Living in Forest Park

Forest Park is a recorded subdivision off 1700 East on St. George's northeast side. It sits in the general area longtime locals still call Middleton, the town that was here before St. George grew north of the freeway and took it in. Washington County's plat records (the official maps of how the land was divided) show Forest Park recorded in five phases between October 1995 and July 1999. That makes it an established, in-town neighborhood and not a new home.

Middleton Park sits about three blocks south, at 780 North 1700 East. It is a city park with a playground, basketball courts, and picnic space, and it works as the neighborhood's shared front yard. It is a separate thing from the "Forest Park" city park at 1066 North 1800 East, right on the subdivision's east edge. Mix up the two names and a search pulls up the park instead of the homes, so be careful with the search.

I have not walked every street inside the platted boundary yet. What I can tell you with confidence: it is a genuine recorded plat with five distinct phases that span most of the 1990s. The honest way to see what is actually available right now is the live gallery at the top of this page. It is filtered to the subdivision itself and not the wider Middleton area.

I would not pretend to know the exact home styles, square footage, or lot sizes at Forest Park until I pull the current MLS data street by street. A subdivision recorded across five phases over four years can hold real variation between its earliest section and its last. What the county plat confirms: this is a single-family residential plat, not a mixed-use or multifamily development. It covers roughly 880,000 square feet of platted land across the five phases combined.

The best way to see what is actually here right now is the live gallery at the top of this page. Those listings come straight from the MLS and are filtered to homes tagged inside the Forest Park subdivision boundary, not the broader Middleton area around it. If nothing is showing, that tells you something too. A subdivision fully built by 1999 with no active listings simply means homes do not sell often, not that there are no homes.

Forest Park is in the Washington County School District. The district has four school levels: elementary covers grades K-5, intermediate covers grades 6-7, middle covers grades 8-9, and high school covers grades 10-12. To find the exact elementary, intermediate, middle, and high school for any address, check the district's current boundary map.

For any Forest Park address you are serious about, confirm the current assignment directly with the district's boundary tool or transportation office. GreatSchools and Niche both publish outside school data, and you can weigh the numbers yourself.

This is what sets Forest Park apart from its neighbors, and it is worth walking through once so it never trips you up again. St. George has two places called Forest Park: a recorded residential subdivision off 1700 East in the Middleton area, and a city park with a playground near 1800 East and 1030 North, a few blocks to the north. They share a name and a general side of the city. They share nothing else.

Search engines, and even some listing sites, blend the two together because the words "Forest Park St. George" match both. If you pull up a map result for the park and start pricing homes "near" it, you are drawing conclusions about the wrong streets. The subdivision's plat boundary, confirmed through Washington County's GIS (map data) records, wraps around the west and north sides of the park, from about 1000 North to 1200 North between 1700 East and 1800 East.

The practical fix is simple. Use the subdivision filter in the MLS, not a general map search, and check any address against the platted boundary before you assume it is inside Forest Park at all.