Living in Riverstone

Riverstone is a plat (the official map of the lots) that Ence Homes recorded and built across seven phases, in the Bloomington area of southern St. George. The first phase was recorded in November 2013 and the last in September 2016. Washington County's GIS records (its digital maps) place every recorded phase inside the St. George city limits. The subdivision sits next to the Sun River community, which has its own separate recorded plat in the same county records.

Being on this end of the city changes how your day runs. I-15 Exit 2 at Southern Parkway is the same interchange that serves Sun River. It is the last St. George exit before the freeway continues south toward Arizona and Nevada. The Virgin River runs a few minutes to the north and east, and there is a paved trail access point at Bloomington Park on Man O' War Road.

The neighborhood looks like one build era, not a patchwork. All seven phases went in within about three years, so you are not comparing 1990s construction against something built last year. What changes from street to street is where the lot sits, what has been updated, and how close a phase is to the Sun River boundary.

Riverstone sits close to the southern end of the Virgin River Trail, St. George's paved multi-use trail network that runs along the river for miles. The trail's southern access point is at Bloomington Park on Man O' War Road, a city park with a paved parking lot and accessible parking spaces. From there the trail connects north through Bloomington and into the wider city trail network.

For red-rock hiking and mountain biking instead of a paved river path, the next step out is the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve trailheads off Red Hills Parkway and Bluff Street. That is a longer drive north from this end of town. Sun River's golf course also sits along the shared boundary. It belongs to that separate community, but its tee times are open to the public.

Riverstone is served by the Washington County School District. The district's official feeder-school chart (it shows which schools lead into which) lists Bloomington Elementary (grades K-5) as the elementary school for the Bloomington area. It names it as a crossover school, which means it sits in two groups of schools. The district's boundary maps put every Riverstone lot on the Dixie path: Dixie Intermediate (grades 6-7), Dixie Middle (grades 8-9), and Dixie High (grades 10-12).

A separate school, Bloomington Hills Elementary, also serves part of southern St. George, and it feeds only the Desert Hills path. The district changed several southern St. George elementary boundaries for the 2026-2027 school year. Riverstone also sits near more than one attendance area (the area one school serves). So check the current school for any specific address directly with the district, and do not assume it from this page. For school data from outside sources, GreatSchools and Niche both publish numbers you can weigh yourself. Utah Tech University is about twelve minutes north, in the center of St. George.

I pulled the Washington County GIS subdivision records for Riverstone directly rather than repeat a secondhand number. The plat history is more specific than "built around 2017." The county recorded seven separate Riverstone phases. Phase 1 was in November 2013, Phase 2 and Phase 3 were in early 2014, Phase 4 was in November 2014, and Phase 5 was in October 2015. Phases 6 and 7 were in March and September 2016. Every phase sits inside the St. George city limits and carries the code RIV in the county's records.

That three-year build matters to a buyer or seller for a practical reason. A phase recorded in 2013 and one recorded in 2016 are still close in age, but they are not the same. The lots closest to the Sun River boundary sit at a different edge of the plat than those closer to the rest of Riverstone. So when I compare homes here, I check which recorded phase an address falls in before I treat two listings as the same kind of home.