What is your favorite nude beach?

Black's.

Nudity is tolerated on the oceanside beach between Cherry Grove and The Pines or at least it was when I was there.

Not that crazy about the nude beach on the Toronto Islands. Isn't the water too polluted to actually swim in?

I'm a regular of Beaconia Beach and the nude section of Patricia Beach on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. They're fine but not as popular with gay men as they were 25 years ago. Unfortunately there is a problem with algae sometimes in the summer.

Playa del Hombre Muerto, Sitges Spain.

Playa del Hombre Muerto? Dead Man's Beach? charming name

But what’s the price of gas currently?

Not sure what that has to do with this thread, R5.

R3, nice!

Mitch kissed me there for the first time after the seagull attack.

Who wears clothes at a beach.

[quote]Not sure what that has to do with this thread

It’s a reference to a long ago DLer named Cackle Cackle who would talk about the price of gas in Half Moon Bay.

R2 all the former Str8-Bi Dykes are hauling their crotchfruit out to Cherry Grove and ruining the beach. Is there anything women don’t ruin?

R11, some good ol'-fashioned man-on-man blowies usually keep the frames away!

Frauen not frame! ^^

Oh really, R2. That's too bad. I haven't been to Fire Island in years. I mean the stretch of beach between the two communities rather than Cherry Grove beach itself.

^^^ I meant R11.

Big jiggling willies and pert young bums!

I'd go to any of these.

Little Beach, Maui, Hawaii

Pretty funny that at the beginning of the video at R17, a straight couple is having sex when a train goes by nearby. Odd place for a nude beach.

Passengers on one side of the train had to pay extra for the entertainment.

I hate these things cause everyone there is fat n ugly

Haulover Beach near Miami is awesome. Lots of great looking guys. Met a few gorgeous South American guys there, and an Italian muscleman with a large bush I had to lay on my stomach while watching.

Most guys at nude beaches are past their prime, eg. over 50. Still there are some hot guys if you go on the weekend.

Black's Beach always has some lookers of various ages. ;)

The Portland gays on Sauvie Island deserve an honorable mention. Takes some commitment to be naked all the way up there. Brrrr.

For sheer beauty and size, it's got to beach Black's Beach in San Diego.

It's quite the climb down--and up the cliff, but it's a beautiful beach with a straight and gay section.

R3 Happy memories. Just booked a weekend there in April.

[quote]It's quite the climb down--and up the cliff....

That's one way to keep out older people 😆.

Plage de Saline, St. Barths

R21 You watch too much porn.

Truro, MA

Does Chicago have any nearby gay nude beaches? That sounds kinda hot.

What are Chicago men? Different from Rockford men?

R32, broader-shouldered! ;)

R25, a friend tried to convince me to take the goat trail that leads from the parking lot down to the gay side of Black's Beach. It looks eroded and treacherous to me!

Elia Beach on Mykonos!

The bottled water aisle.

Used to go to the nude part of the Abalone Cove State Beach (in or near Rancho Palos Verdes, near the Wayfarer's Chapel) in the mid-nineties. It, too, was a bit of a climb down. Don't recall that it was anything special but it was nice to have it there.

Wonder whether it is still a thing.

R37, unfortunately that beach is no longer clothing-optional. No nude beaches in LA County -- how strangely prudish.

I love Marshall Beach in SF, although it's a trek to get to. The unofficial gay nude beach, isn't it? The best views of the Golden Gate I've seen.

R30, where's the naked beach in Truro? Is it at one end of the coast guard beach? Does it get the spillover nakedness from P-town?

Tayrona Beach is the only nude beach in Colombia, and it's wild and sultry! Beware of cayman gators though.

Haulover

Don't tell me that if you live in L.A., you have to go all the way to More Mesa Beach in Santa Barbara or Black's Beach in San Diego to get naked. Aren't there any isolated, hard-to-get-to beaches near L.A.? Is everything so developed?

