A: When you turn into the park from Comanche Trail, you will be greeted at the drive-thru window of the guardhouse where you will pay the day use fee for entry. Stay dressed while you are in the parking lot.  However, you may undress with a towel around you if you want to leave your clothing in your vehicle.  Stay covered until you are out of the parking lot and on a trail to the lake. It is not far from the parking lot to the lake, about a 5-minute walk. You can take drinks and food, but no glass containers. There are restrooms, trashcans and potable water near the lake. Bring a towel, sun glasses, sunscreen, camera and maybe a float and water shoes for swimming. The shoreline is rocky, so closed-toed shoes are better than sandals, and a thin exercise mat is good to lay on (some of the the rocks are sharp). You can expect to find lots of friendly naked people. So, find new and old friends to laugh and talk with, sunbath, swim and just have fun.

 

A: Travis County barred those under 18.  Officials said the state's only government-maintained nude park is a potential breeding ground for sexual predators and no place for kids, indicating  the issue is not the violation of parental rights, but the protection of children.

It does appear that county officials are unfairly associating nudism with sexual wrongdoing because they don't understand naturism, which promotes ``healthy, wholesome attitudes about nudity and the human body.''

A: There are a few guidelines used for determining appropriate material for this website.  The guidelines are listed with the Access Information in the Message Board, and are intended to make everyone's visit to the website a pleasant experience.

A: An avatar is a small image that provides a visual depiction of you.  The Message Board allows you to upload a picture image of yourself to be displayed with your messages and in your profile.  The image should be cropped to 100 by 100 pixels with a maximum size of approximately 6 Kilobytes.  You use image-editing software to create an avatar.

If you need help creating an avatar from a digital image, we are happy to help. Just send a message to the Admin or Moderator of the forum for assistance.

 

A: Public display of the consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited, so keep you beer in a Koozie to hide the label. Sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited in the park. Intoxicated persons will not be allowed in the park. Visitors who become intoxicated will be removed from the park. No person shall bring into or use glass containers in any area of the park. 

Pets are not allowed in Hippie Hollow Park.

 

A:  Your username and password are case sensitive.  Make sure that upper and lower case characters match exactly. 

Case Sensitive -  1: Distinguishing between upper- and lower-case letters.  2: Knowing the difference between capital letters and lower case letters.  For example: A case-sensitive search for "CASE" would not find "case".

Also, the registration for the message board is separate from that for the member photo area.  You must register twice (Sorry).

A: The donation system was implemented in 2009 primarily to address concerns of those that upload pictures to the site. By requiring a small donation, traffic is filtered to those seriously interested in HippieHollow.com and not just those browsing the Internet for nude pictures. Donations have stopped the traffic from surfers just passing through, and for those who upload your pictures to the Picture Area, not just anyone that visits this website gets access.

There are no monthly fees.
There are no recurring payments.
Just one donation.

 

A: PayPal is not nudist friendly. PayPal was used initially at HippieHollow.com, but PayPal decided they will not do business with nudist sites. Accepting HippieHollow.com donations through PayPal was determined by PayPal to be in violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy which resulted in termination of our PayPal account. PayPal equates any, and all, nudity with obscenity.

AlertPay is nudist friendly. AlertPay has been implemented at HippieHollow.com and is used by other nudist organizations all around the world.  AlertPay is a top-notch Canadian company based in Montreal and created in 2004. It offers secure online payment solutions available to more than 190 countries and 21 currencies, and offers local banking wire transfer in 46 countries. AlertPay is a very credible, secure and nudist friendly alternative to PayPal.

Here are some links to articles on PayPal and nudism:
PayPal closes nudist magazine's account
Naked Canadians Consider Class Action Lawsuit Against PayPal

A: AlertPay does not accept MasterCard and American Express for nudist sites because of company policies at MasterCard and American Express.  It does not have anything to do with AlertPay. MasterCard and American Express, like PayPal, will not allow business with sites that contain adult content (see the above on PayPal).

AlertPay accepts Visa for transactions without requiring an AlertPay account.

But there are other ways to use AlertPay, and with a Master Card and American Express.

It is free to open a Personal Starter Account at AlertPay. A Personal Starter is the perfect account to send and receive money with easy deposit and withdrawal methods. You can send money to anyone who has an email address.  It works like PayPal.

There are several free ways to deposit money to your AlertPay account for sending money.
 

• You can still make MasterCard and American Express  payments through AlertPay Send Money. Simply follow these steps to do so:
  
  1. Create and Login to your AlertPay account.
  2. Click on "Send Money".
  3. Enter the receiver’s email address. ( donations @ hippiehollow . com )
  4. Enter amount you want to send. If you would like to pay with credit card, you can choose to do so on the following page under "Method of Payment".
  5. Select the purchase type, enter any additional details and click on "Next”.
  6. Review details, enter your Transaction PIN and click "Send".
   
• AlertPay accepts cashier’s checks, certified checks and money orders (here is how).
• A bank transfer to an AlertPay account takes about 3 business days to complete and the transaction is free for Canada and the US (here is how).

A: All Picture Area accounts are still active. No previous Picture Area accounts have been terminated, unless the email address associated with the account is bouncing. Bounced emails cause problems with our server. If your ISP (such as AOL or Yahoo) bounces emails that we send to you because your email mailbox is full or has been discontinued, even if your email address was active at one time, our entire server may be blacklisted. Not because on one bounced email, but the cumulative effect of many inactive email accounts. It gives the appearance that hippiehollow.com is sending spam mail when we are simply trying to communicate with those that signed up for the Message Board or the Picture Area. Doesn't seem fair, but that is how it works. So it is important for you to keep your email address current in our system, or your account may be terminated to protect everyone’s ability to get email.

The Message Board and the Picture Area require separate login accounts, which does get confusing for some. If you would like to have your username and password for the Picture Area match that of your Message Board account, we will help you with those changes. If you do not remember your username and password to the Picture Area, you can request a lost password to the Picture Area at this link: Request Lost Password (but your email must be active to receive the reminder).

If you do not have an account to the Member Pictures Area, you may apply for membership here: Apply for Member Picture Account

A: When you register, an email will be sent containing a link which activates your message board account.  Your account will be inactive until you visit the link by clicking or by copying the link to your browser.  Please do not forget your password as it has been encrypted in our database and we cannot retrieve it for you. However, should you forget your password you can request a new one which will be activated in the same way as this account.

Request a new password

Q: I realize that the photo gallery is probably over a year old, but I am using firefox and am not able to open any of the pictures. I am connecting thru RR and am using the Road Runner Computer associates suite along with webroot spysweeper and CA antivirus. Any help?
  

A: I think that you just answered your own question.  Thousands of people access this site and get to the message board and the pictures in the gallery.  If you are having problems, more than likely it is something incompatible with the combination of firewall and spy applications.  We are not able to provide support for each persons' personal war against the internet.

Links to Guidelines and Rules of the Park:  

LCRA Parks FAQ
Travis County Park Rules

Member Quick Links: