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Florida has two beaches where clothing is optional with the county's agreement, and they are the only two.
Haulover Beach Park in Miami-Dade County has a marked clothing-optional section between the lifeguard towers, with its own parking and facilities. Blind Creek Beach in St Lucie County was designated clothing-optional by the county commission in 2020. Everywhere else, county ordinances against public nudity apply and they are enforced, whatever a beach's reputation may be. That includes the north end of Playalinda in Brevard County and Apollo Beach in Volusia County, where Brevard and Volusia both prohibit it. If clothing-optional is what you are looking for, Haulover and Blind Creek are the two addresses.
Miami-Dade County. A 177-acre county park with 1.4 miles of sand between Bal Harbour and Sunny Isles, and the largest undeveloped stretch of beachfront left in the county. Lifeguards all year. Parking is $7 on weekdays and $10 on weekends and on holidays, and the lots are open from sunrise until an hour before sunset.
Open the guide →St. Lucie County. A mile and a half of undeveloped, dune-backed shoreline on 108 acres inside a 409-acre coastal preserve at 5460 South Ocean Drive. The county designated it clothing-optional on June 2, 2020, the only sanctioned site of its kind on the Treasure Coast.
Open the guide →Free beach parking has become rare on the built-up coasts and normal on the quieter ones.
Guarded beaches are the exception rather than the rule in Florida, and rip currents drown more people here than any other natural hazard.
Two things make a beach reachable: a rolled matting path across the soft sand, and a loan wheelchair with balloon tires that floats on it.
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