A Washington community
Living in Farmland Estates.
A newer custom-home pocket on Farmland Drive, set in the open Washington Fields farming bench south of the Virgin River. The lots run big, the homes run larger than the city norm, and Staheli Family Farm is a three-minute drive down the road.
I am Scott Buehler, a Southern Utah resident of 20-plus years and a licensed REALTOR and lender. This page is the honest version of what Farmland Estates offers, what it costs, and what it asks of you before you buy here.
New to the area? Start with the Washington guide, then come back for the street.
Current listings
Homes for sale in Farmland Estates.
No active listings today. Farmland Estates is a newer custom-home pocket still filling in on the Washington Fields farming bench, so the active count can run thin simply because there are not many finished homes yet. Once a home hits the MLS, it shows up here right away. Prefer to hunt on your own? Open the map search or start from the homepage.
Buying here
Be first in line when one lists.
I follow the Washington County MLS closely for this stretch of Farmland Drive, and because most homes here are custom or semi-custom builds, I usually hear about a coming listing before it is even photographed. Tell me you are watching Farmland Estates and I will call you the moment something near Staheli Family Farm comes on the market.
Selling here
Own a home in Farmland Estates?
Buyers check this exact page hoping to find your street. When you are ready, list it with me and get featured on MovingUtah. Start with an honest read on what your home is worth.
Listing information comes from the local MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
On this page
Life on the bench
What a day here looks like.
Morning on Farmland Drive starts wide open. This is the Washington Fields bench, the old farming flat south of the Virgin River, so the first thing you notice is space: big lots, big sky, and the Pine Valley Mountain standing up to the north. The street is newer and still filling in, which means a quiet that an older, denser subdivision does not have.
Midday pulls you out of the Fields for whatever the day needs. Washington Fields Road runs you north to River Road and the Telegraph corridor, where a full grocery run, the hardware store, or a quick errand takes ten minutes or so from the driveway. River Road carries you west into St. George in about fifteen. The trade-off for the elbow room is that you drive a few minutes farther for the day-to-day than you would up near the freeway.
Evening is the easy part. Staheli Family Farm is three minutes down the road, the Fort Pierce wash and the Washington Fields canal trails are close for a walk, and the lots are big enough that an evening outside actually feels like being outside. You pull back in with the red rock to the east catching the last light, and the bench settles in for the night.
Neighborhood highlights
The highlight reel, all within minutes.
Staheli Family Farm
A working family farm on Washington Fields Road, about three minutes south, running since 1889. Seasonal corn maze, pumpkin patch, animals, and one of the area's best fall traditions, right in the neighborhood.
Majestic Fields Elementary
A neighborhood K-5 school on Majestic Drive, about four minutes away in the heart of Washington Fields. Part of the Crimson Cliffs cone. See the schools section for the full lineup and grade ranges.
Fort Pierce Wash & canal trails
The open desert wash and the network of canal-bank dirt paths that thread through Washington Fields. Easy, flat walking and riding straight off the bench, about five minutes from Farmland Drive.
Sand Hollow State Park
Warm blue water against red sand dunes, about fifteen minutes east toward Hurricane. Boating, fishing, swimming, and off-road trails on the dunes that ring the reservoir.
Telegraph Street conveniences
North across the river, the Telegraph Street corridor puts the Walmart Supercenter, fuel, and everyday stops about ten minutes from the bench. The full St. George retail reach follows a few minutes farther on. Details in the errands table.
Red rock to the east
Washington Fields sits with the red cliffs and Warner Valley to the east, where the dinosaur track site and the BLM backcountry roads start. The big open views are part of what you buy out here.
Homes & lots
Big lots and newer custom builds.
Farmland Estates is a newer pocket of custom and semi-custom homes on Farmland Drive, with most of what is here built from about 2020 onward. It is still filling in, so the street mixes finished homes with the occasional building lot waiting on its house. That is normal for this part of Washington Fields, where developers have been turning old farm ground into large-lot residential a few parcels at a time.
The lots are the headline. They run big for the area, often pushing close to half an acre, which is what lets the homes spread out. Floor plans here lean large, with oversized garages, RV-depth and RV-height bays, and recent builds that have run past 5,000 square feet. You will see both single-level living and two-story plans. This is an upper-tier pocket, not a starter-home street, and the lot size is a real part of the value.
Because the street is small and turnover is thin, inventory runs light. When a Farmland Drive home does come on the market, it draws buyers who specifically want the Washington Fields combination of room, newer construction, and a working-farm setting without giving up access to St. George.
