Cedar City communities

Here is the original town, the grid Cedar City grew from. The university, the Shakespeare Festival, and Main Street sit at its center, and Coal Creek comes out of the canyon on the east edge. Most homes here are older and sit under mature trees. The blocks are easy to walk, and newer areas cannot copy that. A few townhome groups put campus within walking distance.

This hillside rises between north Main and the red foothills, and the same streets can give you views of the valley and trail access. Fiddlers Canyon is the heart of the area, and the Cedar Ridge Golf Course sits at its foot. Custom homes keep filling the upper lots, and townhomes sit at the entry along Fiddlers Canyon Road.

North Main and Northfield Road make up the everyday middle of town. You find Cedar City Hospital here, and five decades of subdivisions. The area has more townhome and twin-home communities than any other. One block has old trees, and two streets over the homes are brand new. If you want a townhome, also browse the dedicated Cedar City townhomes page.

Follow Main past the edge of town, and the valley opens up. Midvalley Road runs toward Enoch past a lot of new homes. Lots range from small starter lots to estates of an acre or more where animals are allowed. Some of this land is in unincorporated Iron County (outside any city limits), so water and services vary. Each community page explains this. If you want a new home, also watch the new construction page.

Out past the airport, the northwest is where the valley opens up the most. You find new subdivisions around Lund Highway and the valley's best-known horse community. Parcels stretch toward the 6,500-acre Three Peaks Recreation Area, which has 27-plus miles of trails. If you want horse property, also see the horse property page.

West of downtown the blocks run from 1990s brick streets to subdivisions so new the sod is still going down. Highway 56 is the main road through it, with the city soccer complex and the Iron Springs trails along it. A steady share of the valley's twin-home and townhome building is here too. The addresses climb past 4500 West before town gives way to ranch land.

The hills between downtown and I-15 have the view addresses. Mesa Hills and its smaller communities climb Leigh Hill above the Aquatic Center and Lake at the Hills, and the Cross Hollow hills have wooded acreage. Master-planned slopes fill the space between. Walkout basements (basements with a door straight out to the yard), custom streets, and long sunset light mark this area.

The south end runs from Providence Center's shopping at the I-15 interchange up onto the south hillside at 6,200 feet. Cedar City is building the most here. You find townhomes by the freeway and new single-family streets at the foothills, with custom view lots above it all. The Iron Hills trail system winds through the whole stretch.

Past the last stoplight, Cedar City turns into open country. Cedar Highlands sits in the pines up Right Hand Canyon, with off-grid cabin country beyond it. In the west valley you find ranch land. Wells, septic systems, and the right to keep horses and livestock are the norm.

This is one recorded subdivision. I have not yet pinned down which part of town it belongs to, so I did not file it above. It moves into its area once I check it on the ground. That is my standard for this index: I file each one in the right place or I say honestly that I have not.