April Field Guides by State
Use April as the timing layer, then choose the exact state route for mushrooms, fossils, or metal detecting instead of guessing from a continent-wide average.
Every state has three category pages in this month, which means the fastest route is now month, then state, then discipline.
States covered
50
one hub page per state for this month
Categories per state
3
mushrooms, fossils, and metal detecting
Visible targets
examples pulled from live month-state guides
Discipline-first routes
Use April to compare categories before you commit to a state.
These boards keep the month fixed and surface the strongest states per discipline, which is useful when timing matters but the destination is still flexible.
50 guides
Mushroom Foraging
50 guides
Fossil Hunting
Metro radar
City hubs worth opening in April.
These city hubs align with April conditions and work as faster local entry points when you already know the metro but still need category-level timing.
54 local pages
Los Angeles, California
Best windows: January, February, March. Targets: Burn Morel, Pacific Golden Chanterelle, White Chanterelle.
54 local pages
San Diego, California
Best windows: January, February, November. Targets: Burn Morel, Pacific Golden Chanterelle, White Chanterelle.
54 local pages
San Francisco, California
Best windows: January, February, November. Targets: Burn Morel, Pacific Golden Chanterelle, White Chanterelle.
54 local pages
San Jose, California
Best windows: January, February, March. Targets: Burn Morel, Pacific Golden Chanterelle, White Chanterelle.
54 local pages
Jacksonville, Florida
Best windows: March, April, October. Targets: Smooth Chanterelle, Phoenix Oyster, Yellow Staining Mushroom.
54 local pages
Chicago, Illinois
Best windows: May, June, September. Targets: Yellow Morel, Black Morel, Half-Free Morel.
Choose a state
Start with the geography, then pick the discipline.
Each state hub bundles the three category routes for April, plus quick links to laws, nearby city pages, and follow-on planning pages.
Southeast Piedmont
Alabama
Desert Southwest
Arizona
Ozarks
Arkansas
California Coast
California
Central Rockies
Colorado
New England
Connecticut
Mid-Atlantic Coast
Delaware
Florida Peninsula
Florida
Southeast Piedmont
Georgia
Upper Midwest
Illinois
Upper Midwest
Indiana
Upper Midwest
Iowa
Appalachians
Kentucky
Mid-South Rivers
Louisiana
New England
Maine
Mid-Atlantic Coast
Maryland
New England
Massachusetts
Great Lakes
Michigan
Great Lakes
Minnesota
Mid-South Rivers
Mississippi
Ozarks
Missouri
Northern Rockies
Montana
Desert Southwest
Nevada
New England
New Hampshire
Southwest Highlands
New Mexico
Appalachians
North Carolina
Prairie Lakes
North Dakota
Interior Northeast
Ohio
Pacific Northwest
Oregon
Northeast
Pennsylvania
New England
Rhode Island
Atlantic Barrier Islands
South Carolina
Great Plains
South Dakota
Appalachians
Tennessee
Southern Plains
Texas
New England
Vermont
Mid-Atlantic Coast
Virginia
Pacific Northwest
Washington
Appalachians
West Virginia
Great Lakes
Wisconsin
Northern Rockies
Wyoming
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