St. Augustine

[hoser]

A few years ago, I used this map for South Higgins Lake state park. Map shows the entire park proper open to detecting. Wife and I was hunting the campground area when a park ranger came up and told us to leave as detecting wasn't allowed in the campground area. I tried to tell him we were legal to hunt there but he got a little heated and said we would be banned if we didn't leave. I went to the park office and asked the head ranger what the deal was, and he informed me we were perfectly fine. He called the ranger in the office and after a rather short chat we got a profound apology and went back to hunting. I never saw that ranger again.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

The State of Michigan has a website that is just about detecting in state parks.

There is a list of what parks completely disallow detecting. It is perhaps one third of the parks.

Sometimes when persons have gotten hold of any such source like that ^ ^ , for their state's "state parks", they have mistakenly assumed it meant : "All parks in the state" (as in : Border-to-border). But that's not the case. It's strictly for state run administered parks. And has no bearing on federal, county, city, or private land. Heck, it also has no bearing on other forms of state land. Only state PARK land. Because not all state owned land is state PARK land.

Yet the inclusion of the word "state" in there, has made some people think these mean : "Entire state"

Also, the various compendiums, where persons in the past have attempted to make a book or website list of all the 50 state's State Park policies regarding md'ing, has many of the states where ...... it is rather questionable. Ie.: You have to "read between the lines" on some of them. But that's the subject for another post. Doh !

 

[hoser]

Trust me when I say that most if not all Michiganders definitely know the difference between the different parks here in our great state Tom. Guidelines for attending the many different STATE owned parks is pretty concise and straight forward and the rules and regs are listed. I've yet to find one that has gray areas. The people that have issues with our state parks are the ones who push the envelope and try to get away with doing things that go against written park rules. The state also owns and maintains what is called State forest campgrounds. These are not formal state parks as they are of a primitive nature. More wooded sites, pit toilets instead of flush toilets and no hot water showers. In other words, no full hookups. But the rules also apply to these parks as well. IMHO if someone goes to let's say; https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/places/state-parks with the intent on finding ways to "outfumble" the system, that would be time better spent swinging a coil in a place that it's legal and OK to detect.

 

[AlpoRanch]

No, I read the local laws. Kinda like I hope you do in Ka. But I do know one who is in that area.
Why; do you? The Treasure Coast has a lot of differing laws and a lot of the water lands are leased to treasure hunters.

Fortunately St. Augustine is not in the Treasure Coast Zone. Hit the beach and have fun. Dunes are ALWAYS off limits anywhere in Florida.