A Hurricane community
Park Side at Grandpas Pond.
A new-construction Interstate Homes community on the west side of Hurricane, built to overlook one of the town's favorite fishing holes. Grandpa's Pond Park sits right at the edge of the subdivision, so a morning with a rod and reel or an evening lap around the water is measured in footsteps, not drive time.
I am Scott Buehler. I have spent 20+ years in Southern Utah, and this page is what I would tell you about living beside Grandpa's Pond.
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Life in Park Side at Grandpas Pond
What a day beside the pond looks like.
Morning starts with a short walk down to Grandpa's Pond, then a quick run to Lin's or Davis for whatever you forgot yesterday. The streets in Park Side at Grandpas Pond are new and quiet, the kind of quiet where the loudest thing is a duck on the water across the road. If the day is a weekend, the real question is which direction: south toward Sand Hollow for a morning on the water, or east toward Zion for a hike before the canyon fills up.
Midday, the errands are close but the pond is closer. Grandpa's Pond Park sits at 350 North 3700 West, right at the subdivision's doorstep, so a lot of people here treat the 0.7-mile loop around the water as a lunch-break reset rather than a special outing. Because the park is a public city amenity and not a private amenity you pay to keep up, you get the walking path, the fishing dock, the playground, and the disc golf course without any of it being your responsibility to maintain.
Evenings on a pond-facing lot have their own rhythm. The park empties out as the light goes gold, the anglers pack up, and the water goes still enough to mirror the cliffs. Interstate framed the view-facing plans to point their great-room windows and covered patios at that, so on the right lot the last hour of daylight is something you watch from your own back porch instead of driving to find.
Outdoors & recreation
The highlight reel, all within minutes.
Grandpa's Pond Park
The park the neighborhood is named for sits right across the street: a fishing dock stocked with rainbow trout, largemouth bass, and bullhead, a paved loop of about 0.7 miles around the water, a playground, and a disc golf course. A Utah fishing license applies and DWR rules are posted.
The fishing dock
The pond is a Utah community fishery, stocked by the DWR with rainbow trout in the cooler months and holding largemouth bass and yellow bullhead year round. Kids 12 and under fish free; everyone else needs a Utah license. You can cast from the dock or work your way around the shoreline before breakfast and still make the school run.
Disc golf and the loop
Grandpa's Pond Park is not just water. It also holds a disc golf course, a playground, restrooms, and picnic tables scattered through the grass, all wrapped by the paved perimeter path. For a subdivision this new, having a finished, city-kept park as your front yard is unusual, and it is the reason most buyers come look here in the first place.
Pond views & open feel
The pond and its park sit right beside the subdivision, so the lots facing it look out over open water and green instead of another rooftop. Interstate's plans lean into that with vaulted great rooms and big windows aimed at the view.
Build-your-own on 3700 West
Interstate still has homesites to build on here, so unlike a resale street you can choose the lot and, on many sites, the plan before the foundation is poured. That is the practical upside of buying into a subdivision that is still filling in: you are picking your spot rather than taking what is left.
Water two ways
The pond out front handles the quiet mornings; Sand Hollow Reservoir, about 15 minutes south, handles the loud ones, with a boat ramp, red-sand beaches, and warm water into the fall. Few Hurricane subdivisions can claim both a fishing hole across the street and a full reservoir a short drive away.
Homes & lots
New Interstate homes beside the pond.
Park Side at Grandpas Pond is a new-construction community by Interstate Homes, the local builder that grew out of Interstate Rock's decades of work in Washington County. This is not an established 2000s neighborhood, it is a fresh subdivision still filling in: new streets, active building, and lots you can still pick before the house goes up. The plans favor spacious main-level living, vaulted great rooms, and windows placed to catch the pond and park.
The site is laid out flat along 3700 West, and Interstate offers both slab-on-grade and walkout-basement lots, so a buyer can go single-level or add a full basement depending on the lot and the plan. Landscaping is young because the streets are new, and the pond-facing lots are the draw here, looking out over open water and the city park instead of another backyard fence.
Here the lot lottery is simple: a pond-facing site and an interior site are two different homes at two different prices, even with the same floor plan.
That is the one thing I would slow down on before you fall for a plan. The sites that look across 3700 West to open water and the park are the premium here, and they price like it. The interior sites are the value play and still walk to the same dock in two minutes. Then layer in orientation: a patio pointed west takes the full brunt of the late-afternoon sun, while an east or north exposure shades up earlier and stays usable through a July evening. When the site faces the pond, you also want to think about morning glare off the water. None of it is a dealbreaker, it is just the difference between a good lot and the right one for how you live.
The bigger outdoor picture
Parks, trails, and open country.
