De Anza Expedition Camp

This is California Historical Landmark #47. The De Anza Expedition Camp is the campsite marker of the original Spanish De Anza Expedition, which originally and historically first discovered the San Francisco Bay. The Expedition Campsite Marker is located within Arroyo Park, San Mateo, on Arroyo Court, alongside the San Mateo Creek, which flows to the Bay and was a quick-​flowing and relevant moving-​body-​of-​water in the days of the De Anza Expedition. Today the San Mateo Creek’s water are much smaller and placid, in that it is now merely the overflow outlet for the Crystal Springs Dam, which is now the headwater source of the San Mateo Creek. See the Review for Arroyo Park on this website. Also see the Review on this website for the Eugene A. Doran Memorial Bridge.