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Portolá Monument ~ Sunday, October 30, 2022
This monument, in the hills above Moss Beach, commemorates the route of Spanish explorer Portolá. After camping somewhere around here, he and his party went up the nearby mountains and became the first Europeans to see San Francisco Bay.
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I first saw a picture of this monument in a local history book, but it took quite a while to find it. When it was built, the hill was bare and it must have been a landmark visible from miles around. A hundred or more years later, a forest has grown up around it and it seems to be almost forgotten.