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Coyote Peak can be a SOTA + POTA activation area

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Coyote Peak:  SOTA + POTA Jun, KG6YJ Coyote Peak (SOTA reference number W6/NC-399) is inside Santa Teressa County Park. When hiking along the trail to the peak, you may notice 2 signs beside the trail:                 The second sign shows this trail is  Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail , a 1,210-mile national historic trail  extending from Arizona to California. I t is a POTA (Parks On The Air) entity,  K-4571 , a  POTA activation can be done within 100 feet distance of this trail. If we look at the official map of Santa Teressa County Park , we can see this POTA trail passes right beside Coyote Peak: A zoom-in view is easier to see: The historic trail is highlighted as Yellow color, while Coyote Peak is highlighted as Red color in both above maps. Now let's look at the SOTA Activation Zone of Coyote Peak, courtesy of N6ARA's great website : You can see this historic trail does pass the SOTA activation zone. By using Google Maps' distance measurement function