State Gold Locations

The places listed below are user submitted gold prospecting locations. Things change over time - these places may or may not still be open. Be sure to fill your holes, pick up your trash and don't trespass. We are losing good spots all the time.

We really need more info on this state! If you know of any other prospecting locations in this or surrounding areas, please fill out this form. What we need here are fairly specific places like "downstream from where Highway 20 crosses Dry Creek". There are lots of books that say something like "The gold belt runs through ABC & XYZ Counties" or "Gold has been found in ABC River and some of its tributaries". That really doesn't say much about where YOU can find gold, private property issues or Forest Circus rules etc. Please use this form only for suggesting fairly specific places to be added to this page where new prospectors or folks visiting from other areas have a good chance of finding gold. Thank you

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Franklin County
From Matt
New hobby, first outting we only found a few flakes; Black Brook off Black Brk. Rd., off Rte.2. Also try the Cold River, also off Rte 2. Both streams are within Savoy and Mohawk state forests & parks. Black Brook offers a great hike starting w/ an approx. 60' waterfall, than trickles downstream through occasional shallow pools that hold native trout and salmon. Its a very scenic hike that concludes at a parking area on Rte 2 @ the Cold River. Lots of black sand in eddy holes behind the boulders. if nothing else just good family fun.

From David R .Jones
I am not a treasure hunter but I do love to poke arround in out of the way places. I am told that people do use the stream below my house to look for gold . There is a fair amount of quarts in the area as well as iron . I don't have the name of the streamb ut the location is south of Mount Greylock, on Outlook Ave, in the town of Cheshire, M . Read your history about this area. There are plenty of places to go poking around. You just have to do a little reading to figure out where things used to be. Have fun.

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