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Is it legal to hunt parks in Maine?

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psyvad

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I'll be in Portland Maine working next week but will have about 6 hours of free time on Saturday before my flight leaves, so I thought I'd bring the detector along. Does anyone know if it's okay to detect parks like Fort Allen, Back Cove, Edward Payson and Deering Oaks? Are the beaches okay too?

Thanks,
Bart
 
I would look up there parks Dept.
 
As a general rule yes. The one sticky issue is Portland. There has been a long on going battle over this. While the city has never made it illegal the parks department will threaten you with arrest for vandalism. No one has even been arrested to my knowledge. The parks department in Portlad was run by a few nazis as far as I am concerned...and they were about as fanatical.
That being said, check with the local town offices. I lived in souther Maine for 20 years( moving back this spring actually) and I never had any problems. Only Portland....and that city has been slammed hard by us locals so stuff is hard to find.
There is a very old park in Biddeford that dates from the late 1780's....great park to hunt. Been hammered hard but it is a huge forrest on a hill and many out of the way spots will still give up old silver..many reales came from this park. When I am bored and couldn't think of a place to go i would pop over there and hit it..always came out with something old.
I have hunted many of the small town parks without any issues. Be polite...be neat..stay out of cemeteries..obviously.
Funny thing is..if you ask..the person answering probably won't know. So asking is a double edged sword.
Beaches are fine as a general rule but..unless there has been a strong storm within the past few days the sand will be deep and nothing is usually found.

scott
 
Police said it was OK but parks department employee threatened me with charges of defacing public property. They were nice about it and directed me to detect some nearby beach instead.
 
Hope you do well . . . . . . . and avoid frost bite :detecting:
 
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