Pasadena's Colorado Boulevard Goes Car Free for One Sunday
Pasadena's first open streets day since May 2015 frees 2.7 miles for walking and riding. It's free, and you can join anywhere.
🗓️ Mark the Sunday
🚲 The Route Without Cars
Colorado Boulevard is normally one of Pasadena's busiest car corridors. On Sunday, November 15, from 9 AM to 3 PM, CicLAvia's 69th event, presented by Metro and the first open streets day in Pasadena since May 2015, closes it to cars from Pasadena Avenue to Allen Avenue, along with Raymond Avenue from Pacific Alley to East Dayton Street. That leaves 2.7 miles of pavement for walking, biking and skating with no start or finish line, so you can join at any point, and the event goes on rain or shine.
🔧 Hubs, Pedicabs and the A Line
Two hubs anchor the day, Memorial Park Hub at 145 North Raymond Avenue and Colorado Hub at 1778 East Colorado Boulevard. Each has free basic bike repair, bike parking, water refill stations and accessible restrooms, and free pedicab rides run between the two hubs on a first come basis. Memorial Park and Del Mar A Line stations sit less than a tenth of a mile from the route, which makes Memorial Park Hub an easy first stop. Parking on the route is banned from 4 AM to 5 PM, with towing from 4 AM.
🚦 Where Cars Still Cross
Cars still cross the route at six marked intersections, Fair Oaks, Los Robles, Lake and Hill on Colorado plus Union and Green on Raymond, so slow down and follow the signs there. The Walnut pop-up lane toward the Rose Bowl and the one-mile Colorado stretch from Allen Avenue to San Gabriel Boulevard are Slow Streets, coned-off bike lanes beside normal car traffic rather than car-free road. E-bikes are welcome, Class 1 with pedal assist, Class 2 with the throttle off and Class 3 with pedal assist off, while electric scooters and electric skateboards stay off the route.