Favorite for years was Mazo in SW Wisconsin. It was secluded from the main channel of the Wisconsin River by a wooded sandbar. Beyond that in both directions was the main channel, then the wooded bluffs. Gorgeous. Water in the channel was a few feet deep at the most, so you could walk across or just stand in the channel. This pic from the internet is if you were looking upstream. If you zoom in, you can see the upper end of the sandbar on the left, then the channel entrance, then a couple sections of the beach. The two people in the water right in the middle are probably just standing. Low current. That's why on weekends every summer there would be a hundred or more people just out in the water, splashing around, Standing around talking to people. Meeting people from different states. Curious boaters floating in from the main channel 🤣🤣🤣

Fuck I miss that place.

Canada's Wreck Beach is across the street from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. It is considered North America's largest naturist beach. I've heard of hunky UBC students hanging out naked there.

[quote]In 2013, a bill passed closing the beach on weekdays. On March 8, 2016, the DNR closed the beach until further notice, citing illegal activity. The state is updating its master plan for redevelopment of the area, but Mazo beach was left out. Prior to the closure, it had been described as one of the "most popular nude beaches" in the country.

R44, it's sad that Mazo beach was closed down. How puritanical.

Exactly, r46. Essentially, the DNR used a small handful of people who were ticketed for sex or drugs to limit beach hours from daily to weekends only, then finally close it. They also said they were closing the beach to be redone as part of the Lower Wisconsin Waterway project several years ago, but from what I've heard, nothings happening. It's still closed, probably overrun with invasive weeds and vermin.

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R44, have nudists moved on to other places in Wisconsin or was Mazo Beach the only suitable place?

[quote] Don't tell me that if you live in L.A., you have to go all the way to More Mesa Beach in Santa Barbara or Black's Beach in San Diego to get naked.

R43, indeed, sadly. No nude beaches in LA. You have to either head north to Santa Barbara or south to San Diego. How bizarre for one of America's great sin cities.

Speaking of SD, San Onofre Beach is [italic]technically[/italic] no longer a nude beach. However, guys still sunbathe on the Camp Pendleton side of the fence that divides the military from the civilian beach. And there's probably no other nude beach like it. Naked men doing their thing on the shore, while military planes and ships practice maneuvers in the background!

Thanks for the interesting info, R50. Hopefully sexual activity is tolerated at San Onofre Beach as long as it's discreet (except to pilots).

I love less than an hour from San Gregorio beach and would like to check it out. I’m afraid to go to local nude beaches for fear of seeing a coworker

R52, if you ran into a coworker, then you both have a secret to keep. It's not like he's going to out you when he also goes to the nude beach.

From my experience, I've never run into anyone I know except for other gay men. My city has such a small gay community that there's a limited number of places for gay men to go to. I've never had a problem.

The mouth of Clam beach. Arcata California.

San Gregorio nude beach near Half moon Bay in California is beautiful, but given its location there can be a bit of a nip in the air. The problem with San Gregorio is that most people spend their day in these sort of dug-out holes or trenches in the sand. The trenches are big enough to lay out and sunbathe, but the trenches create sort of a desolate feeling at this beautiful beach. Not many people are lying on the sand or walking around; everyone is laying in these trenches to escape the cool air so you end up not seeing many people the entire day.

R34. The Goat Trail at the north end of Black's Beach in San Diego can get a bit shaky and eroded midpoint down the cliff, but if you take your time and are careful, it's manageable. But it does empty closer to the gay section of Black's.

If you'd prefer not to take the Goat Trail, you can take the trail beside the hang gliding port just south of the Goat Trail. The trail beside the hang gliding port is still a long way down, but it's a much more of a manageable walk down the cliff and not eroded. The problem is when you get down to the beach, it's a much longer walk to the gay section at the north end of the beach. If you plant your blanket on the part of the beach fairly close to the glider port trail, then you on the straight part of the beach. It's not an impossible walk on the beach to the gay section, but it just a longer trek.

