A St. George community
Living in Silkwood.
Silkwood is a recorded subdivision in St. George's Little Valley area, built out by Salisbury Homes across seven phases between 2009 and 2013. It's a fully built resale neighborhood now, off Little Valley Road near East Crimson Ridge Drive, a short walk from Little Valley Elementary.
I am Scott Buehler. I have spent 20+ years in Southern Utah, and this page is the honest version of where Silkwood actually sits, what's nearby, and what to check before you buy or sell here.
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Current listings
Homes for sale in Silkwood.
Buying here
Be first in line when one lists.
I watch the Washington County MLS daily for activity in Silkwood, the Salisbury Homes plat off Little Valley Road near Little Valley Elementary. Because it is fully built and resale only, I would rather reach out the day something lists than have you discover it secondhand on a search site.
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Life in Silkwood
A settled corner of Little Valley.
Silkwood is a recorded subdivision inside Little Valley, the residential area in southeast St. George bounded loosely by Little Valley Road and River Road. Washington County's plat records show Salisbury Homes built the neighborhood out across seven phases, starting with a plat recorded in April 2009 and finishing with a plat recorded in March 2013. That makes it one of the more established pockets of Little Valley, not a newer build.
Streets inside the plat include East Carmine Drive, and the subdivision sits near Little Valley Road and East Crimson Ridge Drive. Because the entire plat has been recorded and built for well over a decade, there is no active new-construction phase here. Every home that comes to market in Silkwood today is a resale.
Little Valley itself grew up around a shared set of amenities: fields, a splash pad, and pickleball courts a short drive from Silkwood at the area's park. Little Valley Elementary sits about four-tenths of a mile from the center of the plat, close enough that some Silkwood streets are a short walk to the school rather than a drive.
Little Valley highlights
What's actually near Silkwood.
Four things define this pocket of Little Valley, and each one is a specific, named place: the elementary school inside the plat's walking radius, the park with the area's shared recreation, the road that carries you out to the rest of the city, and the fact that the neighborhood didn't have a grocery store of its own for years.
Little Valley Elementary, about 0.4 mile
The school sits on Horseman Park Drive, close enough to the plat that it is the walkable option for streets on the west side of Silkwood.
The Fields at Little Valley park, ~1 mile
Little Valley's shared park has soccer and ball fields, plus a splash pad and pickleball courts, roughly a mile northwest of Silkwood.
Little Valley Road, the way out
Little Valley Road runs along the north side of the plat and connects out to River Road, the corridor that carries most Little Valley traffic toward the rest of St. George.
A newer grocery option
Little Valley went years without its own grocery store; Lin's Fresh Market has since moved to bring a location into the area, a change worth knowing if older listings describe the neighborhood as grocery-thin.
Homes & the plat
Seven phases, one builder.
Washington County's recorded plat records show Silkwood built out in seven phases, the first recorded in April 2009 and the last in March 2013. Salisbury Homes, a St. George builder still active in the area today, built the neighborhood in a French Country architectural style. Homes here ran up to roughly 2,479 square feet, with four to five bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and an attached garage on the plans the builder offered at the time.
Because the plat closed out over a decade ago, there is no new-construction phase left to compare against. Every home that comes up in Silkwood now is a resale, which means condition, updates, and lot position do more of the work in pricing than build year does. I would not treat a listing description written years ago, before the neighborhood's park and grocery options filled in, as current.
A fully built-out plat means every Silkwood listing you see today is somebody's resale, not a builder's model.
Errands & drive times
Errands, measured in minutes.
Little Valley sits in the southeast corner of St. George, off the main grid, so the honest answer is that most errands run through River Road first. Times below are measured from East Carmine Drive, a street inside the Silkwood plat.
| The errand | Where it happens | From Carmine Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Neighborhood school | Little Valley Elementary, Horseman Park Drive | ~2 min |
| Shared park & splash pad | The Fields at Little Valley | ~3 min |
| Main arterial out | River Road at Little Valley Road | ~5 min |
| Grocery (River Road corridor) | Sprouts Farmers Market, S River Road | ~10 min |
| Healthcare | Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital | ~12 min |
| Freeway on-ramp | I-15 via Southern Parkway, Exit 2 | ~15 min |
These are conservative estimates based on the road network, not a live routing pull, so treat them as a starting point rather than a guarantee. The wider day-trip map for Snow Canyon, Sand Hollow, and Zion lives in the St. George guide.
