Oval Beach (north end)

Oval Beach is Saugatuck's public beach on Lake Michigan, backed by dunes and run by the city, with a parking fee in season. Its north end is known as the area's unofficial gay beach and is named as such by the Star Tribune, Queer in the World and OUTxOUT. It is an ordinary clothed public beach; the private dune beach where men once sunbathed nude closed around 2011. Swimming season is roughly June to early September, and summer weekends are busy. Normal public-beach rules apply, including no nudity.