management Area	EM50rp	US-MS	28
US-7107	Theodore Mars Wildlife Management Area	EM50gs	US-MS	28
US-8517	Flint Creek State Recreation Area	EM50ku	US-MS	32
US-7112	Ward Bayou Wildlife Management Area	EM50qn	US-MS	35

Every Park in EM50 and EM60

All 57 of them, ranked by activations. Park references link to POTA's own page for that park; the map link opens its location. Grid squares are POTA's own — this page asks POTA which parks are in each grid rather than working it out from coordinates.

#	Park	Name	Grid	State	Activations	Outings	QSOs	Map
1	US-0661	Gulf Islands National Seashore	EM60ki	US-FL,US-MS	1,303	1,360	46,517	map
Top 5 activators: W5DUI, KO4TXK, N5BO, WF5W, ND9G
2	US-1873	Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park	EM60sl	US-FL	1,051	1,067	48,900	map
Top 5 activators: WS4Y, N4SAX, KZ4XO, N2PDK, KN4UDT
3	US-1042	Gulf State Park	EM60eg	US-AL	643	679	33,860	map
Top 5 activators: KJ6NA, K8NWN, K5DZR, K4EES, N0BPM
4	US-11376	USS Alabama Battleship Park	EM50xq	US-AL	397	416	25,968	map
Top 5 activators: KQ4TPD, N5VJX, NE4MW, AE4JC, KQ4PLS
5	US-1047	Meaher State Park	EM60aq	US-AL	355	363	17,726	map
Top 5 activators: KQ4TPD, N4NR, KQ4PLS, N4LEQ, AE4JC
6	US-4614	Blackwater River State Forest	EM60nq	US-FL	313	327	14,108	map
Top 5 activators: K4AA, KK4WDR, W9FTR, KF4RAF, N5BO
7	US-8327	Blackwater River State Conservation Area	EM60lp	US-FL	287	293	12,332	map
Top 5 activators: K4AA, K9JHR, W9FTR, W4KMZ, N4LEQ
8	US-0300	Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge	EM50ah	US-LA	281	286	12,773	map
Top 5 activators: KD5PCK, N5PWD, AA5UZ, AA5UY, KI5UTS
9	US-2532	Buccaneer State Park	EM50hg	US-MS	264	269	11,575	map
Top 5 activators: AI5BE, W9WGN, W8WZ, W1ND, KI5OLV
10	US-0388	Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge	EM50qk	US-MS	228	234	6,681	map
Top 5 activators: W5DUI, KK4DOD, N1DUC, W3LEL, W5HI
11	US-1876	Henderson Beach State Park	EM60sj	US-FL	223	233	9,483	map
Top 5 activators: N4SAX, N5BO, KQ4IPM, K9TQ, N4YLA
12	US-3664	Topsail Hill Preserve State Park	EM60ui	US-FL	221	233	10,130	map
Top 5 activators: KK4EB, N4NR, W9FTR, KC3SEG, N5BO
13	US-1841	Blackwater River State Park	EM60nq	US-FL	214	219	9,960	map
Top 5 activators: K4AA, N5BO, KK4WDR, KI5HBS, K9JHR
14	US-0042	Fort Gaines National Historic Site	EM50xf	US-AL	200	214	6,920	map
Top 5 activators: N9UQ, N5VJX, KD9UEQ, W4ER, K4BOS
15	US-11292	Historic Blakeley State Park Historic Site	EM60br	US-AL	197	207	8,677	map
Top 5 activators: KQ4TPD, AJ4RM, N5VJX, AE4JC, K4BOS
16	US-0025	Fort Morgan National Historic Site	EM50xf	US-AL	190	202	6,298	map
Top 5 activators: KJ6NA, K4EES, KQ4TPD, W5OTO, KN4WGE
17	US-1837	Big Lagoon State Park	EM60hh	US-FL	187	207	6,448	map
Top 5 activators: KN4VTX, W7JLM, KI5HBS, K4AA, KE6MYV
18	US-8332	Escambia River State Conservation Area	EM60is	US-FL	183	189	8,697	map
Top 5 activators: K4AA, KO4GIA, N4LEQ, K9JHR, N4VGY
19	US-1910	Perdido Key State Park	EM60gh	US-FL	172	178	4,985	map
Top 5 activators: K5DZR, KQ4TPD, N4MRC, K4LLL, AD9BL
20	US-3711	Weeks Bay Reserve National Conservation Area	EM60ck	US-AL	171	175	6,355	map
