Coyote Springs —
a Nicklaus design, alone in the desert.

Coyote Springs sits at the planned-community development of the same name, fifty miles northeast of Las Vegas at the junction of US-93 and Highway 168 — closer to Moapa than to the Strip. It opened in 2008 as the centerpiece of what was meant to be a 43,000-acre master-planned development. The recession reset the build-out timeline, but the golf course endured: a tournament-quality Nicklaus Signature layout with generous landing areas, and the kind of pace-of-play conditioning you get when the parking lot is rarely full. Tee times open up that don't exist closer in — late afternoon shoulder-season rounds with the Sheep Range turning red behind you. The drive is honest (an hour from Summerlin), but the round is the reward — it's the closest thing Southern Nevada has to a destination championship course outside Mesquite.