The pond loop is the everyday walk, but it is the shortest one you have from this address. Because Park Side sits on Hurricane's west side near 3700 West, you are already pointed toward Sand Hollow and the mesas south of town, so the bigger outings start closer for you than they would from the east bench. Here is how I rank the three worth knowing from here.
Sand Hollow State Park
About 15 minutes south, and the closest big-water day from Park Side: boat ramps, red-sand swimming coves, and Sand Mountain's dunes for the side-by-side crowd. Entrance fee applies.
Gooseberry Mesa
Slickrock singletrack on a mesa top with Zion in the distance, roughly 25 minutes out on dirt roads past the town of Apple Valley. A destination ride, not a quick after-work lap.
JEM Trail
The region's classic flowy singletrack above the Virgin River gorge, about 15 minutes east near Sheep Bridge Road. Fast, exposed, and busy at golden hour with bikes and runners.
The full outdoor picture, including Zion, the Hurricane Cliffs system, and Confluence Park in town, is in the Hurricane guide.
Errands & drive times
Errands, measured in minutes.
This is the practical answer to "how far is everything." The short version: Hurricane's commercial corridor along State Route 9 puts groceries, dining, and errands within a few minutes of Park Side at Grandpas Pond.
| The errand | Where it happens | From Park Side at Grandpas Pond |
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| Full grocery run | Lin's Marketplace, State Street | ~6 min |
| Second grocery option | Davis Food & Drug, State Street | ~6 min |
| Big-box and shopping | Walmart Supercenter, west State Street | ~6 min |
| Hardware and home | Ace Hardware, State Street | ~6 min |
| Fuel | Maverik, State Street | ~5 min |
| Dining out | State Street and downtown Hurricane | ~6 min |
| Nearest ER / urgent care | St. George Regional Hospital Hurricane Campus, 75 N 2260 West | ~4 min |
| Fitness and rec | Hurricane Recreation Center | ~6 min |
| Flights | St. George Regional Airport (SGU) | ~30 min |
One quirk worth naming for Park Side specifically: sitting on the west side near 3700 West, you are a couple of minutes closer to Sand Hollow, the freeway, and St. George than a home on Hurricane's east bench, and a couple of minutes farther from the Zion gateway at the top of SR-9. It is a small trade, but if you are commuting toward St. George it lands in your favor. The full day-trip map lives in the Hurricane guide.
Schools & education
Schools, by the facts.
Park Side at Grandpas Pond is served by the Washington County School District. On this west side of town the K-5 elementary is typically Three Falls Elementary or Hurricane Elementary, depending on the exact address. From there the public chain runs Hurricane Intermediate (grades 6-7), Hurricane Middle (grades 8-9), and Hurricane High (grades 10-12). Valley Academy, a K-8 charter in Hurricane, is an alternative to the neighborhood schools. Because the district is actively redistricting for growth, which specific school serves a given address can change, so confirm the current assignment for any home you are serious about directly with the district. For higher education, Utah Tech University and Dixie Technical College are in St. George, about 25 minutes away. For independent school information, GreatSchools and Niche both publish data you can weigh for yourself.
I cover the bigger education picture in the Hurricane guide.
The reason this subdivision exists
What a lot beside a public pond really means.
Almost no subdivision in Hurricane is built to front open water, and that is the whole story here. Grandpa's Pond is a stocked city fishery at 350 North 3700 West, and Interstate laid Park Side out along its edge so that the premium sites look across the street at the water and the park rather than at the back of another house. That view is the value, so it pays to understand exactly what you are buying when you buy it.
A pond-front site gives you the sightline, the light off the water, and the shortest walk to the dock of anyone in town. It also puts you next to a public amenity, with the foot traffic, waterfowl, and weekend parking that come with any city park. An interior Park Side site trades the water view for a quieter street and a lower price while keeping the two-minute walk to the same shoreline. Neither is the wrong call. They are two different homes at two different prices, and I would not let a floor plan you love talk you out of standing on the specific lot first.
What I check before I call a pond-side lot the right one
- Exactly which direction the great room and patio face, since the same view lands very differently with morning glare off the water versus full west-afternoon sun.
- How close the lot sits to the park's parking and dock, because on a busy weekend that decides how much of the crowd you notice.
- The grading and drainage of a fresh lot near a low water feature, walked in person, ideally after a storm rather than only on a blue-sky day.
- Whether the premium a pond-front site carries is one you will recover, since a scarce, hard-to-replace view tends to hold its value better than an interior lot in the same subdivision.
