Serra Springs

The bronze here reads Serra Springs, and every name it lists is one somebody else brought. This is Kuruvungna, a place where we are in the sun, and the Tongva village on it drank from these springs for thousands of years before Portola's party camped beside them in 1769. Santa Monica later piped the water for its supply. The springs still run twenty-two thousand gallons a day. Angie Behrns came back for a class reunion in 1992, found the ground under trash, and built the foundation that tends it now.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Santa Monica Pier — 3.4 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.
• Colorado Street Bridge — 18 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 20 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.

More markers nearby

• Old Santa Monica Forestry Station — 3.3 mi
• Harold Lloyd Estate (Greenacres) — 3.5 mi
• Portolá Trail Campsite (2) — 4.8 mi
• Hancock Park-La Brea — 6.0 mi