A Hurricane community
Homes & neighborhoods in Elim Valley
Elim Valley is a master-planned community on the southeast side of Hurricane, minutes from Sand Hollow State Park. Master-planned means one plan laid out the whole place. That plan came from Duany Plater-Zyberk, a New Urbanist firm, and New Urbanist means walkable streets with homes close to the sidewalk. Here the homes face the sidewalk and the garages are tucked at the rear. There are roughly a dozen smaller neighborhoods, tied together by a clubhouse, pools, parks, water features, and trails. You will find both full-time homes and vacation rentals here.
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Current listings
Homes for sale in Elim Valley
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Life in Elim Valley
A plan built for the sidewalk
Elim Valley feels different from a standard Hurricane subdivision, and that is on purpose. The master plan came from Duany Plater-Zyberk (DPZ), a New Urbanist firm. Homes face the street and have front porches and shorter setbacks, which means they sit closer to the street. The garages open off the rear, so you see front doors and sidewalks instead of a wall of garage doors. That gives the streets a walkable feel. Instead of one big subdivision, the community is split into roughly a dozen smaller neighborhoods, and each one has its own part of the plan.
The community sits on the southeast side of Hurricane, just minutes from Sand Hollow State Park. The red-rock reservoir, the dunes, and the off-highway trails are practically at the edge of the community. Downtown Hurricane and its grocery stores are a short drive northwest. A clubhouse, pools, parks and green space, water features, and trails run through the plan, so a lot of daily life happens without getting in the car.
Know this up front: Elim Valley mixes full-time homes with vacation or short-term-rental homes. Some neighborhoods lean toward full-time living. At least one, Marla at Elim Valley, is a resort-style neighborhood set up for nightly rentals. That mix is part of the character here, and the neighborhood you choose shapes how the street around you feels day to day. If you are weighing the nightly-rental side against a full-time home, you may also want the Utah real estate investing overview.
Community highlights
What you get, all within reach
A community clubhouse
A clubhouse built into the master plan serves as a shared gathering space. The Marla neighborhood has its own resort-style clubhouse on top of that. You do not find that in a standard subdivision.
Pools and water features
The plan includes community pools and water features. Marla adds a resort-style pool, a lap pool, and a hot tub, and many homes there also have a private pool or spa.
Parks, green space, and trails
Parks, open green space, and trails run through the neighborhoods, which is typical of a New Urbanist plan. The layout is walkable, so you can get from one part of the community to another on paths instead of along a main road.
Minutes to Sand Hollow
Sand Hollow State Park is just minutes away, about seven by car. It has a red-rock reservoir for boating and warm-water swimming, sand dunes, and miles of off-highway-vehicle trails at the community's doorstep.
A walkable, garage-rear plan
DPZ laid it out so homes face the street and the garages sit at the rear. The street view is front porches and sidewalks, not driveways, which gives Elim Valley a more connected neighborhood feel.
Close to Zion
From the southeast side of town, Zion National Park's south entrance is about 35 minutes east on SR-9. St. George is roughly 25 minutes the other way, via SR-9 and I-15.
Inside Elim Valley
A community built from smaller neighborhoods
Elim Valley is not one subdivision. The DPZ plan breaks it into roughly a dozen smaller neighborhoods. Each has its own streets and its own character, from full-time blocks to resort-style neighborhoods set up for vacation use.
The master plan
Elim Valley Planning and Development built the community, and DPZ laid it out. It is organized around a clubhouse, pools, parks, water features, and trails, with around a dozen neighborhoods planned across the site. Homes face the street and garages load off the rear, which is the mark of a New Urbanist plan.
Full-time neighborhoods
Several neighborhoods lean toward full-time living, with single-family homes built for the porch-and-sidewalk plan. They share the community amenities and the walkable layout, and they keep a settled feel.
