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Cupecoy Beach is a beautiful beach backed by low sandstone cliffs, located on the southwestern side of the island of St. Martin. The beach is at the western extreme of the Dutch side of the island, a few kilometers north of Princess Juliana International Airport and immediately south of the border of the French side of the island. Cupecoy is actually a collection of multiple beach coves that collectively span about one kilometer, and not all of these coves are contiguous with neighboring coves. Even at low tide, the stretches of sand are rather narrow, and it is not possible to walk the entire length of the beach without crossing at least a few rocky outcroppings. At high tide, some of the coves disappear altogether, and there is little sand on the coves that are not completely inundated.

The southeastern half of Cupecoy Beach (lightly shaded in green) is located below several neighboring resort hotels, and that part of the beach is textile. The northwestern half of Cupecoy Beach (lightly shaded in red) is located below a vacant lot, and that part of the beach is a well-established nude beach. (The vacant lot is across the road from Blue Mall, a huge multi-story mixed-use shopping and residential complex that is still in its gradual opening phases as of 2012. The Blue Mall is a brand new landmark for locating the nude part of Cupecoy Beach.) The nude beach can be accessed from the cliff top by one of two short sets of concrete stairs, and these staircases are just 100 meters apart. There is parking atop the cliff near either set of stairs, which makes access by car tremendously easy. You can be on the beach and out of your clothes just a minute after you close your car door. Almost everyone goes naked on the part of the beach that is below the vacant lot. The far northwestern end of the nude beach abuts a complex of vacation houses called Shore Pointe Villas, and nudists on the beach are actually visible from some of these houses, which does not seem to be a problem. (In fact, a website that arranges rentals of the house on the corner closest to the beach promotes direct access to a nude beach as a perk.)

Cupecoy is the only established nude beach on the Dutch side of St. Martin. Although it does not draw as many nudists as Orient Bay Beach across the island on the French side, Cupecoy is nonetheless quite popular and well attended. Furthermore, although the crowd is mixed, Cupecoy has the reputation of being the gay beach of the entire island, both for locals and tourists. The sunsets here are especially splendid. The beach is about 20-minutes by car from Philipsburg (the Dutch capital). Sometimes there are vendors on parts of the beach who sell beverages and snacks, but otherwise there are no amenities.

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GPS: 18.0504N, 63.1357W

country  Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles)

classification  1 (freely nude)

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