A Cedar City community
Living in Canyon Ridge.
Cedar City's east bench, up against Cedar Ridge Golf Course near 900 North with the red hills close behind. Canyon Ridge is a custom-home neighborhood built around big view lots, a private park of more than three acres with trails and playgrounds inside the plat, and a straight run back down to North Main, the hospital, and I-15.
I am Scott Buehler, a Southern Utah resident of 20-plus years and a licensed REALTOR and lender. This is the honest version of what the golf-course setting and the views actually buy you up here, what a home or lot costs, and what I would check before you build, buy, or sell on the ridge.
New to the area? Start with the Cedar City guide, then come back for the ridge.
Canyon Ridge Dr, east bench near 900 North
Canyon Ridge.
Current listings
Homes for sale in Canyon Ridge.
Fed straight from the MLS and limited to homes inside the community: new Canyon Ridge listings appear here the day they list, and sold homes drop off. Because the neighborhood carries finished custom homes and bare view lots together, read each listing type on its own terms.
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Listing information comes from the local MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
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Life on the ridge
A golf-course bench with town just below it.
Canyon Ridge sits high on Cedar City's east bench, on Canyon Ridge Drive up near 900 North, with Cedar Ridge Golf Course along one edge and the red hills rising close behind. It is one of the clearest custom-home settings in town: you are up on the slope with the fairways below you rather than down on the flat valley grid where most of Cedar City lives.
Midday is when the setting earns its keep. The private park inside the plat, more than three acres with walking trails and playgrounds, gives you open space without leaving the neighborhood, the golf course wraps the lower edge, and the best lots look west across the valley to the Cedar City Temple on its hill. Those are real reasons to buy up here, but the exact lot, its orientation, and what can still be built nearby decide how much of that view you actually keep, so I check it by address.
Evening is the payoff. The valley lights come up below the ridge, the course goes quiet, and the hills behind you hold the last color of the day. That is the trade Canyon Ridge offers: a genuine view-and-golf setting on a custom lot, with North Main, the hospital, and I-15 only a few minutes down the hill.
Ridge highlights
The practical pieces behind the setting.
Six things make this end of the east bench its own place, and each one is specific: the golf course on the edge, a private park inside the plat, walkout-ready view lots, a custom-build character, remaining land you can still buy, and a short line back down to Main Street.
On Cedar Ridge Golf Course
The neighborhood wraps the city's 18-hole Cedar Ridge municipal course at 200 East 900 North, and some lots look straight out over the 15th hole. Few Cedar City subdivisions sit right on the fairways.
A private park inside the plat
Canyon Ridge has its own park of more than three acres with walking trails and playgrounds, framed by the golf course. Open space you never have to drive to is rare in Cedar City.
Walkout-ready view lots
Because the ground falls away toward the valley, many lots are graded for a walkout basement, giving views on two levels and a downhill footprint that a flat valley lot cannot copy.
A custom-build neighborhood
These are custom homes, not a repeated tract plan, so square footage and finish swing hard from one address to the next. Local builders including Black Rock and Choice Builders have work up here.
Land you can still buy
A handful of view lots remain, roughly a third of an acre and up, with utilities to the street and no fixed deadline to build. In most of Cedar City the buildable ground on a golf course is long gone.
Main Street ~5 min down the hill
The bench drops straight to North Main, so Lin's, the hospital, and I-15 are all single-digit minutes despite the tucked-up, on-the-slope feel of the streets.
Homes & lots
Two markets under one name.
Canyon Ridge is a custom-home subdivision that is still finishing its build-out, and that is the part most online searches get wrong. Under one name you have large finished custom homes and a few remaining view lots, and the two do not price the same way. Lump them together and the numbers lie to you: a raw lot in the mid $100,000s can drag an average far below where the finished homes actually trade.
So I read it in two lanes. Built homes here have run roughly 2,300 to 7,200 square feet, with a wide swing in finish level from one address to the next, and they have generally traded from about the mid $700,000s up toward and past $1,000,000. The remaining lots are their own market: about a third of an acre to just over half an acre, priced on the view, the grade, and whether they are already set up for a walkout. On the ones I have seen, utilities are in the street, and buyers can bring their own builder with no fixed deadline to break ground.
The bench grade is the quiet detail behind all of it. Because the ground falls away toward the valley, lots here lend themselves to daylight and walkout basements, which is exactly why the best of them advertise views on two levels. It is also why I look hard at how each specific lot sheds water and holds its sightline before I get excited about the number.
For buyers, separate finished homes from lots before you judge value. For sellers, do the same before you choose comps. Confirm everything against the live listings, because in a small custom pool the right two or three comparables matter far more than any neighborhood average.
