So, there I was, weaving through more naked bodies than I’d seen since the showers after high school gym class. Except there weren’t girls in those showers (OK, maybe one time there was, but that’s another story). The scene is Paradise Valley, 110 acres off a winding mountain road near Dawsonville. On a chilly Saturday morning in April, more than 100 nudists were gathered for the Fig Leaf 5K. It was certainly a visual spectacle, ranging from the sublime to the … um … pendulous.

Until about three years ago, the resort was known as Hidden Valley. It was located here in 1978 by the Dixie Sun Club, after being run out of a nearby town, Maysville. “All we wanted was our own place,” says Jackie. When I ask for her last name, she hesitates and turns to her husband, Donnie. “Do we want to use our last name?” She shrugs. “Sure, it’s Johnson. We’re retired, so who cares?” The Johnsons — two of the few Paradise members who volunteered full names — have been nudists since 1974, and they scouted out the land that became Paradise Valley.

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