This site is only about 5 minutes from my office, so I've been going here at to detect during my lunch hour. The park dates from sometime in the late teens or twenties - at that time it was a private amusement park.  It has been well detected by others over three years. I have put in almost 20 hours detecting in just this one little section of this downtown park. After all that amount of time, it finally feels like I've pretty much covered all of it. This part of the park only covers about 2 acres, which shows how much time one can put in when covering an area in detail. It is and is triangular in shape, and bounded on two sides by river,  the third side is a street. In this little section I have  averaged  a bit more than dollar in modern clad per hour of detecting time. Total change is about $25 bucks. I have also found one 14K wedding band, 5 sterling rings, one mercury dime and 4 wheat cents. This is an old park, but I honestly think most of the change here is stuff that has fallen out of the pockets of homeless folks sleeping here (America is a great country, even the homeless have change to loose).
HUNTING THIS SITE WITH THE MXT:
I think the soil here is underlain with river gravel, the soil  is about 3-4 inches deep, with pretty much a solid layer of pebbles below that.  This gives a lot of hotrock responses by the MXT, which chatters quite a bit here.  As far as trash, there is some, but it is not excessive.  My prefered setting on the MXT is to use the relic mode, alternate mode trigger forward, discrimination setting  at just under 4.

Like the Wingfield site above, this site is also only about 5 minutes from my office, and it adjoins to Wingfield, so I've been going here during my lunch hour as well. This park covers about 3-4 acres.  Though they are all in the same general place, this park has far fewer coins than the Wingfield site across the river. Total change was about $5 bucks - all was clad other than 2 wheat cents.  the playground site was fully pounded by others, I think I found 6 cents in that area.
HUNTING THIS SITE WITH THE MXT:
Conditions here are about the same as at Wingfield, just across the River. Gravels starting a few inches down,  with pretty much a solid layer of pebbles below that.  This gives a lot of hotrock responses by the MXT, which chatters quite a bit here.  As far as trash, there is some, but it is not excessive - bit less than across the river. Same as over there, my preferred setting on the MXT is to use the relic mode, gain at about 9, alternate mode trigger forward, discrimination setting  at just under 4. The 6x3 DD is preferred over the standard 950 because of its ability to pick coins out between iron junk, foil and hotrocks. 

This is the largest older park in town. I think the park dates from sometime in the thirties.  The park covers about 100 acres,   and is triangular in shape. I have in no way come close to fininshing off the opportunities in this place. There are picnic areas, playgrounds, ball fields, walking trails, meeting halls, monuments, a swimming pool and a number of other attractions.   The playgrounds have been pounded by others to the point that there is virtually nothing there. I find this is true in most of the playground areas of our local parks, so hunt under nearby shade trees instead. In this park I have  averaged  about 50 cents in modern clad per hour of detecting time - which is not all that great. Total change is about $10 bucks.
HUNTING THIS SITE WITH THE MXT:
I think the soil here is underlain with river gravel, the soil  is about 3-4 inches deep, with pretty much a solid layer of pebbles below that.  This leads to a lot of hotrock responses by the MXT, which chatters quite a bit here.  As far as trash, there is some, but it is not excessive. My preferred setting on the MXT is to use the relic mode, alternate mode trigger forward, discrimination setting  at just under 4. The 6x3 DD is preferred over the standard 950 because of its ability to pick coins out between iron junk, foil and hotrocks. Because coins do not sink down much, I have only set the gain at about 9.  Because the trash is not excessive, you could use the coin / jewelry program, I just prefer the relic mode for easy hunting in this type of place.