I like Wreck Beach in Vancouver, British Columbia. It's a fun beach. People tend to sit close together given the size of the beach, but it's a great day at the beach. There's a gay section too. And the climb down the trail is easy and therefore not hard on the way up.

[quote]it's a much longer walk to the gay section at the north end of the beach

It’s only about another ten minutes.

R53 in high school, some friends went to the nude beach and saw one of the science teachers there. I have never gotten over that story.

Were your friends also nude, R59, given that they went to the nude beach, too?

R59, that seems like a very science teacher thing to do. Ha!

gunnerson, NJ

R49 I'm not sure. There was a Facebook group that gave regular updates when the beach was open (weather, conditions, events etc) but they don't share anything anymore since the beach closed. I know there are a hundred "unofficial" beaches with no name in Wisconsin, and a few campgrounds in the area. Some are "all lifestyle" or themed nude weekends (swingers, kink & fetish, bears etc)

R60. No. They were going for thrills because teens are idiots

Prudishness creeps.

Since others have expanded beyond traditional “beaches,” allow me to complain about Mohonk Preserve in the Hudson Valley. There had been a gay / nudist watering hole there for YEARS, and in fact, the deed stipulated that nude sunbathing was a traditional use of the area and should continue in perpetuity.

But the new Board of Mohonk does not care. They started sending park staff to “politely” ask people to put their clothes back on. I don’t care how polite you are, you are eliminating one of the few gay spaces in the entire region.

Last time I was at Six Mile Creek in Ithaca nudity still was in full swing, coexisting with the clothed teenagers who peridodically rampaged through, paying no apparent attention to the nakeds. Hope it hasn't changed.

Isn't it Gunnison Beach, NJ, R62?

Has anybody been to Zipolite Beach? It's the only nudist beach in Mexico.

Smugglers Cove/Abalone Cove/Pirates Cove in Ranchos Palos Verdes used to be rocking. Lots of action on the beach, in the water, and the bushes. By around 2000 though it was mostly gone. They started ticketing more, made access roads that made it easier to get to and the landslide movement made it less secluded. It really was an oasis of sort in LA County a cruise oasis. The trolls probably ruined it. It's easy to blame them.

Rock River in Vermont. Quiet, private, and wild life in the woods.

OP, are you talking the state beach or the private beach nearby? The private beach is nice. Crazy big and very cold but a great space.

R71, the private beach. Accessed via a gay couple's ranch, and paid a $5 or $10 fee? Very nice guys. I wonder if they're DLers, and I hope the beach stays gay and nude for decades to come.

Same, R72.

The day I went I also drove over to Filoli. It doesn't get much gayer than thaat.

R27 Where's the cliff? You approach the beach from the end of the Sitges promenade, walk over some ground until you hit the railway line and walk for perhaps a mile. The beach is marked by a large pride flag painted on the rock face. WALK DON TO THE BEACH. there are steps up to a cafe shack on top. No memory of people scaling steep cliff faces to get there.

Little Beach on Maui. I got to fuck some hot college jock (Trevor) who was in Hawaii with his family for the holidays and was bored out of his mind. His hole was amazing. He thanked me for an early Christmas present as I pumped him full of my gift.

I've been to Rock River in VT... very gay, very nude, very frisky. It's a drive, unless you live in southern VT. It's also quite the walk to reach, and a couple of parts are slippery on steeply angled rocks. But cock is cock and when you want to look at it in the sun or suck it off in the shady woods, a man does what a man does - walk.

I know of a small, delightful beach in western MA that for years has been gay and gay friendly to some straight couples and single women who want to spend some time in the sun nude. Some nice space in the sun along a river, a number of trails for walking and "walking." Unfortunately, it was invaded last summer by a group of swingers from Connecticut. A group of 20 or so fat, obese, and morbidly obese straights (many with really bad tats). They pile in, strip down and start going at it on the beach... gotta say, no straight guy wants to see one fat guy with his face buried between the legs of a fat chick. Yick.

I hpe they do not return in the coming season.

