Gay cruising dunes

Here’s your detailed Maspalomas Gay Guide, crafted in your tone and style, covering everything from nightlife and beaches to fetish events and local culture.

  1. Why I Passion Maspalomas?
  2. 🌞 When to Visit – Best Time for Gay Travelers
  3. 🏖️ Gay Beaches & Cruising in Maspalomas
    1. 1. Kiosk #7 – The Iconic Gay Beach & Dunes
    2. 2. PDI Cruising Areas
  4. 🌈 Yumbo Center – The Beating Heart of Gay Maspalomas
    1. Best Gay Bars & Lounges
  5. 💃 Gay Clubs & Circuit Parties
  6. 🍑 Gay Saunas & Cruising Spots
  7. 🎉 Fetish & Sex-Positive Events
  8. 🍽️ Where to Eat in Maspalomas
  9. 🏩 Best Gay & Gay-Friendly Hotels
  10. 📜 A Bit of LGBTQ+ History in Maspalomas
  11. 🔥 Final Thoughts – Why Maspalomas?

Maspalomas isn’t just a beach town—it’s a gay mecca. Located in Gran Canaria, Spain, this paradise offers year-round star, legendary gay beaches, a savage cruising scene, and an Gay nightlife hub like no other. Whether you’re here for Pride, Winter Pride, Freedom Festival, or just looking for some steamy fun, Maspalomas delivers.

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The Legendary Dunas Bushes - Outdoor Naked Cruising

The Epic Maspalomas Dunas Bushes in Gran Canaria Island are a gay man's paradise. Not only because the scenery is such wonderful wildlife reserve but because it is reputed to be the best and biggest outdoor men cruising area in the world, 7 days a week, days a year.

Check the Dunas map below:

Spain is a very open minded region so you're in for a handle. You can always discover like-minded individuals seeking casual sex encounters.

A good part of the dunes are gay naturist territory going from departing from Riu Palace up to the Gay Men's Beach and the Parking Camelios.

There are several cruising areas within the Dunas Bushes. You can see on the map in the photos. Younger crowds tend to gravitate around Bushes A & B. Senior citizens head over to C. Locals and those who stay on the West side of Maspalomas in D. Outdoor night second cruising happens at parking Camelios and in the cruising bars.

(Attention one section on the West is not reachable to the general, so do not tresspass when you see a autograph there. It's u

Public sex in sunny, heated sands is a fantasy a lot of people share. “Cruising,” seeking out anonymous sex in semi-public spaces, is a long-held tradition for queer communities for both safety and fetish reasons: for some people, parks, woods, and beaches are the only places people can identify sexual partners without trip themselves to their communities. 

In a paper in the January edition of the Journal of Environmental Management, and published online as an open access article, researchers from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Flinders University in South Australia explored the impact of sex in sand dunes on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria. 

What they found was damage to 10 plant species, including three species endemic to these dunes, as good as harm to the local wildlife. These dunes make up a scarce ecosystem: transgressive (or “shifting”) dune fields like these are found nowhere else in the world, and the island’s government has been working to rehabilitate them after decades of degradation due to human impacts.

“Jellyfish-eating Gran Canary massive lizards

Indiana Dunes

The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore cover most of the Lake Michigan shoreline in Indiana. The area at the end of Lake Road in Gary attracts many gay visitors, many of whom like to nude sunbathe.
Although nudity is usual in the dunes, you should not be nude in unsheltered areas evident to anyone on the beach or lake. This area is administered federally and is much safer than state parks, where officials have severally clamped down on nudity.
Crowd: All ages.

Who's Coming

All ages.

From Gary take I north to its terminus at junction with I & US Drive east on US 20 for 2 miles, then rotate left(north) onto Lake St. Continue a few miles until you reach immense beach parking lot. Amble to the west (left) for 3/4 mile to gay area.

  • Crowd:All ages.
  • Hours:Warm summer days.
  • Nudity / Policy:Yes / Discreetly clothing optional with erratic anti-nudity enforcement.
  • Wheelchair Accessible:No