Public places

drewspades · Apr 4, 2012

Ok, so I am assuming that most public places are free game for hunting without the need to acquire permission such as parks, beaches, rivers, streams, lakes, and public trails. am I assuming correctly?

what other kinds of add ball places should I consider as good places to MD without needing permission.

Abandoned lots or property?

does anyone have advice on where research old maps, trails, points of interest? I guess I can Google the history of some places here in California, but obtaining an old map replica of old towns and trails would be awesome.

drewspades · Apr 5, 2012

Look what I found, I often go hear when its hot, I live 30 minutes away from White Water. looks like a potential place to find some gold nuggets. There are also many spots where people sit relax and spend the day, I may also be able to find some lost jewelry here.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/california/86294-whitewater-canyon-gold-cabazon-2.html

CASPER-2 · Apr 5, 2012

LET GOOGLE BE YOUR FRIEND
Ghost Towns of California
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Tom_in_CA · Apr 5, 2012

drewspades, you are right about your summization of public spots. If there's no prohibitions, then ....... there's no prohibitions

As for areas by you to detect, I would distance myself from any of the typical "ghost town" type coffee-table tourist books. Most any of those that those glossy books list, are simply tourist-traps, all gussied up. Or have been totally ransacked with 4-wheelers, modern junk, etc... The better spots to find are going to be the spots with the least amount written about them, and/or the least accessible, etc... The less modern influence, the better (so as not to have introduced reams of bullets, beer cans, junk, etc....). And if you see any old-town urban demolitions in the down-town districts of towns near you, get in on those when they scrape off the surface debri (hopefully they don't scrape *too* deep though

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Not sure about nuggets (as that is a totally different venue of detecting/type) but there should be a lot of old camp-spots in the hills near you. A good place to practice, is old church camps, scout camps, and any such campgrounds like that (preferably abandoned and un-used since the early 1960s).

As far as swimming areas, yes, if you can work the sandy beaches (and preferablly even into the water itself) is good for jewelry losses.