Gribblenation

The Las Vegas Beltway is an 50.073-mile-long freeway comprised of Interstate 215 and Clark County Route 215.  This beltway corridor encircles the Las Vegas Metropolitan area on three sides.  Interstate 215 comprises an 11.173-mile segment of the beltway from Interstate 11 (and US Routes 95 and 93) in Henderson west to Interstate 15 in Enterprise.  The remaining 38.9 miles of the beltway is carried by Clark County Route 215 to Interstate 15 (and US Route 93) in North Las Vegas.   The designation of Interstate 215 was approved during 1993 by the Federal Highway Administration and the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials.  The Interstate designation was originally approved to extend west to Tropicana Avenue (then Nevada State Route 593) but it never was signed west of Interstate 15 in Enterprise.  By the turn of the century Interstate 215 was completed.   Clark County Route 215 was rapidly developed using interim expressway grade...