Summerlin is a large master-planned community sitting partially on the western and northwestern ends of Las Vegas, and partially in unincorporated Clark county. This rapidly growing community of 100,000 people was originally a 25,000-acre parcel of empty land bought by Howard Hughes Jr. in the 1950s. Today the western end of his original property is now a buffer zone owned by the Nature Conservancy, preserving Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area from property development.
