Not a list of ten thousand pins nobody has been to. Five, checked this week.
Every naturist map has the same problem: it was published once and left to rot. The gate gets locked, the road washes out, the county changes its mind, and the listing says exactly what it said three years ago. So we are starting the opposite way round, with a handful of places, each carrying the date a real person was last there.
Drive times are from inner Portland. Everything below is what the entry actually says. We have not tidied it up for this page.
Columbia Gorge, Corbett · about 30 minutes east
Getting in: pay at the booth on the way in. $10 a day, $12 if you are not an Oregon resident. An annual state parks permit is $60 and pays for itself in six visits. Go right after the booth and park.
The walk: from the lot, head right past the bathrooms and keep going. About seven minutes, and it is all sand, so it takes longer than it looks. You will pass a signpost saying clothing optional. That is not the beach. People walk through that stretch clothed. Keep going until the sand opens up.
Left or right: where the sand opens out there is a left side and a right side. Left wades the slough across to the island, and that is the main clothing-optional beach where most people are. Right stays on this side and is the gay beach, usually flying flags. The slough is knee-deep at worst and lower later in summer. Bring shoes you do not mind soaking.
The law: an officially recognised clothing-optional area inside an Oregon State Park. Simple nudity is legal; no sexual conduct.
If it is your first time: summer weekends are the time. Pride weekend is the best of it and the most packed, people turning up rather than anything organised.
Sauvie Island · north-west of Portland, a longer run than Rooster Rock
Getting in: read this bit properly, it is the part that ruins trips. Buy your permit before you leave. They scan a QR code on the way in, and turning up without one means being pulled aside to sort it out, which costs you a chunk of the afternoon. Which permit depends on the day:
Both are sold at odfw.huntfishoregon.com, not at the island market. That is no longer how it works.
Finding it: then it is a straight shot. Keep driving and watch the bulletin board at each pull-off. Every lot reaches the beach, but only one board says clothing-optional, and that is where people actually are. Pull off to the side and park there.
The law: a long-established clothing-optional beach. Simple nudity is legal.
If it is your first time: read the bulletin boards rather than guessing. There is a clothing-required stretch too, and the sign is the only thing that tells you which is which. More regulars here than Rooster Rock, people who have been coming for years and are out all season.
Willamette River, Eugene · about 2 hours south
Getting in: park on the shoulder near the WeedAgain shop and the adult store, or pay for parking there. The shoulder is sometimes ticketed, though not reliably. The way in cuts through bushes toward the river and then follows the rail line; a gap on the left leads to a small footbridge, intact in August 2026. At the graffitied boulder, either direction reaches the beach.
Read this bit twice: that rail line is active track. Walking it is trespassing and it is genuinely dangerous. It is the part of this approach to think hardest about, and it is the reason this is not a spot we would send a first-timer to. Older accounts describe reaching the island by fording the river instead.
The law: there is a sign on site reading “no clothes that way →”, along with posted no-littering and no-trespassing notices. There is private property next to the approach. The August 2026 visit found the signage in place and met no enforcement. That is an observation, not a ruling: the island has opened and closed over the years.
What it is actually like: summer through autumn; not a winter spot and spring is marginal. Mixed crowd: couples, dog walkers and naturists, and there is also some cruising, which is easy enough to walk away from. Litter can be heavy on busy days, cigarette ends especially.
Mt Hood National Forest · about 2 hours southeast, then a hike
Getting in: roughly a 1.5-mile forest trail to hand-hewn cedar tubs. You need an NW Forest Pass.
The law: National Forest land. Clothing-optional here is customary. It is what people do, not something written down. That is a real difference from the two beaches above, and it is worth knowing before you go.
If it is your first time: honestly, make it not your first time. Rustic cedar tubs, and the hike keeps the crowds down midweek.
Scotts Mills, near Silverton · about 55 minutes south
Being straight about this one: Scotts Mills is a public swimming hole and swimsuits are expected. It is on this page because it is genuinely good and genuinely close, not because it is clothing-optional. If that is what you came for, the two beaches above are your answer.
Getting in: a waterfall spilling through a rocky cliff into a clear plunge pool, at a small county park close to Salem and Silverton.
Worth knowing: cold mountain water, no lifeguards, and it gets busy midsummer. Check road conditions before you drive out.
There are around eleven thousand pins on the Nanitch map. Almost all of them came out of OpenStreetMap and nobody has been to them for us. We label every one of those as exactly that, because the alternative is a map that looks impressive and lies.
These five are the other kind. Somebody drove out, stood there, and put a date on it, and if you go and find the gate locked, you can say so in one tap and the next person will know.
That is the whole idea. A map is only as true as the last person who went.
Not a signup. Three things, none of which need an account:
There are no private messages on Nanitch, no profiles to browse, no "who's nearby", and no nudity anywhere in the app. There is no people tab because there are no people to tab through. It is social about places and never about people, and that is structural rather than a promise. 18 and over.
Confirmation dates queried 18 August 2026. If you are reading this a long way past then, the dates below the fold are the ones to trust. Open the map and check for yourself.