WRECK BEACH PRESERVATION SOCIETY
About Us
Welcome to Wreck Beach - Canada's most popular and beautiful clothing-optional beach
Wreck Beach wraps 7.8 km. around the natural foreshore and forested cliffs between the Acadia portion of Wreck to Booming Ground Creek. Open to all who respect nature and each other, as Nature intended, clothed by the sun!
We support family-friendly Naturism.
The Wreck Beach Story
Wreck Beach is located on traditional unceded Musqueam land. It curves around the western tip of the Point Grey headland within Pacific Spirit Regional Park, adjacent to the University of British Columbia. Maintenance of the beach lies with West Area Parks of Metro Vancouver. However, with threats of deforestation, roads to and along the foreshore, marinas, and contamination by jet fuel or coal dust, friends of the beach banded together in 1974 to form the Wreck Beach Committee. We became a registered Society in 1988, but our goal remains the same. The official mandate of our Society is "to preserve Wreck Beach, its foreshore and forests in as nearly a natural state as possible". Our website is the official website of the beach and our Society is the voice of Wreck Beach to all levels of government and authority bodies. Our motto promotes Naturism: "Body acceptance is the idea - nude recreation is the way."
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The WBPS is short for the Wreck Beach Preservation Society. The WBPS, founded by our fearless matriarch - Judy Williams - is the only organization whose main interest is in preserving the beach in as nearly a natural state as possible. Judy and others have fought for over 50 years to keep Wreck Beach free from roads, towers, and incursions that would spoil the natural habitat of the beach, as well as keeping Wreck Beach clothing optional. The work has also included fundraising, education, outreach, creating connections to naturist communities and organizations, community building, and ensuring that people understand that Wreck Beach is a family beach, and that nudism should not be a spectacle.
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The WBPS has prevented significant attempts at development on the beach, specifically road access to the beach itself, which Metro Vancouver has tried to initiate in the past. The WBPS has also taken on UBC in ensuring that towers built there are not visible from the beach, that estuaries, wildlife and cliffs are protected, and that we have a seat at the table in meetings around development, construction, and other issues that concern the beach.
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These struggles continue as UBC continues to expand with their “Campus Vision 2050” and rest assured - the battle to preserve Wreck Beach is nowhere near over yet.