A Cedar City community
Living in Cedar Knolls.
Cedar City's southwest side, along Cedar Knolls Drive in the 1000 to 1200 South area west of Main. It is an established neighborhood where the streets curve with the terrain, the landscaping has matured, and one name covers both single-family homes and a run of townhomes. What makes it practical is the address: the Exit 57 gateway, the Providence Center big-box shopping, and Cedar Middle School all sit within a few minutes.
I am Scott Buehler, a Southern Utah resident of 20-plus years and a licensed REALTOR and lender. Cedar Knolls is a place where product type matters. A large detached house, a townhome, and a newer build are three different decisions, and I will not let you compare them as if they are the same thing.
New to the area? Start with the Cedar City guide, then come back for the subdivision details.
Current listings
Homes for sale in Cedar Knolls.
Fed straight from the MLS and limited to homes inside the community: new Cedar Knolls listings appear here the day they list, and sold homes drop off. Because the area carries both detached homes and townhomes, 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 southwest side
Settled streets right by the gateway.
Cedar Knolls runs along Cedar Knolls Drive on Cedar City's southwest side, in the 1000 to 1200 South area west of Main Street. It sits southwest of the Canyon View and Cedar South East neighborhoods, close enough to the Exit 57 interchange that the everyday things you drive to, the Providence Center big-box shopping, the freeway on-ramp, and Cedar Middle School, are all a short hop rather than a cross-town trip.
It reads as an established neighborhood, not a raw new one. The streets curve with the terrain instead of running a hard grid, the landscaping has matured, and the walk feels settled. The thing I tell every buyer first is that Cedar Knolls is not one product. It blends single-family homes with a run of townhomes on Cedar Knolls Drive, so one large detached house can pull a community average upward and make the attached homes look like a different market, because they are.
So this is a compare-carefully community. Before you anchor on a price, I look at product type, square footage, garage function, parking, how exterior upkeep is handled, age, and whether the nearby sales actually match the home in front of you. Get those right and the value picture gets a lot clearer.
Neighborhood highlights
The southwest side has its own logic.
Six things make this corner of town its own place, and each one is specific: the freeway gateway at Exit 57, the Providence Center shopping cluster, Cedar Middle School on Royal Hunte Drive, the Iron Hills trail system to the south, an established street pattern, and an inventory that mixes two property types under one name.
Exit 57 gateway, ~4 min
The South Cedar interchange at Exit 57, rebuilt as a diverging diamond in 2014-15, is the closest I-15 on-ramp. Few Cedar City neighborhoods sit this close to the freeway.
Providence Center shopping
The Walmart Supercenter at 1330 S Providence Center Drive and the Home Depot anchor the big-box cluster along the west side of Exit 57, minutes from the door.
Cedar Middle on Royal Hunte
Cedar Middle School (grades 6-8) sits at 2215 W Royal Hunte Drive, in the same southwest corridor as the neighborhood and the district office.
Iron Hills trails to the south
The Southview Trailhead and the 30-plus-mile Iron Hills Trail System sit on the south end of town off Shurtz Canyon Drive, a short drive from this side.
Established, curving streets
The layout follows the rolling ground rather than a strict grid, with mature landscaping and sidewalks. It has the settled feel of a neighborhood that has been in place a while.
Two products, one name
Detached homes and townhomes both carry the Cedar Knolls label, so I compare property type before I ever compare price.
Homes & townhomes
Price follows the product, so compare the right homes.
Cedar Knolls is genuinely mixed, and that is the part most online searches get wrong. Under one name you have established detached homes on settled streets and a run of townhomes on Cedar Knolls Drive, where recent listings have started in the high $300,000s. Lump them together and the numbers lie to you: a row of attached units can drag an average far from where the finished detached homes actually trade, and the reverse is just as true.
So I read it in two lanes. Detached homes get compared against similar detached homes on age, square footage, garage setup, and condition. Townhomes get compared against attached homes with the same product profile, including how the exterior upkeep is handled. Inventory here is usually thin, so at any moment you might see only a handful of homes, or a single large one that makes the whole area look pricier than it is.