Out here you are buying the lot as much as the house. Half an acre on the bench is the thing you cannot add later.
A practical note from years of writing offers in Washington Fields: on a custom street like this, no two homes are truly comparable. Finish levels, garage configurations, pool versus no pool, and lot orientation swing value hard. I price each home against its real peers, not against a per-square-foot average that flattens all of that out.
Trails & outdoors
Open desert and water out the back door.
The Washington Fields bench is its own kind of outdoor access. Instead of a single trailhead, you get the open Fort Pierce Wash and a web of canal-bank dirt paths that thread the Fields, flat and easy and minutes off Farmland Drive. East of the bench, the BLM backcountry around Warner Valley and the dinosaur track site opens up for anyone who wants real desert. And the reservoirs are a short hop east toward Hurricane.
Fort Pierce Wash & canal trails
The open wash and the canal-bank paths threading Washington Fields. Flat, informal walking and riding straight off the bench, about five minutes out.
Warner Valley & dinosaur tracks
BLM backcountry southeast of the Fields, with the Warner Valley dinosaur track site and dirt roads into open desert, roughly fifteen minutes out.
Sand Hollow & Quail Creek
Two reservoirs about fifteen minutes east: Sand Hollow for warm-water boating and red sand dunes, Quail Creek for cooler water, fishing, and paddling.
Trail facts: BLM St. George Field Office and Utah State Parks pages. The wider outdoor picture, Zion and Snow Canyon included, is in the Washington guide.
Errands & drive times
Errands, measured in minutes.
This is the practical answer to "how far is everything from Farmland Estates." Times are measured from Farmland Drive at Washington Fields Road, the entrance to the pocket. The short version: living on the bench trades a few extra minutes of driving for the elbow room, and St. George's full reach is about fifteen minutes west.
| The errand | Where it happens | From Farmland Estates |
|---|---|---|
| Full grocery run | Walmart Supercenter, Telegraph Street | ~10 min |
| Second grocery option | Smith's, River Road | ~12 min |
| Pharmacy & urgent care | Intermountain InstaCare, River Road | ~12 min |
| Nearest I-15 on-ramp | Exit 13, Washington Parkway | ~9 min |
| Hospital | St. George Regional Hospital | ~15 min |
| Town center | St. George Boulevard & Ancestor Square | ~16 min |
| Neighborhood school | Majestic Fields Elementary | ~4 min |
| Local landmark | Staheli Family Farm, Washington Fields Road | ~3 min |
| Flights | St. George Regional Airport (SGU) | ~14 min |
Farther out, the bench puts you at the crossroads: Zion National Park is about 40 minutes east on SR-9, Sand Hollow and Quail Creek reservoirs are fifteen minutes, and Cedar City is about 50 minutes north on I-15. The full day-trip map lives in the Washington guide.
Schools & education
Schools, by the facts.
Farmland Estates is part of the Washington County School District, in the Crimson Cliffs cone that serves Washington Fields. The area is generally served by Majestic Fields Elementary (grades K-5) on Majestic Drive, then Washington Fields Intermediate (grades 6-7), Crimson Cliffs Middle (grades 8-9) on Crimson Cliffs Way, and Crimson Cliffs High (grades 10-12), also on Crimson Cliffs Way.
Washington Fields is growing fast, so the district updates boundary lines periodically. Confirm the current assignment for any home you are serious about directly with the district rather than guessing from a map. For independent school information, GreatSchools and Niche both publish data you can weigh for yourself. Utah Tech University is about fifteen minutes west in St. George.
I cover the bigger education picture in the Washington guide.
Living in the Fields
What "Washington Fields" actually means.
It is worth saying plainly, because it is the reason this section exists: Farmland Estates sits on a working agricultural bench, not in a finished subdivision. Washington Fields has been farm ground since the pioneers brought Virgin River water to it more than a century ago, and Staheli Family Farm down the road has run since 1889. The street name is not decoration. The land here is still half-farm, half-neighborhood, and that mix is exactly what people move out here for.
I am not telling you that to romanticize it. I am telling you because the farm setting is real and it shapes the buy. The Fields are crossed by irrigation canals and ditches, parcels carry their own quirks from how the old farm ground was split, and a working farm next door comes with the sounds and equipment of a working farm. Most buyers out here count all of that as a feature. The point is to go in with your eyes open, because "large lot on the bench" carries a few things a tract subdivision never would.