Marla at Elim Valley
Set up for nightly rentalsMarla is the resort-style neighborhood inside Elim Valley. It is zoned (allowed by the local land-use rules) and marketed for nightly, short-term rentals, not full-time residency. Its shared amenities are described as a resort-style pool, a lap pool, a hot tub, and a clubhouse. The homes are larger single-family residences, with a median around 4,000 square feet, and most were built from 2020 onward. They sit on compact lots of roughly 0.1 acre, and many have a private pool or spa.
Prices in Marla run higher than in the full-time neighborhoods. Recent sales have generally run well above the Hurricane median, from the $600,000s to about $1,250,000 in Washington County MLS records. Some newer listings come in lower. You may see phase numbers in the MLS, like Ph 1 or Ph 2, but check exact phase details against the current listings. Short-term rental rules are property-specific and can change, so check the rental status of any home before you write an offer.
New phases and neighborhoods get recorded (added to the official map) over time, so the names you see in the MLS can grow. Tell me which neighborhood interests you and I will pull current availability and an honest price for that part of Elim Valley.
Homes & lots
Full-time homes and vacation rentals
The kind of home you find in Elim Valley depends on the neighborhood. Some are built for full-time living, with the porch-and-sidewalk plan and the garage at the rear. Others are built for vacation and short-term-rental use, and Marla is the clearest example. The difference shows up in the floor plans, the lot sizes, and the amenities. Knowing which kind of neighborhood a home sits in tells you more than the headline price does.
In Marla, the homes are larger single-family residences with a median around 4,000 square feet, and most were built from 2020 onward. They sit on compact lots of roughly 0.1 acre on purpose. The design trades private yard space for shared resort amenities and a home that is ready to rent. Many have their own private pool or spa. In the rest of the community, expect single-family homes in the southern Utah style, sized to the neighborhood and the lot.
In Elim Valley, the neighborhood comes before the price. A full-time home and a ready-to-rent nightly-rental home in Marla are two very different kinds of home, even inside the same master plan.
One practical note: owning a nightly-rental home is a different job from owning the home you live in, from how it is furnished to how it is used. If you are buying to live full time, lean toward the full-time neighborhoods. If you are buying for vacation or rental use, Marla is the part of the community built for it. Either way, check the rental status and the lot for the specific home you are considering, because it varies from street to street.
Errands & drive times
Errands, measured in minutes
Living on the southeast edge of Hurricane puts Sand Hollow practically next door. The essentials are a short drive northwest into town, with quick highway access for everything else.
| The errand | Where it happens | From the neighborhood |
|---|---|---|
| Lake and dunes day | Sand Hollow State Park | ~7 min |
| Full grocery run | Lin's Fresh Market, downtown Hurricane | ~9 min |
| Big-box run | Walmart, downtown Hurricane | ~9 min |
| Urgent care (24/7 ER on the same campus) | Intermountain Hurricane Valley Clinic with InstaCare, 75 N 2260 W | ~10 min |
| Highway on-ramp | I-15 via SR-9 | ~13 min |
| City retail and dining | St. George, via SR-9 / I-15 | ~25 min |
| Air travel | St. George Regional Airport (SGU) | ~28 min |
| National park day | Zion, east on SR-9 | ~35 min |
Being on the southeast edge costs you a few extra minutes to the grocery store, and it puts you right at the edge of Sand Hollow. The full day-trip map is in the Hurricane guide.
Schools & education
Schools, by the facts
Elim Valley is in the Washington County School District. On the Sand Hollow side of town, the elementary that typically serves this area is Three Falls Elementary (grades K-5). Students typically go on to Hurricane Intermediate (grades 6-7), Hurricane Middle (grades 8-9), and Hurricane High (grades 10-12). Valley Academy is a K-8 charter school in Hurricane, and it is an alternative to the district schools. The district is actively changing which schools serve which streets as the town grows, so the school for a specific address can change. Check the current assignment for any home you are serious about directly with the district. For independent school information, GreatSchools and Niche both publish data you can judge for yourself. Utah Tech University and Dixie Technical College in St. George are about 25 minutes away.
I cover the bigger education picture in the Hurricane guide.
