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Contents 1 Beaches 2 Businesses 2.1 Body-positive 2.2 Art 3 Communities and organizations 4 Discussion Groups 5 Hot springs 6 External Links

[edit] Beaches

• Washington places
  • King County, Washington and Seattle

[edit] Businesses

• Banya 5 Seattle Urban Spa

Banya 5 used to offer clothing-optional Wednesdays (for women) and Thursdays (for men), as well as co-ed naturist evenings on the third Monday of each month. However, the clothing-optional time on Wednesdays and Thursdays was cut back to 10am-4pm and eventually cancelled, and the co-ed naturist evenings were cancelled after January 2007.

• Doe Bay Resort & Retreat On Orcas Island. The soaking tubs and sauna area, as well as the beach in Otter Cove, are clothing optional.
• Float Zone Seattle's only flotation tank center. Clothing optional.
• Hothouse Women's Spa Located in Seattle. Unfortunately just for women.
• Olympus Women's Spa Two locations- Tacoma and Lynnwood. Unfortunately just for women.
• Uptown Village Health Located in the Uptown Village Neighborhood in Vancouver. Space is limited to 10 people an hour. AANR affiliated.
• Green Tortoise Adventure Travel A tour company that often as part of their trips stop at hot springs where the travelers soak naked.
• Havanese Heaven A Clothing Optional Homestay near the North Cascade Mountains.
• Port Townsend EcoVillage an ecovillage in Port Townsend that permits areas where clothing is optional when the area has been reserved and a flag or other sign has been posted.
• Newlife Fitness & Spa is a Korean spa in Lynnwood. It has separate men's and women's facilities, including a hot pool, cold pool, steam room and sauna that are all mandatory naked. You're given T-shirt and shorts to wear in the common facilities, which include hot rooms, relaxation area, and food area. It's open late.
• Princeton Athletic Club is an Athletic Club in Vancouver where the men's and women's locker rooms each have a private spa (hydrotherapy whirlpool) and sauna which are clothing optional.

[edit] Body-positive

• Raw Exuberance Advocating natural living, raw food and social nudity. Founded by Daniel Johnson, social nudity and raw food advocate and co-founder of World Naked Gardening Day and World Naked Bike Ride. Website includes images of nudity and promotion of body-positive events.

[edit] Art

The Tacoma News Tribune Ran an Article about nude modeling classes at Pacific Lutheran University. Don't know if it is still going on.

[edit] Communities and organizations

Non profit organizations, communities, clubs, resorts. Many offer or require memberships.

See "Review of Washington clubs.txt" file at the NWnaturist Yahoo! Group for a review of these clubs

• Fraternity Snoqualmie On the side of Tiger Mountain near Issaquah. Home of the Bare Buns Fun Run West and Nudestock. TNS and AANR affiliated
• Kaniksu Ranch Near Spokane. Home of the Original Bare Buns Fun Run. TNS and AANR affiliated
• Lake Associates Recreation Club East of Mount Vernon near but not on Lake McMurray. Great sunning lawn. TNS and AANR affiliated.
• Lake Bronson Family Nudist Park North of Sultan. 160 acres, a private lake and a waterfall. Serene. TNS, AANR, INF,FCN affiliated.
• Magnuson Beach Bares
• Friends of Disco Beach
• The Naturals Club of Spokane Organizes nudist activities for people in the Spokane area. (link dead as of 2008-10-03)
• Xena's Sanctuary A non landed club based in Bellevue. 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.

[edit] Discussion Groups

Note: Yahoo! forces many clothing-optional groups to be categorized as "adult", even if the activities are strictly within family-friendly, non-sexualized contexts. Many body-positive people are very much against this policy adopted by Yahoo!

• Seattle Beaches Yahoo! Group A forum for constructive discussions regarding non-sexualized, family-friendly clothing-optional use of Greater Seattle area beaches. Promotes the enforcement of beach etiquette and environmental stewardship. Encourages online and face-to-face communication and collaboration between non-profit organizations, citizens and local government.
• Seattle Swims - Invitation-only group for organizing guerilla and casual skinnydips from city to alpine environments.
• Washington state naturist hikers This group is primarily for interested naturists to organize hikes in Washington state.
• World Naked Bike Ride Seattle
  • WNBR_Seattle2 Special announcements only
  • WNBR_Seattle3 General discussion
• Jaybird Yahoo! Discussion group
• Body Pride Ride Yahoo! Group
• Spokane Naturist Forum A place where naturists in the Spokane Area can get together to plan naturist activities

[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.

• Olympic Hot Springs is in Olympic National Park and retains a clothing-optional and tolerated tradition with discretion
• Baker Hot Springs is on National Forest lands. Clothing-optional is the norm.
• Goldmyer Hot Springs is on private property in trust with a caretaker on site. Reservations are required along with a nominal user fee. Clothing-optional is traditional.
• Scenic Hot Springs is on private property and is in the process of obtaining the permitting to reopen to the public with a caretaker much like Goldmyer.

Comment: For those of you that have been to Scenic Hot Springs, we would love your help. I am the Naked Gourmet, just one of many working to bring Scenic back to the soakers. Mike, the new owner, is really having a hard time with King Co. but we can work together to please them to get the permits needed to go on. Scenic has been my spot high in the mountains over looking highway #2. Still the grand pool is open for soaking as long as you have respect for the land. Yes, in time a fee would be in place, to cover the upkeep. I have never met a rich person yet from owning a hot spring! Please, if you can, come on up May 27th 9:30 am at the gate bring gloves, crowbars, ropes etc. We are removing some of the old wood and trash from the old pools. Hope that you can lend a hand. NG

Addendum to Robert's comment: RSVP to the link in the Scenic Blog if you can make it. Rick

• Wind River Hot Springs (on DNR lands) is presently inaccessible because of legal issues with adjacent land owners. It is hoped the new owner will be amenable to restoring access to these natural hot spring pools on the Wind River.

[edit] External Links

• Clothing-Optional Opportunities in British Columbia. It also has a pretty good section on Washington State 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 Washington State and the rest of the Pacific Northwest.
• Soakers Forum Great place to find out about hot springs in the area and their current condition.
• Washington State Nudists and Naturists group at flickr.com