If you drive the 215 near Summerlin Parkway, you pass under the silver pedestrian bridge. It's partly enclosed, it spans the freeway, and the last section went up in December 2025, when the County closed the southbound 215 overnight to set it in place, as the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The bridge is built. It is meant to carry runners, walkers and cyclists from the Beltway West Trail on The Vistas' side of the freeway to a new trail along Summerlin Parkway on the other side.
You can't walk on it yet, and on the current schedules that will stay true for months after the trail it leads to is finished. Two agencies are building the two pieces on separate schedules. The City of Las Vegas is building the trail, and the paving is underway this fall. Clark County is building the bridge and the paths up to it as part of a much larger freeway project that runs into 2028. For residents of The Vistas, much of 2027 looks like a stretch when a brand-new trail sits just across the 215 and the direct way over stays fenced off.
What the City is finishing east of the 215
The City of Las Vegas project page describes the Summerlin Parkway Trail as a 3.5-mile shared-use path between the Summerlin interchange and Rampart Boulevard. It's a 12-foot accessible asphalt trail with new lighting, fencing and trash receptacles. Other pieces include a pedestrian bridge over the wash, an undercrossing at Crestdale Lane, and street-level crossings at Anasazi Drive, Town Center Drive and Rampart Boulevard. The project costs $26 million, funded by NDOT and RTC. Las Vegas Paving is the contractor, and work started August 18, 2025.
The paving is happening now. 8 News Now reported on October 14 that crews had started on the section between Anasazi and Town Center. The City said the stretch from the 215 to Anasazi would follow in about three weeks, which lands around the first week of November. Rampart to Town Center would follow in about two months, which points to mid-December. All of this work is south of the Parkway and off the travel lanes. Once the trail is paved, the City plans to add benches, trash cans and bike service stations.
The finish date depends on which source you read. A City spokesperson told 8 News Now the project was still on track to wrap up "next February." The City's own project page lists expected completion as Spring 2027. Either way, the trail is set to be paved, lit and furnished in the first half of 2027.
Why the bridge over the 215 waits
The bridge belongs to a different job. Clark County's $130 million rebuild of the CC-215/Summerlin Parkway interchange began on February 10, 2025. Its scope includes reworked ramps, a new flyover from the southbound 215 to the eastbound Parkway, a wider Parkway bridge, and three new trail bridges. The span over the 215 is one of those three.
In a September 28 Road Warrior column in the Review-Journal, the County's project manager, Erickson, said the bridges themselves are done. The paths leading to them are not. The column quoted him on when those would open:
"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."
The same column puts completion of the full interchange in spring 2028. The County's phasing sheet tells the same story in more detail. Phase 2, running from November 2025 to May 2027, covers "the majority of trail improvements." "Completion of the trail system" sits in Phase 3, from June 2027 to February 2028, alongside final paving, striping and moving traffic onto the finished ramps. The County labels that schedule preliminary and subject to change.
The two calendars, side by side
| Milestone | Agency | Timing on record |
|---|---|---|
| Interchange construction begins | Clark County | February 10, 2025 |
| Parkway Trail construction begins | City of Las Vegas | August 18, 2025 |
| Final span set over the 215 | Clark County | December 2025 |
| Paving, 215 to Anasazi | City of Las Vegas | About three weeks after October 14, 2026 |
| Paving, Rampart to Town Center | City of Las Vegas | About two months after October 14, 2026 |
| Parkway Trail complete | City of Las Vegas | "Next February" per spokesperson; Spring 2027 per project page |
| Interchange trail system complete | Clark County | Phase 3, June 2027 to February 2028, preliminary |
| Full interchange complete | Clark County | Spring 2028 |
If both schedules hold, the City's trail could be finished as early as February 2027, and the County's trail work isn't slated to wrap until somewhere between June 2027 and February 2028. That leaves months, and possibly a full year, when someone starting from Far Hills Avenue can see the finished Parkway trail but can't reach it on the route that was built for the purpose.
The Beltway trail in the meantime
The Vistas' own side of the trail system is already disrupted. The Beltway West Trail runs along the 215 from Tropicana Avenue in the southwest valley to Decatur Boulevard in the northwest. The segment just west of the 215 between Far Hills Avenue and Summerlin Parkway sits inside the work zone. A County flyer announced a six-month closure of that segment "starting week of March 24," with a suggested detour mapped toward Carriage Hill Drive and Far Hills Avenue.
The detour has outlasted that estimate. On June 29, 2026, 8 News Now reported that the detour west of the 215 toward Carriage Hill was still in place while the pedestrian bridge work continued. The current weekly notices on the County's interchange project page still list the pedestrian and cycle trail between Far Hills Avenue and Summerlin Parkway as detoured around the clock for the weeks of November 1, November 8 and November 16. The same notices show one lane and the shoulder closed on the northbound 215 from Far Hills to Lake Mead Boulevard. Southbound from Summerlin Parkway to Far Hills, two lanes and the shoulder are closed, and traffic is temporarily shifted in both directions between Far Hills and Lake Mead. The County notes that this work is subject to change.
For anyone heading out from The Vistas Community Park or one of the village's tower parks, the Far Hills approach to the Parkway is the detoured stretch. The County's flyer is the reference for the suggested route.
What changes this winter, and what doesn't
There is a visible milestone coming soon. In the same Review-Journal column, Erickson said traffic should start using the new ramp from westbound Summerlin Parkway to the northbound 215 "maybe November or December." That ramp passes under the new pedestrian bridge on the northeast corner, and with it, cars move onto the final alignment.
East of the freeway, the City's work keeps moving in segments. 8 News Now reported that crews are still working on the trail's pedestrian bridge over the wash near Rampart, behind the Resort at Summerlin. At that end, the trail is designed to meet the Bonanza Trail. The City's 2013 Trails Element describes the full Bonanza Trail as roughly 10 miles running east from Summerlin to the Las Vegas Springs Preserve. When the whole system is finished, someone could start on the Beltway trail near Far Hills, cross the 215 on the silver bridge, follow the Parkway to Rampart and keep heading east on a continuous trail network.
Until the County's trail work wraps up, the sequence at the 215 stays the same. The City's trail will likely be finished first, the bridge already stands, and the paths connecting them on the west side are the final piece. The latest dates on record are the County's preliminary Phase 3 window of June 2027 to February 2028 and the Review-Journal's spring 2028 completion date for the interchange as a whole.
The Prinsloo Group keeps track of projects like this one, from the Summerlin Parkway Trail to the 215 interchange, because they shape what everyday life looks like in The Vistas and across Summerlin West. If you want to know how a project like this fits into your own plans, Ike Prinsloo and the team are glad to walk you through it. Explore Properties & Request a Valuation.
