US-6296
Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area
A wildlife management area up in the Brooksville area, reached by a narrow sand and limerock road through dense woods with essentially no signage. It opens into a cluster of open-sided shelters with picnic tables — shade, tables, quiet and a low noise floor. The insect pressure is the price.
At a glance
- Entry
- Daily-use permit required: $3 per person or $6 per vehicle. Honour system...
- Hours
- See park page →
- Operating position
- Drive-up
- Tables
- Yes
- Shade
- Good
- Restrooms
- See park page →
- Water
- See park page →
- Grid
- EL88ro
More about this park
Official park page FWC → Trail maps, closures, facilities and current alerts, kept current by the agency. Activation history POTA.app — US-6296 → Every activation, activator and hunter log for this park. This guide covers conditions on the ground, not the logbook.Useful for activating
Listed by FWC , checked August 2026. Not verified on site. This is only what affects operating — see the park’s own page for everything else.
- Roofed pavilion
- Hiking trails
Getting in
Parking
The road in is unpaved sand and limerock, narrow, winding, and poorly signed. Take it slowly. Once in, you can pull up to the shelters.Access
State wildlife management area.Setting up
Where to operate
Open-sided shelters with picnic tables. The station builds out of a backpack onto a table with the antenna outside the shelter.Noise floor
Low. Described directly as a low noise floor, which is notable — most reports in this dataset never characterise it at all.Antennas
A Radioddity HF-010 outside the shelter measured 1.12 SWR with the marker on 14.070 — about as clean as that antenna gets.Cell coverage
- general: A Starlink Mini was used successfully for connectivity. Carrier coverage itself was not recorded, and given the remoteness of the access road, do not assume it.