you are all doing a good job at super-dissecting the legal issues here. Ie.: public versus private, types-activities one-can-legally do, blah blah blah. All that stuff can be discussed and dissected till the cows come home! So why don't we all just cut to the chase, and apply the following test of whether we can md ANY given type of location:
It's called the "Does anyone really care?" test.
We have those low-income subsidized housings (apt. complexes) here in my city, that date to the late 1940s/early '50s. They may or may not be "HUD", I dunno. Anyhow: They tore a bunch down several years ago. Since it took awhile for the tennants to all move out, there was a period of many months where the complexes sat vacant and boarded up. We "helped ourselves" to the lawns and got a lot of silver. We could have "knocked ourselves silly" debating the various legal ownerships, rules, etc.... of those specks of land, if we'd wanted. But since no one cared less, well .... no one cared less.
Well, I suppose if we'd asked long enough and hard enough of enough desk-bound pencil pushers somewhere, that: Yes, we could have found someone who "cared less" (and could have said "no"). But seriously now folks, SO TOO can the same be said of ANY PLACE we all hunt. There's not a place in the world you or I can hunt, that I bet I can't find someone, somewhere, in a position of authority, to say "you can't do that". So there comes a point where you have to grow-a-set and just go sometimes.
