Friends of Secret Beach
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- See also Seattle Free Beach Campaign (wiki site) and the official pictoral site at SeattleBeaches.org.
- See also Seattle Swims (wiki site) and the official pictoral site at SeattleSwims.org for other Seattle Swim events.
- See also Friends of Disco Beach.
- See also Magnuson Beach Bares.
This park features a beach and sunning area in the Greater Seattle Area. The beach has seen a rise in clothing-optional and topfree use. Fairly well known by local naturist, nudists, neighbors and the City of Seattle (Seattle Police Department and Seattle Parks & Recreation). No parking in the immediate area. There is a clothing-optional user group that helps maintain the area by picking up trash, often left by partying teenagers. Many beach users ask that the location and name of this park not be publicized to help keep the gawker/pervert population as low as possible. Other problems described are over-full garbage cans. One user has claimed that during warms months, "weekends are a nice mix of male & female and weekdays are 99% male".
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[edit] Events
[edit] Upcoming
- See also PNW calendar for other events
- Work parties - stay tuned
- July 14, 2007 4th Annual World Naked Bike Ride Seattle
- July 29, 2007 Sun 2nd Annual Potluck/BBQ Social with the Magnuson Beach Bares and NAC
- August 11, 2007 Free Body Culture Camp at the Sustainability Arts Festival at Magnuson Park
[edit] Previous
- This park was the location of World Naked Gardening Day Seattle 2007 activities. Seven were in attendance.
[edit] Projects for the park
[edit] Ongoing
[edit] Atmosphere
- Promote safe, positive, family-friendly, non-sexualized atmosphere. Nude is not lewd! Educate users and enforce values.
- Keep the gawker/pervert population as low as possible.
- Encourage equal gender and age use of the park. Currently, during warms months, "weekends are a nice mix of male & female and weekdays are 99% male".
- Maintain some level of privacy from road using native plants
- Discourage camping
[edit] Community
- Maintain good relations with the neighbors.
- Maintain communication with government officials. We have had a meeting before with neighbors and Parks & Rec staff.
- Network with other local beach groups. Promote local events.
- Network with naturist and nudist organizations.
[edit] Trash
- Our user group that helps maintain the area by picking up trash (broken glass), often left by partying teenagers.
- Tell Parks maintenance when we have over-full garbage cans.
- Pull illegal dumps out of bushes
[edit] Gardening
- Keep grass healthy. Soil unfortunately is quite poor due to the fact that the shoreline area used be lake bottom.
- Keep plants watered that need watering (bring a bucket to use the lake water).
- water newly-planted raspberry plasts (May 2007)
- Pull invasive plants (english ivy, blackberry, clematis, morning glory)
- We pulled out a blackberry patch in May 2007, but we need to dig it out and prepare the area for grass seeding
- Maintain some level of privacy from road with native plants
- Come up with a landscaping proposal for Parks to help maintain privacy perhaps with a volunteer flower bed toward the bottom entrace to the sunning area.
[edit] Seattle Free Beach Campaign
- See also Seattle Free Beach Campaign (wiki site) and the official pictoral site at SeattleBeaches.org.
There currently are no officially-designated clothing-optional or nude beaches in the Greater Seattle area. However, there are several beaches and areas in public parks that are quietly being used clothes free by significant numbers of responsible citizens. Some people feel that these areas should not be publicized. Other areas, especially high-visibility locations, are only used nude during highly-publicized events.
We need to keep our momentum going, get even more organized and on the ball and approach Seattle the right way to get an officially designated beach for our use.
[edit] Getting involved and contact info
[edit] Keep SFBC informed
[edit] Fill out the Web form
To indicate you are interested in working with SFBC to create a clothing-optional beach in the Greater Seattle area, please fill out the form at the SeattleSwims.org web site using the form on the right side of the page. Make sure you select "SFBC" from the pull-down menu and put in your e-mail address.
[edit] E-mail contact info
You can also contact organizers via e-mail at
[edit] SFBC Wiki discussion page
Discuss issues, encounters, experiences, concerns, and suggest changes for this site on the Talk:Seattle Free Beach Campaign page.
[edit] Seattle Beaches Discussion Group
Join the Seattle Beaches Yahoo! Group for broader discussion and information about promoting the development of clothing-optional beaches in Seattle.
[edit] Organizations involved
We are very lucky in the Greater Seattle area to have many different groups working together towards a common goal. Each group has a slightly different focus and approach to doing things.
