Favourite places for free range naturism

[Greenbare Woods]

My favorite places are close to home.  Time spent traveling is a big factor.   I would more often go naked in a local woods than a beautiful beach two hours away.  Sometimes I will travel to see the other place 2 hours away, but only occasionally. 

[Fellsnude]

Mostly we stay within an hour's drive of home, unless we're on a trip somewhere already, but that requires research to decide where is suitable for FRN.

One of my favourites is only 10-15 minutes drive, or 30 minutes on a bike, but Mrs F doesn't like to go there often, preferring more variety and fewer grass seeds in her socks once the grasses go to seed in mid-late summer. (No - we don't do barefoot.)

[Davie]

two of my favourite places must be a beach in North wales and the Berwyn's in North Wales. The Berwyns have fewer people about than popular Snowdonia and the beaches in this part of he world on Pen Llyn are fairly quiet especially during school term time.

Dave 

[nudewalker]

Within twenty minutes to an hour drive from my house I have access to two wildlife management areas, a state park and just across the border in the next state another state park, two state forests and a state game land. Weekdays and of course non-hunting seasons provide the best times. Early summer mornings provide the best opportunity on weekends.

[jbeegoode]

There are so many places that could be listed as favorites, but the weather, changes from season to season, time to time. In the summer, I'm drown to the alpine mountain deep forests and streams. The beaches are good any warm place, some better than others depending on convenience and fun, or a desire for solitude. In the colder months warm desert. I love the scrub forests around the base of the mountains and the canyons and anything new.

The Huachuca Mountain flowers are amazing after the monsoon season. They need to be timed carefully. The lightning is severe and dangerous, if that monsoon rain comes back and then the flowers can only last so long:

https://thefreerangenaturist.org/2019/01/02/carr-peakperfect/

https://thefreerangenaturist.org/2019/01/11/carr-peakperfect-part-ii/

Perhaps, my take on this thread will be "particularly precious times and paces"

I suppose that any place that I visit, don't want to leave, or decide that I need to spend a month or more at, are favorites.
Jbee

[JohnV]

I can thank my Dad for showing me the joys of getting naked. On family holidays to the Highlands, he and I would spend all day in the hills and as we returned to the car, finding a cascading Burn - ideally with a waterfall - was the perfect conclusion. He’d strip off, I’d follow suit and we’d plunge in the ice cold peaty water. With no towels, we’d lie on a rock to dry off in the sun and it felt so liberating and freeing. I was a youngster but it instilled a love of naturism and the joy of wearing nothing under a wide sky was so beautiful. Free range naturism is such a perfect description and while I don’t live in a place where it is easy to practice, places like Holkham Beach, where one can walk miles naked, makes me want to do cartwheels in the sand!

[Fellsnude]

JohnV - how many miles have you done naked at Holkham beach? It's a strange one, because although it's legal to walk miles there are signs put up by the landowners (of the part above the tide line) asking naturists not to go nude outside the recognised zone, which is about 1 mile long.

Do you live within easy reach of Holkham? We're a full day's drive away so it's only a possibility when we're staying in Norfolk.

[JohnV]

The signs advising the beach is naturist face those walking from Wells. I’ve no idea if there are signs at the western end but that’s been the direction I’ve walked. Aside from the off person doing the coastal walk, I have been the only one on the beach and while I haven’t measured the distance, it’s probably been a two mile round walk back to my towel. It’s that liberating freedom of having so much space, not being corralled in to a small controlled area that makes it so intoxicating! I used to live a good 2 hours drive away, so not exactly local (and on several occasions after arriving, I’ve found the beach covered by a chilly sea mist). Now moved further south, so not been to Holkham for a good five years. But the south has benefits with the beaches at Studland, Eastney beach at Portsmouth and both Yaverland and Rockne End on the Isle of Wight. But none deliver the sense of total freedom that Holkham gave me!

[jbeegoode]

The ocean does have that expansive view that goes somewhere out to infinity and accompanies any stroll. When there is access along a beach to accompany that as far as my feet might take me, that sense moves ashore. I remember that in Mexico along the coast of the Gulf of California. It is desert, so there are many miles where there are no humans. We are free and alone, safe as far as we see. We take as little as possible to be as naked as possible, surrendered in the hands of grace. We are naked as the beach is, in touch with every sensation and whim of the natural part of it, the tides, the breeze, the warm sun and vibratory sound of the wave's crash and motion.

I also get that sense high in the sky islands, looking out across the globe. I walk in wonder, liberty, and in nature, as I find it in its wonderful little gifts along the way where I walk.

I'm into the big sky out here in the western deserts, in-between the distant mountain ranges. Back east the trees are cozy, but after a while, I feel them confining and need a mountain to climb up on and watch the sunset.
Jbee

[Fellsnude]

two of my favourite places must be a beach in North wales and the Berwyn's in North Wales. The Berwyns have fewer people about than popular Snowdonia and the beaches in this part of he world on Pen Llyn are fairly quiet especially during school term time.

Dave 

We discovered the Berwyns in summer 2021 - agree a great area for nude hiking. I suspect there are many other Welsh hills suitable too, as "everybody" seems to just want to climb Snowdon

[Davie]

I managed one trip up the Berwyns this year. I started at Pistyll Rhaeadr and did Meol Sych and Cadir Berwyn. It's a virtually unknown mountain area. When I've said where I've been the common reply is,"Where are they?"  And as you say, great for nude walking.

See you up there one day?

Davie 

[jbeegoode]

I don't have a clue about those places, but I do know that somehow, generally, I love places like that that I can't pronounce.
Jbee

[nuduke]

Now moved further south, so not been to Holkham for a good five years. But the south has benefits with the beaches at Studland, Eastney beach at Portsmouth and both Yaverland and Rockne End on the Isle of Wight. But none deliver the sense of total freedom that Holkham gave me!

Yes, the south has so many more naturist places.  When we moved to Lincolnshire about 7 years ago, I just assumed there'd be the usual frequency of naturist places within a reasonable drive as I had found in Surrey when we lived there previously (not that I'd visited them much!!). But no!  It's a virtual desert for naturism on the Lincs coast and the county in general. I think I've researched everywhere within an hour to 90 min's drive and there are only a couple of beaches, very difficult to access and a naturist club (of which I am not too fond).  The only light in the darkness was the naturist swim at Sleaford which, however, I haven't been to since lockdown. I've had to feed my naturist appetite on the very occasional walk in woodland and the domestic environs.
John