Legal parks to detect

[Plug cutter]

I've been having a lot of troubles determining which parks are metro and which are local and legal to hunt. I live in Nashville TN, if you know of any parks or have hunted here yourself pm me or leave a comment.

 

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[vpnavy]

Until someone pipes in - you might consider jumping over to Middle Tennessee Treasure Hunters Club and asking...

 

[cudamark]

Look up your local ordinances and see what the rules are. If nothing is mentioned about metal detecting, go for it. There should be a list of all the city owned parks at city hall or online. If it's a county or state park, it will be listed on their own web site and you'll need to check what their rules are because they might be different. Keep out of the public eye as much as possible and make clean recoveries and you should be fine.

 

[BryanM362]

Look for their websites. Here in Cinci, we have City parks and County parks. On their respective websites they list them all. Fortunately, you can detect on most of them, you just have to get a permit from both the City and the County.

 

[George (MN)]

Sadly, metal detecting has been banned at the only large 1800s park in Nashvillle, Centennial Park. The police regularly find people detecting there, and tell them they need to go detect at a different park. It has a separate board that makes the rules I guess, & it is a tourist attraction/historic site. Just like everywhere else, you can't detect on golf courses. You can go to the city & county websites, look under parks & rec, also city code, or county code. If it doesn't mention a prohibition on there, and you don't see no detecting signs at parks, it's probably OK as long as you are neat. Laws against damaging property have always existed, but if you don't do anything bad enough to require a repair, it should probably be OK (if not, they will tel you). Best wishes, George (MN)