Lake Mead Boulevard is a major arterial road serving the Las Vegas Valley in southern Nevada. It runs from Twilight Run Drive and Park Drift Trail in Summerlin West to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Two portions of Lake Mead Boulevard are designated as unsigned State Route 147 (SR 147). The western segment runs from Interstate 15 (I-15) and U.S. Route 93 in Nevada| to Yale Street (both in North Las Vegas). The eastern segment runs from Pecos Road (at the North Las Vegas–Sunrise Manor boundary) to the border of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It is not to be confused with Lake Mead Parkway (SR 564, formerly Lake Mead Drive), which also goes to Lake Mead but mainly runs through Henderson instead.
Lake Mead Boulevard became a state highway in 1978, but the highway never had markers posted to identify it as a state highway.
Route description
thumb|left|View eastbound along SR 147 at milepost 10 as seen in 2015
State Route 147 begins at Interstate 15 and U.S. Route 93 in North Las Vegas. From there, SR 147 has an intersection at Las Vegas Boulevard (SR 604) and Civic Center Drive (former SR 607). Traveling further east, SR 147 leaves the city of North Las Vegas as it enters the unincorporated town of Sunrise Manor where it has intersections at Lamb Boulevard and Nellis Boulevard (SR 612). The highway then leaves the unincorporated town of Sunrise Manor as it travels through the Frenchman Mountain on its northern slope. The road then curves into a southeastern direction where the highway ends near the Lake Mead NRA as Lake Mead Boulevard continues beyond the highway's eastern terminus.
History
right|thumb|Las Vegas seen from where SR 147 passes over the north shoulder of Frenchman Mountain as seen in 2006
SR 147 first appeared on the official Nevada state highway map in the 1978–79 edition as a semi-circular route. The route followed Lake Mead Boulevard (which was previously unnumbered) eastward from I-15 in North Las Vegas to North Shore Road in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It then turned south onto North Shore Road (replacing SR4 1A), then west toward Lakeshore Road (later Lake Mead Drive, now Lake Mead Parkway), replacing part of SR 41. The terminus was at Lakeshore Road and Boulder Highway (then US 93/US 95, formerly SR 582). The highway continued west of Boulder Highway as SR 146.
The northern section along Lake Mead Boulevard la"cks the "SR 147 designation on the 1983–84 and 1985–86 maps. However, it is back on the 1987–88 map, so it is unclear whether this was a map error or possibly a planned decommissioning that was not carried out.
On the 1998–99 map, the southern section of SR 147 (along Lake Mead Drive) was replaced by an eastward extension of SR 146 (now SR 564). The entire length of SR 147 is now on Lake Mead Boulevard, with the eastern terminus truncated to the northern border of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Sometime between 1999 and 2025, SR 147 was shrunken even further: the segment between Yale Street and Pecos Road was removed from the state highway.
Major intersections
Public transport
RTC Transit Route 210 functions on this road.
See also
References
External links
- Nevada DOT Historical Highway Maps