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The highway crosses the Las Vegas Beltway and runs through the planned community of Summerlin. SR 159 continues east to intersect Interstate 15 and then passes south of Downtown Las Vegas . From there, the highway ventures further east to intersect Interstate 11 and U.S. Routes 93 and 95 before reaching its terminus at Nellis Boulevard ( SR 612 ).
The Las Vegas Beltway carries two numerical designations. 11.1 miles (17.9 km) of the highway, from its southern terminus at Interstate 11 (I-11) / U.S. Route 93 (US 93) / US 95 in Henderson west and northwest to I-15, is signed as Interstate 215 (I-215) and maintained by the Nevada Department of Transportation. [3]
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A 19-mile (31 km) concurrency with U.S. Route 95 between Las Vegas and Alunite was added in 1940, when that highway was extended through southern Nevada along State Route 5. [ 10 ] The first major shift of US 93 occurred in 1967, when a new highway connection was completed between US 91 (now I-15) and a point 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Glendale.
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U.S. Route 95 enters Nevada near Cal-Nev-Ari in Clark County and heads north towards Railroad Pass, where it meets Interstate 11 and US 93.. The three routes are then co-signed in the Las Vegas Valley and east of Henderson, I-11 is co-signed with US 93/95 for its entire route around the eastern Las Vegas Valley.
A county road approximating the course of the present highway was indicated on state maps by 1933. [3] As of 1935, State Route 38 was designated along the north end of the county road, between State Route 4 (later US 6) at Barnes and the town of Lund. [4] This 12-mile (19 km) segment of highway was completely paved by 1936. [5]
Highway 50 Revisited: America's Loneliest Road from the Las Vegas Sun (August 2011) Loneliest Road: US-50 by Road Trip USA; The Blue Butterfly at the end of the Loneliest Road by Erik Gauger, Notes from the Road; Nevada's "Loneliest Road in America" Celebrates 20 Years Archived 2021-06-14 at the Wayback Machine Ron Bernthal, Travel Writers Magazine