Living in Foothills at St George

Foothills at St George is one of the older names on the southeast side. Homes started going up in 1994, and it was recorded in four plats (a plat is the recorded map of the lots). The streets sit around 2370 South and the 1650 to 1700 East block. River Road is close, so the freeway, the hospital, and the grocery stores are a short drive, not a trip across town.

Thirty years in, the trees have filled out and the lots look established, not new. Most homes here are single-story ramblers on lots a little under a quarter acre. That layout gives you one level and a yard that is easy to keep up.

It is not a flashy name in St. George real estate, and that is part of the appeal. This is an everyday neighborhood close to the middle of town, not a resort-style community, so the price and the pitch should be honest about that.

Foothills at St George was recorded in four plats, and most homes went up from 1993 to 1995. They are single-family detached. In the recorded sales, one home shows up again and again: a one-level rambler on a lot of 0.18 to 0.19 acre. It has roughly two or three bedrooms and an attached two-car garage. A smaller share are two-story homes. Before I quote an exact home count or a mix by street, I would pull the current plat and the recent sales.

The neighborhood has been finished for three decades, so you are not comparing new homes to new homes here. You are comparing one owner's updates against another's. That is where the real difference in price comes from on a street where every house started out much the same.

This is not a trailhead neighborhood, and I would rather say that plainly than stretch for one. What it does have is Crimson Ridge Park, a short drive away at 3100 E Crimson Ridge Dr. The park has a covered pavilion, restrooms, and a walking loop for an evening lap. For the region's bigger trail systems, you get in the car, like most of central St. George.

Foothills at St George is in the Washington County School District, in the Crimson Cliffs group of schools. Students are generally served by Crimson View Elementary (grades K-5), then Washington Fields Intermediate (grades 6-7), Crimson Cliffs Middle (grades 8-9), and Crimson Cliffs High (grades 10-12). The last two are in neighboring Washington City.

Boundaries can shift, so check the current school for any home you are serious about with the district itself, not a map. For outside school data, GreatSchools and Niche both publish numbers you can weigh yourself. Utah Tech University is about ten minutes away.

County records show four recorded phases, Foothills at St George 1 through 4, with 99 lots. Most of the homes went up from 1993 to 1995, so the phases came close together.

What I can confirm is that homes in this plat date to 1994 and are single-family detached. The lots are smaller and more uniform than in a newer master-planned community (a large neighborhood a developer lays out in phases). That is the catch with a settled 1990s subdivision this close to River Road. You get less variety in lot size and layout, but more certainty about what you are buying into.