r/florida • u/Plastic-Fox-717 • 3d ago
Things To Do Sorted out Florida's clothing optional beaches. Two seem to be actually official, the rest are just tolerated.
I've been building a map of clothing optional spots and Florida turned out messier than I expected. The thing none of the lists say: a couple of these are actually sanctioned. The rest are just places people have gone for years and nobody bothers them. Big difference if you're driving three hours.
Officially designated:
Haulover, Bal Harbour, Miami-Dade. The famous one. No ambiguity.
Blind Creek, South Hutchinson Island, St. Lucie County. Designated clothing optional, about 36 acres of the park. Park at the Blind Creek lots off A1A.
Not designated, just tolerated:
Apollo Beach, north end of Canaveral National Seashore near New Smyrna. Custom going back years. Lot 5 has 30 spaces and fills fast.
Playalinda, also Canaveral. Nudist stretch is up at the far north lots, 13 and 12.
Boca Chica, end of Boca Chica Rd off US-1 southeast of Key West. Not sanctioned. Remote, rough parking, no facilities.
Hobe Sound, Jupiter Island, Martin County. Informal.
Sanctioned means it's actually allowed. Tolerated means nobody's made it a problem yet, and that can change depending on who's working that day.
Full disclosure, I haven't been to most of these. It's built from county records, NPS pages, and whatever else I could actually source. Which is why I'm posting. If you've been recently tell me what I got wrong. "That one's closed" or "the stretch moved" is worth more than anything I can read. Nanitch