Living in Blackhawk Townhomes

Blackhawk Townhomes sits at the corner of Curly Hollow Drive and Tonaquint Drive in the Tonaquint area of south-central St. George, on the west side of Dixie Drive. The recorded subdivision name is BLACKHAWK TH ST GEORGE, and its four phases are so alike that one page covers them all.

Daily life here is townhome living, not life on a detached lot. Dixie Intermediate School is directly across Curly Hollow Drive, and the streets around it connect quickly to Dixie Drive. Dixie Drive is the road that carries most of the errands, the park, and the freeway on-ramp for this side of town. The community has shared amenities. Check their current status and access in the documents before you count on them.

At this price in St. George, a townhome at Blackhawk competes against renting a two-bedroom apartment. The tradeoff is shared walls and a common lot instead of a private yard. What you gain is ownership equity and a floor plan of roughly 1,700 square feet. That is more room than most apartment layouts offer at a comparable monthly payment.

Price a Blackhawk unit as a townhome first. A detached home from a nearby subdivision may tell you about the area, but it should not set the value without an adjustment. Resale prices depend on what has closed recently and what is listed today. With so few units for sale at once, closed sales are the better starting point.

Units run around 1,734 square feet with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and two-car garages. I would use that as a checklist item for comparing units, not as a promise that every unit matches. Square footage, bedroom count, garage setup, end unit or interior position, and condition all move the number.

If you are comparing Blackhawk units, the checklist is short: which phase, what square footage, end unit or interior, garage condition, and how the unit faces. The rest is whether the floor plan works for how you actually live. I can walk you through the homes for sale now and recent closed sales in about ten minutes.

The closest developed outdoor space is Tonaquint Park and its nature center at 1851 South Dixie Drive, roughly five minutes from the community. The park's loop walking trails connect to the paved Santa Clara River Trail. That is the practical way to get a walk, a run, or a ride in without loading up the car.

For desert singletrack (a narrow trail wide enough for one bike), the Chuckwalla and Turtle Wall trailhead in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve is about ten minutes away. The trailhead sits north of downtown, off Bluff Street. Among the hiking and mountain-biking trailheads on the north side of St. George, it is one of the better known. The river trail close by and the reserve a short drive out are both well-known St. George places, not anything inside the subdivision.

Listings for Blackhawk usually show four Washington County School District schools. The first two are Bloomington Elementary (grades PK-5) and Dixie Intermediate (grades 6-7, at 1210 West Curly Hollow Drive, directly across the street). The other two are Dixie Middle School (grades 8-9) and Dixie High School (grades 10-12), both noted as roughly three miles from the community. School boundaries in Washington County are adjusted from time to time. Check the exact assignment for a specific address on the district's boundary maps before you rely on any of these names.

For third-party data, visit washk12.org for the district boundary tool, or Niche: Washington County Schools and GreatSchools: St. George. Each lets you search by the assigned campus once you know it.

Blackhawk is four recorded phases that act as one community. The recorded MLS name is BLACKHAWK TH ST GEORGE, and Phase 2 has the same kind of homes, so search them as one.

That matters when you price or compare. A Phase 1 unit and a Phase 2 unit show up under the same recorded name on the MLS, so a fair comparison pulls sales from both. If the live data ever shows the phases selling at different prices, slow down and look at build order, orientation, and condition. Do not assume the name alone makes them interchangeable.