Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon, is not located on the ocean or a lake. It's on the Columbia River. You don't think of nude beaches being on a river, but Portland has them.
Rooster Rock State Park, just upstream from Portland, has several clothing-optional beaches. A trail leads from the parking area to the beaches.
Sand Island has the river on one side and a shallow channel on the other side (above) that you have to wade across to get to the island. The entire island is clothing-optional.
Other clothing-optional beaches on the river don't require wading to Sand Island. This area is popular with gay men. The Columbia River is one of America's major rivers. The water is cold year-round, so there's not much swimming here.
But, surprisingly, the water near the riverbank is very shallow.
Here are a couple of guys showing off (or just having fun) on the nude beach.
Portland's other nude beach is Collins Beach on Sauvie Island, an area just downstream from the city.
The beach is bordered by the river on one side and forest on the other side (above).
Again, the water near shore is surprisingly shallow near the riverbank, but a little ways out, it can drop off to 9 feet deep.
A nice spot for man or beast.
Again, you don't see many people swimming, but this must feel good on a hot summer day.
Here's some candid footage of people walking along Collins Beach. This beach is used mostly by straight couples.
The End for today, but we have more Beach Bums to come.
3 comments:
Oh, that island would be perfect for me. Though probably not any shade at all, eh? 'Course, with so few days (avg. 144) of sunlight.... LOL.
I went to Rooster Rock in the 1970s. It had been started by the gay crowd in the 1950s. By the 1970s, the state had put up signs at the borders of the nude beach area, which was quite large. It was on a state park.
It was a wonderful place until the press did a story on it. Then people showed up by the several hundreds, including a LOT of homophobes. I got heckled a few times as did others. I stopped going, and moved shortly thereafter. I returned in the late 1980s. No crowds any more, but it seemed to have lost its homophobic visitors.
I visited the one on Sauvie's Island in the late 1980s, too. Very sweet and friendly place.
My partner and I live in Portland and go to Collins Beach on Sauvie Island many times during summer. We prefer it over Rooster Rock, which is okay, but too much of a hike for me to get to the beach.
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