[edit] Public nude use of public Puget Sound locations
- See Washington places Includes beaches, parks and outdoor community spaces. Also discusses development of clothing-optional areas.
[edit] Coverage
There has been quite a bit of coverage in the press and media, blogging, journals and newswire concerning Seattle Free Beach advoacy-focused or related topics.
- See SFBC coverage for a comprehensive listing.
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Nudists share the naked truth" by Kery Muraka. Tuesday, July 4, 2006. Local news. The online version is also available at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/276327_nude04.html Interview with Mark Storey about Seattle Free Beach Campaign, public nudity, nudity in Seattle parks, BFC's Beach Rally in 2004 at Discovery Park, mention of World Naked Gardening Day.
[edit] Comments
- Person #1: I've been going to that park since the mid 80's, I guess that makes me one of the old-time regulars. Up until a couple of years (maybe only last year) the dynamics of the beach hadn't changed much. Almost everyone knew each other or at least recognized all of the regulars, all the perv's were also recognized and were sent away or embarrassed until they left on their own. Most beach users were also sensitive to their surroundings and acted accordingly - (cover up when an unexpected family or neighbor arrived). It's a very small park and everyone respected each other's space.
- Well I'm no longer a regular, the park has changed as I guess many things will. The quiet little park is no more. Was it the clear-cut at Sandpoint or are there that many more people? Some people think that there is strength in numbers, here it will be the death of this park.
- Person #2: This park is still being used as of last summer...however there isn't any room for it to become "popular" as it will lead to complaints with the overflow. The beauty of it is the quiet regulars. I was speaking with ***** about this park last year and she commented that she often used it au natural or sometimes with a G string. She did mention that there was a bit of a perv factor that was keeping the girls from coming out to it more... hence my desire to keep this one discussed in abstract without directions..
[edit] Other beach & public lands resources
- The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Annual Guide to Nude Beaches Now in its 30th year.
- Black's Beach Bares A group of beach users dedicated to the clothing optional use of Black's Beach [in San Diego, CA].
- Bay Area Naturists A loosely-knit collection of people in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas.
- The Naturist Society (TNS) has been a leader in promoting body acceptance and nude recreation for more than 20 years.
- South Florida Free Beaches/Florida Naturist Association The creators and mentors of the clothing-optional Naturist family beach at Haulover Beach Park in Miami-Dade County. SFFB/FNA's mission is to secure the establishment and protection of public clothing-optional beaches, parks and recreation areas, and to promote and defend the concept and ideals of Naturism.
- B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation Beach Education Advocates for Culture, Health, Environment & Safety Foundation Institute, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) federally tax-exempt nonprofit educational corporation. B.E.A.C.H.E.S.'s four goals for our public beaches are explicit in its name: cultural diversity, public health, environmental conservation, and beach safety. While within the context of cultural diversity, B.E.A.C.H.E.S. is a strong advocate for designated public naturist beaches, it is equally an advocate for an equitable shared usage of beach resources by all user groups, insofar as a particular usage is not in conflict with the four goals of the foundation. To achieve these ends, B.E.A.C.H.E.S. aims at establishing amicable and mutually beneficial working partnerships with government, business, and the public.
- BeachFront U.S.A. is a nudist activist organization, the oldest in the United States, founded in 1973. It is "dedicated to challenging the state's right to enforce statutory dress-codes at inappropriate places, such as our ocean beaches, where people go expressly to be free from the demands of garmentry," to quote the banner of its newsletter, The Free Beach News.
[edit] Manners
Nude is not lewd! Use common sense - mind your manners!
Humans are sexual beings, but being naked is not an indication or an invitation for overt sexual behavior. Respect peoples' bodies and their personal space. Families and individuals deserve to be able to enjoy clothing-free activities without being confronted with undesirable or unexpected behavior including: (a) Unwanted sexual advances, excessive gawking, harassment, abuse, or other forms of predatory behavior; (b) persecution for being naked; (c) being subjected to someone else's overtly sexual activities; or (d) being the principal focus of someone else's photography/videography without consent.
[edit] Environmental stewardship
Be a good steward of the environment - leave no trace! We take our responsiblity to take care of the environment seriously. We always have a beach cleanup after our events.
Our events never produce much trash (if any at all). We like to leave the sites even cleaner than we found them.
Please remember that body-paint, costumes, or any other "flair" worn in the water should be non-toxic and should not break apart in the water or on the beach. Please remember to pack out all your belongings and garbage with you.