Schools & education
Schools, by the facts.
Silkwood is in the Washington County School District. The district's published feeder-schools map places this area in the Desert Hills cone, with Little Valley Elementary as the neighborhood elementary, feeding into Sunrise Ridge Intermediate (grades 6-7), then Desert Hills Middle (grades 8-9) and Desert Hills High (grades 10-12).
That cone assignment comes from the district's official feeder-pattern document, not a boundary map for this specific parcel, so I would still confirm the exact elementary boundary with the district for any address you are serious about. For independent school information, GreatSchools and Niche both publish data you can evaluate for yourself. Utah Tech University is a short drive northwest of Little Valley.
I cover the bigger education picture in the St. George guide.
Why Little Valley
A pocket that grew before its grocery store.
Silkwood's real story is Little Valley's story. This corner of southeast St. George filled in with subdivisions like Silkwood through the 2000s and into the 2010s well ahead of the commercial development that usually follows rooftops. For years, residents drove out to River Road for a full grocery run because the neighborhood did not have one of its own.
That gap is part of what makes Little Valley different from St. George's older, more central subdivisions: it grew as a residential-first area, built around the school and the shared park rather than a retail center. Lin's Fresh Market moving in to serve the area is a sign that the commercial side is catching up to the rooftops, but it is a recent development, not a long-standing feature, so I would not assume an older listing description of the area is still accurate.
For a buyer, that trade-off is worth naming plainly: quieter, more residential streets set back from St. George's main commercial corridors, in exchange for a slightly longer drive to a full-size grocery store than you would have in a subdivision closer to River Road proper.
What locals know
Details worth checking before you tour.
No listing photo tells you this part. Here is what I would tell a friend looking at Silkwood specifically.
Ask which recorded phase a home sits in. Silkwood's seven phases were all recorded between 2009 and 2013, so the spread is a few years, not decades, but the earliest and latest sections still carry different original finish packages.
Everything here is a resale, so condition carries the price. With no builder warranty or model-home baseline left, updates, mechanical age, and maintenance history matter more than they would in an active new-build phase.
Little Valley's grocery options are newer than the neighborhood. Silkwood predates Little Valley's own grocery store by years. Older online descriptions of the area may still reflect that gap.
Confirm the school boundary for the specific address. The Desert Hills cone covers Little Valley Elementary generally, but WCSD boundaries can shift, so verify the current assignment for any home you are serious about.
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The buyer side and the seller side.
Buying in Silkwood
Silkwood is a recorded subdivision in St. George's Little Valley area, in the southeast part of the city. Streets inside the plat include East Carmine Drive, and the community sits near Little Valley Road and East Crimson Ridge Drive.
Silkwood is a single-family subdivision built out across seven recorded phases between 2009 and 2013. Homes were built by Salisbury Homes, a St. George builder, in a French Country architectural style, with living space that ran up to roughly 2,479 square feet and three-car garages on some plans. The plat is fully recorded and built out, so any home you see today is a resale.
No. Washington County's recorded plats show Silkwood's seventh and final phase was legally recorded in March 2013. The subdivision has been fully built out for years, so homes here come to market as resales, not new construction.
I don't have a verified current median for Silkwood specifically, and I'd rather tell you that than guess. Pull the live MLS listings on this page or ask me directly for a comparison against recent Silkwood sales.
Silkwood falls in the Washington County School District's Desert Hills cone. The district's published feeder pattern for this area runs Little Valley Elementary to Sunrise Ridge Intermediate (grades 6-7) to Desert Hills Middle (grades 8-9) to Desert Hills High (grades 10-12). Confirm the exact boundary for any specific address with the district.
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Selling in Silkwood
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