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Tucson's only nude resort offers relaxing experience

09:46 PM MST on Tuesday, November 27, 2007

By Delane Cleveland, Fox 11 News

Delane Cleveland's report

There is a place in the Old Pueblo where people can literally let it all hang out.

Fox 11 News spent a day at Tucson’s only nude resort to learn more about their way of life.

Tennis is one of many forms of recreation offered at Mira Vista, Tucson’s only clothing-optional resort. Although it looks like a normal game, the players are as natural as God intended from the waist down.

Mira Vista’s co-owner, David Landman, reveals, “We’ve got over 300 members now which, for us being only a little over a year old, is extremely good.”

The entrance to the resort is just as open as the people who come here. There are no gates and no barricades blocking those from coming in. Management also says they never have a problem with people spying.

What they would see is people swimming, reading and tossing around beanbags without restraint of clothes.

“It drops your blood pressure 40 points. It’s the most relaxing, most outrageous deal in the world,” Joseph Marrone, a Mira Vista patron, explains. “The people are fantastic.”

One thing they say contributes to the comfort level is, well, not everyone can claim the perfect body.

Julie Lunt, another patron, admits, “I think people in general are just so intense on having the perfect figure and the perfect this and the perfect that. When you come here you see real people.”

Patrons range in ages from the mid-40s to 70s and they all have their own reasons for taking it all off.

“Being naked is no bid deal,” reveals Marrone. “I played football for 20 years. I was naked many times in locker rooms so it ain’t like it’s the first thing for me.”

Oddly enough, the only place you cannot be totally nude is the clubhouse, where the liquor license requires clothing from the waist down.

Ruben Fuentes, Fox 11 News

Also, among the 30 acres of nude serenity, patrons and management want to clear up one common misconception about nudist resorts. They are not about sexuality.

Landman explains, “Anything that’s not conducive to your mother’s living room is the same thing as it is here. We don’t allow any of that to go on.”

At Mira Vista it is all about nude recreation and one patron has a piece of advice for those who choose to wear clothes: “I’m not saying the world should be naked,” Marrone admits, “but, I tell you what, more and more people would relax and forget about their whatever…the world would be better off in my book, at least.”

Management says they have a larger male clientele than females but it should balance out over a period of time.

Also, Mira Vista is actually open to all ages, although owners say the resort does not offer too many activities for children.