A La Verkin community
Living in Cherry Orchard.
An orchard-block neighborhood in the original heart of La Verkin, where the streets still carry the names of the fruit that paid the bills a generation ago. Confluence Park sits a mile down the road, the hot springs are three minutes into the gorge, and your grocery run is four minutes across the Virgin River bridge into Hurricane.
I am Scott Buehler. I have spent 20+ years in Southern Utah, and this page gives you the straight version of Cherry Orchard, what a home costs here, and what it feels like to live inside the old orchard blocks.
New to the area? Start with the La Verkin guide, then come back for the orchard blocks.
Current listings
Homes for sale in Cherry Orchard.
Fed straight from the MLS and limited to homes inside the community: new Cherry Orchard listings appear here the day they list, and sold homes drop off.
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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 orchard blocks
What a day down here looks like.
Morning in Cherry Orchard starts with the kind of quiet you get when the streets were laid out before the Zion traffic corridor really ramped up. If you walk, you walk past old cherry and apricot trees that still produce, remnants of the working orchards that gave the neighborhood its name. A lot of residents stop at River Rock Roasting Company on the gorge rim for coffee, two minutes from the driveway.
Midday is where the location earns its keep. Confluence Park is about a mile south, where Ash Creek and La Verkin Creek meet the Virgin River across 344 acres of county park. You can hike down to the 1929 hydroelectric plant ruins, put a paddleboard in the water, or just walk the trails along the riverbank. The hot springs at Zion Canyon Hot Springs are three minutes down into the gorge, the same Pah Tempe site that has drawn people here for more than a century.
Evening settles in early once the sun drops behind Pine Valley Mountain. The orchard blocks go quiet, the last light hits the cliffs to the east, and you can hear the river from the rim. Hurricane is four minutes across the bridge for dinner, a movie, or the grocery run you put off all day. That is the trade Cherry Orchard offers: a genuine small-town feel, with the town you actually rely on still close enough to use.
Neighborhood highlights
The highlight reel, all within minutes.
Confluence Park, a mile south
From the orchard blocks it is about a mile down to the county park where Ash Creek and La Verkin Creek reach the Virgin River. Close enough that Cherry Orchard owners treat the river trails as an extension of the backyard.
Zion Canyon Hot Springs
Reopened July 2025 at the historic Pah Tempe site in the Virgin River gorge. Soaking pools terraced into the canyon walls, about three minutes from Cherry Orchard down into the river bottom.
Coffee on the gorge rim
River Rock Roasting Company sits on the canyon rim roughly two minutes from the orchard blocks, close enough to be a walkable Saturday-morning habit rather than a drive. Its patio hangs over the same Virgin River gorge your street backs toward.
The orchard-block character
Wider streets than most newer subdivisions, mature cherry and apricot trees on a good number of lots, and the kind of established feel you only get when a neighborhood has been growing in for a generation.
The orchard-block platting
Because the streets were laid over rectangular fruit-orchard parcels, they run wider and straighter than the curving cul-de-sac plats up on the bench. That old survey grid is why so many Cherry Orchard backyards run deep.
Walk to downtown La Verkin
Cherry Orchard is one of the few La Verkin subdivisions close enough to stroll to the Main Street core, the post office, and the SR-9 businesses. The bench neighborhoods drive it; from the orchard blocks you can leave the car home. Errand drive times are in the table below.
Homes & lots
Built where the orchards used to be.
Cherry Orchard was platted in the 1990s on land that was working cherry and apricot orchards for most of the twentieth century. That history still shows: the streets run a little wider than your average subdivision, and a surprising number of homes still have fruit trees that produce every June. The subdivision carries fifty-plus single-family homes today, mostly ramblers and split-levels with some two-story builds mixed in as the neighborhood filled out into the 2000s.
Lot sizes cluster in the quarter-acre to half-acre range, generous by La Verkin standards and a real step up from the tighter plats across the bridge in Hurricane. Because the original orchard blocks were rectangular, a lot of backyards run deeper than they look from the street. That is the quiet bonus here: room for a garden, a workshop, or just space between you and the neighbor.
In the orchard blocks, the lot matters as much as the house sitting on it.
One thing to know when you are looking: homes here span a couple of decades of construction, so condition and updates vary from one street to the next. Some have been steadily upgraded; others still carry their original finishes. Pay attention to the roof, the windows, and whether the HVAC has been replaced. The orchard trees are beautiful, but they also drop a lot of material every fall, so gutters and drainage are worth a close look.
Why it is called Cherry Orchard
The subdivision that kept its orchard name.
The name is not marketing. La Verkin was built as a fruit town. The La Verkin Fruit and Nursery Company was incorporated back in 1889 to plant nursery orchards and vineyards on this bench, and none of it was possible until water arrived. Thomas Judd and Thomas P. Cottam had a canal surveyed and pushed a roughly 800-foot tunnel through the Kaibab limestone at the east edge of the bench; the first water came through in April 1891. That canal turned dry ledge into cherry, apricot, and peach ground, and the town that grew up on it was surveyed in 1898.
Cherry Orchard sits on a slice of that original fruit ground, west of Main Street where the orchard rows once ran toward La Verkin Creek. When the parcels were platted for houses in the 1990s, the developers kept the grid the orchards had already drawn, and a lot of owners kept the trees. It is the reason this is one of the few La Verkin neighborhoods where the street name and the neighborhood name still describe what physically stood on the land. Walk it in late June and the payoff is literal: fruit on branches that predate every driveway around them.
Most subdivisions are named after a view they borrow. This one is named after what it replaced, and a fair amount of it is still standing.
