"I was naked in this park. People saw that. And ask yourself this: What happened? Did anyone seem to care?" Credit: Lester Black

I was naked in this park. People saw that. And ask yourself this: What happened? Did anyone seem to care?

“I was naked in this park. People saw that. And ask yourself this: What happened? Did anyone seem to care?” Lester Black

There are 120,000 acres of state parks in Washington, but there isn’t a single square foot where a person is allowed to be nude in public. A state law makes public nudity in the state park system illegal.

Andrew Sambrook, a 26-year-old Bothell man, thinks that is ridiculous.

“We’re not looking for parks to be a place where everyone goes to fuck. What we’re looking for is parks to be a place where you can be more of yourself,” said Sambrook, who advocates through his nonprofit NudeParksWA.com.

Lester Black is a former staff writer for The Stranger, where he wrote about Seattle news, cannabis, and beer. He is sometimes sober.