Detecting Crescent City

[Happy_Hour]

I will be there for a month visiting family and would like to know if detecting the beaches is legal.

 

[Randyg12]

Try posting your question on the beach forum. Pretty sure you'll get the responses your looking for. HH Randy

 

[Tom_in_CA]

All the beaches in CA are fair game. About the *possible* only exception would be if the particular beach you are thinking about, is federally administered. Fortunately very few beach in CA are run by fed. parks. And I say *possible*, because, EVEN THEN you'd be hard-pressed to get even so much as a scram.

Most of CA's coastline is state run beaches (with a smattering of city and county beaches). And the state run beaches are historically open game. However, that's not to say that if you ran into a purist state-payroll archie that he might not gripe. Ie.: "heaven forbid" you found a 1958 wheatie They could try to say it runs afoul of state park cultural heritage wording. However, this has been a non-issue. And best kept-that-way. I've heard of a few incidents on state beaches, but they are forgotten and nothing ever becomes of them. So the "realistic" answer is: state beaches are fair game.