You can still visit many of the sites of vintage nudist camps. Some, like the American Sunbathing Association (now the American Association for Nude Recreation), have modernized, adding WiFi and hot tubs. Others have been abandoned, their names lost to history.
Today's nudist resorts (now often called "clothing-optional") are more diverse in age, body type, and attitude. But vintage nudist camps offer a fascinating time capsule: an earnest, idealistic, and surprisingly conservative movement that believed the human body—without clothes—could be wholesome, healthy, and even patriotic. Vintage Nudist Camps