Living in Las Hurdes

Las Hurdes is a recorded townhome plat off West Las Hurdes Drive, tucked into the Sunbrook area on the west side of St. George. The original subdivision was recorded with Washington County in 2003. An adjoining townhome phase, Las Hurdes TH, followed in 2006, which is why you will see two related plats sharing the name.

The setting is the main draw. Sunbrook Golf Club is a short drive away off Dixie Drive, and the paved Santa Clara River Trail runs right past the club. That puts a paved walk-or-bike route a few minutes from home. Dixie Drive is the main road out, and it links back to I-15 and the rest of St. George in a few minutes.

Las Hurdes is a townhome community, so you give up yard work and take on shared walls and a smaller home, as with most townhomes in St. George. It is not a golf-course subdivision itself, but it is close enough to one that the setting feels like one.

Las Hurdes is an attached townhome community built across two recorded plats in the 2000s. The units include two-story homes with an attached garage, and some plans add a basement level. Square footage and layout vary more than in a community built from one plan. I look at each listing's own plan instead of assuming one floor plan covers the whole community.

The community is small and every home is attached, so a handful of homes for sale can swing what looks like the going price. I would rather pull the recent sales and the homes for sale right now than publish a number here that goes stale the next time a unit closes.

Las Hurdes is part of the Washington County School District. Sunset Elementary (grades K-5) generally serves the area. In this district, intermediate schools cover grades 6-7, middle schools grades 8-9, and high schools grades 10-12.

The district's boundary maps put both Las Hurdes plats in the Snow Canyon group: Lava Ridge Intermediate, Snow Canyon Middle, and Snow Canyon High. For any home you are serious about, check the current boundary and school with the district itself, not this page.

Washington County's plat records show two separate filings under the Las Hurdes name. The original Las Hurdes subdivision was recorded in September 2003. A second, smaller filing, Las Hurdes TH, was recorded in January 2006. The "TH" filing is the townhome phase, added a few years after the first plat.

For a buyer or seller, this matters more than it sounds. A listing that says "Las Hurdes" could sit on either plat, and the two were recorded three years apart. That can show up as small differences in unit layout, how nicely a unit is finished, or construction detail between the earlier and later buildings. Ask about it rather than assume every unit came from the same phase.

Before I compare a unit with another Las Hurdes listing, I check which plat it sits on. I would separate any multi-phase community the same way before pricing a home.