"That won't happen till closer to the end of the project because there's still a lot of dirt to move," Dan Erickson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in late September. Erickson manages the 215/Summerlin Parkway interchange project. He was talking about the paths that lead to the new pedestrian and bike bridges over the freeway, which are already built. The project as a whole is scheduled to finish in spring 2028.
A mile or so east, a separate crew is building the City of Las Vegas's Summerlin Parkway Trail, and its expected completion is spring 2027. These two projects are meant to meet at the 215. On the published schedules, the city's trail is likely to be finished about a year before the county's bridge approaches open. For its first season, the new path along the parkway will work as a link to the east and not yet as a route west.
Two agencies, two calendars
Most people driving the parkway see this as one long stretch of orange fencing. It is really two contracts with two owners.
| Summerlin Parkway Trail | 215/Summerlin Parkway Interchange | |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | City of Las Vegas | Clark County |
| Cost | $26 million | $130 million |
| Construction start | Aug. 18, 2025 | February 2025 |
| Expected finish | Spring 2027 | Spring 2028 |
| Trail piece | 3.5-mile shared-use path, Rampart to the 215 | Three new pedestrian trail bridges, including one over the 215 |
When the city announced the trail in August 2025, it said the work would take about 18 months and that the finished path "will connect to the existing Beltway trail." That connection runs over the county's bridge. The Review-Journal reported in December that the city trail will tie into the 215 Trail West Trail by way of a pedestrian bridge spanning the beltway, which is being built as part of the interchange project.
The interchange as a whole is moving on pace. As of the end of August, about 58 percent of the work had been billed, slightly ahead of the expected pace for the 1,102-day project, and the new pedestrian and bike bridges are already complete. What lags is the ground around the bridge. Its approach paths sit inside the county's earthwork, and according to the project manager, that earthwork is scheduled to finish late.
The route, from Rampart to the 215
The city's alignment changes sides of the parkway partway along. Going east to west, a trail user will cover these pieces:
- Rampart Boulevard. The new path joins the existing Bonanza Trail at Rampart and Summerlin Parkway, near The Resort at Summerlin. Rampart is one of three at-grade crossings.
- The wash west of Rampart. A new pedestrian bridge carries the path over it.
- Town Center Drive. This is the second at-grade crossing.
- Crestdale Lane. The trail goes through a tunnel under the street. Crestdale was closed for three months for the dig and had reopened by the end of April, according to KLAS 8 News Now. The station reported lane restrictions and occasional flagger delays at the time.
- Anasazi Drive. This is the third at-grade crossing and the point where the path changes sides. From Rampart to Anasazi it runs on the south side of the parkway. From Anasazi to the 215 it runs on the north side.
- The 215. The trail ends at the interchange, where the county's bridge is meant to carry it across.
The finished path will be 12 feet wide, paved in accessible asphalt, with lighting, fencing and trash receptacles along its length. The city's project update graphic marks The Hills Park, Summerlin Library, Summerlin Hospital Medical Center and TPC Las Vegas as nearby landmarks. They sit close to the corridor, though the trail does not end at any of them.
Where the east end already goes
Because the eastern connection is ready and the western one is not, the trail's first useful direction will be east. The trails waiting at Rampart are already established.
The city's Trail Master Plan sets this alignment as the link between the Bonanza/Angel Park Trail and the Beltway Trail along CC-215. On the east side, the City of Las Vegas describes the Angel Park Trail as roughly three miles long. It runs south along Durango Drive from Bruce Trent Park to Angel Park, then west beside Angel Park Golf Course to Alta Drive, and its trailhead is just south of Summerlin Parkway. The city's Trails Element says Bonanza meets Angel Park Trail just north of the parkway.
The Bonanza Trail goes farther. The same city page calls it a six-mile signed route from the Charlie Kellogg and Joe Zaher Sports Complex to Bill Briare Family Park, continuing south to the Las Vegas Springs Preserve. The city's older Trails Element gives a different length of about 10 miles from Summerlin east to the Springs Preserve. The two official figures don't match, so the safest summary is that Bonanza reaches the Springs Preserve.
For anyone living near Town Center Drive or Anasazi, the 2027 opening means a lit, off-street path from home to that eastern network without riding along Rampart traffic. The ride west across the 215 will come later.
What the west end is waiting on
On the far side of the freeway, the Beltway Trail is itself a construction zone right now. Clark County's restriction sheet for the week of Oct. 11 lists the pedestrian and cycle trail between Far Hills Avenue and Summerlin Parkway as detoured. The county's monthly look-ahead through Nov. 6 still lists that same trail segment as a work location, along with bridge, abutment and earthwork activity around the 215.
That dirt work is what Erickson was describing. The bridge exists, but the ground has to be finished before anyone can walk up to it. Spring 2028 is the county's target for the whole project. It is not a date for the paths themselves, so the western connection could open earlier or later than that.
The west side has its own network. Summerlin's trail system, which the city's Trails Element says Howard Hughes develops and maintains separately from city trails, covers more than 200 miles, with expansion planned beyond 250. In a May 2025 update, Summerlin described the parkway segment as continuing to the regional trail at the 215 interchange. When the county's approach paths open, the city corridor and the community's own trails will connect at the freeway.
This fall on the parkway
Until then, the county work affects drivers more than trail users. For the week of Oct. 11, Clark County listed:
- Westbound Summerlin Parkway from Anasazi Drive to the southbound 215 on-ramp down to one lane, 24/7.
- Southbound 215 from Summerlin Parkway to Far Hills Avenue with two lanes and the shoulder closed.
- A temporary traffic shift in both directions on the 215 between Far Hills and Lake Mead Boulevard.
- Access from Summerlin Parkway eastbound to the northbound 215 detoured.
There is some relief coming. Erickson told the Review-Journal that most of the remaining work is on walls and the bridge, outside of traffic, and that no major closures are expected soon. He named one choke point: southbound on the 215, heavy trucks climbing the hill from Cheyenne toward Lake Mead can slow to 10 mph and back up traffic behind them. The next milestone he described is the new Summerlin Parkway westbound ramp to the northbound 215, which will pass under the new pedestrian bridge on the northeast corner. He expects cars on that final alignment "maybe November or December."
Drivers will be on that ramp, under the finished bridge, well before anyone on foot or bike can cross it. On the current calendars, the city trail opens in spring 2027 with its east end connected to the Bonanza Trail, and its west end stays fenced at the 215 until the county finishes the approach paths.
Construction timelines like these affect daily routines and the timing of a move. If you're planning a sale or purchase along the Summerlin Parkway corridor and want to know how the trail and interchange schedule could affect your timing, Team Emanuele & Owens Real Estate can talk through it with you. Request a Private Consultation.
