Durango Drive

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Durango Drive
Maintained by Clark County, City of Las Vegas and City of North Las Vegas
Length21.85 mi (35.16 km)
Location Las Vegas
Clark County
North endMoccasin Road in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas–Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument line
Major
junctions
US 95.svg US 95 in Las Vegas

Clark County Route 215 NV.svg CC 215 in Las Vegas
Nevada 613.svg SR 613 in Summerlin
Clark County Route 215 NV.svg CC 215 in Enterprise

Contents

Nevada 160.svg SR 160 in Enterprise
South endStarr Avenue in Enterptise

Durango Drive is a major north-south road in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, Nevada, United States located on the west side of the city.

Route

Northern half

Durango Drive begins at an intersection with Moccasin Road in northern Las Vegas at the Las Vegas-Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument border in the neighborhood of Tule Springs. The road heads south from there to intersect with Brent Lane, which provides access to Tule Springs Road and Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs. Durango Drive continues south and eventually southeast before entering the El Capitan alignment and has an interchange with U.S. Route 95. From there, it continues into the Centennial Hills neighborhood of Las Vegas and serves the Centennial Hills Hospital. Near the southern area of Centennial Hills, Durango Drive has an interchange with CC 215. Continuing from there, the road curves southeast and re-enters its proper grid alignment and eventually intersects with Cheyenne Avenue at the Summerlin neighborhood and continues south into the El Capitan Way alignment again as Rampart Boulevard.

Southern half

Although being part of the southern half of Durango Drive, the road is still signed as North Durango Drive from its northern terminus at Vegas Drive to the Summerlin Parkway (Nevada State Route 613) interchange where it becomes South Durango Drive. Like most other major north-south grid roads west of Interstate 15, Durango Drive curves southeast before intersecting with Charleston Boulevard (Nevada State Route 159), from where it continues straight south through Spring Valley to its southern interchange with CC 215. Nearby the interchange are Nevada's first IKEA furniture store, opened in 2016, [1] and the future site of the UnCommons mixed-use development by Matter Real Estate. [2] Durango Drive eventually enters Enterprise and intersects with Blue Diamond Road (State Route 160) in the Mountain's Edge neighborhood. From there, Durango Drive continues south and reaches its southern terminus at the Starr Avenue intersection.

Durango Drive is section line road from Warm Springs Road to Windmill lane for 1 mile dividing Spring Valley and Enterprise.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Clark County.

LocationmikmDestinationsNotes
Las Vegas 0.000.00Moccasin RoadNorthern terminus; access to Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
1.262.03Brent LaneAccess road to Tule Springs Road and Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs
2.003.22Grand Teton Drive
2.473.98El Capitan Way / Farm Road
2.65–
2.84
4.26–
4.57
US 95.svg US 95  Downtown Las Vegas, Tonopah, Reno Five-ramp partial cloverleaf interchange
3.004.83Oso Blanca RoadAccess to RTC park and ride lot
3.225.18 Elkhorn Road
3.725.99Hospital sign.svg Deer Springs RoadAccess to Centennial Hills Hospital
4.00–
4.10
6.44–
6.60
Clark County Route 215 NV.svg CC 215 (Bruce Woodbury Beltway) Diamond interchange
4.226.79Centennial Parkway / Centennial Center Boulevard
4.837.77Grand Montecito Parkway
5.008.05Tropical Parkway
5.508.85Ann Road
6.5010.46 Lone Mountain Road
7.0011.27 Craig Road
7.5012.07Alexander Road
8.0012.87Gowan Road
8.5513.76 Cheyenne Avenue / Rampart BoulevardDurango northern half southern terminus; road continues as Rampart Boulevard.
Gap in route
8.5513.76Vegas DriveDurango Drive southern half northern terminus
9.1514.73 Washington Avenue Western terminus of Washington Avenue
9.32–
9.46
15.00–
15.22
Nevada 613.svg SR 613 (Summerlin Parkway)Interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance
9.6515.53Westcliff DriveAccess to RTC park and ride lot
10.1516.33Alta Drive
10.7517.30Nevada 159.svg SR 159 (Charleston Boulevard)Durango Drive changes signing from North Durango Drive to South Durango Drive.
11.2518.11Oakey Boulevard eastWestern terminus of Oakey Boulevard
Spring Valley 11.7518.91 Sahara Avenue
12.7520.52 Desert Inn Road
13.0020.92 Spring Mountain Road
13.7522.13 Flamingo Road
14.2522.93Peace Way
14.7523.74 Tropicana Avenue
15.2524.54Hacienda Avenue
15.7525.35 Russell Road
16.8027.04 Sunset Road Access to and from northbound and southbound CC 215
17.0627.46Clark County Route 215 NV.svg CC 215 west (Bruce Woodbury Beltway) / Raphael Rivera WayMarks CC 215 cardinal direction change (east–west to north–south); CC 215 northbound accessible from Durango Drive via Raphael Rivera Way
17.1627.62Clark County Route 215 NV.svg CC 215 east (Bruce Woodbury Beltway) / Roy Horn WayMarks CC 215 cardinal direction change (north–south to east–west); Durango Drive accessible from CC 215 southbound via Roy Horn Way
Enterprise 17.8728.76Warm Springs Road
18.4229.64Rhodes Ranch Parkway / Robindale Road
18.8930.40Windmill Lane eastWestern terminus of Windmill Lane
19.9032.03Pebble Road
19.8932.01Windmill Lane eastWestern terminus of Windmill Lane
20.3032.67Nevada 160.svg SR 160 (Blue Diamond Road)
21.3534.36 Mountain's Edge Parkway Access to Mountain's Edge Regional Park
21.8535.16Cactus AvenueSouthern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Buildings and parks along Durango Drive

The following lists are sorted by north-south location along Durango Drive.

Buildings

Parks

Desert Breeze Park with Durango Drive to the left Desert Breeze Park.jpg
Desert Breeze Park with Durango Drive to the left

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