Cedar City Communities
Most communities put a walking path around the retention pond and call it a trail system. This one backs into Iron Mission State Park.
Walking this one next.
The Trails goes on the list. Footage lands here when it does.
The Trails at Shurtz Canyon, off Tipple Road, Cedar City.
Why People Buy Here
"You are not driving to the trailhead. You are the trailhead."
That is the whole pitch, and it happens to be true. There is a trail network running through the community that ties into Iron Mission State Park. Turnpike. Elevate. Black Ops Loop. If your Saturday starts with loading a bike onto a rack, this is the version where you skip that part.
The Trails sits on the south end of Cedar City near I-15, off Tipple Road and South Old Highway 91. It is a Mann Development community, and it is a completely separate project from the Courtyards and the Estates, which share the Shurtz Canyon name but are built by Choice Builders on different ground.
If you have not sorted out which is which yet, start with the overview of all three. If you already know the Trails is the one you want, keep reading.
Mann Development · Traditional single family · Mid $400,000s
Classic single family new construction, which sounds unremarkable until you look at what they actually offer. Five base plans, but thirteen real configurations, running from a 1,574 square foot three bedroom up to a 4,440 square foot nine bedroom. A lot of them are sited for genuine mountain and canyon views rather than a view of the house across the street.
Developer
Mann Development
Priced from
Mid $400,000s
Where
Near I-15, off Tipple Road and S. Old Highway 91
Designs
Five base plans, 13 configurations: Shasta, Summit, Zion, Cascade and Solitude
Range
1,574 to 4,440 sq ft · 3 to 9 bed · 2 to 4.5 bath
In the community
Trail network, park space, tree lined streets, cul-de-sacs, commercial planned on Old Highway 91
Prices as of August 26, 2026. Builder pricing and incentives move month to month.
| Plan | Sq ft | Bed | Bath | Garage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shasta | 1,574 | 3 | 2 | 2 car, 3 optional |
| Shasta w/ basement | 3,028 | 6 | 4 | 2 car, 3 optional |
| Summit | 1,715 | 3 | 2 | 2 car |
| Summit w/ basement | 3,237 | 6 | 3 | 2 car |
| Zion 2 | 2,193 | 4 | 3 | 2 car |
| Zion 3 | 2,586 | 4 | 3 | 3 car |
| Mini Cascade | 2,300 | 4 | 3 | 2 car, 3 to 4 optional |
| Cascade | 3,030 | 5 | 3 | 2 car, 3 optional |
| Cascade w/ 2nd residence | 3,030 | 5 | 3 | 2 car, 3 optional |
| Cascade Premier RV | 3,030 | 4 | 3 | 2 car plus RV, up to 6 |
| Solitude | 2,960 | 6 | 3.5 | 2 car, 3 optional |
| Solitude w/ basement | 4,440 | 9 | 4.5 | 2 car, 3 optional |
| Solitude w/ RV garage | 2,960 | 5 | 3.5 | 4 car plus RV |
The basement is not a bonus room. It is a second house. Look at what it does. Shasta goes from 1,574 to 3,028. Summit goes from 1,715 to 3,237. Solitude goes from 2,960 to 4,440, and from six bedrooms to nine. That is close to doubling the house, and finished basement square footage is the cheapest square footage you will ever buy anywhere. It is also the coolest room in the house in July, which at this elevation you will care about by your second summer.
The RV garage option is not a token one. The Cascade Premier RV runs up to six bays including RV height, and the Solitude RV version is four car plus RV. If you own a toy hauler, a boat, a side by side, or all three, this is Southern Utah and you already know what covered storage costs per month. Building it into the house instead of renting a unit forever is a real calculation, and it is one most people do not run until it is too late to change the plan.
The Cascade with a second residence is the sleeper. Same 3,030 square feet, configured with a separate living space. That is the plan for a parent moving in, an adult kid landing back home for a while, or income that helps carry the payment. It is also the option people tend to discover after they have already signed on something else, which is a rough time to find out about it.
Mann publishes the full residence designs and current availability on their own site, and they keep it current. I would rather send you to the source than host a copy that goes stale.
The part that is genuinely hard to replicate
Plenty of Cedar City neighborhoods are near something. This one is attached to it. The community trail network feeds into Iron Mission State Park, and the developer names three you can reach from it: Turnpike, Elevate and Black Ops Loop.
That matters more than a bullet point on a brochure suggests. Trail access from your own back gate changes how often you actually go. The barrier to a weeknight ride is not fitness, it is the twenty minutes of loading, driving and parking on either end. Take that away and people go three times as often. I have watched it happen to friends who moved somewhere with a trailhead nearby and turned into different people about it.
The wider setting does the rest of the work. Brian Head is about thirty minutes up the mountain for skiing. Zion and Bryce are both day trips, not expeditions. And Cedar City itself carries the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Utah Summer Games, farmers markets and a genuinely good small museum scene, which is more culture than a town this size has any business having.
Picking Your Lot
The homes are good and the designs are the easy part. Everything below is about the dirt, which is the part you cannot change later.
The trail network runs through the community, not around every lot in it. There is a real difference between backing to it and being four streets from it, and that difference is the entire reason most people are looking here. Walk from the specific lot to the actual trail access before you decide. Count the minutes.
Some designs include a basement and some lots are graded for one. Those are two separate questions and they have to both be yes. In Cedar City a basement is the cheapest square footage you will ever buy and the best room in the house in July. Sort this out before you fall for a lot, not after.
Many of these are sited for mountain and canyon views, which is the good news. The question is what sits between you and it at full buildout. Ask for the approved plan for every phase, not just the lots releasing now, and find out how tall the houses behind you are allowed to be.
Cul-de-sac lots price up for a reason. Almost no through traffic, and if you have kids that is worth real money to you. They are also usually pie shaped, which means less usable side yard than the number suggests. Look at the plat, not the acreage. Shape beats size on a lot more often than people expect.
Nothing adversarial here. But the person at the model represents the community, and you get someone in your corner at no cost to you. How buyer agent compensation works changed in 2024, so ask about it out loud on your first visit. After you have signed in alone it gets more complicated than it needs to be.
Still Digging
Here is what I do not have nailed down yet. I am getting each of these from the source rather than from a listing site.
Let's Go Look
I will meet you out there, walk from the lot to the actual trail access so you can see the real distance, and tell you what I would ask before signing. No pitch, no pressure. If I think a different community fits you better, I will say so.
Carlos Soto, REALTOR® · Utah License #14268755-SA00
Sources
Community details, pricing, trail names and amenities confirmed against the official Trails at Shurtz Canyon site on August 26, 2026. The Trails is developed by Mann Development and is not affiliated with the Courtyards or the Estates at Shurtz Canyon. I am not affiliated with any builder or developer named on this page, and nobody paid to be here.