National parks...

[adamBomb]

I am at Chincoteague Island VA this week where my family owns a home. It is illegal to detect on Assateague island and they can confiscate your detector if you are caught along with a fine...but is it illegal to detect in the water? At what point does the metal detecting restriction end? Water line? 100ft out? Anyone know for sure? I will ask a park ranger but I am not sure they will know and will probably just say no.

 

[jyt2017]

I wouldn't use my best machine.

I am at Chincoteague Island VA this week where my family owns a home. It is illegal to detect on Assateague island and they can confiscate your detector if you are caught along with a fine...but is it illegal to detect in the water? At what point does the metal detecting restriction end? Water line? 100ft out? Anyone know for sure? I will ask a park ranger but I am not sure they will know and will probably just say no.

 

[ron lord]

I am at Chincoteague Island VA this week where my family owns a home. It is illegal to detect on Assateague island and they can confiscate your detector if you are caught along with a fine...but is it illegal to detect in the water? At what point does the metal detecting restriction end? Water line? 100ft out? Anyone know for sure? I will ask a park ranger but I am not sure they will know and will probably just say no.

National Parks are tabo stay away .in or out of the water keep out don't even think about it.$100,000 find 6 month in jail they will take your car or boat what ever you have with you. 4 men learned that the hard way in 1988, they lost their motor home ,jeep all their detectors .They got fined spent time in jail and while they were in jail . search warrent was served on their home and all the Relic they ever found war taken. So go for it if you dare,not me.

 

[aa battery]

back when i first started i didnt know about this and got busted. best to stay away.

 

[claire]

I have detected at the state park beach at Asseteague for the past 7 years while on vacation. I have had no problems and have found some nice things

 

[smokeythecat]

Go to Ocean City, more tourists, more gold, no hassles. It isn't far.

 

[ron lord]

I have detected at the state park beach at Asseteague for the past 7 years while on vacation. I have had no problems and have found some nice things

State Parks are not the same as a National Parks . National Park
are Fed. parks like Yellow Stone or everglade national Park.

 

[adamBomb]

I have detected at the state park beach at Asseteague for the past 7 years while on vacation. I have had no problems and have found some nice things

you cannot detect the state part from mem-labor day, otherwise its open. But thats also 1hr away from me...so if I were going there I would probably just go to ocmd

I am trying to find out where the park juristiction ends...is it in the water? or how far out?

 

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I am at Chincoteague Island VA this week where my family owns a home. It is illegal to detect on Assateague island and they can confiscate your detector if you are caught along with a fine...but is it illegal to detect in the water? At what point does the metal detecting restriction end? Water line? 100ft out? Anyone know for sure? I will ask a park ranger but I am not sure they will know and will probably just say no.

IANAL - so this advice is worth exactly what you paid. But this may help in your search. My guess is that the boundary is half-mile out from the high tide line. But you can look at the map and read the founding Act.

https://www.nps.gov/asis/planyourvisit/upload/parkmap.pdf

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/89/s20/text

Good luck. Enjoy the ponies.