A Washington community
Living in Solente.
Washington City's newest gated master-planned community, spread across 570 acres of red rock hills north of I-15 Exit 13, above Green Springs and hard against the Dino Cliffs and Millcreek trailheads. This is the luxury end of town: custom estate lots first, with townhomes, villas, and a concierge club planned as it grows into roughly 2,200 homes.
I am Scott Buehler, a Southern Utah resident of 20-plus years and a licensed REALTOR and lender. This is the honest version of what Solente is, where it sits, what it costs, and what I would check before you buy a lot, build a home, or resell up here.
New to the area? Start with the Washington guide, then come back for the hills.
Current listings
Homes for sale in Solente.
Fed straight from the MLS and limited to homes inside the community: new Solente listings appear here the day they list, and sold homes drop off. Because the area carries estate lots and finished custom homes together, read each listing type on its own terms.
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Life at Solente
Gated hills with town still close by.
Solente climbs the red rock hills on the north edge of Washington City, north of I-15 Exit 13 and just above the Green Springs area. It broke ground in late 2023 on 570 acres of former Utah Trust Lands, and it is being built as a gated, master-planned community by GWC Capital and Blue Diamond Capital, the same partnership behind Desert Color. At full buildout the plan calls for roughly 2,200 residences across custom estate homes, townhomes, condominiums, resort villas, and casitas.
It feels different from the flatter subdivisions down in Washington Fields. You sit up on the hillside against the sheer sandstone of the Red Cliffs, with the Millcreek and Dino Cliffs trailheads on the boundary, the Green Springs services a couple of minutes downhill, and the freeway a short run from the gate. Mornings get the light coming off the cliffs, and the drive to anything you actually need stays short and honest.
I read Solente as a phased, custom community, because that is what it is right now. Phase one is estate lots, so most early buyers are choosing a parcel and a builder rather than a finished house. A raw lot, a home under construction, and a completed custom estate do not price or inspect the same way, and getting that split right is the single most useful thing you can do before you fall for any one listing up here.
Community highlights
This hillside has its own logic.
Six things make Solente its own place, and each one is specific: a gated master plan, trailheads on the boundary, a concierge club at the center, custom builders instead of tract plans, quick freeway access at Exit 13, and the Green Springs services just downhill.
A gated 570-acre master plan
Solente is a private, gated community on 570 acres of former Utah Trust Lands, planned for about 2,200 residences by the developers behind Desert Color. Entry, streets, and pacing are all controlled by the master plan.
Trailheads on the boundary
The Millcreek, Dino Cliffs, and Grapevine trailheads of the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve sit right against the community, and the developer has committed to rebuilding them with parking, water, and repair stations.
The La Parea Club at the center
The planned La Parea Club is the community's concierge amenity: a resort-style clubhouse with pool, a spa with soaking tubs, a lounge, and curated programming, with a luxury resort hotel also in the master plan.
Custom builders, not tract plans
Phase one is estate lots, and homes are being built custom by firms like Dennis Miller Homes and Cedar Pointe Homes, designed to the individual parcel and view rather than off a fixed set of floor plans.
Freeway access at Exit 13, ~3 min
Interstate 15 at Exit 13 sits just below the community, reached via the Main Street interchange. St. George is about fifteen minutes southwest and Zion's SR-9 gateway roughly forty minutes east.
Green Springs services downhill
Green Springs Drive, a couple of minutes below the gate, carries a Smith's grocery, restaurants, and everyday retail, and the Costco, Red Cliffs Mall, and big-box cluster sit a short run west.
Homes & lots
A phased build, not one finished product.
Solente is genuinely mixed by stage, and that is the part most online searches get wrong. Right now you are mostly looking at estate lots in the early phases, a handful of homes under construction, and a small number of finished custom estates. The full master plan layers in townhomes, condominiums, resort villas, and casitas over time, but very few of those exist yet. Lump the stages together and the numbers lie to you: a bare lot and a completed multimillion-dollar estate are two different markets wearing the same community name.
So I read it in lanes. Early estate lots have generally traded from the low $400,000s up toward and past a million, depending on size, position, and view corridor, with lots running from roughly a half acre to two-thirds of an acre and larger. Finished custom homes here are true luxury product, so recorded sales have reached well into the multimillions on the largest estates. Because everything is custom and new, there is no single price you can quote, only a small pool of recent activity to read against.
The hillside grade is the quiet detail behind all of it. Lots step up the slope for view corridors toward the valley and the cliffs, which is exactly why the community is being built custom rather than off a plan book. It is also why I look hard at each parcel's grade, access, and how it sheds water before I get excited about the view.
