Community IV
Beyond the corridor, the red-rock country opens wide.
Washington County fills the southwest corner of Utah: 180,279 people at the 2020 census, a hub city and a ring of smaller towns, from about 2,700 feet at Washington to about 3,900 at Springdale. Three landscapes meet here, the Colorado Plateau, the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert, and the ground shows it in red sandstone, black lava and river bottom.
Greater Zion, the area’s tourism office, counts 19 communities across more than 2,400 square miles, four state parks beyond Zion itself, and 14 golf courses within a 20-mile radius. St. George is the hub, with the university and the regional airport. West of it lie Santa Clara, Ivins and Kayenta; east of it, Washington; and up the Virgin River toward Zion, Hurricane, La Verkin and Toquerville.
Each place has its own water, zoning and character: Ivins and Kayenta beneath Snow Canyon, historic Santa Clara, Hurricane between two reservoir state parks, La Verkin and Toquerville on the road to Zion, and the newer neighborhoods of Washington and St. George. We represent buyers and sellers across all of them, with the same care we give our home ground.
St. George receives about 8 inches of rain a year, with summer temperatures well into the 100s; higher up, in Zion Canyon, nearly half the year’s precipitation falls from December through March. Navajo Sandstone cliffs, black lava flows and the Virgin River define the view. Red Cliffs National Conservation Area protects about 45,000 acres in south-central Washington County, with more than 130 miles of non-motorized trails.
The county offers several kinds of ground: historic townsites with early houses, such as Toquerville, Santa Clara and the old center of Hurricane; Kayenta, planned around the desert in Ivins; golf-and-resort communities such as Black Desert Resort in Ivins and Sand Hollow Resort in Hurricane; and master-planned areas such as Long Valley, annexed by Washington in 2018. Water, sewer and nightly-rental rules differ by town.
Snow Canyon, Sand Hollow, Quail Creek and Gunlock state parks sit within the county, along with Zion itself. Tuacahn’s outdoor amphitheater in Ivins, the St. George Art Festival and Utah Tech University anchor the calendar. SunTran buses link St. George, Washington, Hurricane, La Verkin, Virgin and Springdale. Las Vegas is about 90 minutes from St. George; Salt Lake City is about four hours.
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Each has a page of its own — its setting, its character, and anything we represent there.
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Data last updated Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM (Mountain Time).