Top 5 activators: AE4JC, KQ4TPD, K4LLL, W4ER, KQ4VVQ
21	US-1875	Grayton Beach State Park	EM60wi	US-FL	160	171	6,151	map
Top 5 activators: KC3SEG, N5BO, WS4Y, W4LPH, W0SK
22	US-3670	Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park	EM60ll	US-FL	156	160	7,466	map
Top 5 activators: NL5Y, K4AA, N5BO, N4LEQ, NA4RR
23	US-3608	Blackwater Heritage State Trail	EM60lp	US-FL	155	161	5,333	map
Top 5 activators: K4AA, N4LEQ, W9FTR, N5BO, KR4LW
24	US-4071	Pearl River Wildlife Management Area	EM50dh	US-LA	149	153	5,165	map
Top 5 activators: AA5UZ, AA5UY, KD5PCK, KI5UTS, AI5BE
24	US-8333	Garcon Point State Conservation Area	EM60kl	US-FL	149	152	5,161	map
Top 5 activators: NL5Y, K4AA, N4LEQ, KO4TXK, N5BO
26	US-2551	Shepard State Park	EM50qi	US-MS	146	153	5,071	map
Top 5 activators: N5BLM, AG5WY, WF5W, KA5ZHG, KA4PJZ
27	US-3691	Grand Bay Savanna Complex Wildlife Management Area	EM50uj	US-AL	142	148	5,132	map
Top 5 activators: K4BOS, KB4JHU, KD4NGA, W4ER, N5BO
28	US-8335	Yellow River Water Management Area	EM60np	US-FL	134	137	4,733	map
Top 5 activators: K4AA, N5BO, KG5LRB, KK4WDR, KZ4YP
29	US-4636	Point Washington State Forest	EM60wi	US-FL	129	135	4,486	map
Top 5 activators: N5BO, KC3SEG, WT0N, W4CJB, W4RTR
30	US-0136	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	EM60cf	US-AL	125	133	3,205	map
Top 5 activators: KQ4TPD, KY4LV, KJ6NA, K4EES, AK0M
31	US-4494	De Soto National Forest	EM50jw	US-MS	117	118	6,169	map
Top 5 activators: N5VJX, KG5DKG, N4UPX/SK, W5HI, W4ER
32	US-3699	Mobile-Tensaw Delta Wildlife Management Area	EM60at	US-AL	110	113	6,125	map
Top 5 activators: KQ4TPD, W4ER, N4LEQ, K4LLL, N4KGL
33	US-0384	Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge	EM50sk	US-AL,US-MS	109	113	5,100	map
Top 5 activators: KD4NGA, K4BOS, KB4JHU, NG5E, N5VJX
34	US-1861	Eden Gardens State Park	EM60wi	US-FL	108	114	2,905	map
Top 5 activators: WS4Y, KC3SEG, N5BO, N4SAX, KE8YVH
35	US-3662	Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park	EM60hi	US-FL	107	125	3,252	map
Top 5 activators: KN4VTX, W4JY, KQ4TPD, KR4LW, N5BO
36	US-3692	Heron Bay and Portersville Bay State Fish and Wildlife Area	EM50wi	US-AL	103	104	3,957	map
Top 5 activators: K4BOS, N5VJX, KD4NGA, W4ER, KQ4TPD
37	US-1854	Deer Lake State Park	EM60xh	US-FL	102	109	3,202	map
Top 5 activators: KC3SEG, W0SK, KD5ZZU, WS4Y, KC8LUB
38	US-0298	Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge	EM50bc	US-LA	97	100	3,808	map
Top 5 activators: W8WZ, K4GDJ, KD5PCK, N5PWD, AE0YK
39	US-8334	Perdido River State Conservation Area	EM60gn	US-FL	94	97	2,671	map
Top 5 activators: KT4GH, KO4TXK, K9JHR, N4VGY, N9MM
40	US-6445	St. Tammany Wildlife Refuge	EM50ag	US-LA	84	85	4,236	map
Top 5 activators: N5PWD, KD5PCK, KI5UTS, KD2HTG, N5BO
41	US-0302	Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge	EM50ck	US-LA	81	86	3,660	map
Top 5 activators: N5PWD, AA5UZ, AA5UY, AI5RV, KI5UTS
42	US-1040	Lake Jackson RV Park at Florala State Park	EM60ux	US-AL	68	69	2,755	map
Top 5 activators: N5BO, KZ4YP, KQ4WJN, KB4XT, K4AA
42	US-3696	Lillian Swamp Complex Preserve State Conservation Area	EM60hk	US-AL	68	75	2,163	map
