Expedition Camp #62, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel: Located at 537 West Mission Drive, San Gabriel, and established in 1771 as the fourth of the eventual 21 missions in the California chain, San Gabriel was a destination and a place of rest for both expeditions. Anza visited the first mission site on his first trip and the current site on his colonizing expedition. A plaque near Whittier Narrows marks the location of the first site of the mission at the corner of San Gabriel Boulevard and Lincoln in the city of Montebello. The colonists stayed at the current mission site for about six weeks while Anza and Font went to San Diego to help quell an Indian rebellion there. Construction of the present mission church and complex was begun in 1792 and completed in 1805. It is administered by the Claretian Fathers. (NR)

Whittier Narrows Nature Center and trailhead: Located at North Durfee Avenue in South El Monte, it is near the site of the original San Gabriel Mission (corner of Lincoln and San Gabriel Boulevard) before the river overflowed. It includes the site of Isantgangna Rancheria west of and next to the original mission by the bluff and the site of Aquibit Rancheria, east of Mission Boulevard by the river when the mission was moved to a safer site. This site may be included on the auto route for the Anza Trail. Bicentennial Park or Horsemen’s Park in Pico Rivera may be an interpretive stop and staging area along the recreational route.

El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument: This site includes the Plaza, Olvera Street, Avila Adobe Museum, and other historic buildings. The site is within the historic corridor. One of the first settlers of El Pueblo de la Reina Los Angeles was Vicente Feliz, an Anza expedition member. (His wife had died in childbirth at La Canoa, the first night out from Tubac.) One contingent of settlers, led by Rivera y Moncada, used the Anza trail in 1781. Most of this contingent was massacred at the mission settlements at the Colorado River by the Yuma Indians. (Riós-Bustamonte, p.42) A plaque to Rivera y Moncada’s memory is placed at San Gabriel Mission. El Pueblo is at 622 N. Main Street (visitors) or 125 Paseo de la Plaza, L.A. 90012 (administration).

Elysian Park: A plaque (CRHL #655) at the North Broadway entrance to the park indicates that the Portolá party crossed the Los Angeles River (Rió Porciuncula) at the site of the Broadway Bridge today. It is believed that the Anza expedition crossed here also. The park, owned by the City of Los Angeles, comprises the last large piece of pueblo lands granted by Carlos III, King of Spain, in 1781. The park provides potential for a trail along the Los Angeles River, the route of the Anza party. Park administration is located at 929 Academy Road, Los Angeles. 

Expedition Camp #72, Puertezuelo (Griffith Park): Within this City of Los Angeles park is the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum at 4700 Zoo Drive, located on the Los Angeles River and near the Puertezuelo camp site of the Anza expedition on February 21, 1776. The Museum is dedicated to documenting the history of the West and could provide interpretation of the Anza trek. The park is part of the original Los Feliz land grant of Anza party member, José Vicente Feliz.

Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area: This flood control basin, managed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, encompasses about a four mile segment of the Los Angeles River, which was the route of the expedition. The area contains many recreation facilities and has the potential for a trail along the river channel.

Los Encinos State Historic Park: This California State Department of Parks and Recreation facility is within the historic corridor and may be the site of "a small spring of water, like a little lake." (Font) It is located in Encino at 16756 Moorpark Street off Balboa Avenue near Ventura Boulevard.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA): The park includes Satwiwa Native American Indian Natural Area and Rancho Sierra Vista (Ventura County), at Potrero Road, Newbury Park. The Native American Culture Center at Satwiwa was recently opened. A small portion of the historic route and portions of the recreational retracement route are within current park boundaries. The park provides an opportunity to interpret the expedition and to orient the visitor to the trail. The headquarters of this National Park Service facility is at 401 West Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, California.

Expedition Camp #73, Agua Escondida (Malibu Creek State Park): The park is within the Santa Monica Mountains and incorporates Las Virgenes Creek which may be the site of the Anza camp named Agua Escondida, hidden water. The park preserves a landscape similar to that of 1776 and is the site of an annual reenactment of the February 22, 1776 encampment. The park may provide a portion of a recreational reenactment trail.