Stucco houses behind guard gates and golf frontage, and the casino floor from 21.
What Summerlin looks like
Residential streets are single family stucco houses behind perimeter walls and guarded gates, tan and beige with tile roofs. Streets curve into cul de sacs rather than running straight, and many back directly onto a golf fairway or a walking trail instead of another yard. Most communities keep the same stucco and tile look, though newer streets such as The Vineyards drop it for plainer facades.
sits at Sahara Avenue and the 215 Beltway, an outdoor mall of stone and glass storefronts anchored by the nine story One Summerlin tower and the six story Two Summerlin beside it. The Constellation and Tanager apartment buildings stand at its edges, and and sit within walking distance across the plaza.
stands on West Charleston Boulevard, its tower one of the district's tallest points. , the district's other resort casino, sits several miles north near the golf courses. Golf frontage runs through several of the gated communities, including fairways at , with clipped grass reaching the perimeter walls.
The Red Rock Canyon escarpment and the Spring Mountains rise behind the development's western streets, visible past rooftops and palm trees at the end of a block. More than 200 miles of paved trail connect the neighborhoods to the parks scattered through them.
Shot in Summerlin
For 21, the production filmed on the gaming floor at Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa. Ben ignores his team's signal to stop and keeps playing, losing $200,000 in the scene.
21, 2008
The Red Rock Resort casino floor
Ben keeps gambling after his team signals him to stop and loses $200,000 at the table. The scene was shot on the working casino floor at Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa. Street View
What Summerlin can double for
Rancho Mirage in Rancho Mirage, California
Stucco walls, tile roofs and guard gates around golf fairways give Rancho Mirage's country club streets a similar scale and material palette to Summerlin's own gated subdivisions. Both sit against a desert mountain backdrop rather than open desert floor. The Santa Rosa Mountains read differently from the Red Rock escarpment in a wide shot, so keep the mountain line out of frame or shoot tight on the street. Try searching guard gated golf subdivisions now.
McCormick Ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona
McCormick Ranch's curving streets and stucco tile houses back onto golf fairways the same way Summerlin's do, and both developments date from the same late twentieth century building boom. Scottsdale's McDowell Mountains sit closer and more jagged than the Red Rock ridge. Keep the mountain line out of a wide shot, since it gives away the switch. Try searching stucco tile houses now.
Coto de Caza in Orange County, California
Coto de Caza is the same kind of guard gated golf community, with stucco houses behind a manned entrance, built in roughly the same decades as Summerlin's subdivisions. Coto de Caza's hillsides are green year round, so a wide shot needs to avoid the horizon or the missing desert gives it away. Try searching guard gated golf community now.
