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Mesita Road is a private street that intersects Sierra Madre Villa across from the golf course entrance. There are seven homes on Mesita, built between 1949 and 1958.

In the late 1940s, Dr. Everett T. Calvert, a principal in one of the Pasadena schools, persuaded Thomas B. Wilson and his brother to sell 18 acres to him. This roughly triangular parcel was bounded on the east by Sierra Madre Villa Ave., on the north by what became the Siecherts' north line (and was then the northern city limit of Pasadena), on the southwest by New York Drive, with the western line going up the middle of the ravine.

Mesita Road was the first subdivision of this parcel. Mesita was originally intended to extend further south to serve the homes that are now on Calvert Road. When several of the original owners got together to decide upon a name, Ruth Siechert suggested Mesita ("little mesa"), and the name was adopted. This wasn't the name Dr. Calvert had in mind; as a result he created a separate Calvert Road to the south of Mesita.