California Landmark 23: First Portolá Expedition Camp in San Mateo County

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California Historical Landmarks in San Mateo County

California Landmark 23
First Portolá Expedition Camp in San Mateo County
Mouth of Gazos Creek West of Cabrillo Highway
Pescadero

This site has no commemorative plaque. According to the California Office of Historical Preservation, if there were a plaque, the inscription would be:

The Portolá Expedition of 1769 camped October 23 near the mouth of Gazos Creek.

The Portolá Expedition made its first camp in present San Mateo County near this lovely little beach. It is the first of twelve sites which mark the trail of the expedition.

Gazos Creek Empties Into The Pacific

Pigeon Point Viewed From Gazos Creek

(Click on any photograph to enlarge it)

From The March of Portolá and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco by Zoeth S. Eldredge:

On the 23d, they again moved forward, passing Punta de Ańo Nuevo and, traveling two leagues, camped probably on Gazos creek, where was a large Indian ranchería, whose inhabitants received them kindly. This camp, which was about opposite Pigeon Point, they named Casa Grande, also San Juan Nepomuceno.

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