Top 5 activators: N4VGY, K4AA, W4BIA, N5BO, K9JHR
44	US-6300	Escribano Point Wildlife Management Area	EM60mm	US-FL	63	68	2,388	map
Top 5 activators: K4AA, N5BO, K8SNH, K9JHR, KK4JOE
45	US-12996	Fowl River Access Site BLM Recreation Management Area	EM50wj	US-AL	57	57	2,460	map
Top 5 activators: K4BOS, N5VJX, KQ4TPD, W4ER, K4LLL
46	US-7110	Little Biloxi Wildlife Management Area	EM50jp	US-MS	49	51	2,185	map
Top 5 activators: N4UPX/SK, AE5MU, W5HI, KC9RF, K4LLL
47	US-13011	Shoal River Headwaters State Park	EM60vs	US-FL	45	45	1,032	map
Top 5 activators: KF4PGW, AD4TM, N2PDK, KR4IXT, W4DEG
48	US-3700	Perdido River Wildlife Management Area	EM60gq	US-AL	43	43	1,524	map
Top 5 activators: K9JHR, N4VGY, K4AA, N9MM, KE0VIM
48	US-7635	Airey Lake State Recreation Area	EM50lq	US-MS	43	43	1,545	map
Top 5 activators: N4UPX/SK, W5HI, AF5KM, W8WZ, N1DUC
50	US-7112	Ward Bayou Wildlife Management Area	EM50qn	US-MS	35	35	1,365	map
Top 5 activators: W4ER, W3LEL, KA5ZHG, W8WZ, NG5E
51	US-8517	Flint Creek State Recreation Area	EM50ku	US-MS	32	32	784	map
Top 5 activators: W5MDW, KN4OPA, WJ5ES, W5HI, W4ER
52	US-7107	Theodore Mars Wildlife Management Area	EM50gs	US-MS	28	29	744	map
Top 5 activators: N4UPX/SK, W5CSR, AI5RV, K4LLL, KN4PHS
52	US-7108	Pascagoula River Wildlife Management Area	EM50rp	US-MS	28	28	967	map
Top 5 activators: W4ER, W8WZ, W5HI, NG5E, N4UPX/SK
54	US-9916	Blackwater River State Nature Preserve	EM60gl	US-AL	26	26	785	map
Top 5 activators: K4AA, N4VGY, W4ER, K4LLL, WC9B
55	US-7111	Red Creek Wildlife Management Area	EM50nq	US-MS	25	25	745	map
Top 5 activators: W5HI, KE4ID, W4ER, KC9RF, KI5YOO
56	US-7109	Old River Wildlife Management Area	EM50cs	US-MS	18	19	552	map
Top 5 activators: N4UPX/SK, N4UPX, W5CSR, K4LLL, WB5WAJ
57	US-9849	Deer Island Coastal Park	EM50nj	US-MS	14	14	701	map
Top 5 activators: K4LLL, KI5UTS, N3AIR, AE4JC, W8WZ

How the Two Grids Split

The line between EM50 and EM60 runs down longitude 88° W — straight through Mobile Bay. That puts parks a few miles apart on opposite boards, so this page ranks both grids together rather than splitting them.

Grid	Parks	Activations	Outings
EM50	25	2,917	3,014
EM60	32	7,362	7,663

Note: 1 logged activation(s) carry an impossible date — an operator typo in the original log. They are left out of the boards rather than guessed at.

Get On the Board

Nothing to sign up for, and nothing to send us. We never see your log — these boards are built from POTA's own public data, so everything here follows from what you file with POTA.

Pick a park from the list above, work ten contacts, and upload your log to POTA whenever it suits you: the My Log Uploads page on pota.app takes the ADIF file directly, and POTA's Submitting Logs guide covers the file format and the help-desk email route if the uploader will not work for you. The next refresh here picks you up on its own. Already been out? It'll turn up once POTA has your log. Check your own totals on your POTA profile.

Stats via POTA.app, refreshed daily. See also Live Spots and the South Alabama POTA Posse on ae4jc.com.