I'm just north of you in the Two Rivers area.
What kind of detector are you going to get? I've been watching to see what the people in the videos are using. A lot have a Garrett. I have to take a look at prices, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QHWTM6B?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image

Was on Netflix and now on Amazon Prime. Humorous and entertaining.

I was gonna suggest the same.

That is the sweetest series and I actually learned stuff.

other crap. Tides, beach cleanup days and restorations make it even less likely you'll find something worthwhile around here.

I suspect you would be better off in the woods, but I really don't know.

Does pretty well after the fair leaves he hits fairground with his detector

So I would like updates on what you find over the summer!

If you listen real close you can almost hear the coins drop as the men are shouting and fumbling for their damn keys after a night on the town.

but still it was fun.

I carefully checked around the picnic tables and swing set. I found nothing of value.

Later, when I was dragging firewood back to the campsite, I found a quarter on the ground.

My Dad was running a metal detector at a park one day. After finding nothing of value, he was walking back to the car. He looked down to make sure he had turned the metal detector off, and found a baseball glove.

I lent my metal detector to a friend to look for his wife's wedding ring she lost by a boat ramp. While he was going around the place where they launched the boat, the wife called on the cell phone to tell him she found the ring in the kitchen.

I think metal detectors are great. I never leave home with one.

put different metal objects on the ground and get familiar with your metal detector and its settings. Have someone bury some items, and use your detector to find them. I saw on a show that when you get a beep that is promising, but you can't find it, put small amounts of dirt on top of the detector plate. If your item is in there, it'll beep again, If not, keep trying.

My relatives just visited the Two Rivers area this spring. Looks beautiful!

In fact, some of the neatest things would not show up since they contain no metal. My husband and I have found:
projectile points
scrapers
fossil shell casts
pottery dating from the 1800s through the 1970s just before we bought the farm
bottle piece - and most of a blue glass bottle
mayonnaise & mustard packets - (The people we bought from raised pigs and one son took home from his job at the steak house organic garbage which had mixed in condiment packets. Old plastic packets seem to last forever - we still find them in one piece with the torn corner still attached adn the print still legible.)
the little plastic stakes they'd put in steaks that say "well", "medium" and "rare"
one salt shaker complete with lid that we still use

The metal stuff we found: tools, an entire bed frame with mattress springs, most of a watch, lots and lots of nails and fence staples, bent forks and spoons, steak knife blades, cane grinder, and syrup vats (one whole, one cracked that is grown into a tree), farm equipment, wagon frame...

Carrying around a metal detector would just slow us down!

I lost a silver chain in the mud of a stock pond trying to rescue a stuck cow. we bought a detector to try and find it after the mud dried enough to walk on again. found a bunch of rusty barbed wire. never found the chain. husband has used it to locate old water lines. he has also found a lot of other old rusty metal. mildly interesting to look at (old wood stove legs and things like that) but they accumulate and start looking pretty junky rather quickly.

one detector for dry land, another for water detecting.

You don't want to confuse the two. Saltwater is not kind to electronics, neither is a soaking of freshwater.

Over the years I've found gold, silver, junque and all kinds of what the kids call relics now a days. No Civil War or Revolutionary War items tho..

Best money find. An 18 inch 14K gold figuero chain in ankle deep water. I've also found 22kt wedding bands and charms. Most of it, the gold, got sold for scrap

I've found over 50 rings of different composition,mostly silver (925) but a fair number of tungstun.

If you have access to parks and open spaces give it a shot. Remember that the more you spend on the equipment, the deeper and more sensitive it will be. Also, the more time you spend doing it, the more finds you'll make.

Most of all, have fun. BTW, if you live in a house that was built pre 1964, do a search of the yard. Silver coins were made until then and clothes dryers weren't invented yet. It's amazing what fell out of pockets on the washlines, and what fell out of pockets where people got out of their cars. National and State parks are usually off limits and the fines for disturbing the ground there can be crazy.

Good luck