If you could live anywhere in the US to look for treasure, where would you live?

[Oddjob]

Maine, thats where I would like to be. I can travel where ever I want, but I would like to be in Maine.

 

[villagenut]

If you were on Oak Island you can find Bobby Dazzlers......what the heck...

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Back to my hometown of Julian Ca. there has to be some gold rush era coins and relics there and pretty sure I know of a cache.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Florida's Gulf Coast, the water was clear, calm, and warm on a normal day.

Get yourself down here and hit the beach! Do us all a favor though.... spend all your money at the small inns, restaurants, and small businesses that that have suffered from red tide and toxic algae. You might find a dollar in clad, and a bit of trash, but by all means, have at it!

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

Tough question. I've also been trying to make possible retirement plans though I've still got a few years to go.
There's so many options, but you would have to weigh the pros and cons of each. The midwest is nice. A bit of mid 19rh century history and lots of old towns and farms to hit. But the winters can be long and brutal. There's also the problem of having way too many anti detecting regulations and outright bans in local areas.
Florida has potential, but brutally hot in the summer. Lots of hunting pressure and some odd regulations about water hunting especially around leased water areas near wrecks. But after big storms I hear that the whole area changes and new treasures could pop up most anywhere on the beaches.
The East has more temperate weather and abounds in CW era history. Most areas are pretty reasonable for cost of living.
The Northeast of course is Colonial hunting grounds. Best chance of finding the oldest stuff in the country. But cost of living is high and winters can be brutal, depending on the area. Tough landscape around mountains, but best chance of finding undeveloped land with colonial activity.
The Southern states have a lot of history as well. Good chance of finding pre CW items there.
The SW states tend to be arid and preserve coins and artifacts better. But there is so much land that also may have never seen the footprint of a human. But here, and in the West you have gold country. Detecting for nuggets, panning, sluicing, etc can net some funds for the hard work if you are lucky.
West coast area has less history overall, but I've seen mining camp hunts that turned up lots of gold coins and relics from the days of the '49ers.
Good luck and happy hunting.

 

[Mudflap]

Florida's Gulf Coast, the water was clear, calm, and warm on a normal day.

As your lungs fry from the red tide...

 

[Chug And Red]

Any where red can hunt for relics, Id prefer any warm area with dragoon buttons I would love to find one Yes I like to watch the detecting videos Texas with a bulldozer would work I would trade a Roman Coin for a Good D Button PM ME

 

[A#1]

Northern Lower Michigan, although I'd head south for the winter.

The history aint super old, but there's a lot of it.

Logging, homesteads, 20-40's era tourism, small gold prospecting, ghost towns, organized crime, railroads. All kinds of stuff.

And for the less historically motivated, campgrounds, beaches, parks, and stuff like that.

I have hundreds of sites to choose from, always something new.

 

[Megalodon]

Tough question. I've also been trying to make possible retirement plans though I've still got a few years to go.
There's so many options, but you would have to weigh the pros and cons of each. The midwest is nice. A bit of mid 19rh century history and lots of old towns and farms to hit. But the winters can be long and brutal. There's also the problem of having way too many anti detecting regulations and outright bans in local areas.
Florida has potential, but brutally hot in the summer. Lots of hunting pressure and some odd regulations about water hunting especially around leased water areas near wrecks. But after big storms I hear that the whole area changes and new treasures could pop up most anywhere on the beaches.
The East has more temperate weather and abounds in CW era history. Most areas are pretty reasonable for cost of living.
The Northeast of course is Colonial hunting grounds. Best chance of finding the oldest stuff in the country. But cost of living is high and winters can be brutal, depending on the area. Tough landscape around mountains, but best chance of finding undeveloped land with colonial activity.
The Southern states have a lot of history as well. Good chance of finding pre CW items there.
The SW states tend to be arid and preserve coins and artifacts better. But there is so much land that also may have never seen the footprint of a human. But here, and in the West you have gold country. Detecting for nuggets, panning, sluicing, etc can net some funds for the hard work if you are lucky.
West coast area has less history overall, but I've seen mining camp hunts that turned up lots of gold coins and relics from the days of the '49ers.
Good luck and happy hunting.

Nice summary. The reality for most retirees is staying close to family. We could never move away from grandkids. The best is when the grandkids live in a historic property/area.

 

[Plumbata]

The Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan's UP, where I'd detect for awesome ancient Old Copper Culture artifacts every moment I could spare and then some.

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

Nice summary. The reality for most retirees is staying close to family. We could never move away from grandkids. The best is when the grandkids live in a historic property/area.

Very true. Me personally, I have no family or anyone to worry about seeing, so not restricted by that. I'm probably going to retire to a small resort town on the beach in Nicaragua. About the only thing I'll be able to afford, but it would have beach hunting within walking distance and nugget hunting within an hour or so drive.

 

[Megalodon]

That's an interesting choice and one increasingly popular. Those who once only considered Costa Rica are now often choosing Nicaragua.

 

[Ogre1190]

Hmmm...Maybe far western Tennessee. Seven other states all within a 2-hour drive: AL, MS, AR, MO, IL, KY, IN.

 

[nomad 11]

under fort knox. ok so i'm delusional ? not really i'm a pisces and we're big dreamers.

 

[old digger]

I would suppose living in the soutwestern states from Californian Sierra's down into Mexico, and east into Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Finding one of those many gold coins that were minted in that area would be nice. But my true desire would to live and detect in the Biblical Mideast. It would be awesome to search the many areas where there were conflict and battle sites. You have imagine certain solders hiding their personal spoils in their tent and not living to retrieve it. Just think, still waiting to be found. And also imagine finding some bronze spear and arrow points.

 

[blueskyminer]

The Southwest! we have SoCal beaches, desert placer and Southern trail stops. There is not the age/history that all of you get east of the Rockies but we can hunt year round. MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you and yours!

 

[Mackaydon]

I'd be with 'nomad 11' --in Ft. Knox,
Don.........

 

[Red James Cash]

Hate to tell you fort Knox is empty.

 

[jeff of pa]

in the middle of Gettysburg Battlefield of Course.
I'd just Pitch a Tent, & Move in.

 

[Craigwac]

Well if I had unlimited funds to search the ocean bottom with the right equipment, then I'd love to spend my days looking for the remainders of the 1715 treasure fleet off the coast of Florida. But otherwise, probably Arizona in the cooler months and Alaska in the summer. I would love to prospect around for nuggets and whatever else at old gold rush sites, and I have a real soft spot for the Lost Dutchman's Mine - though there's equal chances it never existed, or is one of the mines already found, or is is buried so well it will probably never be found. But who knows, maybe it's there and somebody can actually get to it. And maybe the rumors of old Jesuit Church treasure being stashed out in that same desert are true!