For almost 60 years, a coast whipped by the wind along the coast of San Mateo, near San Gregorio, has known more than its impressive cliffs and waves.
He has also earned a reputation as one of the most famous naked beaches in California, with a colorful birthday history Suuit Batesrs and Au Natural fans that dates back to 1966. Now the property of 195 Acres, Ranchter chapter of San Gregorio.
A non -profit Palo Alto Group, The Peninsula Open Space Trust, has signed an agreement to buy the scenic property, which includes roller pastures, a pond and almost a mile of picturesque wooden beach conducted from the family of Walter Famy Famy Famy, famous, hungry for the family until their death in 2005.
“It is a beautiful and iconic part of the Coast of San Mateo, with impressive cliffs and a long beach,” said Gordon Clark, president of Land Trust, which was commonly called post. “It is a very strange opportunity.”
Land Trust’s leaders want to preserve the land for wildlife, such as the Badgers, the Red Ala Blackbirds and the shirts that live there. Also because to continuous public access. Clark said the group plans to work with the California State Parks Department to try to add the property to San Gregorio State Beach, an adjacent and popular state park that touches its southern border.
What that means for naked bathers is not entirely clear.
Until the agreement is closed and presented in May 2026, current owners will continue to charge a parking rate to access the property (currently $ 7 per car), as they have done for generations and allow people who are happy to use. Due to the shape of the cliffs, it is only possible to walk from the beach of the state of San Gregorio to the naked beach in the low tide, so the two are often separated.
“It is a notable piece of the history of the Bay area,” Clark said. “In the short term we want to maintain that use.”
What happens after that is not completely clear.
State parks officials confirm that they have been in conversations with Post on Earth. Adding it to the state parks system would expand the beach of the state of San Gregorio of 452 acres next door, a park that already has trails, bathrooms and a self -control payment machine to collect visitors a parking rate.
“We have supported their efforts to ensure property,” said Chris Spohrer, Santa Cruz district superintendent or state parks. “We will continue to have a dialogue with them to explore future possibilities.”
Post, which has been preserved 90000 open space acres since 1977 In the counties of Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz, it also plans to raise $ 4 million to study wildlife in the property, update the paths and help pay the staff if it is, is it if it is if it is not in the state?
He speaks legally, nudity is not allowed in the state beaches of California. But the rangers usually only write appointments or people of trial if others complain and refuse to wear clothes.
As a result, there are numerous state beaches in California where people deviated, usually in coves and remote areas, even in San Onofre State Beach in San Diego County; Gray Whale Cove State Beach near the Devil’s Slide in San Mateo County; Bonny Doon Beach in Santa Cruz County and the Garrapata State Park in Big Sur.
There are also multiple federal property beaches that are part of the national parks system that are popular between the beaches in the firm. Those include Baker Beach in San Francisco and Stinson and Muir Beaches in Marin County, also informally, usually low profile.
On an afternoon from Monday to Friday, San Gregorio Ranch had less than half beaches.
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The president of Peninsula Open Space Trust, Gordon Clark, the public access project manager Bryanna Whitney, Marketing Director Ben Huang and the senior manager of Marti Tedesco media and communications north. The trust is buying the property of 195 Acres for $ 10 million. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
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The president of Peninsula Open Space Trust, Gordon Clark, the public access project manager Bryanna Whitney, Marketing Director Ben Huang and the senior manager of Marti Tedesco media and communications north. The trust is buying the property of 195 Acres for $ 10 million. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
“I love this beach. It is very private,” said Varinka Muldower or Santa Cruz, who was walking along the path to the sand where he planned to undress. “If there is a division where you could still be naked, that could work.”
Muldawer, who said he has bone that comes to the property for about six years, said he is happy that he does not become the closed farm of a billionaire, and that wildlife will be protected. But she said the beach should remain optional.
“You feel more connected to nature,” he said. “I had stress. I thought how I do it, I undid or that bare me! I become myself in nature. No one is here. Some people frown on that. But many people respect it. We are not hurting anyone. This beach is a calm.
Althegh, the property is quiet now, that has not always been the case.
In 1966, Darrell Trver, a 28 -year -old Air Force veteran and a last -year student at the San Francisco State University, formed the “Free Beach Committee”, a counterculture group. He put flyers on the campus in San Francisco and Berkeley and people urging San Gregorio in the fan. Soon more than 500 nudists every Sunday appeared.
“Bands of enthusiastic enthusiasts appeared, Manning Spyglasses from behind the bushes; aircraft of the near Half Airport Moon Bay Baszing the Beach”, Magazine de Time Reported that year.
An angry father said that his 14 -year -old daughter had undressed while visiting another family. He demanded the file positions of the Office of the District Prosecutor of the County of San Mateo. The prosecutor refused, saying that the conduct was niece or obscene. The dairy farmer, Puente, begged to charge $ 1 per car, and the rest is history.
Since then the beach has been presented In articles and books List the best naked beaches in California, the United States and the world, and its northern half has become a popular place among homosexual men.
“You rarely meet people,” said Muldawer. “Sometimes you know new friends in the same mentality. Most of the time you seem in your own private area.”
