Summerlin Parkway's New Trail Is Taking Shape. Its Bridge Over the 215 Runs on a Different Clock.

Fresh asphalt now runs along the south side of Summerlin Parkway between Anasazi Drive and Town Center Drive. It's a 12-foot-wide strip set apart from the travel lanes, and from the parkway it can look like a wide shoulder. It's the first paved stretch of the City of Las Vegas's Summerlin Parkway Trail, a $26 million, 3.5-mile shared-use path between the 215 interchange and Rampart Boulevard.

A finished trail bridge already crosses the Beltway at the trail's west end. It was built by a different government on a different budget, and its schedule has the paths leading onto it opening near the end of a project set to finish in spring 2028. For the first year or so after the city's trail is done, its main connection runs east to Rampart. The link west over the 215 comes later.

Two governments, one corridor

Two projects share this stretch of road, and they are easy to mix up.

The trail belongs to the City of Las Vegas. Las Vegas Paving is the contractor. Work started August 18, 2025, and the city's ongoing projects page lists Spring 2027 for completion. In mid-October, a city spokesperson told 8 News Now that the project was "still on track to wrap up next February."

The interchange belongs to Clark County. It's a $130 million rebuild of the 215 and Summerlin Parkway junction that started in February 2025. It includes a new flyover ramp from the southbound 215 to the eastbound parkway, new vehicle bridges, and three new trail bridges that extend the City of Las Vegas trail across the 215. In September, the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Road Warrior column reported that the project was about 58 percent billed as of the end of August, a bit ahead of pace for its 1,102-day schedule, with completion set for spring 2028.

The trail's whole design depends on that bridge. According to the city's project fact sheet, the trail ties the existing CC-215 Beltway Trail to the Bonanza Trail, and it connects to the pedestrian bridge the county is building over the 215. The two ends of the trail depend on different governments.

The bridge is built. The way onto it isn't.

The county's trail bridges are already standing. The paths leading to them are the hold-up. "That won't happen till closer to the end of the project because there's still a lot of dirt to move and things like that are going on in the project," project manager Dan Erickson told the Review-Journal.

The city's side of the schedule says the same thing. As 8 News Now reported in October, the trail will "eventually" connect with the 215 Beltway Trail "when Clark County is done with the new Summerlin Parkway Interchange."

The city is aiming for early 2027 and the county for spring 2028, roughly a year apart. During that year, the trail's west end at the interchange is a doorway to a bridge that isn't open yet. The Review-Journal calls the trail on the far side the 215 Trail West Trail. The county's bridge is what will eventually tie it in.

Reading the route from west to east

The trail switches sides of the parkway partway along. Here's how the city laid out its four segments, in the order you'd walk them from the interchange:

1. CC-215 to Anasazi Drive. This stretch runs on the north side of Summerlin Parkway. The city expected it to be paved about three weeks after the mid-October work, which puts that paving around now.
2. Anasazi Drive to Crestdale Lane. Here the trail moves to the south side of the parkway. This segment includes a trail tunnel under Crestdale Lane between Covington Cross and Trailwood drives, built with lighting inside.
3. Crestdale Lane to Town Center Drive. This is part of the stretch paved in mid-October, between Anasazi and Town Center.
4. Town Center Drive to Rampart Boulevard. This is the slow segment, because it includes the pedestrian bridge over the wash. The city's schedule gave it until Spring 2027, compared with summer 2026 for the first three. The October update put paving here about two months out, which means mid-December. Work on the wash bridge, which sits right behind the Resort at Summerlin, was still underway.

The trail crosses three streets at grade: Anasazi Drive, Town Center Drive and Rampart Boulevard. Landmarks on the city's project map include The Hills Park, Tree Top Park, Summerlin Library, TPC Las Vegas, Eagle Crest Golf Course and Summerlin Hospital Medical Center.

The Rampart end matters most for the next year. That's where the new trail meets the existing Bonanza Trail, which the city's map labels as the Bonanza Trail/Angel Park Trail. Until the county opens its bridge approaches, the Bonanza Trail at Rampart is the trail's connection to the wider network.

Once paving is done, the city plans to add benches, trash cans and bike service stations. The city's project page also lists new lighting and fencing along the full length.

Drivers get their milestone first

The interchange's next visible change is for cars. The biggest upcoming milestone, Erickson told the Review-Journal, is traffic moving onto the new ramp from westbound Summerlin Parkway to the northbound 215. It will pass under the new pedestrian bridge at the northeast corner. "That should happen maybe November or December," he said. "Cars will be on the ultimate alignment."

That ramp runs under the same bridge that walkers and cyclists can't use until 2028. The bridges and the roadway follow the county's schedule. The approach paths need a lot of earthwork, so they come at the end.

The same column said all but one of the five vehicle bridges were done, with the last one due by year's end. Most of the remaining work is walls and bridges kept away from traffic. The usual slowdown, according to Erickson, is on the southbound 215 climbing the hill from Cheyenne toward Lake Mead. Concrete trucks and other heavy trucks can only go about 10 mph up that grade.

What's restricted this week

Clark County's weekly traffic notice for November 8 through 14 lists these restrictions around the clock:

• Northbound 215, Far Hills Avenue to Lake Mead Boulevard: one lane and the shoulder closed, with traffic shifted.
• Southbound 215, Lake Mead Boulevard to Summerlin Parkway: one lane and the shoulder closed. From Summerlin Parkway south to Far Hills, two lanes and the shoulder are closed.
• Westbound Summerlin Parkway, Anasazi Drive to the southbound 215 on-ramp: one lane open. The on-ramp itself has one lane and the shoulder closed.
• Far Hills Avenue northbound on-ramp: one lane and the shoulder closed, with access to the northbound 215 detoured.
• Pedestrian and cycle trail between Far Hills Avenue and Summerlin Parkway: detoured.

That last item affects anyone using the existing trail near the interchange. The county's notice says the work is subject to change, and it posts a new notice each week on the project page. Its monthly look-ahead through November 28 still lists the new westbound on-ramp to the northbound 215 as an active work zone.

The paving on the city's trail stays off the road. The October report noted that all of it is happening off the parkway's travel lanes. The city's general questions line for the trail is 702.229.6276.

A finished path along the parkway changes how a lot of nearby streets connect to each other. If you're wondering how that might affect your home's value as the trail opens over the next year, Jenn Taylor and The Taylor Group can walk you through it. Request a Personalized Home Valuation, and we'll keep an eye on both project schedules for you.