It travels due north to a terminus above Loma Alta Avenue in Altadena and the gates of Angelus County Park.

The road led up from Raymond Hill and north to Washington Boulevard where it met the Painter Hotel.

This was an access to the greatest local water source in Millard Canyon, and was named New Fair Oaks Road.

Long considered the center of town, the corner of Colorado and Fair Oaks lost its centrality by the ever eastwardly expansion of the city.

[4][5] Also on the avenue is the Los Angeles College of Music, the Huntington Hospital in Pasadena and the Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena.