About Laguna Beach, California

Laguna Beach is a city of 23,032 people in Orange County, on the Pacific coast. Most of its shoreline was never part of a Mexican land grant, so homesteaders could claim it after the Civil War. The Thurston family from Utah settled 152 acres in Aliso Creek Canyon in 1871. In 1876 the brothers William and Nate Brooks bought land in Bluebird Canyon, split it into lots and started the village of Arch Beach. A post office opened in 1887 under the misspelled name Lagona, and in 1904 postmaster Nicholas Isch had it changed to Laguna Beach.

Plein-air painters came in the early 1900s for the coves and hills, and photographers, writers and film crews soon followed. In 1920 the town had only about 300 people, and the winding road through Laguna Canyon was the one way in. When the Pacific Coast Highway opened in 1926, residents who called themselves "Lagunatics" feared a rush of new building and pushed to incorporate so they could protect their art colony. Laguna Beach became a city on June 29, 1927, with 1,900 residents, and it passed 10,000 by 1962.

“as a child of that deathless search, particularly by persons who devote their lives to painting or writing, or for some place where beauty and cheapness and a trifle of remoteness hobnob together in a delightful companionship.”
Wikipedia
  • Laguna Woman, found in 1933Workers building on St. Ann's Drive in 1933 dug up a fossil skull, the first from a paleoindian ever found in California. Scientists first dated "Laguna Woman" to more than 17,000 years ago, but later tests put her age nearer 11,700 years.
  • Painters, then a pageantWilliam Wendt, Frank Cuprien and Edgar Payne were among the painters who settled here and formed the Laguna Beach Art Association. The town's first gallery opened in 1918 and grew into today's Laguna Art Museum. Summer art shows began in 1921, and in 1936 Roy Ropp shaped them into the Pageant of the Masters and the Festival of Arts held today, with real people posing as famous artworks. The Sawdust Art Festival started in 1965 as the counterculture's answer.
  • Silent films at the covesStarting in 1913, filmmakers shot dozens of silent movies in Laguna's coves, with stars such as Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. During long shoots, actors and crews lodged at the Arch Beach Tavern on the hill above Moss Street.
  • California's first openly gay mayorLaguna Beach voters elected Robert F. Gentry in 1982. He was Southern California's first openly gay elected official and became California's first openly gay mayor.

Find your street

Names on the Laguna Beach map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks5

  • Laguna Beach City Hall
  • South Laguna
  • Top of the World
  • Canyon Acres
  • Emerald Bay

Streets and roads84

  • Pacific Coast Highway
  • South Coast Highway
  • North Coast Highway
  • Laguna Canyon Road
  • Catalina
  • Park Avenue
  • County Highway 18
  • El Toro Road
  • Blue Bird Canyon Drive
  • Cliff Drive
  • Skyline Drive
  • Castle Rock Road
  • Catalina Street
  • High Drive
  • Vis del Sol
  • Morningside Drive
  • Alta Laguna Boulevard
  • Nyes Place
  • Brooks Street
  • Monterey Street
  • Hillcrest Drive
  • Summit Drive
  • Virginia Way
  • Del Mar Avenue
  • Thalia Street
  • Arroyo Drive
  • Canyon Acres Drive
  • Monterey Drive
  • La Mirada Street
  • Cerritos Drive
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  • Zell Drive
  • Tahiti Avenue
  • Riviera Drive
  • Stan Oak Drive
  • Victoria Drive
  • Cortez
  • Ocean Avenue
  • Cozumel
  • First Avenue
  • Baja Street
  • Village Lane
  • Temple Hills Drive
  • Glenneyre Street
  • Balboa Avenue
  • South La Senda Drive
  • Canyon View Drive
  • Lagunita Drive
  • Holly Drive
  • Agate Street
  • Saint Anns Drive
  • Poplar Street
  • Allview Terrace
  • Bern Drive
  • Ocean Vista Drive
  • Wendt Terrace
  • Third Avenue
  • Ledroit Street
  • Phillips Street
  • South Portola
  • Tyrol Drive
  • Loma Terrace
  • Coral Drive
  • Irvine Cove Crst
  • Starlit Drive
  • Oro Street
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Kilo Way
  • Wykoff Way
  • Ramona Avenue
  • Mountain Road
  • Vista Lane
  • Wesley Drive
  • McKnight Drive
  • Shady Lane
  • Park Drive
  • Diamond Street
  • Crestview Drive
  • Ceanothus Drive
  • North La Senda Drive
  • Aliso Canyon Road
  • Manzanita Drive
  • Oriole Drive
  • La Costa Court
  • Vis de San Clemente

Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.

The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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