[quote] A group of 20 or so fat, obese, and morbidly obese straights (many with really bad tats). They pile in, strip down and start going at it on the beach...

I don't know if that sounds more hilarious or horrifying! 🤣

R74, I'm talking about Black's Beach in San Diego.

R58. I've done the walk many, many times. It's more than 10 minutes; it's longer walk. It's not impossible, and the hang gliding trail is an alternative to the goat trail. I was just trying to give an idea of the distance to those who have never to Black's before and are unfamiliar with the trails and the length of the beach.

Has no one on this thread yet mentioned Boy Beach in Provincetown? It's wall-to-wall neckidity with no end in sight. The downside is that it's at least a half hour walk to it from any direction.

^^They always make the gays walk forever just so we can show our cocks.

R58, the length of walk isn't too bad, but it can be more of a challenge if you're lugging all your beach-gear downhill. And what goes down must come up!

Anyone remember the nude beach at the far south end of Zuma Beach in Malibu? You had to climb over rocks to get to it. It wasn't too big. Then after that El Nino year all the rocks came down and no sand. What was it called? Paradise beach maybe?

R83, I had no idea Malibu once had a nude beach. Wow!

Manuel Antonio in Costa Rica.

Black's Beach has two things going for it that ensures a consistent supply of quality meat: nearby UC San Diego (if you like college twinks) and the military bases nearby! I'm pretty sure I hooked up with a few closeted military dad-types over the years... ya know, real stoic, button-up types, always rushing off after their fun...

Stinson Beach in Marin had a lovely nude beach. So appreciated. I love bring naked in the sun.

I got caught on Playa Playitas (the third gay beach in Manual Antonio in Costa Rica) when the tide came in and barely got out alive...Unsafe sex indeed!

Red Rocks Beach in the Marin Headlands used to be paradise until the trail down got impossible.

Red Rock Beach (same name, different beach) just south of Stinson Beach is just beautiful. Lots of straight people, no beach at high tide, and no place to play.

[quote] Last time I was at Six Mile Creek in Ithaca nudity still was in full swing, coexisting with the clothed teenagers who peridodically rampaged through,

It was not a beach, but I went camping up north with a group of gay men (30s through 60s) up in Mammoth Lakes, CA. There's a nearby hot springs that is clothing-optional and we all decided to go. When we got there, there was a group of late teens/college bros horsing around (in trunks of course).

And when we stripped down and surrounded them... let's just say, I've never seen a group of bros go so awkwardly silent before 😂. They didn't last much longer there afterwards!

I go nude wherever I want

Actually the Marin Headlands beach I was referring to [R88] is called Black Sands...Same as San Diego's beach's name. Senior moment.

I've had some very good times along Six Mile Creek in Ithaca. Glad to know that hasn't been ruined.

[quote] They started sending park staff to “politely” ask people to put their clothes back on.

I don't get why people who have hang-ups over nudity insist on going to clothing-optional places and then proceed to try to police things for the rest of us? What the hell? This is why we can't have nice things.

True, R93. Nude beaches are often in out of the way places that are hard to get to. People who want to go to clothed beaches have plenty of choices.

Is there any nude spot on Block Island?

Rooster Rock State Park

It's warm enough in Brighton and Copenhagen to go to the beach?

R97, nice bums

R97, I love that they caught the third guy gawking at them in that shot.

I swear I know that third, gawking guy.

Brazil supposedly has some amazing ones.

R68 Yes. Zipolite is a gem.

It has been discovered by the gays though. A lot of sceney queenies on our last trip over Christmas and NYE. Kind of sad because they brought their cunty behavior over from Puerto Vallarta and Tulum (and NYC and LA).

There is even a gay gym now.

Both Western and Eastern ends are gay sections now, with Playa del Amor on the Eastern end effectively becoming an orgy after sunset. A surreal experience to have that freedom and hedonism under the stars against the violent Pacific.

My favorites have always been San Gregorio and Little Beach on Maui. I want to go to Sitges but haven't made it yet.