rreahard
Jr. Member
- Mar 29, 2016
- 80
- 36
- Detector(s) used
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Garrett AT Pro,
White's Bullseye TRX
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Anyone ever detect neutral grounds or curb strips in New Orleans? Any laws/ordinance against this? Thanks.
If you consider Esplanade neutral ground, bring your "pooper scooper".
If you consider MLK blvd neutral ground, bring your Harbor Freight detector, plus friend with weapons.
I am a newbie to this hobby and live in the outskirts of New Orleans. I called the city and the parks and rec department to ask where metal detecting was allowed. They told me it was allowed in City Park and Audubon Park, and everywhere else was off limits. If I was caught detecting anywhere besides those 2 areas - she said that included any other park, school, university, playground, neutral ground, river walk, biking or jogging trail, ball field, sidewalk, parking lot or festival grounds - it would be a $25.00 fine.
I do a lot of detecting in New Orleans. I wish I could go into some of the older areas, but I'd get robbed and/or killed. But I do go to City Park as well as Audubon Park and never hit anything old.....yet :]. I live on the North Shore, I went into Old Covington last week and thought outside the box. I metal detected the small strips of grass in between the street and the sidewalks.....yes I was embarrassed to say the least. I then got a solid 89 on the AT Pro 8 inches deep, I went for it. About 7 inches down I started feeling weird because the ground was getting harder to dig to where I almost gave up. Thank God I didn't. Out popped a Spanish 1829 8 Reales, I almost died right there in front of a lawyer's office. Moral of the story is sometimes you gotta go where most won't and you many get the find of a lifetime. I'm still floating on air. Don't stop digging and don't ask the people working for New Orleans anything due to the fact that they are mostly brain dead.