So I treat the parcel itself as a real line item out here, not an afterthought, and I would rather walk a Washington Fields lot and read its plat carefully than assume one bench address is the same as the next.
What I check before I call a Fields home a safe bet
- Where the irrigation canals and ditches run relative to the lot, and who maintains them.
- Whether any agricultural or irrigation water shares come with the parcel, and how they are used.
- The recorded plat and lot lines, since old farm ground was split in ways that do not always match the fence.
- The parcel against Washington County's flood and drainage layers, because the bench sits near the Virgin River and the Fort Pierce wash.
This is general guidance, not a survey, water-right opinion, or flood determination. Confirm any specific property with Washington City, the irrigation company, a qualified surveyor, and your title officer before you rely on it. Sources: Washington County records, the Washington Fields Canal history, and Washington City planning pages.
What locals know
Notes from the bench.
No listing photo tells you this part. After more than 20 years in Southern Utah, here is what I would tell a friend about living out in Washington Fields on a street like Farmland Drive.
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You trade minutes for space. The bench is not next to the freeway, so a grocery run is about ten minutes and St. George is fifteen. What you get back is the half-acre lot, and out here people decide that math is worth it.
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Staheli Family Farm sets the calendar. The corn maze and pumpkin patch each fall pull the whole region out to Washington Fields Road, three minutes from the door. It is the neighborhood's signature season, and the traffic that comes with it.
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The Fields are still being built. New homes go up around you a lot or two at a time. That means fresh construction and changing views, so check what is platted near a lot you like before you fall for the current sightline.
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The canals are part of the deal. Irrigation ditches still run through Washington Fields. They are part of the farm-bench character, and the smart move is to know where they sit relative to a lot before you write an offer.
Buy or sell here
The buyer side and the seller side.
Buying in Farmland Estates
Farmland Estates sits along Farmland Drive in Washington Fields, the wide farming bench south of the Virgin River in Washington City, Utah. It is just north of Staheli Family Farm off Washington Fields Road, with River Road carrying you west toward St. George and I-15 at Exit 13 about nine minutes north.
Newer custom and semi-custom single-family homes, most of them built from about 2020 onward, on large lots that run close to half an acre. These are larger floor plans with oversized and RV-depth garages, and several recent builds have topped 5,000 square feet. The pocket is still filling in, so you will see both finished homes and the occasional building lot.
Staheli Family Farm, the working farm and seasonal corn maze on Washington Fields Road, is about three minutes south. Majestic Fields Elementary is roughly four minutes away, and the Washington Fields Road corridor carries you to River Road and the Fort Pierce trail system. The Walmart Supercenter on Telegraph Street is about ten minutes north.
This is an upper-tier custom-home pocket, so when a Farmland Drive home does come up it tends to sit well above the Washington City median. Because the street is small and turnover is thin, the live listings at the top of this page are the truest read on current asking prices, and I can pull what recent Washington Fields sales have actually closed at.
Ready to look? See what is on the market or tell me what you are after.
Selling in Farmland Estates
On a small custom street, automated estimates miss more than they do in a tract subdivision, because every lot and finish level is different. Start with the home valuation page and I will run a real comparison against recent Washington Fields sales, no obligation.
List with me and your home is featured across MovingUtah, on this page, on the Washington hub, and in the featured listings buyers browse on this site. The get featured page walks through exactly how that works.
It depends on what else is available across Washington Fields right now. On a small custom street, a well-finished home can stand out simply because there are not ten near-identical homes competing with it. Tell me your timeline and I will give you a straight read, not a pitch.
Yes, and it is common here. Timing the two is mostly a sequencing problem, and I cover the playbook in the buy and sell at once guide. Because I am dual-licensed, I can keep the sale, the search, and the financing on one desk.
Thinking about it? Start with your number or see how featuring works.
Keep exploring Washington
Want a closer look at Farmland Estates?
Buying, I can pull the current Farmland Drive listings and walk the lots with you, because on the bench the parcel is half the purchase. Selling, I will price your home against its real Washington Fields peers, not a flat per-foot average, and get it in front of the buyers already on this site. Either way, we start with a conversation.
Selling in Farmland Estates
Want to sell your home in Farmland Estates? List it with Scott Buehler and get featured on MovingUtah.
No best-agent claims and no guaranteed-price promises, just honest pricing that reads your custom home against its real Washington Fields peers before it ever names a number.