Juan Bautista de Anza - Legacy

Legacy

The primary legacy is the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail in California, administered by the US National Park Service, for hiking the route of de Anza's expedition exploring Las Californias In the San Fernando Valley the trail crosses the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, and in the San Gabriel Valley the trail is in the Puente Hills just north of Whittier, California.

A building named the Juan de Anza House in San Juan Bautista, California is a National Historic Landmark, however it was constructed circa 1830 with its connection unclear. The "Juan Bautista de Anza Community Park" is in Calabasas, California, and "De Anza Park" is in Ontario. A 20-foot (6.1 m) statue of De Anza, built in 1939, is located in Riverside, California at the corner of Market and 14th Streets.

Another statue stands in Lake Merced park, San Francisco.

The De Anza spelling is also the namesake of streets, schools, and buildings in his honor including: De Anza Boulevards in San Mateo and Cupertino, De Anza Park in Sunnyvale, De Anza College in Cupertino, De Anza High School in Richmond, Juan De Anza K-5 in the Wiseburn Elementary School District of Hawthorne, De Anza Middle School in Ontario, De Anza Middle School in Ventura, De Anza Elementary School in El Centro, and the De Anza School in Baldwin Park, the landmark De Anza Hotel in San Jose, and the historic De Anza Hotel in Calexico — all in California.

Using just Anza in his honor are: Anza Street in San Francisco and Lake Anza in Tilden Regional Park above Berkeley in the Berkeley Hills. The town of Anza, California, is a small town of 7,000 people on Highway 371 in the mountains south of Palm Springs. Today descendants of Juan Bautista de Anza are found in Mexico City, Mexico.