Nose Hill provincial Park has been used as a within city limits hiking spot for naturists for years and is in a sort of legal grey area and can be legally justified with a lawful excuse. Many sports utilize parks for summer training and parks are used for many ethical purposes. Lawful excuse is not comprehensively defined, but rather evolves over time based on case law and the circumstances of the moment. The introduction of the “lawful excuse” provision introduces the opportunity for a defendant to provide evidence that could meet “an air of reality threshold test” and therefore allow an acquittal.
Sunny Chinooks Camping Association has a landed campground for members near Sundre.[9]
British Columbia has thousands of kilometres of coastline and thousands of lakes, as well as millions of hectares of natural parks and undeveloped land. The vast majority of these areas are mostly uninhabited and nude swimming and sunbathing can be done with little concern for disturbing others. In the populated areas, particularly the Lower Mainland, Greater Victoria, and the Okanagan, nudity is generally practiced only in certain established or isolated locations (usually beaches) and on private properties.
Quebec has its own "Fédération québécoise de naturisme" (Quebec Naturism Federation). As the only French-speaking province in Canada, it has the distinction of having its own federation of francophones naturists.[38]
There are no officially recognized nude beaches in the province, but there are places that have secluded areas where nudity is accepted.[39]
Plage Anse Tarare (Beach) The naturist beach of Saint-François in Guadeloupe is Anse Tarare. It is the only officially naturist beach on the island. It is located near Pointe des Châteaux.
Plage naturiste de Sainte-Rose (Beach) other naturist beach.
Domaine naturiste Lizardy (Nudist hotel Bungalows)[55][56]
Toplessness is permitted on all beaches on the French side of the island, but many secluded beaches attract nude sunbathers.
The Jardin d'O is a couples-only clothing-optional resort located between Grand Case and Orient Bay.[60]
Kazanu is an adult-only clothing-optional (An adult-only Clothing optional stay).[61][62]
Orient Bay Beach (Baie Orientale) includes an official nude south section [63][64]
Residence Adam & Eve is an adult-only clothing-optional resort located at Orient Bay close to the nude beach. Nude catamaran sailing cruises are also available.[65]
While public nudity is not legally accepted, it is tolerated at resorts and private places if practiced discreetly. Paya Bay Resort in the Bay Islands has clothing optional beach at certain times during the year.[67]
Beach nudity in Playa Zipolite, Mexico is legal.[69] Elsewhere, Mexican law condemns only "immorality" and thus the issue ends up being a matter of the judge's criteria.
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
Destilerías, Nayarit, north of Puerto Vallarta and Bucerías, has a beach where nudity is "tolerated."
Zipolite, Oaxaca
As of 2016, Playa Zipolite is Mexico's first legal nude beach.[69][70] Annually since 2016, on the first weekend of February, Zipolite has hosted Festival Nudista Zipolite[71] organized by the Federación Nudista de México.[72]
Hotel Nude,[73] Zipolite's first nude-optional resort[74]
CAMP,[75] clothing-optional hostel and gathering center
Tulum, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo
AZULIK[76] is a clothing-optional resort in Tulum. Beside Papaya Playa Project,[77] its beach is accessible for nude sunbathing.
Intima Resort (formerly Mak Nuk), nude resort in the town of Tulum[78]
Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, has beach areas where topless sunbathing occurs, especially at Playa Norte.
Black's Beach in La Jolla, San Diego is one of the largest and most-visited nude beaches in the United States. The northern part of the beach is in a state park where nudity is officially permitted, while the southern part is on city property where nudity is illegal but somewhat tolerated.
San Francisco has traditionally tolerated public nudity to a greater degree than anywhere else in California. A law passed by the city council in the fall of 2012 and which went into effect in February 2013 made public nudity an infraction outside of a few designated areas. Female toplessness remains legal throughout the city.[108]
Female toplessness is allowed in the cities of Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins, since these cities do not make any distinction between female toplessness and male bare chested.[116] On February 15, 2019, The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Free the Nipple as to female toplessness being equal to male toplessness. This decision legalized female toplessness in the state.[117]
Dakota Hot Springs (formerly known as "The Well"),[118] in Penrose
Female toplessness is allowed throughout the state, since Maine's law only prohibits the public exposure of the genitals. Local ordinances may restrict toplessness and nudity.[190]
Simple nudity in Montana is not necessarily against the law, but nudity can be considered indecent exposure if accompanied by any sexual activity or any activity intending to affront or alarm another or for sexual gratification. However, many towns and municipalities have separate ordinances restricting nudity within town and city limits.
