Oregon
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[edit] Beaches
- Sauvie Island (Collins Beach) Fully 100% legal nude beach.
- Rooster Rock State Park View a 360 deg moving panoramic of Rooster Rock taken at an extreme Columbia River low water level here Fully 100% legal nude beach. There is a Tribenet group regarding Rooster Rock State Park.
- Glassbar Island aka Bring Beach in the Eugene/Springfield Volunteers are working with the State Parks to establish a official clothing optional beach in this area along a fork of the Willamette River.
- Nudy Rock on the McKenzie River a mile up from Armitage Park near Eugene.
[edit] Businesses
- Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat and Conference Center Has clothing optional hot tubs fed by hot springs. All bathing areas are clothing optional. Located near Detroit.
- Common Ground Wellness Center Common Ground’s outdoor garden hot tubs and cedar sauna are coed facilities, with reserved hours for women-only, and men-only. Swimsuits are optional. Located in Portland.
- Common Ground Everett House Common Ground Everett House is a clothing optional, co-ed facility that offers flotation tanks, a steam room and sauna. Located in Portland.
- The Deep Haven The Deep Haven has flotation tank that you can use nude if you want to. Located in Ashland.
- Zenwest Flotation Center Zenwest Flotation Center has a flotation tank that you can use nude if you want to. Located in Portland.
- Gathering Light Nature Retreat Allows nude sunbathing and skinny dipping with appropriate discretion as long as the children of other guests are not present.
- Trillium Farm Community An intentional community village hosting an educational, cultural, spiritual, arts and retreat center deep in the Siskiyou Mountains near Jacksonville. All swimming is clothing-optional.
- Jackson Wellsprings a 30 acre hot springs spa located 1.5 miles from Ashland that allows clothing optional swimming after 8:00pm or dark, whichever is first.
- Löyly A spa with a sauna and steam room, inspired by the sauna culture of Scandinavia. Swimsuits are required on Co-ed days in facility, and optional for women only and men only times. The facility is available for three hour private rentals. In Portland.
- RiverSong Forest Sanctuary of Universal Oneness Has an Clothing Optional Hot Tub and a clothing optional river.
- Wolf Gulch Farm is a small family run permaculture farm near Jacksonville that offers a clothing optional swimming hole and a hot tub available for use of students who regularly take classes there.
[edit] Communities and organizations
Non profit organizations, communities, clubs, resorts. Many offer or require memberships.
- Willamettans near Eugene. Great place to call home as you visit Terwilliger, McCredie or Umpqua Hot Springs not far away. AANR affiliated
- Restful Haven Health Club's Mountaindale Sun Resort just west of Portland. AANR affiliated
- Squaw Mountain Ranch near Estacada. AANR affiliated
- Hidden Springs Nudist Club A family nudist club based in Portland, Oregon. Hosts local activities and travel to nudist parks in Oregon and Washington. TNS and AANR affiliated.
- Bare Spirits A non landed nudist club centered in the Mid Willamette Valley that primarily serves the Salem / Dallas area. TNS and AANR affiliated.
- Sun Lover's Under Grey Skies (SLUGS) is a naturist travel club located in the Puget Sound area in the State of Washington. Most of our members live in the greater Seattle area, but we have members from the Olympic Peninsula to Ellensburg, the Tri-Cities, and as far away as Pullman and Walla Walla in eastern Washington, and from Vancouver, B.C. to Oregon.
- Oregon Clothing-Optional Beach Alliance (ORCOBA) A non-profit, grass-roots collection of individuals dedicated to the preservation, maintenance, protection and promotion of family-friendly, clothing-optional recreation at Oregon's two officially-designated nude beaches, Sauvie Island (Collins Beach) and Rooster Rock State Park.
- The Rogue Suncatchers A Southern Oregon/Medford Area non landed nudist club.
[edit] Hot springs
Rustic and primitive natural hot springs abound in the Pacific Northwest . . . clothing free is the expected norm at all of these hot springs as most of them are of federal lands with no explicit prohibition against simple nudity. Olympic Park Rangers acknowledge the clothing-optional character of their springs by posting signs alerting visitors to the clothing-optional expectations ahead. More hot springs are listed in C/O Hiking & Soaking in the Western U.S. & Canada Googlized map.
- Bagby Hot Springs is on National Forest lands west of Portland near Estacada. NWForests.org has assumed a presence and conservancy role at Bagby from the previous Friends of Bagby with the blessing of the National Forest Service. A Nude soaking area is behind the textile and private room area. There is also a Tribenet group regarding Bagby.
- Austin Hot Springs is on private property and presently closed pending negotiations. NWForests.org is the advocacy group involved with Austin Hot Springs
- Terwilliger (Cougar) Hot Springs is on National Forest lands northeast of Eugene with the site being maintained by HooDoo Recreation Services. Nudity is the norm. Has an advocacy group called Friends of Cougar. (another web page for the Friends of Cougar). There is also a Tribenet group about Cougar Hot Springs but it doesn't seem to be in use.
- McCredie Hot Springs is a lovely and primitive natural hot spring on National Forest land. It is east of Eugene.
- Umpqua (Toketee) Hot Springs is on National Forest land southeast of Eugene. Umpqua's Last Resort Campground & RV Park provides a nearby location for camping.
[edit] External Links
- Clothing-Optional Opportunities in British Columbia. It also has a pretty good section on Oregon and the rest of the Pacific Northwest.
- C/O Hiking & Soaking in the Western U.S. & Canada. A very good map of many clothing optional places in Oregon and the rest of the Pacific Northwest.
- Hot Springs of Oregon. Good list of Hot Springs in Oregon. Some are swimsuit required but many aren't.
- Bare Buns Runs A calendar of naked running events in Oregon. It also lists some events in other places in the Pacific Northwest.
- Soakers Forum Gives information regarding area hot springs and their current condition.
