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Summerlin Parkway (Nevada State Route 613)

Nevada State Route 613 is a 5.513-mile freeway corridor carried along Summerlin Parkway in the city of Las Vegas.   Summerlin Parkway originates at Interstate 11/US Route 95 and extends 5.513 miles west to Clark County Route 215. Summerlin Parkway was initially constructed by Summerlin Homeowners Association in 1989. The parkway originated as the US Route 95 and initially only spanned west to Town Center Drive. The parkway corridor was upgraded to expressway standards by 2000 and was extended to Clark County Route 215 by 2004. The freeway conversion of Summerlin Parkway began in 2005. In 2019 the parkway was adopted by the Nevada Department of Transportation as Nevada State Route 613. Presently work is underway to construct a freeway-to-freeway interchange between Summerlin Parkway and Clark County Route 215. Part 1; the history of Summerlin Parkway Summerlin Parkway was originally a project by the developers of the Summerlin Homeowners Association.  The first segm...
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Indian Gulch Extension and the Indian Gulch ghost town site

Indian Gulch Extension is an approximately 6-mile-long rural highway corridor in the Sierra Nevada foothills of western Mariposa County.  Indian Gulch Extension begins at Indian Gulch Road near the namesake ghost town of Indian Gulch.  From the ghost town site Indian Gulch Extension extends southwesterly to the Merced County line where it becomes Waltz Road.   The former Gold Rush era community of Indian Gulch which was settled near Santa Cruz Mountain in 1849 and had standing structures until the early 1970s.  What is now Indian Gulch Extension was approved for construction by the Mariposa County Commissioners in 1862.  The purpose of the corridor was to provide Indian Gulch with a direct connection westward with the greater Stockton-Los Angeles Road.  The Stockton-Los Angeles Road would go onto define much of the Mariposa County and Merced County line.  Part 1; the history of Indian Gulch and Indian Gulch Extension Indian Gulch Road is named aft...