McCarren International Airport located adjacent to the strip in Las Vegas has reached the point where it can grow no further in spite of the continued huge growth in future flights and users expected every year. Thus a new international airport is in the works and on the drawing board in the desert 30 miles south in the Ivanpah Valley with a projected opening date in 2017. This is a similar strategy employed by Denver and Colorado in the mid to late 1980s when Stapleton Airport, only five miles from downtown Denver, had reached capacity and needed replacing. The new Las Vegas airport is expected to link to the commercial and entertainment core of the city by use of a planned maglev train that will also connect southwest to the Los Angeles metro area.Where this writer resides, Cheyenne, is another area where a new state of the art airport will need to be constructed in the next 20 years as the current airport is now surrounded by development and residences. An additional regional airport will be needed to service the rapidly growing northern Front Range in the coming decades and to offer a tertiary regional national airport for the region as what exists in most other metropolitan areas nationally. The probable location will either be to the east of the city along I-80 or to the south and east on the east side of I-25 and probably several miles east of the north/south interstate and possibly partially on Colorado land where topography is most favorable.
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