Treasure Island Beach is named for a shipwreck, if local legend is right. The details are thinly documented, which has never stopped a good legend.

Stairs lead down from the Montage Laguna Beach resort to caves, rock formations and tide pools in South Laguna. The resort opened in 2003 on the site of a trailer park, whose last residents had left six years earlier. Today the oceanfront strip is a public park.

Three of VoiceMap’s Orange County driving tours pass it on the Pacific Coast Highway and tell the shipwreck story. They also point out the Bluff Trail between the resort and Treasure Island Park, and the Pirate Tower at neighboring Victoria Beach.