Community III
Farmland and a 1924 bridge, a few miles short of the Zion gate.
Rockville is a small town in the canyon of the Virgin River, 4.7 miles west of Zion’s south entrance. It was founded in 1862 and has kept its original town plan. The town describes itself as a rural, residential and agricultural community, and its 2020 general plan puts 90 to 95 percent of the land inside the town limits in agriculture or open space.
The Rockville Bridge, built in 1924 for the National Park Service, carries Bridge Road across the Virgin River. It is the only surviving Parker through-truss bridge still used by vehicles in Utah, and it has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995. Today it leads to farms on the south side, trailheads for Eagle Crags, Gooseberry Mesa and Smithsonian Butte, and the old townsite of Grafton.
Rockville sits at about 3,750 feet in the canyon of the Virgin River, under cliffs and towers on both sides. Just past town the road bends, and the red monoliths of Zion become a constant horizon. Agriculture and open space predominate south of the river. Rockville was one of the partners behind Zion’s 2021 certification as an International Dark Sky Park.
Single-family houses on large lots are the predominant housing type, and the town has no multi-family buildings. Residential zones carry minimum lot sizes from half an acre to five acres, and the land-use code limits building height and footprint. The general plan asks that new construction fit the character of the existing community. Nightly-rental rules differ by town and zone, so ask before you assume.
Cross the bridge to Eagle Crags, a 2.85-mile one-way climb among sandstone pinnacles, or to Grafton, settled in 1859 and kept as a ghost town by the Grafton Heritage Partnership, 3.3 miles away by gravel road and trail. Gooseberry Mesa and Smithsonian Butte are reached the same way. Springdale, with its galleries, shops and shuttle, is a few minutes east, linked by the paved Zion Canyon Trail.
The highest-priced homes on the market in Rockville right now, from the MLS.
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