First, it is located in Big Box land--a large shopping center, Hastings Village, is about one block north. There you will find  Nordstrom's Rack, Best Buy, Party City and Bed, Bath & Beyond, etc.  As for eats--Chipotle and El Torito are about the best they have.

Second, the art budget apparently ran dry when the Gold Line reached the Sierra Madre Villa station.  There are small mosaics embedded in the sidewalk by the elevators.  That's it, folks!

The photo of the deer is one-quarter of the entire art work at this station. Well, they did paint each one of the 4 figures by the elevators on each of the 4 floors of the parking garage to help you remember where you parked your car.  But we have seen better parking garage art in shopping malls, for example, the Glendale Galleria.

Coming or going through the Sierra Madre Villa station you have to walk through the garage, then cross to the middle of the 210 freeway on an elevated walkway.

Well, at least the parking is free and bus service is available on the ground floor.

Plans are in the works for an extension of the Gold Line further east to Montclair.  We hope they replenish the art budget when the extension is built. 

This station would be a disappointment were it not for the fact that the A Noise Within theater company will shortly be moving into the old Stuart Pharmaceutical Company building  at the corner of Foothill and Sierra Madre Villa.