Nude Bowl

{{Short description|Skateboarding area in California, US}}

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The Nude Bowl was a popular skateboarding locale from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. The name comes from the fact that the site was once a naturist resort named "Desert Gardens Ranch."{{cite web|url=http://www.dhshistoricalsociety.com/ |title=Desert Hot Springs Historical Society |publisher=Dhshistoricalsociety.com |date=2010-04-29 |accessdate=2010-05-07}}

It is outside Desert Hot Springs, California and consists of an abandoned kidney bean shaped swimming pool and a few foundations of buildings that used to surround the area. There is no paved road to the Nude Bowl.

Initially, the Nude Bowl was merely a skateboarding party location, but by the 1990s, large parties and violence became commonplace there.{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2006/may/25/bringing-down-pala-bowl/ |title=Bringing Down Pala Bowl |publisher=Sandiegoreader.com |date=2006-05-25 |accessdate=2010-05-07}}{{cite web|url=https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/entertainment/music/2016/03/10/desert-rock-underground-finally-makes-limelight/81555766/ |title=Desert rock underground finally makes the limelight |work=Desert Sun |date=2016-03-10}} After numerous complaints about guns and fighting around the Nude Bowl, the police filled it in with dirt. Skateboarders returned, removed the dirt, and repaired the bowl.{{cite web|author=Theo Douglas |url=http://www.ocweekly.com/2005-06-09/features/skate-and-destroy |work=Orange County Weekly |title=Skate and Destroy |date=2005-06-09 |accessdate=2010-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523171551/http://www.ocweekly.com/2005-06-09/features/skate-and-destroy |archive-date=2010-05-23}} After a few months, the police broke up the concrete and buried the remains of the bowl, but the pool was later excavated and repaired.{{cn|date=May 2025}}