That thin-inventory reality is exactly why the comp discipline matters. In a small mixed pool the right three comparables tell you more than any neighborhood average ever will, and I would rather widen the search by product type than reach for whatever sold nearest.
In Cedar Knolls, the first question is not the price. It is which home we are actually comparing.
Trails & outdoors
The Iron Hills are the closest thing to a home trailhead.
Cedar Knolls is not a trailhead subdivision, but the southwest position keeps the south-end trail network within an easy drive. The anchor is the Southview Trailhead on Shurtz Canyon Drive, the main gateway into the Iron Hills Trail System. Here is the honest tiering, from a short drive to a day trip.
Southview Trailhead, Iron Hills
Off Shurtz Canyon Drive on the south end of town, this is the main hub for the Iron Hills system: more than 30 miles of built trail, a paved path, a skills track, restrooms, and parking.
The "C" climb and downhill flow
From the same south bench, the C Trailhead climbs to the white "C" above town, while flow trails like Lava Flow and Boulder Dash keep mountain bikers busy on the Iron Hills.
Coal Creek Trail and the parks
A few minutes into town, the paved Coal Creek Trail links Canyon Park and Bicentennial Park along the creek, a flat, family-friendly walk or ride across Cedar City.
Three Peaks Recreation Area, ~20 min
Out on the desert floor northwest of town, the BLM's Three Peaks area adds mountain-bike singletrack, OHV trails, and bouldering, roughly twenty minutes away.
Farther out, State Route 14 climbs east into the high country toward Cedar Breaks National Monument, and Brian Head's ski runs are about 40 minutes north via Parowan and Exit 75. The day-trip map opens up fast from this side of town.
Trail details come from Cedar City's official trails pages and the BLM. 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 here." The short version: sitting beside the Exit 57 gateway, Cedar Knolls has the big-box shopping and the freeway in single-digit minutes, with downtown and the hospital a bit farther in. Times are approximate, measured from near Cedar Knolls Drive; confirm door-to-door from the specific home you are weighing.
| The errand | Where it happens | From Cedar Knolls |
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| Full big-box run | Walmart Supercenter, 1330 S Providence Center Dr | ~4 min |
| Hardware and home improvement | The Home Depot, Providence Center | ~4 min |
| Freeway on-ramp | Interstate 15 at Exit 57 | ~4 min |
| Second grocery option | Smith's Food & Drug, 633 S Main Street | ~6 min |
| Campus and games | Southern Utah University | ~7 min |
| Full grocery run | Lin's Fresh Market, 150 N Main Street | ~8 min |
| Dinner downtown | Historic Main Street | ~8 min |
| Healthcare | Cedar City Hospital, 1303 N Main Street | ~11 min |
| Mountain biking and hiking | Southview Trailhead, Iron Hills | ~8 min |
Farther out, the weekend map opens up fast: the Kolob Canyons gate of Zion is about 25 minutes south on I-15, Cedar Breaks National Monument is roughly 35 minutes up State Route 14 in season, Brian Head's ski runs are about 40 minutes north via Parowan, and St. George is around an hour. The full day-trip map lives in the Cedar City guide.
Schools & education
Schools, by the facts.
Cedar Knolls is part of the Iron County School District. On the southwest side, the neighborhood generally feeds Cedar Middle School (grades 6-8) at 2215 W Royal Hunte Drive and Cedar High School (grades 9-12), both in the south and central attendance zone rather than the northern Canyon View zone. For elementary, this side of town falls between the South Elementary and Three Peaks Elementary (both grades K-5) boundaries depending on the exact address.
Assignments are in flux right now. The district is redrawing elementary boundaries for the 2026-27 year as the new East Elementary building opens, and the middle and high school boundaries shift for 2027-28, so confirm the current assignment for any home you are serious about directly with the district by address 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 a short drive across town.
I cover the bigger education picture, including SUU, in the Cedar City guide.
The Exit 57 gateway
Living next to the front door of town.
The single most useful thing about Cedar Knolls is where it sits. It is tucked in behind Cedar City's southwest gateway, the Exit 57 interchange that most people use as their front door to town. Exit 57, the South Cedar interchange, was rebuilt as a diverging diamond in 2014-15, and the west side of it carries the city's densest retail run along Providence Center Drive, Royal Hunte Drive, and Cross Hollow Road.
