Little Stinson Beach

01.04.10 - 6:31 pm |

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Rating: D

Hopefully, you won't be crazy enough to attempt to visit Little Stinson, a tiny beach sandwiched between Red Rock and Stinson Beach that's hard to reach and often covered by water. Over the years, the cave-like nook has become a hangout for a few nude gay men.

"It has more rocks than sand," says Red Rock Beach regular Fred Jaggi, of Stinson Beach. "There's not much of a place to lie down."

If rangers see you heading in the direction of Little Stinson, they'll ask you to leave. Nudity is banned here and at neighboring Stinson Beach. Anyone trying to ford the often wind-whipped waves to reach the cove from Stinson risks drowning and injury. In low tide, a few Little Stinson visitors sometimes walk to Red Rock, which also isn't advised.

Legal status:

Part of the GGNRA's Stinson Beach Park, where nudity is not allowed.

How to find it:

Users park in the main Stinson Beach lot and walk along the sand from the main beach in low tide or north from Red Rock Beach. Neither route is recommended.

The beach:

Mostly rocks, with dabs of sand, backed by a cave between two coves directly north of Red Rock.

The crowd:

Little Stinson only gets a few visitors. It's almost totally a gay hangout.

Problems:

Dangerous access; rocks; high waves; law enforcement; great white sharks tend to appear in the waters off Stinson every few years.