You probably still call it Rio Secco. Most residents do. The sign at 2851 Grand Hills Drive says otherwise now, and that small change is a decent shorthand for the year Seven Hills just had. The gate looks the same. The Tuscan rooflines look the same. But the three fixtures that shape a resident's Saturday — the course at the middle of the master plan, the retail center ten minutes north, and the paved trail that ties the parks together — have each moved in the last twelve months in ways worth knowing before you plan a weekend.
This is a field guide for people who already live inside the gate, written under the assumption that you know where Puccini Park is and don't need another list of things to do in Las Vegas.
The course at the center has a new name
In October 2025, Rio Secco Golf Club rebranded as Serket. Same Rees Jones design from 1997, same six-canyon, six-plateau, six-wash routing through the Black Mountains, same address on Grand Hills Drive. Ownership sits with VICI Properties, with Cabot running operations under a management contract dating to 2022. The Butch Harmon School of Golf is still on site, and the clubhouse dining room, Janelas, still opens after rounds.
What changed is the marketing wrapper, not the golf. Recent guest reviews describe the course in the same terms locals have used for years: the par threes carry the round, the sixth hole reads shorter than its 184 yards from the tips, and the eighteenth still narrows in the landing zone in a way that punishes an aggressive tee shot. If you have not walked the property since the rebrand, the practice range and short-game area are in the same place. The name on the scorecard is the only meaningful difference at the resident level.
The reason it matters for a weekend plan: if you're recommending a round to a visiting friend and they search "Rio Secco tee times," they will land on a page that no longer exists in that form. Send them the new name and the address, and skip the confusion.
The District, refreshed and mostly full
Ten minutes up Eastern and St. Rose, The District at Green Valley Ranch spent the last year adding to a lineup most Seven Hills residents already treat as their default errand loop. The retail landlord, Vestar, announced in late January 2026 that four leases totaling roughly 9,000 square feet had pushed occupancy to around 95%.
The additions, in order of opening:
| Tenant | Category | Opened |
|---|---|---|
| California Closets | Custom storage | December 2025 |
| Solidcore | Pilates-style fitness | December 2025 |
| Glo30 | Skincare and facial memberships | March 2026 |
| Evereve | Women's boutique | 2026 |
Layered on top of the leasing news is a separate $3 million refresh of the outdoor plaza, with new landscaping, seating, signage, and storefront lighting. That project is bringing Urth Caffé, North Italia, and Flower Child to the center, which shifts the coffee-and-lunch geometry that has held steady at The District for most of the last decade. If your Saturday routine has been King's Fish House, Pottery Barn, and a coffee at whichever café had a table, the café half of that equation is about to have real alternatives.
The Thursday farmers market on Main Street still runs. Parking behavior on weekends still favors the garage over the surface lots after 11 a.m. Nothing has replaced the reality that you should not try to park at the Cheesecake Factory side on a Saturday night without a plan.
The paved loop most residents underuse
Talk to enough Seven Hills homeowners and you will hear about the trail. Walk it on a Tuesday morning and you will find it moderately empty. The Seven Hills Trail is a 2.6-mile paved loop that starts near Puccini Park, climbs about 196 feet of gentle elevation, and connects Sonata, Vivaldi, Puccini, and Allegro parks in a continuous ring. Average completion time is around 57 minutes at a comfortable pace. The surface is 4 to 6 feet wide, mostly under 5% grade, with the steepest section between roughly mile 1.7 and mile 2.5 if you're walking counterclockwise. Four designated accessible parking spaces sit at the northeast trailhead off Seven Hills Drive.
If you own here and haven't done the full loop since summer, the western portion has the Strip sightline residents keep telling their out-of-town guests about. Elevated stretches deliver it without a car or a hike.
The trail exists because the community was planned as one connected walking system, not as a set of parks stapled together with sidewalks. Sonata Park itself has a splash pad, two tennis courts, and open turf under mature shade. Puccini adds basketball and tennis. Coyotes move through the greenbelts at dawn and dusk, which is worth knowing if you walk a small dog before sunrise.
When you leave the loop
The paved ring is the easy answer. The more interesting one is what it connects to. The St. Rose Parkway Trail runs about 5.1 miles along the northern edge of the community and hooks into the broader Henderson network. The Amargosa Trail, a 3.7-mile paved loop, links Discovery Park to Paseo Vista and gets used more by cyclists than walkers. Both start close enough to Seven Hills that you can add them on foot without moving the car.
If you want dirt under your shoes, Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area sits about four miles from the gate and gives access to McCullough Hills Trail, a longer desert route with meaningful elevation. Black Mountain, reached from the Shadow Canyon trailhead, is the ambitious version: ridgeline scrambling in the last section, roughly 2,100 feet of gain, and a panorama that covers the entire valley. The Anthem East Trail, which starts paved and turns to dirt about three quarters of a mile in, is the shortcut into that terrain. AllTrails logs 68 trails in the Henderson area totaling 215 miles, and a Seven Hills address puts you within a fifteen-minute drive of most of the good ones.
The point isn't that Seven Hills is a hiking neighborhood. It's that the paved community trail is not the ceiling. It's the ground floor of a system that goes as far as you want to take it.
A Saturday, in order
For a resident who wants to actually use what changed this year without inventing a new routine, one honest sequence:
- 7:00 a.m. Coffee at home. The Puccini trailhead is quiet and shaded before 8, and the coyotes have usually cleared the greenbelts.
- 7:15 a.m. Full 2.6-mile loop counterclockwise. The climb between mile 1.7 and 2.5 goes first when you have the energy, and the Strip view rewards the effort near the top.
- 9:00 a.m. Drive north on Eastern, cut across St. Rose to The District. Park in the garage. Coffee at Urth Caffé once it opens, or the existing rotation until it does.
- 10:30 a.m. Errands. The new California Closets and Evereve add to the reason to be there. If you have been meaning to try Solidcore, the Saturday classes at The District fill first.
- 12:30 p.m. Lunch at King's Fish House, Lucille's, or wait for North Italia to open under the refresh.
- Afternoon. Serket for a range session or nine holes if you have a tee time. The name is new. The course is not.
That itinerary uses every one of the three shifts this year without pretending Seven Hills has been rebuilt. It hasn't. It has been edited.
What this means if you're thinking beyond a weekend
Seven Hills sits on roughly 1,300 acres in south Henderson with about 1,950 homes across eight sub-enclaves, developed by American Nevada Corporation beginning in the mid-1990s. The community wraps Serket at its center and steps up in elevation toward Terracina at the top. Homes trade across a wide band, from resale single-story product in the established villages up through custom estates behind the double guard gate. HOA structure runs a master association plus multiple sub-associations, so dues and transfer documents vary by street. If you want the deeper read on how the sub-neighborhoods differ, the Seven Hills community page has the buyer-side breakdown, and the broader Henderson overview puts the community in context against the rest of the city.
The reason to know any of this on a Saturday morning is small. The reason to know it before you list, buy, or renew is not.
Let's connect
If you live in Seven Hills and are thinking about what your home is worth after a year of quiet shifts around the community, or you're considering a move-up inside the gate, Rachelle G Cox works this hillside closely and can walk you through what the changes mean for pricing, presentation, and timing. Let's connect.
