Homes & Prices in Pheasant Glen

Morning in Pheasant Glen starts with elbow room. The wide orchard-block lots mean you are not looking into your neighbor's kitchen from your breakfast table. The streets were laid out wide enough to park an RV or a boat without a zoning fight. From here, you can head up SR-17 toward I-15, or down into Hurricane for the day.

Midday puts Confluence Park about five minutes south, where the trails, the river, and the ruins of a 1929 hydroelectric plant make a proper outdoor lunch break. About 15 to 20 minutes away, by way of Hurricane and SR-59, the Hurricane Cliffs and JEM Trail system has forty-plus miles of singletrack, a narrow trail wide enough for one bike. It sits on public land run by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Sand Hollow Reservoir is about twenty minutes west for boating and beach days. You trade a couple of extra minutes of driving for the larger lots and the mountain views. Most people here think that is a good trade.

Evening on the orchard blocks is quiet, the way only wide lots and deep setbacks can make it. The houses sit far back from the lot lines and far enough apart that the street stays calm, even when every home is occupied. The loudest thing after dark is usually the river down in the gorge, and Hurricane is a few minutes across the bridge if you need anything. The payoff is simple: more land, more quiet, and streets wide enough to park on.

Pheasant Glen was laid out in phases from 1992 to 1995. The land had been shade and ornamental orchards for most of the twentieth century, and that history still shows. The streets run wider than in the average subdivision, and a number of lots still carry mature trees left standing from the orchard days. The subdivision holds about eighty single-family homes today. Most are ramblers, which are one-story homes, and split-levels, which have floors a half-flight apart. Some are one-and-a-half story homes.

Lot sizes cluster around a fifth of an acre, with a few over a quarter acre. The orchard blocks were laid out on the old rectangular parcels, so a lot of backyards run deeper than they look from the street. The quiet bonus here is room for a garden, a shop, or just space between you and the neighbor.

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, and others still carry their original finishes. Pay attention to the roof, the windows, and whether the HVAC (heating and cooling system) has been replaced. The orchard trees are beautiful, but they also drop a lot of debris every fall, so gutters and drainage are worth a close look.

Confluence Park would be a prize for a city three times La Verkin's size. At 344 acres, it is a full-size county nature park, sitting where Ash Creek and La Verkin Creek empty into the Virgin River. The entrance is about a mile from Pheasant Glen, which is close enough for a morning walk. It is also close enough that you will use it more than you think you will.

What makes this the park for Pheasant Glen is the way you get there. You head down off the orchard blocks through the old-town streets, and you are at the water before the coffee cools. The trails follow the river, and the water runs shallow enough in spots to sit in on a hot day. This subdivision is far from any big-box store. Having a 344-acre river park as your backyard is the trade that makes the extra miles to Hurricane feel small.

Pheasant Glen 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 away. Valley Academy, a K-8 public charter school, is also in Hurricane. Which schools serve a given address can change when the district adjusts boundaries. Check the current assignment with the district for any home you are serious about. GreatSchools and Niche are outside sources, and both publish school data you can weigh yourself.

What sets Pheasant Glen apart is the shape of the land. That is true next to the newer subdivisions climbing the hillside on the east side of town, and even next to the other orchard-block streets. When a 1990s developer subdivided old rectangular orchard parcels, the layout produced wide streets and deep lots almost by accident. On the modern hillside subdivisions along SR-9, the same acre gets carved into more, narrower lots with less width along the street. The orchard blocks kept the elbow room.

For some buyers, that layout is the whole appeal. This is Zion-and-Sand-Hollow country, and a lot of the people who move here own the gear that goes with it. That might be a boat for Quail Creek, a side-by-side (an off-road vehicle) for the JEM trails, a travel trailer, or a work truck. On a Pheasant Glen lot you may be able to keep some of it at home, case by case. Check the lot and the city rules first. The lot may also leave room for a garden, a detached shop, or a future addition.

There is a flip side, and I would be doing you no favors to skip it. More land is more to maintain. The mature orchard trees drop leaves and debris. The deep lots need water in a July that runs past a hundred degrees, and the wider front of the lot means more concrete to keep up. If you want the room, you sign up for the upkeep. Most people who choose the orchard blocks over a tidy hillside lot made that trade on purpose, and would make it again.