But you can’t just get naked anywhere in America’s great outdoors. If going au naturel in nature sounds freeing to you, here’s everything you need to know about camping nude on public and private land, plus 35 campgrounds across the US where it’s totally legal to be totally naked.
There’s no law that explicitly prohibits nude camping on most federally protected land. But that’s not an open invitation to get naked next time you’re overnighting at a national park, national forest, or Bureau of Land Management (BLM) site. Public lands are often subject to state and local legislation that prohibits nudity, and even if there’s no specific law against camping naked where you’re headed, rangers can issue citations or arrests if your conduct on federally protected land is deemed