For daily life, that convenience is the whole pitch. The big-box shopping, the credit union, the city recreation offices on Royal Hunte, and the freeway all sit within a few minutes, without the neighborhood itself being on a busy arterial. You get the errands-close life of a commercial corridor while still living on a quiet, curving residential street.
The tradeoff is worth naming honestly: proximity to a freeway and a retail cluster means some traffic and some ambient noise, and it varies a lot street to street inside the neighborhood. That is exactly why I walk the specific block at different times of day before I call any one home the right buy up here.
What I check before I call a home here the right buy
- Where the specific street sits relative to the freeway and the retail run, and how much traffic and noise carry to that block.
- Whether the home is detached or attached, since the two price and inspect on different terms.
- The garage, driveway, and storage, which change how a floor plan actually lives day to day.
- The current school assignment by address, because the district is actively redrawing boundaries.
Sources: UDOT and AARoads records on the Exit 57 diverging diamond interchange, and Cedar City business and recreation pages for the Providence Center and Royal Hunte corridor.
What locals know
The details I would slow down and check.
No listing photo tells you this part. Cedar Knolls rewards a buyer who reads the small print: the product type, the exact street, and the way the freeway gateway shapes the block.
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Do not trust one median. With inventory this thin, a single large home can skew the average. I read the mix, not one number.
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Separate townhomes from houses. Attached and detached homes on Cedar Knolls Drive should be priced against the right competition, never lumped together.
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Feel the freeway from the block. A home two streets deeper can be markedly quieter than one facing the retail corridor. Stand on the specific lot before you decide.
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Confirm the school by address. With Iron County redrawing boundaries, do not assume the assignment from a nearby home. Check the exact parcel with the district.
Buy or sell here
The buyer side and the seller side.
Buying in Cedar Knolls
Cedar Knolls sits on Cedar City's southwest side, along Cedar Knolls Drive in the 1000 to 1200 South area west of Main Street. That puts it right by the Exit 57 gateway, with the Providence Center big-box shopping, Royal Hunte Drive, and Cross Hollow Road all within a short local drive, and downtown and SUU a few minutes farther in.
Cedar Knolls is an established southwest-side neighborhood that mixes single-family homes with a run of townhomes on Cedar Knolls Drive. The streets curve with the terrain and the landscaping has matured, so build year and product type vary block to block. Because it is not one uniform product, I read each home on its own terms rather than treating the whole area as a single market.
Yes, and that is the practical draw. Cedar Knolls sits beside Cedar City's southwest retail and freeway gateway at Exit 57, so the Walmart Supercenter on Providence Center Drive, the Home Depot, and the I-15 on-ramp are all a short drive. Test the exact route from the specific home you are weighing.
It depends heavily on product type, because Cedar Knolls runs from townhomes to larger detached houses. Townhomes on Cedar Knolls Drive have recently listed in the high $300,000s, while bigger single-family homes reach higher. Treat that as a starting frame and confirm against the live listings, because inventory here is usually thin.
Cedar Knolls is in the Iron County School District. The southwest side generally feeds Cedar Middle School on Royal Hunte Drive and Cedar High School, and the neighborhood elementary is likely South Elementary or Three Peaks Elementary depending on the exact address. The district is redrawing elementary boundaries for the 2026-27 year as the new East Elementary opens, and secondary boundaries shift for 2027-28, so confirm the current assignment for any home directly with the district by address.
Ready to look? See what is on the market or tell me what you are after.
Selling in Cedar Knolls
Cedar Knolls values move with product type, square footage, age, garage function, condition, and the current supply of competing southwest-side homes. Automated estimates can miss the attached-versus-detached split, so start with the home valuation page and I will compare against the closest useful sales and current competition, no obligation.
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Yes. Timing the two is mostly a sequencing problem, and I cover the playbook in the buy and sell at once guide. Because I am dual-licensed, I can help coordinate the moving pieces while each real estate or lending role is handled as disclosed and required.
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Selling in Cedar Knolls
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On the southwest side, the split between attached and detached homes is the whole pricing story. I set your home against the right comparables, then feature it here on the page buyers already read.