23 Facts About Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach is a seaside resort city located in southern Orange County, California, in the United States.

Laguna Beach'storically settled by Paleoindians, the Tongva people, and then Mexico, the location became part of the United States following the Mexican–American War.

Laguna Beach was settled in the 1870s, officially founded in 1887, and in 1927 its current government was incorporated as a city.

Laguna Beach was the site of a prehistoric paleoindian civilization.

The area of Laguna Beach Canyon was named on an 1841 Mexican land grant map as .

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The majority of Laguna Beach was one of the few parcels of coastal land in Southern California that never was included in any Mexican land grant.

Laguna Beach was the Southern California epicenter of the 'alternative' hippie culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Wildlife that can be found on Laguna Beach includes the Lined Shore Crab, Black Oystercatchers, Barred Sand Bass, Spiny Lobsters and the Great White Egret.

Laguna Beach has a mild Mediterranean climate with abundant sunshine all year.

Laguna Beach Playhouse, founded in 1920, is noted as the "oldest continuously running theatre on the west coast".

Laguna Beach is home to the annual Bluewater Music Festival, and Kelpfest held on Earth Day, to raise awareness of the importance that kelp plays in ocean habitat.

Laguna Beach has a surfing history centered on a five-block stretch of rocky reefs between Brooks and St Ann's Streets.

Mountain bike hall of fame legend Hans Rey makes his home in Laguna Beach, as do the Rads, pioneers of mountain biking going back to the 1970s.

Laguna Beach was first settled in the 1870s, but was founded officially in 1887 and, in 1927 it incorporated as a city.

Laguna Beach is located in the Fifth District of the Orange County Board of Supervisors and is currently represented by Republican Lisa Bartlett.

In 2008, Laguna Beach was one of only four incorporated cities in Orange County to reject Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that revoked marriage rights for same-sex couples in California.

That same year during the Democratic presidential preference primary, Laguna Beach was one of three cities in Orange County where Democrats favored Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Laguna Beach Unified School District manages public education for city residents.

Laguna Beach has used goats for its fuel reduction and vegetation management program since the early 1990s.

Laguna Beach is the only Orange County city protected by a dedicated greenbelt inland and bluebelt seaward.

Laguna Beach is the tenth official Transition Town in the U S In February 2007, Laguna's city council unanimously voted to join the U S Mayors Climate Initiative, and in April 2013 became the first Orange County city to make a formal request that the San Onofre Nuclear Reactor not be restarted after its January 2012 shutdown.

Laguna Beach passed a citywide "Idaho stop" ordinance for cyclists, a no-plastic-bag ordinance and a no-plastic-bottle purchasing policy for its government.

Laguna Beach is the setting for the Netflix television series Dead to Me.