its years since i went , but heading east from studland village you come to the nt beach car park , theres cafe and toilets there. theres more parking further along the road and at the far end by the ferry . was pay and display several years ago.
the naturist bit is the middle bit of the beach , quite a way from the nt carpark , but easy walking along the beach.most people just go for a dip in the sea when they feel the need for a wee.
if youre worried about the breeze a windbreak on the beach is the best bet ....perception is only strange/odd people hide in the dunes

GC, whichever end of the bay you go, you are in for quite a long walk to the naturist section. The walk from the Sandbank's Ferry end is slightly shorter and does have a toilet available on the Studland side. Car parking in this area is quite crowded.
I won't bother to tell you about the "Fire Road" access as it's always difficult to park, subject to the action of car vandals and has no toilets anyway (though there are bushes!)
The National Trust entrance, further down the road towards Swanage, is probably your safest bet. It has toilets and a cafe but it's about a mile away from the naturist section and involves walking through a textile section. The mobile "Snack truck" visits the naturist part and parks up on the sands in front of the dunes.
Hope this helps.

GC, whichever end of the bay you go, you are in for quite a long walk to the naturist section. The walk from the Sandbank's Ferry end is slightly shorter and does have a toilet available on the Studland side. Car parking in this area is quite crowded.
I won't bother to tell you about the "Fire Road" access as it's always difficult to park, subject to the action of car vandals and has no toilets anyway (though there are bushes!)
The National Trust entrance, further down the road towards Swanage, is probably your safest bet. It has toilets and a cafe but it's about a mile away from the naturist section and involves walking through a textile section. The mobile "Snack truck" visits the naturist part and parks up on the sands in front of the dunes.
Hope this helps.

Thank you for the advise. We're opting to park at the ferry end as this will be near to home when we leave.
Both my wife and I are looking forward to going there this Monday (Sunday is reported to be a cloudy day).

Well we went for the first time on Monday and really enjoyed ourselves. We set up just above the beach area on the first dune that had a level.
We also ventured into the sea which being shallow really surprised us.

I have two questions though which I hope folks here can help us with

1) Security - as both my wife and I went into the water we obviously left our valuables behind, with it being a Monday it was quiet but as we were swimming we noticed a gentlemen head next to where we pitched up and then go down out of sight. Fearing the worst I ran back to out place. When I got there he had set up on a space next to our dune area (remember it was very quiet and there was lots of space elsewhere). Nothing was taken or touched and I did ask him why he set up where he did. He informed me that this was his usual spot when he came. Now given the reeds we could see each other if we were laying down. So my question for folks who are regulars to the beach if this rings true?

2) There were a number of men who contantly remained standing up and walked in small circles sometimes coming close to we're both my wife and we're sunbathing. Some unfortunately were not nude. How common is this and what's folks recommendation and best practices you can advise to minimise this?

These two things said we've decided that weather permitting we'll be back in two weeks time  🙂

Probably best to stay on the beach where you can keep an eye on your belongings whilst in the sea also less reason for someone to park themselves too close to you. 🙂

On UK naturist beaches it seems to be the norm that the open beach is a safe naturist place but the dunes are inhabited by strange men.
This phenomenon is not unique to Studland, and by many accounts Studland is actually less afflicted than most.

Well it was a new experience. To think that someone what to look at two, let's be honest one, over 50 year old person is something new.

I suppose one should take it as a complement. Strangely they didn't go into the sea when we did. Thought they may have tried to follow us.

I've been loads of times over the years. Everyone says dunes are inhabited by ' meerkats'. This is generally untrue though there are some who like to look. Generally no harm done - & they bugger off if confronted if get too much. There are some guys [& gals] looking for [& sometimes finding] sex in the dunes - but its something easily avoided. It does seem fairly safe but have known of clothes getting knicked - probably a kids prank. There's also much talk of cars being broken into on the road but also never witnessed that

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There's also much talk of cars being broken into on the road but also never witnessed that

At least they won't be breaking the side widow to nick the tax disc these days as used to happen in South London.
I've has it happen to me with a car on my drive and there were certain local streets where they took the tax disc  in at night.

We get the meerkats at our local unofficial beach too and one guy in particular who like to park himself about 10 yards away despite miles of free sand and dunes so he has a good view (in our opinion), like you, of a couple of 50 odd year olds.

He never goes fully nude and it annoys the life out of the better half as he just stares in our direction. He moves on when we pack up. Have had words with him a couple of times but he 'forgets' he has ever met us the next time he sees us.

There are never that many people about but a pair of shorts and the car keys always come with us when we go for a swim just in case.

There are also a few guys who are on a obviously gay cruise but are quite polite normally, they can tell who is straight and who isn't. It was an eye opener at first but we are used to it now except for the guy who sits close by.

We haven't seen any sexual activity yet.

As the beach is unofficial I can't see there is much we can do about it.

One of the times I had a Gay meerkat sitting watching my every move I pulled out my camera and started playing with the settings not even pointing at him... he removed himself from the area. when on isolated beaches i pull the camera and start taking pictures of the dunes if they are standing there taking "photos of the sea". They don't like having there pictures taken as much as we don't, and you are not breaking the law doing it.

One of the times I had a Gay meerkat sitting watching my every move I pulled out my camera and started playing with the settings not even pointing at him... he removed himself from the area. when on isolated beaches i pull the camera and start taking pictures of the dunes if they are standing there taking "photos of the sea". They don't like having there pictures taken as much as we don't, and you are not breaking the law doing it.

Good advice, Terry. I'd forgotten that one!

I don't know if taking photos of them will discourage or encourage them. But I'll keep it as an option.  🙂

As an after thought does anyone know a (safe) site where I could state I would be posting their photo on a "pests" list? I wouldn't actually do this but it may do enough to may them think about how others view their behaviour.

Photography. What you have to remember is in England you can take photographs of nearly anything outside, but it is what you do with the photographs that can get you into trouble. If you photograph someone and then claim they are "doing something" you have to be able to back it up legally. This is why you do not get many of the sites you mention Glenn-Coe, it is a very dodgy area. usually i just point the camera and don't even press the shutter. crumbs i have found they can really run fast carrying loads of long lens cameras and kit....... ;D