With all the talk about state park rules, I wanted to share my recent experience. I spent the lat 3 nights at a State park on the states west side. I don’t want to say which one, to protect he innocent 
. Basically what I noticed at the park was that there are park rules posted but nothing about detecting. I read them top to bottom. I detected the permitted areas listed on website, but couldn’t help noticing that all other rules that were actually posted with signs were all being fragrantly violated. No alcohol on beach- yeah right! Lots of beer cans and beer bottle tops were present on the beach, and many people openly had beer. I don’t care or mind, I’m just saying. No bikes beyond certain points, or off the raods, yeah right. No climbing on dunes- yeah right. No skate boards or rollerblades on bathroom sidewalks-yeah right. I saw them. Quiet time 10:00 pm – yeah right. No soliciting – sorry, a guy was building and selling bean bag toss games right across the road from us. And running a power sander on them. He didn’t have a for sale sign but he had about 7 sets of the game on display, and asked if we were interested. People were digging 12” deep holes and stuff to level campers, and leaving them behind! I saw it. The lots were sandy dirt with little to no vegetaion. Yet I can’t scrape a little 1” deep hole? Well to tell the truth I detected a few sites that were open, one right next to the front office. I wanted to see if I would draw any attention. Nope. I was very careful about only doing it in sandy ares, and was digging 4” and less, mostly picking surface clad. And judging from my finds I was the first guy. The workers were mostly college kids are aren’t going to say much. So I guess the moral here is that each park has its little personality and things are watched more closely or loosely at some than others. BTW got a 45, 51, and 53 wheat from the sites!!
Totalled $5.53 from the beach and limited sites. Beach was tough, finds were usually quarters, but were scattered. I scoured it pretty hard. Wish I had more time when I was there.
. Basically what I noticed at the park was that there are park rules posted but nothing about detecting. I read them top to bottom. I detected the permitted areas listed on website, but couldn’t help noticing that all other rules that were actually posted with signs were all being fragrantly violated. No alcohol on beach- yeah right! Lots of beer cans and beer bottle tops were present on the beach, and many people openly had beer. I don’t care or mind, I’m just saying. No bikes beyond certain points, or off the raods, yeah right. No climbing on dunes- yeah right. No skate boards or rollerblades on bathroom sidewalks-yeah right. I saw them. Quiet time 10:00 pm – yeah right. No soliciting – sorry, a guy was building and selling bean bag toss games right across the road from us. And running a power sander on them. He didn’t have a for sale sign but he had about 7 sets of the game on display, and asked if we were interested. People were digging 12” deep holes and stuff to level campers, and leaving them behind! I saw it. The lots were sandy dirt with little to no vegetaion. Yet I can’t scrape a little 1” deep hole? Well to tell the truth I detected a few sites that were open, one right next to the front office. I wanted to see if I would draw any attention. Nope. I was very careful about only doing it in sandy ares, and was digging 4” and less, mostly picking surface clad. And judging from my finds I was the first guy. The workers were mostly college kids are aren’t going to say much. So I guess the moral here is that each park has its little personality and things are watched more closely or loosely at some than others. BTW got a 45, 51, and 53 wheat from the sites!!Totalled $5.53 from the beach and limited sites. Beach was tough, finds were usually quarters, but were scattered. I scoured it pretty hard. Wish I had more time when I was there.