A finished custom home and a raw view lot are two different markets that happen to share the same address.
Park, golf & trails
Open space right off the door.
Canyon Ridge is unusual for Cedar City in that its best amenities start inside the neighborhood: a private park and a golf course on two edges, with the wider east-bench trail network climbing straight into the hills behind. Here is the honest tiering, from walk-from-home to day trip.
The private park (easy)
More than three acres of walking trails and playgrounds inside the plat, framed by the golf course. The kind of open space you use after dinner without ever getting in the car.
Cedar Ridge Golf Course (on the edge)
The city's 18-hole municipal course wraps the lower edge of the neighborhood, so a round starts a couple of minutes from the driveway and some homes sit right on the fairways.
Coal Creek Trail and the Iron Hills
A few minutes down the bench, the paved Coal Creek Trail follows the creek across town, and the Iron Hills system, including the climb to the white "C", adds dirt singletrack on the south bench.
Three Peaks Recreation Area, ~20 min
About twenty minutes northwest, the BLM's Three Peaks area opens up more than twenty-five miles of mountain-bike singletrack, OHV trails, and bouldering out on the desert floor.
Farther out, State Route 14 climbs east into the high country. The Lower Ashdown Gorge trailhead is roughly ten minutes up the canyon, and Cedar Breaks National Monument and the Bristlecone Pine Trail are a seasonal drive beyond, open once the high road clears for the year.
Amenity details come from the neighborhood plat, active builders, and Cedar City's golf and parks pages. The wider outdoor picture, Cedar Breaks and Brian Head included, is in the Cedar City guide.
Errands & drive times
Errands, measured in minutes.
This is the practical answer to "how far is everything from up here." The short version: the bench drops straight down to North Main, so groceries, the hospital, and the freeway are all single-digit minutes. Times are approximate, measured from near Canyon Ridge Drive off 900 North, and are worth a quick door-to-door check for your exact lot.
| The errand | Where it happens | From the ridge |
|---|---|---|
| Full grocery run | Lin's Fresh Market, 150 N Main Street | ~5 min |
| Second grocery option | Smith's Food & Drug, 633 S Main Street | ~7 min |
| Hardware and home improvement | The Home Depot, Providence Center | ~9 min |
| Healthcare | Cedar City Hospital, 1303 N Main Street | ~6 min |
| Freeway on-ramp | Interstate 15 at Exit 62, N Main St | ~6 min |
| Tee time | Cedar Ridge Golf Course, 200 E 900 N | ~2 min |
| Campus and games | Southern Utah University | ~7 min |
| Flights | Cedar City Regional Airport (CDC) | ~12 min |
| Mountain biking and OHV | Three Peaks Recreation Area (BLM) | ~20 min |
Farther out, the weekend map opens up fast: Brian Head's ski runs are about 40 minutes north via Parowan, Cedar Breaks National Monument is roughly 35 minutes up State Route 14 in season, the Kolob Canyons gate of Zion is about 25 minutes south on I-15, and St. George is roughly 50 minutes. The full day-trip map lives in the Cedar City guide.
Schools & education
Schools, by the facts.
Canyon Ridge is part of the Iron County School District. This stretch of the east bench near 900 North sits between the district's Cedar and Canyon View attendance zones, so I do not want to name a specific school by proximity and get it wrong. The elementaries closest to the bench include Fiddlers Canyon Elementary and East Elementary (both grades K-5), and the city's secondary schools are Cedar Middle School and Canyon View Middle School, feeding Cedar High School and Canyon View High School.
Two things matter for a buyer here. First, the district is redrawing boundaries: elementary lines shift for the 2026-27 school year and middle and high lines shift for 2027-28. Second, this part of town can fall on either side of the Cedar and Canyon View split. So confirm your exact elementary, middle, and high assignment with the district by address before you rely on it rather than guessing from a map. For independent school information, GreatSchools and Niche both publish data you can weigh for yourself, and Southern Utah University is about seven minutes down the bench.
I cover the bigger education picture, including SUU, in the Cedar City guide.
Buying the view
What a view lot actually keeps.
It is worth saying plainly, because it is the whole reason people pay a premium up here: the view is the product. The best lots on the ridge advertise a sweep from the red rock canyons east, out over the valley and the Cedar City Temple west, to the city lights south, with Cedar Ridge Golf Course below and the mountains framing the whole thing. That is a real, verifiable draw, and it is exactly the kind of thing that is easy to overpay for and easy to lose.