For buyers, decide first whether you are buying a lot to build or a finished home, because the process and the timeline are completely different. For sellers, do the same before you choose comps. Confirm everything against the live listings, because in a small new pool the right two or three comparables matter more than any community average.
In a new custom community, a building lot and a finished estate are two different markets wearing the same address.
Trails & outdoors
Named trailheads right on the edge.
The Red Cliffs Desert Reserve is the reason the cliffs behind Solente stay red and undeveloped instead of turning into rooftops. The community sits against the reserve's northern trailheads, and the developer has committed to rebuilding them with parking, water, and bike-repair stations. Here is the honest tiering, from walk-from-the-gate to day trip.
Dino Cliffs Trail
About 1.8 miles of dirt, sand, and slickrock along the base of the red cliffs, reached from Exit 13. It passes a genuine dinosaur track site a couple hundred yards in, then ties into the Grapevine trail at its east end.
Millcreek and Grapevine
The Millcreek and Grapevine trails form the reserve's northern network right against the community. Together with the Sand Hill and Bone Wash trails they make a roughly five-and-a-half-mile loop for hikers, bikers, and equestrians.
Virgin River Trail, ~7 min
Down in Washington, the paved Virgin River Trail follows the river through Sullivan Virgin River Park and connects toward St. George. Flat and accessible, it is the easy counterpoint to the slickrock up on the reserve.
Sand Hollow & Quail Creek, ~15 min
About fifteen minutes east, Sand Hollow and Quail Creek State Parks open up reservoir boating, fishing, and red-sand beaches, with the Sand Mountain dunes for off-road just beyond.
Farther out, the weekend map opens up fast: Zion National Park is roughly forty minutes east on SR-9, Snow Canyon State Park is about twenty-five minutes west through St. George, and the Kolob Canyons gate of Zion is a straight shot up I-15. The full day-trip map lives in the Washington guide.
Trail details come from the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve and BLM pages for the Dino Cliffs track site. The wider outdoor picture, Sand Hollow and Zion included, is in the Washington guide.
Errands & drive times
Errands, measured in minutes.
This is the practical answer to "how far is everything from up here." The short version: the community drops onto Green Springs Drive and the Exit 13 interchange, so groceries, the freeway, and the St. George retail core are all single-digit to low-teen minutes. Times are measured from the Solente entrance above Green Springs Drive; from the upper phases, add a couple of minutes.
| The errand | Where it happens | From Solente |
|---|---|---|
| Full grocery run | Smith's Food & Drug, Green Springs Drive | ~4 min |
| Warehouse club | Costco, Red Cliffs Drive near Exit 10 | ~8 min |
| Hardware and home improvement | The Home Depot, Red Cliffs Drive | ~9 min |
| Healthcare | St. George Regional Hospital, 1380 E Medical Center Dr | ~14 min |
| Freeway on-ramp | Interstate 15 at Exit 13, Main Street | ~3 min |
| Shopping and dining | Red Cliffs Mall, Red Cliffs Drive | ~9 min |
| Rec center | Washington City Community Center, 350 N Community Center Dr | ~7 min |
| Flights | St. George Regional Airport (SGU) | ~18 min |
| Lake day | Sand Hollow State Park (Hurricane) | ~15 min |
Farther out, the weekend map opens up fast: Zion National Park is about forty minutes east on SR-9, Snow Canyon State Park is roughly twenty-five minutes west, and Brian Head's ski runs are a bit under two hours north on I-15. The full day-trip map lives in the Washington guide.
Schools & education
Schools, by the facts.
Solente is part of the Washington County School District, on the Pine View side of the district. The Green Springs area is generally served by Sandstone Elementary (grades PreK-5) at 850 North 2450 East, then Pine View Intermediate at Fossil Ridge (grades 6-7), Pine View Middle (grades 8-9) at 2145 East 130 North, and Pine View High (grades 10-12) at 2850 East 750 North.
Boundaries can shift as this end of Washington builds out, and Solente is brand new, so confirm the current assignment for any specific lot 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 in St. George is about twenty minutes southwest.
I cover the bigger education picture in the Washington guide.
Living on the dinosaur cliffs
The red rock next door has a record.
Here is the thing about Solente that no other Washington community can claim: the cliffs on its doorstep hold real dinosaur tracks. The Dino Cliffs Trail runs along the base of the red walls just outside the boundary, and a couple hundred yards from the trailhead sits a track site where paleontologists re-examined the rock in 2012 and identified prints from the early Jurassic. Three track types have been catalogued in the Red Cliffs area, named Grallator, Eubrontes, and Kayentapus, pressed into stone long before anyone thought to gate a subdivision here.
