Treasure Shores Park Beach Guide

Treasure Shores Park is an Indian River County beach park at 11300 Highway A1A, three miles north of CR 510 (the Wabasso Causeway), open daily from 7 a.m. to sunset.

The county lists the park at 20.8 acres and gives a beach condition hotline of 772-226-3384 (Indian River County). It carries a Vero Beach 32963 mailing address, but from Sebastian the drive follows the route the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gives for its Pelican Island refuge: County Road 512 (Sebastian Boulevard) to 90th Avenue, straight onto County Road 510 across the Wabasso Causeway, then A1A (USFWS, Pelican Island). At A1A, Treasure Shores is three miles north. The Pelican Island refuge trailheads on the Historic Jungle Trail sit 3.7 miles north of CR 510, a short way past the park.

Treasure Shores is one of three Indian River County parks that open onto the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, alongside Golden Sands and Ambersand (Indian River County). The table compares them with Wabasso Beach Park, the small guarded park on Wabasso Beach Road.

Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the Indian River County website (Treasure Shores Park page).

No, Treasure Shores Park is an unguarded beach; the guarded Indian River County beaches nearby are Golden Sands Beach Park and Wabasso Beach Park, both staffed from 9:10 a.m. to 4:50 p.m.

The county page states plainly that Treasure Shores is an unguarded beach (Indian River County). Golden Sands Beach Park at 10350 Highway A1A lists a lifeguard tower number of 772-268-5981 and a guarded stretch of 573 linear feet (Indian River County). Wabasso Beach Park at 1820 Wabasso Beach Road lists tower number 772-268-4732 (Indian River County). For a family from Sebastian or Roseland that wants shade and a playground but also a lifeguard, the practical split is a Treasure Shores picnic followed by a swim at Golden Sands, which is also on A1A.

One county page is out of step with the others. The Archie Carr refuge page lists Golden Sands with 131 parking spaces and gives access hours of 7:30 a.m. to sunset (Indian River County), while the individual Golden Sands page lists 128 spaces and a 7 a.m. opening (Indian River County), and the Treasure Shores page also gives 7 a.m. (Indian River County). The park pages are the more specific listing for the north county beaches.

Treasure Shores Park has 9 picnic tables, a playground, 74 parking spaces plus 4 handicap spaces, drinking fountains, restrooms, outdoor showers and an ADA crossover to the sand.

Indian River County describes paved parking and picnic tables under large oak trees, and says Treasure Shores Park offers ADA beach access (Indian River County). By contrast, the county Archie Carr page lists Ambersand Beach Park with only an unpaved parking area and a dune crossover (Indian River County).

County ordinances set the rules at Treasure Shores. Pets are not allowed in any county park (205.03.22), nor alcohol (205.03.26), open fires, camping, overnight parking, equestrian activities, fireworks, remote controlled aircraft or golfing (Indian River County). Normal beach activities are allowed during park hours: fishing, surfing, scuba diving, sunbathing and picnicking. The Treasure Shores page lists fishing without the guarded-area limit that applies at Wabasso Beach Park, where fishing is allowed only outside the guarded area (Indian River County).

Treasure Shores Park sits inside the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, and sea turtle nesting season on Indian River County beaches runs from March 1 through October 31.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the refuge stretches across 20.5 miles of beach between Melbourne Beach and Wabasso Beach in Brevard and Indian River counties, was established in 1991, and protects the most significant area for loggerhead sea turtle nesting in the world and for green turtle nesting in North America (USFWS, Archie Carr). The Service also lists Treasure Shores by name among the beaches where the refuge provides public access (USFWS, Archie Carr visit page).

Indian River County has kept a Habitat Conservation Plan for nesting sea turtles since 2005, coordinating nest monitoring across 22.4 miles of county shoreline, with loggerhead, green and leatherback turtles nesting each year (Indian River County). At Treasure Shores the county asks beachgoers to stay off the vegetated dunes, fill in any holes before leaving and carry trash to the cans, and to report injured or dead sea turtles to the FWC at 1-888-404-3922 with the exact location (Indian River County). The county adds that the best time to watch turtles is June and July, when local organizations run guided night programs (Indian River County).

Treasure Shores Park sits at the north end of Indian River County beach Sector 3, a 6.6-mile stretch where the county Beach Preservation Plan recommends renourishment every 5 to 7 years.

The county defines Sector 3 as running from half a mile north of Treasure Shores Beach Park, near the Seaview Subdivision, to half a mile south of the Turtle Trail Beach Access (Indian River County Coastal Engineering). North of it, Sectors 1 and 2 run 3.1 miles from Sebastian Inlet to the Seaview Subdivision, and a memorandum of understanding with the county lets the Sebastian Inlet District manage and bypass sand onto that stretch.

Erosion is the reason. As of 2025, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection classified 19.3 miles of the county's 22.4-mile shoreline as critically eroded, and the northernmost segment runs 9.5 miles south from Sebastian Inlet, threatening State Road A1A, Sebastian Inlet State Park facilities and the McLarty Treasure Museum (Indian River County Coastal Engineering). For Treasure Shores visitors that means the beach width and dune line can change between renourishment cycles; the beach condition hotline, 772-226-3384, is the number to call before a trip (Indian River County).

The beach at Treasure Shores Park is part of a refuge run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with Indian River County owning or sharing about 97 acres inside it.

The county says those lands are managed together with Brevard County and the Fish and Wildlife Service, and that the partnership, the Archie Carr Working Group, has protected over 900 acres (Indian River County); the Fish and Wildlife Service puts the working group's total at over 2,600 acres (USFWS, Archie Carr). Visitors who want exhibits rather than a beach day can drive north to the Barrier Island Center at 8385 S Hwy A1A in Melbourne Beach, open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed Mondays, with sea turtle exhibits and a lagoon kayak launch (USFWS, Archie Carr visit page).