Portolá Trail Campsite 2

The Portolá Trail Campsite 2 or Portolá Trail Campsite No. 2 is the spot of the first Europeans to travel and camp overnight in what is now Beverly Hills, California. The Portolá expedition camped at the site on August 3, 1769. The Portolá Trail Campsite No. 2 was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.665) on Nov. 5, 1958. The Portolá Trail Campsite is located in what is now 325 South La Cienega Boulevard between Olympic Boulevard and Gregory, in Beverly Hills. in Los Angeles County.[1] Military officer Gaspar de Portolá was the commander of the expedition for the Spanish Empire with the goal of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The expedition led to the founding of the first mission in the Los Angeles Basin, the Mission Vieja, on September 8, 1771, and of Alta California. The expedition arrived at Portolá Trail Campsite No. 2 from the Portolá Trail Campsite No. 1 in what is now Elysian Park. They came to camp site 1 from the San Gabriel Valley, were the Mission San Gabriel would be built later in 1776. As they depart Portolá Trail Campsite No. 2 they traveled west towards Santa Monica Bay. At San Monica Bay the expedition turned and traveled north to were the future Mission San Fernando would be built in 1797. Form San Fernando the expedition turned west to Ventura, the site of the future Mission San Buenaventura built in 1782.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Listed on the state historic mark #665 at the site:
Portolá Trail Campsite No. 2
Beverly Hills in 1919
LocationLa Cienega Park in Beverly Hills
Coordinates34°03′44″N 118°22′35″W
Built1769
DesignatedNov. 5, 1958
Reference no.665
Portolá Trail Campsite 2 is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Portolá Trail Campsite 2
Location of Portolá Trail Campsite No. 2 in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Gaspar de Portolá

Marker

Marker on the site reads:[9]

  • NO. 665 PORTOLÁ TRAIL CAMPSITE, 2 – The expedition of Don Gaspar de Portolá from Mexico passed this way en route to Monterey to begin the Spanish colonization of California. With Captain Don Fernando Rivera y Moncada, Lieutenant Don Pedro Fages, Sergeant José Francisco Ortega, and Fathers Juan Crespí and Francisco Gómez, Portolá and his party camped near this spot on August 3, 1769.

See also

References
  1. Cal, Parks Marker, 665, Portolá Trail Campsite
  2. A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-177o, by Juan Crespí and edited and translated by Alan K. Brown, published by San Diego State University Press, 2001.
  3. The Founding of Mission San Gabriel
  4. The first written record of the Misión Vieja area
  5. The Kizh/Gabrieleño People and Misión Vieja
  6. Misión Vieja: The Ancestral Center of the Los Angeles Region
  7. Home Stead Museum, Remnant Landscapes at Mision Vieja (Old Mission), South El Monte and Montebello
  8. Marker Database, 655
  9. californiahistoricallandmarks.com 655, Portolá Trail Campsite 1
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