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If you want to be alone, don't even think about visiting Golden Gate Beach, where hundreds of gay males, along with some women and straight visitors, pack three side by side in the coves on the hottest days. Also known as Nasty Boy Beach, the rocky shoreline features incredible views of the Bridge along with water that can be great for wading. "In low tide," says a woman, "you can sometimes go out 150 feet."

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North Baker Beach

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From the first day of summer, when regular visitor Paul Jung estimates "several hundred" people appeared, to warm periods since then, visitors have been swarming onto San Francisco's North Baker Beach this year. And when it's been hot, roughly 60 to 80 percent of the persons who have been showing up on the shoreline this season have been nude.

The beautiful swath of sand is America's biggest urban nude beach.Read more »