State Route 604 is the route number designation for parts of Las Vegas Boulevard

Las Vegas Boulevard

State Route 604 is the route number designation for parts of Las Vegas Boulevard, a major north–south road in the Las Vegas metropolitan area of Nevada in the United States best known for the Las Vegas Strip and its casinos. Formerly carrying U.S...

, a major north–south road in the Las Vegas metropolitan area

Las Vegas metropolitan area

The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...

 of Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 best known for the Las Vegas Strip

Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada; adjacent to, but outside the city limits of Las Vegas proper. The Strip lies within the unincorporated townships of Paradise and Winchester...

 and its casino

Casino

In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions...

s. Formerly carrying U.S. Route 91, the main highway between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, it has been bypassed by Interstate 15, and serves mainly local traffic.

Route description

State Route 604 exists in two discontinuous sections. The first is a 0.119 mile (0.19151146 km) section of Las Vegas Boulevard at the intersection of Tropicana Avenue

Tropicana Avenue

Tropicana Avenue is a major east–west section line arterial in the Las Vegas area. The road is named after the Tropicana Resort & Casino which is located on the Las Vegas Boulevard where it intersects with Tropicana Avenue. Part of it is signed as Nevada State Route 593.-Route description:SR...

. The second is the 13.288 miles (21.4 km) section of Las Vegas Boulevard from Owens Avenue in northern Las Vegas to Interstate 15 at exit 58 near Apex. The I-15 frontage road

Frontage road

A frontage road is a non-limited access road running parallel to a higher-speed road, usually a freeway, and feeding it at appropriate points of access...

 stretching northeast 11.823 miles (19.027 km) from Apex to a point between Garnet and Crystal

Crystal, Nevada

Crystal is the name of two locations in Nevada:*Crystal, Nye County, Nevada*Crystal, Clark County, Nevada...

 is also state maintained as FRCL07, and was mileposted as SR 604.

History

State Route 604 was created in the 1970s from what had been State Route 6 between Jean

Jean, Nevada

Jean is a small commercial town in Clark County, Nevada, located approximately north of the Nevada-California state line along Interstate 15. Las Vegas is located about to the north...

, where it intersected with State Route 161, and a point north of Las Vegas. However, it has been truncated over time, as segments were given to the city of Las Vegas and Clark County to maintain. Most recently, the portion between Jean and Russell Road

Russell Road (Las Vegas)

State Route 594 comprises approximately of Russell Road, a section line road in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Russell Road is not a continuous road through the valley. It is the principal eastern local access for McCarran International Airport serving as the northern boundary for the eastern...

was given to Clark County.