That history is also why the daily geography works the way it does. The bench the orchards needed put Cherry Orchard on the north rim of the Virgin River gorge, a mile above Confluence Park, where Ash Creek and La Verkin Creek finish their run to the river. The same warm springs that gave the area its Paiute name, "Pa Te La Wee Kin," still steam out of the gorge three minutes down at the Pah Tempe site. You are living on the practical end of a 130-year-old irrigation project, and it still shapes the walk to your front door.
The full outdoors picture, Confluence Park trails, the JEM system off Sheep Bridge, Zion and Sand Hollow, is in the La Verkin guide.
Errands & drive times
Errands, measured in minutes.
The practical answer to "how far is everything." Cherry Orchard sits in the original town core, so the daily stuff is close. Groceries and big-box shopping are across the Virgin River bridge into Hurricane, and the bridge adds about two minutes to the trip from your driveway.
| The errand | Where it happens | From Cherry Orchard |
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| Full grocery run | Davis Food and Drug, Hurricane | ~4 min, across the bridge |
| Second grocery option | Lin's Marketplace, Hurricane | ~5 min |
| Big-box and shopping | Walmart Supercenter, Hurricane | ~10 min |
| Coffee and baked goods | River Rock Roasting Company, in town | ~2 min |
| Fuel | Maverik, 460 N State Street, La Verkin | ~4 min |
| Movie night | Megaplex screens, Pineview Stadium in Washington | ~18 min |
| Dinner out | Main Street Cafe, Hurricane | ~7 min |
| Healthcare | Intermountain Hurricane Valley InstaCare, Hurricane | ~7 min |
| Flights | St. George Regional Airport (SGU) | ~35 min |
The advantage of the old town core is that you are pointed the right direction for the fun stuff too. Cherry Orchard sits at the SR-9 turn, so Zion, Sand Hollow, and Quail Creek all peel off within a few minutes of leaving the driveway. The full day-trip map and the weekend-traffic notes live in the La Verkin guide.
Schools & education
Schools, by the facts.
Cherry Orchard is served by the Washington County School District. LaVerkin Elementary sits right in town, preschool through grade five. Hurricane Intermediate (grades 6-7), Hurricane Middle (grades 8-9), and Hurricane High (grades 10-12) are all across the bridge in Hurricane, roughly four to five minutes from the neighborhood. Valley Academy, a K-8 public charter, is also in Hurricane. Which specific schools serve a given address can change as the district adjusts boundaries, so confirm the current assignment for any home you are serious about directly with the district. For independent school information, GreatSchools and Niche both publish data you can weigh for yourself.
I cover the bigger education picture in the La Verkin guide.
What locals know
Notes from the orchard blocks.
No listing photo tells you this part. After twenty years of showing homes in La Verkin, here is what I would tell a friend about living in the orchard blocks.
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You can still pick fruit in your own yard. A good number of lots still carry the original cherry and apricot trees from the working orchard days. June is the payoff.
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Old town buys you a shorter leash on the car. The bench subdivisions up the SR-9 climb are a drive to everything. From the orchard blocks you can actually walk to the post office, the Main Street shops, and River Rock, which is a different daily rhythm than the newer plats offer.
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You hear the river, not the highway. Cherry Orchard sits below the rim, tucked into the old town grid. The dominant sound is the Virgin River in the gorge, not SR-9 traffic.
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The orchard blocks run cooler than the bench. Being down in the old river-bottom flats means summer afternoons here are a few degrees milder than the subdivisions up on the Hurricane bench.
Buy or sell here
The buyer side and the seller side.
Buying in Cherry Orchard
Cherry Orchard sits in the original orchard-block area of La Verkin, just west of Main Street (SR-9) and north of the Virgin River gorge. It is one of the older subdivisions platted on land that was once working cherry and apricot orchards, within walking distance of downtown La Verkin and a couple of minutes from Confluence Park.
Mostly single-family ramblers and split-level homes built from the 1990s into the 2000s on quarter-acre to half-acre lots. The orchard-block platting means the streets tend to be wider than average, and a good number of homes still have mature fruit trees left over from the original orchard parcels.
It is about a mile from Cherry Orchard to the Confluence Park entrance, where Ash Creek and La Verkin Creek meet the Virgin River. On a cool morning it is a pleasant walk. On a July afternoon you will probably drive the two minutes.
Cherry Orchard homes typically land in La Verkin's middle range. Recent activity has generally run from the high $300,000s to the mid $500,000s, depending on the lot and the updates. Prices move, so treat that as a starting point and confirm against the live listings.
Ready to look? See what is on the market or tell me what you are after.
Selling in Cherry Orchard
Values here turn on lot size, orchard-block character, and how close the home is to the river views. Start with the home valuation page and I will run a real comparison against recent Cherry Orchard sales, no obligation.
An orchard-block home listed with me shows up right on this Cherry Orchard page, on the La Verkin hub, and in the featured listings buyers browse sitewide, in front of the people already reading about this exact neighborhood. The get featured page walks through exactly how that works.
It depends on what is available in the orchard-block area right now. Cherry Orchard inventory usually runs thin, and a home on a good-sized lot with mature trees tends to draw attention. Tell me your timeline and I will give you a straight read, not a pitch.
Yes, and it is common here. 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 keep the sale, the search, and the financing on one desk.
Thinking about it? Start with your number or see how featuring works.
Keep exploring La Verkin
Want a closer look at Cherry Orchard?
Buying, I can pull the current listings and tell you honestly which streets fit what you are after. Selling, I will give you a straight number and a plan to get your home featured in front of the buyers already on this site. Either way, we start with a conversation.
Selling in Cherry Orchard
Want to sell your home in Cherry Orchard? List it with Scott Buehler and get featured on MovingUtah.
No best-agent claims and no guaranteed-price promises, just honest pricing that weighs the orchard-block lot, the mature trees, and how updated the home is before it ever names a number.