When did the casino at the end of Canyon Run Drive change its name back to something else?
If you have lived in Canyon Fairways for a while, you might have caught the new signage on Rampart Boulevard sometime this year and wondered whether you misread it. You did not. The property that most of the neighborhood still calls "the JW Marriott" or simply "Rampart" spent 2025 quietly becoming something else, and as of January 1, 2026, it goes by a name that predates the JW Marriott brand entirely. Meanwhile, on the other side of the neighborhood, the golf course that some Canyon Fairways homes back directly onto has been climbing a ranking table that most residents never think to check. Two borders, two very different kinds of news, both landing in the same calendar year.
The Name Nobody Announced to the Neighborhood
The resort and casino complex just outside the Canyon Fairways gate opened in 1999 as the first casino resort built in Summerlin. It was called The Resort at Summerlin then. Somewhere along the way it became known as the JW Marriott Las Vegas, with Rampart Casino operating as its gaming wing under a separate identity, two names sharing one property for a quarter century.
That changed on January 1, 2026. Following a $75 million, multi-year renovation, ownership reunited the hotel and casino under a single name, and the name they chose was the original one. Management framed the move as a return to the property's founding vision, a single campus built around gaming, lodging, dining and events rather than two brands operating side by side. If you have lived here since before the rename, the new signage is not a rebrand in the usual sense. It is the property going back to what it was called the year it opened, which happens to be the same year TPC Las Vegas, the course on the other side of the neighborhood, was ranked among the top ten courses in the state.
What Actually Opened Behind the New Sign
The name change is the headline, but the more useful news for anyone who eats or drinks within five minutes of home is what filled in behind it. The renovation brought a Neighborhood Food Hall to the property, built around Los Angeles-style street food concepts rather than a single dining room. Three names worth knowing if you have not been back recently:
- Ai Pazzi Pizza, handcrafted pies with blistered crusts, tucked inside the food hall
- Pearls Oyster Bar, fresh oysters and chilled seafood in a lighter, coastal register
- Nom Wah, a modern take on a traditional dim sum name
The food program sits under a partnership with Fabio Viviani Hospitality, one of the larger restaurant development groups working hotel properties nationally, brought on to redefine the resort's food and beverage lineup across the renovation. On the gaming side, the property's sportsbook has also changed hands, with a Caesars Sportsbook now occupying the wagering floor, complete with a new video wall and self-service betting kiosks. Guest rooms were reworked too, expanded to 560 square feet with residential-style furnishings, which matters less to residents than the dining does but explains where a chunk of that $75 million went.
None of this required construction noise inside Canyon Fairways itself. It happened on the other side of the gate, which is exactly why it is easy to miss if your last visit predates the new signage.
The Same Course, Ranked Differently Than It Used to Be
Homes on the north side of Canyon Fairways look out over TPC Las Vegas, the course originally known as TPC at The Canyons when it opened in 1996. Bobby Weed designed it with Raymond Floyd as player consultant, and it earned a spot among Golf Digest's top ten courses in Nevada that same year the resort next door first opened, 1999.
The course has moved around the state rankings since, and the direction it has moved in recently is up. Golf Digest's most recent cycle places TPC Las Vegas 17th in the state for 2025-'26, an improvement from 19th in the 2023-'24 rankings.
| Ranking period | Golf Digest Nevada rank |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Top 10 |
| 2023-'24 | 19th |
| 2025-'26 | 17th |
A two-spot climb over two ranking cycles is not a dramatic reversal, but it is a real one, and it means the course visible from certain Canyon Fairways backyards is trending toward its 1999 form rather than away from it. For residents who never play the course themselves, the number matters less than the direction. A course that is improving tends to stay maintained, stay booked, and stay the kind of neighbor that adds to a view instead of distracting from one.
The Trail That Ties the Two Borders Together
Between the golf course on one side and the resort on the other sits the piece of daily infrastructure most Canyon Fairways residents actually use more than either: Cottonwood Canyon Park's paved trail system, reachable on foot without crossing a major road.
The full route runs roughly 3.5 miles out and back, with a shorter 1.25-mile loop for anyone who wants a version that takes closer to 25 minutes than an hour. Two overpass tunnels, at Town Center and at Pavilion, let the trail cross underneath both roads instead of stopping at a crosswalk, which is the detail that makes it usable for an early morning dog walk before work rather than a weekend-only outing. The trail also feeds into Summerlin's broader network of more than 200 miles of connected paths, so residents who want a longer run than the park alone offers can keep going without ever leaving pavement built for walking and biking.
None of this changed this year. What changed is everything around it, which makes the trail worth naming precisely because it is the one constant linking the renovated resort at one end of the neighborhood to the improving golf course at the other.
A Tuesday in September
Here is what those three facts look like stitched into an actual evening. A resident finishes the loop at Cottonwood Canyon Park a little after six, the light still holding over the Spring Mountains. The walk home cuts past the edge of the course, where the back nine is quiet and the greens are holding up well enough that a foursome is finishing as the sun drops. Fifteen minutes later, dinner is a pizza at Ai Pazzi inside a food hall that didn't exist under this name two years ago, in a building that technically reverted to what it was called before most current residents ever moved in.
That is the actual story here, not a single renovation or a single ranking, but a neighborhood where the two things bordering it, a golf course and a resort, both spent 2026 moving closer to versions of themselves that predate almost everyone currently living inside the gates.
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