Drive down Grand Hills Drive and you'll see it: a scorpion crest on fresh signage where the old Rio Secco name used to sit. The course reopened under its new identity on September 20, 2025, after several months of downtime while the rebrand took hold. If you live in Seven Hills, you've probably passed that sign a hundred times since then without giving it a second look, or you've paused just long enough to wonder what happened and why nobody explained it.
Here's the short version: the golf course anchoring the center of your neighborhood didn't get a facelift. It got a new operator with a different business model, and that operator swap is the part worth understanding, not the logo.
Ownership Didn't Move. Management Did.
The land and the golf assets are still owned by Vici Properties, the real estate company that split off from Caesars Entertainment in 2017 when Caesars spun out its non-gaming properties. What changed is who runs the day-to-day operation. Back in October 2022, Vici handed management of Rio Secco and its other golf courses to Cabot, the golf-first developer behind luxury courses in Scotland, Canada, and the Caribbean. Cabot announced the rebrand to Serket in 2025, three years after the handoff.
In Las Vegas Magazine, Cabot's CEO Ben Cowan-Dewar described the new name as something that "melds the course's natural splendor with a refreshed identity" tied to the surrounding Mojave Desert. The name itself comes from Serket, the ancient Egyptian goddess of protection, depicted with a scorpion, which explains the crest you're now seeing on tee markers, scorecards, and clubhouse signage across the property.
For two decades, this course operated inside a casino-resort portfolio, where tee times answered to hotel occupancy and comped play. Cabot runs a different kind of business. It markets its properties as standalone golf destinations. Serket shares a booking calendar with Cascata, its sister course also managed by Cabot in the nearby Black Mountains foothills, and golfers can book "Double Down" packages to play both across a single trip, a pairing that didn't exist under the old ownership structure.
What Actually Stayed The Same
None of this touched the golf itself. Rees Jones designed the course in 1997, and it underwent a significant renovation under his direction in 2017, including new greens and bunkers, before reopening that October. Golf Digest's 2025-26 course rankings still list it 16th in Nevada, one spot down from the year before, but the routing through six canyon holes, six plateau holes, and six holes across a broad desert wash hasn't changed since the day it opened.
The Butch Harmon School of Golf is still on-site too. Harmon, who coached Tiger Woods through his most dominant stretch, has run instruction out of this location since 1997, and that program carried through the rebrand untouched. If your neighbors mention taking a lesson at the course, they're talking about the same instruction pedigree that's been here for nearly thirty years, just under a new sign.
The Pricing Model Changed More Than The Name
The part that actually affects how you'd use this course going forward is pricing. Under Cabot, rates are now set dynamically, meaning they shift based on how close you're booking to your tee time, a structure that behaves differently than the flatter resort pricing Rio Secco used during its Caesars years. A recent GolfPass review of the newly rebranded course put high-season green fees at $225 and up for Serket, with Cascata running $450 and up in the same window. That's a meaningfully different price posture than a casino-adjacent course competing for hotel guests on comped rounds.
The practical read for anyone living inside Seven Hills: if golf is part of why you're here, it's worth checking current resident rates directly rather than assuming pricing works the way it did five years ago. The course is the same. The business behind it isn't.
What You Actually Use Every Day Isn't The Golf Course
Here's the part that gets lost when a rebrand dominates the conversation. Most Seven Hills residents interact with this neighborhood through its parks and trail loop far more often than through the golf course, gated or not. Seven Hills Trail is a paved 2.6-mile loop with about 196 feet of elevation gain, rated easy, dog-friendly, and popular enough with walkers and joggers that it's one of the more reviewed paved trails in Henderson on AllTrails. It links four parks through a series of flood-control tunnels that double as pedestrian underpasses beneath Seven Hills Drive:
- Sonata Park, the largest of the group at roughly 12 acres, with tennis courts, a soccer field, and basketball courts that carry most of the neighborhood's youth sports traffic
- Vivaldi Park, seven acres with a playground built around a purple dinosaur climbing structure, a baseball diamond, and a trailhead where the loop branches toward Henderson Executive Airport
- Puccini Park, smaller and tucked in, known for basketball and tennis
- Allegro Park, next to Wolff Elementary, a common stop for dog walkers and pre-school pickup
Vivaldi Park has quietly become known for something the golf course rebrand can't touch: its parking lot overlooks Henderson Executive Airport, close enough that you can watch private jets, business aircraft, and flight training operations take off and land while you eat lunch in your car. It's not a loud attraction. It's the kind of thing you find once, by accident, and then keep going back to on a slow Tuesday.
That's the actual texture of daily life in Seven Hills. The course rebrand is news you notice once and then forget. The trail loop and its four parks are infrastructure you use weekly, whether or not you ever book a tee time at Serket.
Two Identities, One Neighborhood
Seven Hills has always carried two identities at once. There's the branded, view-driven, golf-anchored image that shows up in course rankings and rebrand press releases, and there's the quieter version that plays out on a paved loop past four parks named after Italian composers, where kids ride a purple dinosaur and neighbors nod to each other on a Saturday walk. The Serket rebrand is a reminder that the first identity changes hands and names over time. The second one, the parks and the trail and the tunnel underpasses, has stayed remarkably constant since the neighborhood was built out.
If you're already living here, none of this changes your Tuesday. But if you've been curious about what that scorpion sign means, or you know someone weighing a move into Seven Hills and wondering what the neighborhood actually feels like day to day beyond the golf course headline, I'm always happy to talk through it.
I'm Rosanna Bieszczat with Rosanna Bieszczat, and if you'd like to talk about Seven Hills, or any corner of Henderson and Las Vegas, I'd love to schedule a consultation and walk through it with you.