What locals know
Notes from the valley
No listing photo tells you this part. After 20+ years living in Southern Utah, here is what I would tell a friend looking at Elim Valley.
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The plan is the real amenity. The DPZ layout puts homes toward the street and garages at the rear, with parks and paths between neighborhoods. That is what sets Elim Valley apart from a standard subdivision. You feel it the moment you drive in: front porches and sidewalks instead of a wall of garage doors.
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Know whether you are buying to live in or to rent out. Elim Valley mixes full-time homes with vacation and nightly-rental homes, and Marla is built specifically for short-term rental use. A street of ready-to-rent homes feels different from a full-time neighborhood, so pick the neighborhood that matches how you will use the home.
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Compact lots are a deliberate trade. In Marla the homes are large but the lots are small, around a tenth of an acre. That is by design: less private yard, more shared resort amenities, and a home that is ready to rent. If you want a big yard, this is not the neighborhood for it, and it is worth knowing that going in.
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The location is all about Sand Hollow. The southeast edge of Hurricane puts the reservoir, the dunes, and the OHV (off-highway vehicle) trails minutes from your door. The catch is a slightly longer drive to the grocery store in town. For a lot of buyers here, being next to the park is the whole point.
Buy or sell here
The buyer side and the seller side
Buying in Elim Valley
Elim Valley is a master-planned community on the southeast side of Hurricane, near Sand Hollow State Park. Master-planned means one plan laid out the whole community. Duany Plater-Zyberk, a New Urbanist firm, designed the plan. Homes face the street with garages at the rear, and the community is split into roughly a dozen smaller neighborhoods. Shared amenities include a clubhouse, pools, parks and green space, water features, and trails.
Elim Valley is a collection of smaller neighborhoods, not one subdivision, with around a dozen planned across the master plan. One of them is Marla at Elim Valley, a resort-style neighborhood set up for nightly, short-term rentals. The names you see in the MLS can grow as new phases are recorded (added to the official map). Check the current list against the live listings.
Yes, in part of it. Marla at Elim Valley is the resort-style neighborhood set up for nightly, short-term rentals. Its shared amenities are described as a resort-style pool, a lap pool, a hot tub, and a clubhouse. Short-term rental rules are property-specific and change, so check the rental status of any home and neighborhood before you write an offer.
It depends on the neighborhood. Elim Valley has a mix of full-time single-family homes and larger vacation and short-term-rental homes. In Marla, recent sales have generally run well above the Hurricane median, with some newer listings lower. In Washington County MLS records they have run from the $600,000s to about $1,250,000. For Hurricane as a whole, my 2025 market report puts the median home sale (the middle price) at $580,500. Prices change, so ask me for current numbers.
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Selling in Elim Valley
What an Elim Valley home is worth depends on the neighborhood, the lot, and the square footage. It also depends on whether a home is set up for nightly rentals and what has sold nearby in the last few months. Start with the home valuation page, and I will compare your home with recent Elim Valley sales, with no obligation.
When you list with me, your home is featured on MovingUtah where it fits best. It shows first on the Hurricane listings and on this Elim Valley page, where buyers are already looking. The get featured page explains how it works. If you are thinking about selling, I would be glad to talk it through with you.
It depends on your neighborhood and what else is for sale near it. A full-time home and a ready-to-rent nightly-rental home in Marla sell to different buyers and take different amounts of time to sell. How you price and present the home matters. Tell me your timeline, and I will give you my honest view on how to price and present your home, not a pitch.
Yes, and it is common here. Most of the work is getting the order and the timing right. I cover the steps in the buy and sell at once guide. I am licensed in both real estate and lending. On any one purchase I take one role. If I am your lender, I can tell you early if a home could be hard to get a loan on.
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Selling in Elim Valley
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In Marla, recent sales have run well above the Hurricane median, from the $600,000s to about $1,250,000 in Washington County MLS records. Prices depend a lot on which of the dozen neighborhoods the home is in. Full-time homes and short-term-rental homes sell to different buyers.