That is not a marketing line, it is the geology of the place. Solente is carved into the same sandstone that makes the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve a protected landscape, which is exactly why the cliffs behind the community will stay red and open instead of built over. It also means the reserve, the tortoise habitat, and the track site are permanent neighbors, and the trailheads the developer is upgrading are the doorways to all of it.
So I treat the reserve boundary as a genuine feature of buying up here, not a footnote. The view is protected, the trail access is real, and the responsibility that comes with building against a conservation area is real too. The buyers who do well at Solente ask about the cliff line, the grade, and the drainage on purpose.
What I check before I call a lot up here a safe bet
- The specific parcel's grade, access, and how it is positioned for a view corridor toward the valley or the cliffs.
- Where water actually goes when it comes off the slope, since building against the cliffs means real drainage planning.
- The build phase and timeline, the approved builder list, and what the community covenants allow on the lot you are eyeing.
- How the reserve boundary and any hazard layers read for the parcel on FEMA's Map Service Center and the Utah Geological Survey.
This is general guidance, not a hazard determination or insurance advice. Confirm any specific parcel with Washington City, a qualified inspector, and your insurer before you rely on it. Sources: Red Cliffs Desert Reserve and BLM pages, and the Utah Geological Survey.
What locals know
The details I would slow down and check.
Solente rewards a buyer who reads the small print: the stage, the lot, the builder, and the amenities that are built versus promised. These are the four things I would walk a friend through before they get attached to any one parcel up here.
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Do not price a lot off a finished estate. A raw parcel and a completed custom home are different markets. In a small new community, mixing them together makes the numbers say things that are not true.
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Built versus promised is the whole question. The La Parea Club, the resort hotel, and the rebuilt trailheads are phased. Ask what is open today and what is on the plan, and price the difference honestly.
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The builder matters as much as the lot. Custom firms like Dennis Miller Homes and Cedar Pointe Homes each work differently. Confirm who can build on a given parcel and what the covenants require before you commit.
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The view corridor is the asset. Up on the slope, sightlines toward the valley and the cliffs are what carry value. Two lots a hundred feet apart can look out very differently, so walk the exact parcel.
Buy or sell here
The buyer side and the seller side.
Buying in Solente
Solente sits on the red rock hills north of Interstate 15 Exit 13, next to the Green Springs area on the north edge of Washington City. It is a 570-acre gated master-planned community, reached off the Main Street interchange, with the Millcreek and Dino Cliffs trailheads of the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve on its doorstep and St. George about fifteen minutes southwest.
Solente is planned for about 2,200 residential units at full buildout, spanning custom estate homes, townhomes, condominiums, resort villas, and casitas. Phase one is estate lots for custom builds, with builders like Dennis Miller Homes and Cedar Pointe Homes designing homes to the individual lot rather than from a fixed plan set.
Solente is in the Washington County School District, on the Pine View side. The Green Springs area is generally served by Sandstone Elementary (PreK-5), then Pine View Intermediate at Fossil Ridge (grades 6-7), Pine View Middle (grades 8-9), and Pine View High (grades 10-12). Boundaries can shift as this end of Washington builds out, so confirm the current assignment for any specific lot directly with the district.
Yes, and it is the defining feature. The Millcreek, Dino Cliffs, and Grapevine trailheads of the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve sit right against the community. The Dino Cliffs Trail runs along the base of the red cliffs and passes a genuine dinosaur track site, and the developer has committed to upgrading these trailheads with parking, water, and repair stations.
This is a luxury tier, so read it as a wide starting frame, not a promise. Early estate lots have generally sold from the low hundreds of thousands up past a million depending on size and position, and finished custom homes trade well into the multimillions. Because it is custom-built and new, the right comparison is a small pool of recent sales, so confirm against the live listings on this page.
Solente is developed by GWC Capital and Blue Diamond Capital, the same partnership behind the Desert Color community, on 570 acres of former Utah Trust Lands. Sales are handled by The Solente Group through Red Rock Real Estate, and custom homes are being built by firms including Dennis Miller Homes and Cedar Pointe Homes.
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Selling in Solente
In a new luxury community, value moves with the specific lot, its position, the view corridor, and what a very small set of recent sales actually shows. Start with the home valuation page and I will run a real comparison against recent Solente activity and the Green Springs market around it, no obligation.
List it 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.
Yes, and building on a lot adds a timing layer worth planning early. Sequencing a sale against a custom build is mostly a scheduling 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.
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Buying, I can pull the current Solente lots and finished homes and separate a build project from a move-in estate before you compare prices. Selling, I will position your lot or home against the right slice of this new community instead of the whole hillside.
Selling in Solente
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No best-agent claims and no guaranteed-price promises, just honest pricing that reads a new luxury community against the right handful of recent sales before it ever names a number.