going topless?

I need to know the rules and regs. of going topless on the beach in the outer banks and surrounding areas. Wife and I find it to be no big deal but it tends to be frowned on in some areas.thanks

going topless?

I don;t think you%26#39;ll find that welcome on NC or SC beaches - they are family places. Have a good day.

going topless?

I don%26#39;t know of any NC beach that allows that. You have to follow the same laws on the beach as if you were on a public street in NC. I guess if you were up around Carova or an isolated beach without houses around you could go topless...but if the beach patrol see you I%26#39;m sure there will some type of fine or arrest.

It is not supposed to be allowed at the northern beaches, though I have seen it. Usually people tuck themselves away from the shoreline.

Head to Coquina Beach or Pea Island National Refuge where it is allowed.

Public nudity is not allowed anywhere on the Outer Banks They will fine you heavily, However it is done and there is a society that has a web page supporting it.

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The question was not about nude beaches, but whether there was a problem with a woman sunbathing topless.

I know Molly but it was just info on both and by the way it is not legal on Coquina Beach or Pea Island National Refuge however it has been done I have seen toless in frisco too but it doesn’t make it legal. You stand a chance of gettin g a ticket if you caught any where on the Outer Banks topless or nude

Fish oinc, you may be right. However, I know people have been going topless at Pea Island for many, many years and no one has cared. I don%26#39;t know if that situation has changed in the past five years or so. Perhaps due to its status as a national seashore, the rules are different.

It all depends upon the area. In the unincorporated areas that are under control of the National seashore, it is allowed. In the incorporated ares, most likely it is not allowed. Before dropping your top, I suggest you check with the area%26#39;s ranger to be sure it is allowed in the area you are in. (On a little different subject, I think it is being debated in the courts that total nudity is allowed in the national seashore areas, but that is a different discussion.)

My wife and I were at Ocracoke this past weekend. Monday we took our jeep and went on the beach to do a little fishing and some swimming. We took the 1st public access north of the lifeguard beach. We drove north up the beach about a half a mile and stopped approximately 50 - 60 yards from a group of people and set up our umbrella and chairs. We were setting there when my wife said some of the people up there are nude. We took the binoculars and sure enough several men were nude and several women were topless. Shocked us, but really didn%26#39;t bother us, we were far enough away not to notice much and we could have easily moved on down the beach.

We were in Ocracoke this past weekend, sorry we missed that!

But a few years ago, we ran into the same thing at that point on the beach. I remember my son. who was 6 at the time, worried that the man fishing (who was nude) would be injured if he got ';hooked'; with the fishing lore-ouch!