Here is the honest part. On a still-building custom subdivision, the view you fall in love with from an empty lot is not guaranteed to survive the next house going up next door or downhill. Grade, roof heights, and where a neighbor sites their build can all change a sightline. So I treat the view like a title issue: something to document, understand, and protect on purpose, not assume.
That is not a reason to walk away. It is a reason to buy the right lot for the right price and go in with your eyes open. The buyers who do well on the ridge are the ones who ask what the view keeps before they ask what it costs.
What I check before I call a view lot a safe bet
- The exact orientation of the sightline, and which windows or outdoor spaces actually hold the golf course, temple, and valley views.
- What a neighbor could still build uphill or downhill, and how much of the view the plat and any recorded restrictions protect.
- The grade and whether the lot is truly set up for a walkout, since that is what turns a slope into views on two levels rather than a drainage headache.
- How the sightline reads at different times of day, because a golf-course view at noon and the city lights at night are two different sells.
This is general guidance, not a survey, a title opinion, or investment advice. Confirm any specific lot with the recorded plat, a surveyor, and the city before you rely on it. Sources: neighborhood plat and listing materials, active builders, and Cedar City golf and parks pages.
What locals know
The details I would slow down and check.
Canyon Ridge rewards a buyer who reads the small print: the product type, the lot, the view, and the school split. These are the four things I would walk a friend through before they get attached to any one address up here.
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Do not price a lot off a finished home. A raw view lot in the mid $100,000s and a finished custom home over $1,000,000 both wear the Canyon Ridge name. Separate the two and the picture gets honest fast.
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The view is lot-specific. Two lots one street apart can hold very different sweeps of golf course, temple, and valley. Stand on the exact lot, at the height your build will sit, before you pay for the view.
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Confirm the walkout before you plan on it. Many lots are graded for a walkout basement, but not all, and that grade is half the reason the two-level view even works. Verify it, do not assume it from the slope.
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Nail down the schools by address. This bench can fall on either side of the Cedar and Canyon View split, and the district is redrawing lines. Confirm the assignment with the district, not a map, before you count on it.
Buy or sell here
The buyer side and the seller side.
Buying in Canyon Ridge
Canyon Ridge sits on Cedar City's east bench, up against Cedar Ridge Golf Course near 900 North and 200 East. Homes line Canyon Ridge Drive, backed by the red hills, and the bench drops away west toward Main Street, the hospital, and I-15, all a few minutes down the hill.
Canyon Ridge is a custom-home subdivision that is still finishing its build-out, so the mix is larger custom homes alongside remaining view lots waiting for a plan. Built homes have run roughly 2,300 to 7,200 square feet with a wide swing in finish level, and lots run about a third of an acre to just over half an acre. I read every home and lot by address, not by neighborhood average.
Canyon Ridge is in the Iron County School District. This part of the east bench sits between the Cedar and Canyon View attendance zones, and the district is redrawing elementary boundaries for the 2026-27 year and middle and high boundaries for 2027-28, so confirm your exact elementary, middle, and high assignment with the district by address before you rely on it.
Yes, and it is the feature that sets the neighborhood apart. Canyon Ridge has a private park of more than three acres inside the plat with walking trails and playgrounds, framed by the golf course, plus direct access to the hiking, biking, and OHV routes that run off the east bench into the red hills.
It runs high for Cedar City because you are comparing large custom homes against raw view lots. Built homes have generally traded from roughly the mid $700,000s up toward and past $1,000,000, while remaining building lots have started around the mid $100,000s. Treat that as a starting frame and confirm against the live listings for the exact property.
The best lots really do look out over Cedar Ridge Golf Course, the Cedar City Temple across the valley, and the city lights, with the red hills close behind. But view value is lot-specific, so I check the exact orientation, what a neighbor could still build, and how the sightline actually holds at different times of day before I call any view a selling point.
Ready to look? See what is on the market or tell me what you are after.
Selling in Canyon Ridge
Do not let one comp set carry a finished custom home and a raw lot at the same time. A built home and a view lot are two different markets that happen to share the Canyon Ridge name, and the documented view, the golf-course relationship, and the park access are the details that move a buyer up here. Get those on paper and the pricing gets honest.
List it with me and your home is featured across MovingUtah, on this page, on the Cedar City hub, and in the featured listings buyers browse on this site. The get featured page walks through exactly how that works.
I start with live MLS comps, then separate finished homes from lots so I am comparing like with like. From there I adjust for the specific view, the golf-course or park relationship, the walkout basement, condition, size, and how much of the sightline the lot actually keeps.
Yes, but on a purchase I take one role only, never both. I can work as your real estate agent or as your lender, and the role is disclosed before we move forward.
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Selling in Canyon Ridge
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