What's New Around The Paseos: A Resident's Update For Summer 2026

The paseo hasn't moved. The parks haven't shrunk. But if you have lived in The Paseos for more than a year or two, the ring of places within a five to twelve minute drive of your front door looks materially different this summer than it did last. Two Downtown Summerlin fixtures closed. A Bay Area ramen house took one of their spaces. Two Los Angeles concepts landed at The Resort at Summerlin. A 46,500-square-foot Whole Foods opened as the anchor of a new retail center. And Red Rock Canyon quietly flipped into its most permissive season of the year.

The village itself is the same quiet, mission-and-hacienda grid you bought into. What's changed is how much you can now do without ever pointing the car east of the 215.

The Downtown Summerlin shuffle, in specifics

Two familiar storefronts at 2010 Festival Plaza Drive went dark late in 2025. SkinnyFats closed at Suite 170, and Beer Zombies Draft Room shut at Suite 140, at opposite ends of the same building. Beer Zombies has since reopened its original Warm Springs location, at 8680 W. Warm Springs, Ste. 170, with draft beers, full cocktails, and beer-to-go. Useful to know if you were a regular; not a reason to change your Friday plans.

The replacement is more interesting. Marufuku Ramen opened in the former SkinnyFats space on Festival Plaza Drive, with a ribbon-cutting and lion dance, and the first 100 customers received Marufuku-branded chopsticks. The kitchen is built around ultra-thin noodles in a pork broth simmered for hours, along with Chicken Paitan, rice bowls, and Izakaya-style appetizers. It is the group's second Las Vegas location; the first is at The Bend in the southwest.

Meanwhile the retail spine of Downtown Summerlin keeps thickening. The new Whole Foods Market at Sahara Avenue and Town Center Drive is now open, occupying 46,500 square feet with a full-service meat and seafood counter, vegan and gluten-free bakery options, a curated cheese department, and a wide selection of wine and craft beer. A CHANEL Fragrance and Beauty Boutique also opened, the brand's first off-Strip location in the Las Vegas market. For Paseos residents, the practical read is that a full grocery run and a beauty errand that used to mean Town Square or the Strip now fit inside the same short loop as your paseo walk.

The other food hall you might be underusing

Rampart Boulevard is closer to most Paseos addresses than Downtown Summerlin is, and The Resort at Summerlin spent the winter and spring rebuilding its dining floor. Tacos 1986 and For The Win officially opened inside the property's Neighborhood Food Hall as part of a broader dining overhaul. Both are counter-service by design. Tacos 1986 has been a Los Angeles institution since 2018, built around the Tijuana-style taco with hand-made corn tortillas, and the Summerlin location keeps the standing-room, street-stand format. For The Win's signature smash burger uses a thin patty with grilled onions, pickles, and the house fry sauce on a toasted Martin's potato bun.

The rest of the lineup is worth memorizing if you're tired of the same four dinner options. The current roster now includes ai Pazzi Pizza, Pearls Oyster and Crudo Bar, and Nom Wah inside the food hall, plus Jade Asian Kitchen, Market Place Buffet, and Earl Grey Café nearby, along with stand-alone restaurants including ai Pazzi, Wineaux, and Hawthorn Grill.

The one summer mechanic canyon-adjacent residents should exploit

If you moved to The Paseos partly for the western edge of the map, the calendar has quietly turned in your favor.

The Scenic Drive is open daily from 6 AM until 8 PM through summer, April through September, and no Timed Entry is required from June 1 through September 30.

That is the inverse of the usual advice about Red Rock. From October through May, a resident who wants to drive the loop after work has to think about a reservation window, a $2 booking fee, and whether their preferred pullout has parking. From now through the end of September, you can leave the paseo at 6:30 PM, be at the fee station in fifteen minutes, and drive the 13-mile loop in the last of the light. Average highs at Red Rock reach the mid-90s during summer and climb above 100°F during heat waves, which is why the trailheads are best treated as sunrise or last-hour destinations, not midday ones. The window still favors you; the mechanics just change.

A short-list of what to aim for in that late window, based on the pullout structure of the drive:

• Calico Hills Overlooks 1 and 2 for the low-angle red-and-cream light that photographers stake out
• High Point Overlook for the 360-degree read of the escarpment against the valley
• Ice Box Canyon trailhead as a turnaround, since the canyon holds shade longer than any other stop

If you missed your reservation window all last winter, this is your season to make it up.

Ballpark nights when the ballpark is not the point

Downtown Summerlin has one asset most master-planned communities never get: a Triple-A stadium six minutes from the paseo. The 2026 Aviators schedule is built around six-game series, Tuesday through Sunday, with league-wide Monday off days, and Las Vegas Ballpark hosts 75 home games across the 150-game season. Two dates matter for planning:

• The Aviators host the Tacoma Rainiers in a six-game homestand from Tuesday through Sunday, July 7–12 at Las Vegas Ballpark
• The schedule features a season-long 12-game homestand against Tacoma and Sacramento from August 4–16

The team plays home games through September 13, with firework nights, giveaways, $2 beer nights, and dog nights scheduled across the season. The under-the-radar move is a Tuesday or Wednesday first-pitch: same ballpark, same fireworks calendar on the marquee promo dates, and a parking flow that is closer to a Golden Knights practice-day arrival than a Saturday crush.

What actually makes this radius work for The Paseos

Nothing above is unique to The Paseos in the abstract. Marufuku serves anyone with a car. So does the Whole Foods. What is specific to this village is the geometry.

The village's own paved paseo runs roughly two miles north to south and ties directly into the broader Summerlin trail network, with entry points at Paseos Park at 12122 Desert Moon Road and Fox Hill Park at 231 Antelope Ridge Drive. The paths are fully paved, which means strollers, road bikes, and a set of tired knees all travel the same route. The village sits at roughly 3,000 feet of elevation, and residents notice a several-degree drop against the valley floor on the hottest evenings, which is why summer walks here stay tolerable when the eastern suburbs do not.

Stack that against the new ring of options and a Saturday looks different than it did in 2024. A pre-heat walk from Fox Hill Park down the paseo to Paseos Park, breakfast at the new Whole Foods prepared counter, an afternoon indoors, an early Aviators first-pitch on a Tuesday, or a 6:30 PM run at the Scenic Drive with no reservation to worry about, then late ramen on Festival Plaza. Every one of those pieces is inside a twelve-minute drive of a Paseos front door. That is not a coincidence of geography. It is the payoff of a village that was planned around trails and a master plan that has kept building the retail spine outward toward it.

If you're thinking about the next chapter

Most of the readers who find this post already live in The Paseos and have no plans to leave. That is the point. When the time comes that a friend, an adult child, or a colleague asks what it is actually like to live in this pocket of Summerlin, the honest answer is the one above: a quiet, trail-first village whose surrounding radius keeps getting better. If that conversation ever turns into a question about a specific home, a builder's remaining inventory nearby, or how The Paseos compares to a village half a mile away, Kaori Luxury Real Estate is glad to be the second call.

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