My Bare Travel

Golden Gate Bridge Beach looks impressive this year, all spruced up with user-friendly trails. Pending excavation of dirty soil, the roads were closed to public during the last season. Just when the project is getting finished, people are thronging to the area where same gender attraction is accepted, popularly referred to as the Nasty Boy Beach as well as Marshall’s Beach, its original name. With improved access to the sands, it is not uncommon to see some women, well-meaning couples, kids and fishermen, scattered over the beach. Women enjoy walking in the beach’s waters, when the tides lie low. This is not the place for you if desire some private moments with your partner, especially on very hot days.

Earlier, people went to the sands after parking their vehicles near North Baker Beach, and then striding past Lincoln Boulevard and sand ladder leading to the sands of North Baker. As you go further north, keep an eye out for the dirt road that has a gate because it leads towards Battery Crosby. Keep going and follow the trail on the old fort’s left side just until you reach the bluff’s peak. Go straight towards west and you will reach the foot of the hill, leading to the ocean. Cover your body well as a defense shield for poison oak. As you near a tiny concrete bulkhead that is coming apart, you will observe that the trail passes by the bluffs towards north and converges in the end, with small stairs leading to a gully. At Golden Gate Bridge’s southern tip, the main trail comes to a stopping point. You will now notice a new commencing point that is west, but further past Langdon Court. You will also see parking spaces and it is practically in front of Lincoln Boulevard and from the Fort Winfield Scott. This path that comes from Lincoln’s area, boasts of some wooden stairs and railings too!

The three rocky coves, one next to the other, are visible beneath Fort Scott; look picture-perfect, along with Golden Gate Bridge. The beach’s main trail was hazardous during the seasons of winter and spring, but has improved lately.

Majority of the visitors to the sands prefer to undress and give company to the approximately hundred or more individuals without clothing on the beach, during hot weekends. The number runs to almost 300 on peak summer days. According to one visitor, the place was earlier thronged by  people who are attracted to their own gender and choose to not wear their clothes on the beach. But now, you have all types of people.

There are downsides to this lovely beach though: overcrowded with people being cramped in too small a place, with insufficient sand, too much litter, unpredictable fog and wind, not recommended for swimming, muddy gradients for paths, and uninhibited physical indulgence.