Las Vegas Beltway

Las Vegas Beltway
Las Vegas Beltway
Bruce Woodbury Beltway
	Interstate 215 in red, Clark County 215 in blue
Route information
	Auxiliary route of I-15
	Maintained by NDOT and Clark County Public Works
Length	50 mi (80 km) I-215: 11.1 miles (17.9 km); CC 215: 38.9 miles (62.6 km)
Existed	April 17, 1993–present
Component; highways	I-215 from Henderson to Enterprise; CC 215 from Enterprise to North Las Vegas
NHS	Entire route
Major junctions
	Beltway around Las Vegas
Counterclockwise end	I-11 / I-515 / US 93 / US 95 / SR 564 in Henderson
	SR 146 in Henderson; I-15 in Enterprise; SR 159 in Summerlin South; Summerlin Parkway (SR 613) in Las Vegas; Future I-11 / US 95 in Las Vegas;
Clockwise end	I-15 / US 93 in North Las Vegas
Location
Country	United States
State	Nevada
Counties	Clark
Highway system
	Interstate Highway System; Main; Auxiliary; Suffixed; Business; Future; Nevada State Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Pre‑1976; Scenic;

The Las Vegas Beltway (officially named the Bruce Woodbury Beltway) is a 50-mile (80 km) beltway route circling three-quarters of the Las Vegas Valley in southern Nevada. 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) / I-515 / 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. Clark County Route 215 (CC 215) composes the remaining approximately 38.9 miles (62.6 km) of this semi-circumferential highway, with the county's Department of Public Works responsible for all construction and maintenance. The beltway is a freeway up to Interstate Highway standards in its entirety.

Clark County planned and constructed the beltway. This marked the first time in the United States that a county had overseen the construction of an Interstate highway with little to no state or federal funding. With all the previous expressway segments of the beltway now completely upgraded to a freeway, the CC 215 portion of the beltway is expected be redesignated I-215 and the entire facility turned over to the Nevada Department of Transportation for maintenance.

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