Metal detecting in Manatee County, Florida
Quick answer: there is no county-wide permission assumption. These verified records show the controlling managing agency, legal status, permit/recovery pathway and verification evidence for specific places in Manatee County, Florida.
8 verified records in this scope.
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Map meaning: verified coordinate pins identify independently grounded public visitor/access reference points. Query-only records can be resolved on demand as temporary provider search matches; sensitive records use a deliberately broader agency/locality query. Temporary search matches are not stored as verified coordinates. No map mode is a property boundary, detecting zone, archaeological target, or permission boundary.
Wingate Creek State Park
Florida State Parks prohibits metal detecting on state park lands except certain coastal beach areas designated by a park manager. This record has no current verified qualifying manager-designated coastal detecting beach, so ordinary recreational…
Passage Key National Wildlife Refuge
FWS states Passage Key NWR is closed to all public use. Recreational metal detecting is therefore not an authorized public activity.
De Soto National Memorial
Metal detecting is prohibited under 36 CFR §2.1 in this National Park Service area. The mapped coordinate is a public visitor/access reference point only and does not expose a search target, artifact location, archaeological…
Lake Manatee State Park
Florida State Parks currently prohibits metal detecting on state park lands except certain coastal beach areas when designated by the park manager. No current manager-designated detecting-beach exception is established for this park record, so…
Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park
Florida State Parks prohibits metal detecting on state park lands except certain coastal beach areas designated by a park manager. This record has no current verified qualifying manager-designated coastal detecting beach, so ordinary recreational…
South Fork State Park
Florida State Parks prohibits metal detecting on state park lands except certain coastal beach areas designated by a park manager. This record has no current verified qualifying manager-designated coastal detecting beach, so ordinary recreational…
Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site
Florida State Parks prohibits metal detecting on state park lands except certain coastal beach areas designated by a park manager. This record has no current verified qualifying manager-designated coastal detecting beach, so ordinary recreational…
Terra Ceia Preserve State Park
Florida State Parks prohibits metal detecting on state park lands except at coastal parks, where detecting may occur only in certain beach areas between the toe of the dune and the high-water line as…