Looking for info - old swimming holes, picnic groves, fair grounds or anything old. (Bowman: homes)

[Minelab_man]

I am looking for information on any old areas where people gathered like picnic groves, swimming holes, fairgrounds, carnival areas or anything else. I love metal detecting and need some new places to detect. Thanks for any help you can give em.

[magiccity]

The best areas that I know of is abandoned farmsteads or where there are a lot of trees around that used to be a homestead. In the backyard of an old farmstead, I found a U.S. Calvary spur.

[c0ldfuse]

I would suggest going into large parking lots as the snow is melting and checking the big piles. Think about what people could have dropped during the winter that has been pushed up into that snowbank.

[soundforlanguage81]

The only time I've ever played around with a metal detector was on a friends property outside of Bowman, ND. We found all kinds of stuff on what used to be a farmstead (nothing there now except what is buried): OLD coins, Bullets, thousands of nuts, bolts and shotgun shells...we only covered an acre or so, but I can only imagine what else we could have run upon.

[TravisW]

Buffalo Lake campground, off highway 19 west of Esmond, ND.