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Summerlin, NV
Summerlin is a large master-planned community on the western edge of the Las Vegas Valley, developed beginning in 1990 by the Howard Hughes Corporation on land Hughes himself had acquired decades earlier, and named after his grandmother, Jean Amelia Summerlin. The community was built around an unusually extensive network of parks, trails, and golf courses relative to typical Las Vegas-area development, along with its own dedicated shopping and entertainment district, Downtown Summerlin, giving residents a genuine commercial and civic center without requiring a drive toward the Strip or downtown Las Vegas. Summerlin's position at the base of the Spring Mountains and Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area gives it direct access to some of the most significant hiking and rock-climbing terrain in the entire Las Vegas region, a scenic backdrop distinct from the desert-valley-floor development found in much of the rest of the metro area. Summerlin's combination of extensive master-planned parks and trails, its own dedicated downtown district, and direct Red Rock Canyon access has made it one of the most consistently desirable and highly ranked master-planned communities anywhere in the country, not just the Las Vegas area.
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Boulder City, NV
Boulder City was built beginning in 1931 specifically to house workers constructing Hoover Dam, and the federal government, which controlled the town for decades afterward, deliberately banned gambling within its limits — a restriction the city's own charter has voluntarily maintained ever since, making Boulder City one of the only municipalities in the entire state of Nevada where casino gambling remains illegal. That anti-gambling stance has given Boulder City a genuinely different character from virtually every other Las Vegas-area community, with a quieter, more traditional small-town atmosphere built around its well-preserved historic downtown rather than casino resorts. The city sits just a few miles from Hoover Dam itself, and its historic role as the dam construction workers' company town has been preserved through several museums and historic sites documenting the massive infrastructure project that built the dam during the Depression era. Boulder City's combination of its unique legal ban on gambling, direct proximity to Hoover Dam, and a well-preserved company-town history has made it one of the most distinctly different small communities anywhere in the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area.
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