Since June 1, 2026, the 215 Beltway from Charleston Boulevard to Lake Mead Boulevard has been under construction along its whole length. The work is split between two separate Clark County contracts, with separate contractors, budgets and finish dates, and the two meet at Far Hills Avenue. The Summit sits off Town Center Drive south of Flamingo Road, so any trip north on the beltway from here starts at the Charleston end and runs through both.
One new ramp could carry traffic before the end of 2026. The new ramps near Downtown Summerlin have no published interim date, and the only dates on record are for the contract as a whole. The paths to the new beltway trail bridges are expected close to the interchange project's end in 2028.
Two contracts, one stretch of freeway
The southern contract covers Charleston to Far Hills. Clark County gave it to Las Vegas Paving for $73.5 million, and work started June 1, 2026. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported in March that the job adds one lane in each direction between Charleston and Far Hills, plus a new braided ramp from northbound 215 to Charleston that crosses over Hughes Park Drive East. The county's notice also lists storm drain work, bridge widening, new overhead and digital message signs, striping and restoration.
The northern contract is the $130 million rebuild of the 215 and Summerlin Parkway interchange. It started in February 2025, and the county's notice describes reworked ramps, new ramps, a wider Summerlin Parkway bridge, new roadway and trail bridges, and retaining walls. The best-known piece is a new flyover from southbound 215 to eastbound Summerlin Parkway.
The interchange work reaches down to Far Hills, which is where the Charleston contract stops. That means the Far Hills ramps fall inside the interchange project, so a drive that crosses Far Hills moves from one contract into the other.
What is posted for late October
Lane closures on the interchange contract run around the clock. Clark County's schedules for the weeks of Oct. 18 and Oct. 25 list these 24/7 restrictions:
- Northbound 215, Far Hills to Lake Mead: one lane and the shoulder closed
- Southbound 215, Lake Mead to Summerlin Parkway: one lane and the shoulder closed
- Southbound 215, Summerlin Parkway to Far Hills: two lanes and the shoulder closed
- Both directions, Far Hills to Lake Mead: temporary traffic shift
- Far Hills on-ramp to northbound 215: one lane and the shoulder closed, with access to northbound 215 detoured
- Far Hills on-ramp to southbound 215, and the northbound off-ramp to Far Hills: one lane and the shoulder closed on each
- Northbound 215 off-ramp to Summerlin Parkway: running on a temporary ramp
- Westbound Summerlin Parkway, Anasazi Drive to the southbound 215 on-ramp: one lane open
- Beltway pedestrian and cycle trail, Far Hills to Summerlin Parkway: detoured
The county's monthly lookahead for Oct. 18 through Nov. 13 shows work continuing on both directions of the 215 between Far Hills and Lake Mead, on the Far Hills and Summerlin Parkway ramps, and on both the existing and new westbound Summerlin Parkway ramps. The listed work includes earthwork, abutments, retaining walls, bridge construction and widening, and underground investigation.
On the Charleston contract, the latest weekly notice on the county's project page covered Oct. 11 to 24, 2026. It listed 24-hour lane restrictions, crew hours of 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., one open lane each way on Summerlin Centre Drive with a dedicated left-turn lane at Hughes Park Drive, and one open lane plus a left-turn lane on Hughes Park Drive East and West. The same notice showed three open lanes northbound from Sahara to Far Hills and three open lanes southbound from Far Hills to Charleston. The county's original construction notice says access to Red Rock Casino stays open unless message boards say otherwise. New weekly notices go up on the county's Charleston to Far Hills project page and its 215 and Summerlin Parkway interchange page.
One ramp could open this winter
The interchange contract is ahead of the Charleston one. Project manager Dan Erickson told the Review-Journal's Road Warrior column in late September that about 58 percent of the work had been billed by the end of August. Crews had finished four of the five vehicle bridges, and the fifth was due by year-end.
He described the next milestone, the new ramp from westbound Summerlin Parkway to northbound 215, to the same outlet:
"It's going to go under that new ped bridge on the northeast corner. That should happen maybe November or December. Cars will be on the ultimate alignment. It's getting close."
"Ultimate alignment" means the permanent layout, so drivers on that ramp will stop being moved from one temporary path to another. "Maybe November or December" is a forecast, though, and the county hasn't posted a firm opening date.
Erickson also told the Review-Journal, "This project shouldn't have any closures coming up anytime soon," because most of the remaining wall and bridge work sits outside the travel lanes. He meant major new closures. The lane and shoulder restrictions listed above stay in place, and the slowdown he pointed to has little to do with the construction itself: "Backups I see are where you're heading south (on 215) and climbing that hill, concrete trucks or big trucks climbing the hill from Cheyenne towards Lake Mead. That backs traffic up whenever there's a big truck there, because they can only go up 10 mph up the hill."
The ramps near Downtown Summerlin have no date yet
The Charleston contract is the one that changes how drivers get onto the freeway near Downtown Summerlin. Rahel Shibeshi, a principal civil engineer for Clark County, explained the new ramps to the Review-Journal. Drivers on Summerlin Centre Drive will be able to get on the freeway directly without using Charleston, and drivers leaving the 215 will be able to reach Charleston directly.
That explains why Summerlin Centre Drive and Hughes Park Drive are down to single lanes right now. The new ramp connections and the braided Charleston ramp are being built over those streets. The county's notices don't give interim opening dates for any of these ramps. The only published dates are for the whole contract, and county documents don't agree on them.
The calendar, as published
| Milestone | Project | Published timing |
|---|---|---|
| Interchange construction begins | 215 and Summerlin Parkway | Feb. 10, 2025 |
| Charleston to Far Hills construction begins | CC-215 Charleston to Far Hills | June 1, 2026 |
| New westbound Summerlin Parkway to northbound 215 ramp | 215 and Summerlin Parkway | "Maybe November or December" 2026, forecast |
| Last of five vehicle bridges done | 215 and Summerlin Parkway | By the end of 2026 |
| Charleston to Far Hills finished | CC-215 Charleston to Far Hills | Jan. 21, 2028, on the county's Sept. 1 status list; February 2028 on the project notice |
| Interchange finished, including trail bridge paths | 215 and Summerlin Parkway | Spring 2028 |
The county's Sept. 1 status list gives the Charleston contract a 600-day schedule. The Review-Journal's March story reported 540 days. Counted from the June 1 start, 540 days would land in late November 2027. The county's current dates put both contracts' finish within a few months of each other in the first half of 2028. That leaves the stretch from Charleston to Lake Mead under construction for roughly another year and a half.
The trail paths wait for the interchange's finish
The 215 interchange project includes three new bridges for the beltway's pedestrian and bike trail, and those bridges are already built. The paths that lead to them are not. Erickson told the Review-Journal that "won't happen till closer to the end of the project because there's still a lot of dirt to move." Until then, anyone walking or riding the trail between Far Hills and Summerlin Parkway uses the posted detour, and the finished bridges stay closed until the end date that is furthest off on the calendar.
Over the next 18 months or so, homes across Summerlin will be shown and sold while this work is underway. Darin Marques Group tracks how the 215 projects affect access to The Summit and the communities around it, so if you're planning a sale or a move before the work wraps up in 2028, contact us for a current read on how this stretch looks that week.
