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 State Route 591 | |
|---|---|
| Spring Mountain Road | |
 Spring Mountain Road highlighted in blue; former SR 591 in red | |
| Route information | |
| Length | 0.242 mi[1] (389 m) |
| Existed | 1976–2008 |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Hualapai Way at Summerlin South–Spring Valley line |
| East end | Las Vegas Boulevard / Sands Avenue in Paradise |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Nevada |
| County | Clark |
| Highway system | |
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Spring Mountain Road is a major east–west road in the Las Vegas Valley. It runs from Hualapai Way at its western terminus to Las Vegas Boulevard in the east. East of Las Vegas Boulevard, Spring Mountain becomes Sands Avenue, and then jogs south to join Twain Avenue. State Route 591 (SR 591) was a state highway that comprised a 0.242-mile (0.389 km) section of Spring Mountain at Interstate 15. The roadway is named after Hoot Gibson's Spring Mountain Ranch, which is located where Chinatown is currently. The Spring Mountain Ranch was also known as the D-4-C Ranch due to the number of people who took advantage of Nevada's lax divorce laws in the period before the 1950s.
The street is located in the unincorporated towns of Paradise (east of Decatur Boulevard) and Spring Valley (west of Decatur).[2] It is the main thoroughfare of Las Vegas's Chinatown.
State highway route
[edit]SR 591 began at the intersection of Spring Mountain Road and Aldebaran Avenue. From there, it proceeded east under Interstate 15 and terminated near Highland Drive. Highland Drive intersects Spring Mountain Road in the form of a ramp from southbound Highland to westbound Spring Mountain, underneath I-15.
In January 2008, SR 591 had been decommissioned. Although not maintained as a state route, Nevada DOT still maintains the former highway as a frontage road (FR CL 51).[1]
Major intersections
[edit]The entire route is in Clark County.
| Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summerlin South–Spring Valley line | 0.0 | 0.0 | Hualapai Way | Western terminus | |
| Spring Valley | 1 | 1.6 | Fort Apache Road | ||
| 2 | 3.2 | Durango Drive | |||
| 3 | 4.8 | Buffalo Drive | |||
| 4 | 6.4 |  SR 595 (Rainbow Boulevard) | |||
| 5 | 8.0 | Jones Boulevard | Former SR 596 | ||
| Spring Valley–Paradise line | 6 | 9.7 | Decatur Boulevard | Western end of Chinatown | |
| Paradise | 7 | 11 | Valley View Boulevard | ||
| 7.375 | 11.869 | Aldebaran Avenue north | Western terminus of former SR 591; no access to Aldebaran Avenue from Spring Mountain Road eastbound | ||
| 7.5 | 12.1 |  I-15 – Los Angeles, Salt Lake City | I-15 exit 39 | ||
| 7.7 | 12.4 | Bridge over Sammy Davis Junior Drive | |||
| 8.0 | 12.9 | Mel Tormé Way | Eastern terminus of former SR 591 | ||
| 8.21 | 13.21 | Las Vegas Boulevard | Former US 91 / SR 604; eastern terminus of Spring Mountain Road | ||
| Sands Avenue east | Continuation beyond eastern terminus | ||||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
Landmarks
[edit]Public transport
[edit]RTC Transit Routes 119 & 203 function on this road.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Nevada DOT. "Nevada State Maintained Highways, Descriptions, Index and Maps, January 2008". Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2008.
- ↑ "Clark County Tax District Map" (PDF). Clark County Assessor. Retrieved February 26, 2019.