The Oasis 33, a clothing-optional retreat in southeast Montana[221]
Las Vegas Naturists, a private clothing-optional resort, allowing only couples and adults
The Mirage's poolside lounge "Bare" in which guests can go topless.[225] This is one of the few hotel pools in Las Vegas that allow female toplessness.[226]
Sea Mountain Nude Resort and One Love Temple in Las Vegas Strip, a couples-only lifestyle club and spa[227]
Gunnison Beach in Sandy Hook, a part of the National Park Service's multi-state Gateway National Recreation Area, is a clothing-optional beach and is the largest such beach in the Northeastern United States. Gunnison Beach also has a prominent gay nudist area, one of the most popular gay beaches in New Jersey.[230] In 1999, New Jersey passed a law a bill that prohibits all types of nudity on state or municipal beaches, making Gunnison Beach the only legal nude beach in the state, since it is on federal land not subject to state or municipal regulations.[231] Gunnison Beach offers dramatic views of Brooklyn and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and is officially recognized as clothing-optional with permanent park signs and full lifeguard and police protection.[36][232]
Due to a 1992 Court of Appeals ruling (People v. Santorelli et al.), women may be topless anywhere in the state of New York for non-commercial purposes. (A concurring minority opinion reached the constitutional, i.e., equal rights issue, but the majority decision did not.)
Alice Falls in Keeseville, family-friendly nude sunbathing
"(a) Unless the conduct is punishable under subsection (a1) of this section, any person who shall willfully expose the private parts of his or her person in any public place and in the presence of any other person or persons, except for those places designated for a public purpose where the same sex exposure is incidental to a permitted activity, or aids or abets in any such act, or who procures another to perform such act; or any person, who as owner, manager, lessee, director, promoter or agent, or in any other capacity knowingly hires, leases or permits the land, building, or premises of which he is owner, lessee or tenant, or over which he has control, to be used for purposes of any such act, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor."[245]
"The statute does not define what constitutes a private part, so the courts have dictated that it refers to genitals, but it does not include a person’s buttocks or a woman’s breast."[246]
Public nudity is generally legal in Oregon, unless it is part of a commercial venture or intended to induce sexual excitement. Some parts of Oregon (including Portland, Eugene, Ashland and Happy Valley) have local laws prohibiting public nudity. However, Oregon law defines nudity as displaying genitals, hence both men and women are allowed to be topfree in public throughout the state.[257][258]
Alpenglow Ranch Clothing Optional B&B and Resort in Bend part of Clothing Optional Home Network and AANR-affiliated[259]
Texas has no laws forbidding female toplessness, although in most parts of the state topless women may be charged with disorderly conduct. Austin tolerates female toplessness within its city limits.
Vermont state law prohibits disrobing in public but does not prohibit public nudity, so nudity is allowed anywhere that it has not been specifically prohibited by a city or town. The act of disrobing is often referred to as "you can leave the house nude in Vermont, but you can't take your clothes off", but this is not always the case, as the public view clause does not prohibit the simple act of changing clothes out of view, such as in a forest or at a swimming hole. The city of Burlington, for example, has prohibited nudity in public parks, but nudity is allowed anywhere else in the city, such as the longtime University of Vermont tradition of a semester's end naked bike ride around parts of the campus.[284] Vermont's numerous rural swimming holes encourage the practice of nudity by skinny dipping, and the comparitively loose laws about exposure within the state reduce any legal conflicts or police interactions concerning nudity. While this means that realistically almost any public space in Vermont can be used for nude recreation, specific locations at which individuals deliberately are welcomed to practice social nudity include:
Coventry Club and Resort in Milton[285] former family-oriented nudist resort
The Gargoyle House[286] in Wells River, a male-only clothing-optional retreat
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