This is general guidance, not an appraisal or a promise about resale. Confirm any specific lot with Interstate Homes, a qualified inspector, and your own walk-through before you rely on it. Sources: the City of Hurricane parks listing for Grandpa's Pond, Utah DWR community-fishery stocking, and Interstate Homes' Park Side at Grandpa's Pond community page.
What locals know
Notes from around Hurricane.
The listing shots sell the pond. These are the things you only learn after you have walked these lots and stood on the dock a few times, the notes I would give a friend before they picked a homesite here.
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Open water shows the wind. Hurricane sits in a spring wind corridor, and on a pond-facing lot you see it before you feel it, in the chop across the water and the whitecaps on a gusty April afternoon. Anchor the patio umbrella, and pick where your covered outdoor space sits with that in mind. More on the citywide wind pattern is on the Hurricane guide.
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The pond brings birds. A stocked city pond is a magnet for ducks, geese, herons, and the occasional angler at dawn. Most people count that as the whole point of living here, but it does mean waterfowl on the lawn and a little more life outside the window than a dry interior lot has. Go look on a spring morning and decide how you feel about it.
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The park is public, and that cuts both ways. Grandpa's Pond is a city park, not a private community amenity, so you get it maintained on the city's dime and open to everyone. On a warm weekend that means visitors, fishermen, and full parking near the pond-front lots. The upside is a finished park you never pay to keep up; the trade is that it is not just yours.
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You are the newest street on a maturing side of town. Interstate is still building here, so expect construction traffic and young landscaping while the subdivision fills in. That is normal for a new community and it passes, but it is worth seeing on a weekday before you commit, not just on a quiet Sunday showing.
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West side means an easier Zion escape. The SR-9 corridor packs with park visitors from spring through fall. Because Park Side sits on the west end of town, you can slip onto the freeway toward St. George without threading the busiest Zion-bound stretch, which is a real perk if your commute or errands run that direction.
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New build has its own inspection list. A brand-new Interstate home skips the worn-roof and old-system worries of a resale, but it trades them for different ones: builder walk-throughs, the one-year fit-and-finish list, grading and drainage on a fresh lot, and getting the softener sorted, since Washington County water runs hard. I walk clients through the new-construction checklist so nothing gets waved through.
Buy or sell here
The buyer side and the seller side.
Buying in Park Side at Grandpas Pond
Park Side at Grandpas Pond sits on the west side of Hurricane, Utah, a Washington County city at roughly 3,200 feet that serves as the gateway to Zion National Park. The subdivision is built along 3700 West, directly overlooking Grandpa's Pond Park, with straightforward access to State Route 9, Hurricane's main commercial and connector corridor.
Park Side at Grandpas Pond is a new-construction single-family community by Interstate Homes. Plans run to spacious main-level living with vaulted great rooms and pond-view windows, and the site offers both slab-on-grade and walkout-basement lots. It is a newer, higher-end pocket of Hurricane's west side, so the streets, homes, and landscaping are all recent.
Park Side at Grandpas Pond is a few minutes from the State Route 9 corridor where Lin's Marketplace, Davis Food & Drug, and the Walmart Supercenter anchor Hurricane's grocery and retail. Most daily errands are a short drive, with dining and services clustered along State Street.
Because Park Side at Grandpas Pond is new construction, prices sit at the upper end of Hurricane's range. Recent Interstate Homes activity here has generally landed in the high $500,000s and up, with pond-frontage lots and larger basement plans reaching well into the $700,000s. Prices move, so treat that as a starting point and confirm against the live listings above.
Ready to look? See what is on the market or tell me what you are after.
Selling in Park Side at Grandpas Pond
Hurricane values have moved a lot in recent years, and lot position and finish level make a real difference. Start with the home valuation page and I will run a real comparison against recent Park Side at Grandpas Pond sales, no obligation.
List with me and your home is featured across MovingUtah, on this page, on the Hurricane hub, and in the featured listings buyers browse on this site. The get featured page walks through exactly how that works.
It depends on what is listed in the neighborhood right now. Hurricane inventory runs in cycles, and a well-kept home in a newer pond-side community like Park Side at Grandpas Pond draws attention when options are thin. Tell me your timeline and I will give you a straight read.
Yes, and it comes up a lot with new construction here, where your build finishes on the builder's calendar and your current home has to be timed against it. That sequencing is the whole game, and I walk through it in the buy and sell at once guide. Because I am dual-licensed, the sale, the search, and the financing stay on one desk.
Thinking about it? Start with your number or see how featuring works.
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Selling in Park Side at Grandpas Pond
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Recent Interstate Homes activity here has landed in the high $500,000s and into the $700,000s, and because pond-frontage lots and larger basement plans price differently than the standard floor plans, the right lot type decides the number.