Thank you for the info.  I know the owners of the hot Springs and enjoy it there.  I will look in to South Mountain Resort.Are you talking about The Pointe Resort by any chance?

I appreciate your your taking the time.  Dayne

As a fellow Arizonan, you can thong in places like Scottsdale's McDowell Mountain Park and other areas further east and north.  Very rarely will you even encounter another human being, if at all. 

--don

If you guys are talking about The Pointe Mountain Resort. I stayed there for a week for bussiness.  My coworker and I thought that was the best place we ever stayed at. these was before they installed the water rides.

We stayed during college open house, the placed was hopping day and night. We hung out at the 18+ older pool with bar service. It was about 90 out and we headed out to our usual spot by the pool.  As we were standing there deciding what to do after hanging out, a few girls tanning themselves call my coworker over. And said to him out loud " Its awfully hot out, is you friend going to wear his thong?"  After a lttle embarassment and a beer, I did drop my shorts and got a few whistles and hooting. After 10 minutes we were in the pool with 4 girls, 2 in thongs and me. my cowork is a shorts guy. A bunch of times I found myself walking into the bar and to the restroom  wearing a thong. After the 2nd day they asked for suits by color. " Can you wear your blue one again in the hot tub tonight"  My corporate bar tab was huge and the girls hung out with us all week, I got more oil rub on me by them than the Alaskan coast line. I will say this and my coworker will agree. I did have all the attention of them and had a good time.

If your laying out by the pool, your chair has a little popup flag for bar service.

Good luck out there and I'm hoping to get back there this year.

Hi to all in AZ (& elsewhere)!

   Wow, there must be some totally super weather in the desert of late as there are 4 live threads on  the board at present- I'm here by Lk.Michigan (Chicago area) & the last coupla wks. here since Labor Day have been the best & most consistant all season- very wet & cool "summer" here such as it is... I know very soon the conditions will break down here as this cannot last so I have been to Hollywood in Chgo. & the state park in Zion as often as poss- gotta do this while it lasts as IL will never challenge AZ in the weather dept!

    Can you guess I kinda miss the desert- LOL! Happy thonging to all

It is refered to as "upper"  Tanque Verde Falls in Redington pass.  When you get up there go past the first parking lot and up to the place where people park by the side of the road.  Then go to the trail on the right and you will see the sign.

Nudity is illegal in Mcdowell Mountain Park to the best of my knowledge.  Would have to be National forest land for it not to be.  so, ii you do it, be very, very discrete.  I have been naked on top of Camelback Mountain before-yes,  the very top!  It was deserted, 114 degrees and I peeled off just for sheer comfort.    Also, have seen other people sunning nude along the sides of Camelback-somewhat discretely.   If anyone who reads this thinks of doing that, remember how many people a year have to be taken down by helicopter or gurney.  They get to a point where they can't get back up or fall.  Be very, very careful, it can be very dangerous. 

Discretion is the key, I think.  There was a flasher on Piestawa (Squaw) Peak who got a real shock.  What he was doing was truly wrong in every sense.  What happened to him was quite appropriate.  He flashed a rather aggressive Lesbian who knocked him down,  took his clothes and backpack , and left him there in that state.  The Police caught  and arrested him as he attempted to come down one of the trails on the back side of the mountain. The climb I speak of is very public and well used.  I have seen from time to time a guy or two in a thong going up or down, not often but occasionally.  In Arizona we can deal with that, but crap like the flasher, that is handled in another way entirely.  I would have liked to have been there to see the look on his face when she took off with his clothes and left him there naked!  We do have our way of handling things in the wild, wild west, ha, ha.

To be clear in Arizona, thonging is legal everywhere in the state.  To my knowledge, there is no city, county or state ordinance forbidding the wearing of thongs.  As long as your genitals are covered, you are legal. 

Considering I've never encountered a ranger on a trail in the Scottsdale/McDowell mountain preserve, I'd say one would be safe in thonging there, as long as you were practical about it.  I always carry my shorts with me in a leather bag and put them on when encountering families or others that I think my thong would be inappropriate for.  Discretion is the better part of valor. 

--don

Sad, but for all the wonderful sunny days we have here, I can't think of any particular spots in the municipal area.

Check with the front desk of where you are staying.  I doubt that anyone is going to say no.  Places you might check are the Hilton Squaw Peak,  Tapito Cliffs, or South Mountain locations.

When everyone is talking abou tthe "Point Resort" to thong at... do they mean the:

Pointe Resort at Tapatio Cliffs?

Has anyone had experience with Scottsdale Hotels?   I was thinking the new Mondrian might be a good place.  They have some sick pool parties there I hear. 

There are reviews on some hotel boards saying "my kids couldn't find anyone to play with- this is not for families".  Someone else said "the pool area was so filled with skinny people wearing so little clothes- I think it might be a swinger's resort"

anyone been there?