Best Neighborhoods in Spring Valley, Nevada

Spring Valley is the southwest corner of the Las Vegas area, less than five miles from the Strip, and it doesn't have much of a downtown. Young people spread out through the apartment buildings and tend to go into Vegas for nightlife. The area is big enough that one local guide says it lacks a single identity. It began in the 1960s on the site of the old Stardust International Raceway, so the older sections have single-story homes, and parts of Las Vegas Chinatown fall inside its borders.

Farther from the Strip are the master-planned communities. Spanish Hills is the fanciest, with large custom homes, a park, tennis courts and a performing arts center, close to Summerlin. Rhodes Ranch is a guard-gated golf community with a waterpark, and Spanish Trail is gated around a private country club.

Downtown

Young Professionals

Spring Valley doesn’t have much of a downtown, where young professionals live and play. Young people do live here but they tend to live throughout the community, in the many apartment buildings and complexes that offer inexpensive housing options. There are local pubs and restaurants, a ton in fact, but for the most part, young people live cheaply, and go into the city of Vegas for their nightlife.

Spanish Hills

Families

Although Spring Valley is notable for proximity to the Vegas scene it also has beautiful master-planned communities out farther from the border of The Strip. The most notable (and fanciest) is Spanish Hills. This is a luxury community with massive, lavish, custom-built homes surrounded by incredible outdoor opportunities like a recreational park, tennis courts, and a performing arts center. It’s also close to the shopping and dining in next door Summerlin.

  • Spanish Hills
  • Rhodes Ranch
  • The Lakes
  • Spanish Trails