Saint George, UT

TalinH112
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My family and I are planning a move down there, if anyone here lives there and has any advice about the area they would like to share it would be greatly appreciated. 

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Yeti831
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3/28/2023 5:20pm

I mean it’s ok if you like vegas or visit north Utah/so cal a lot.

tbh, not a whole lot out there. It’s bliss if you off-road or overland a lot but other than that not much.

it’s clean, people are generally friendly like most of Utah, not sure what it’s like compared to the valley but housing has gone up due to retirees and the covid migration.

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super over crowded year round, amazing dirt bike riding in the cooler months, hotter than balls in the warmer months, great golfing, and super over crowded 

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The road system is built for about a quarter of the population…they have soccer, baseball, softball, swimming, lacrosse, basketball, and any other type of tournament you can think every single weekend…so there is always about 10,000 extra people around…so take two hours to get into most restaurants on the weekends, just over crowded.

amazing riding and weather in the fall, winter and spring though…Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Lake Powell aren’t far away…about 4 hours from SoCal, about 4 hours from Salt Lake City…hour and a half to Vegas.  

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I looked into moving there around 2015. Saint George has the highest cancer rate in the state. It used to be the highest race in the country due to the nuclear fallout from all the testing in the Nevada desert in the 40’s and 50’s. 

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3/28/2023 6:39pm
AJ565 wrote:
I looked into moving there around 2015. Saint George has the highest cancer rate in the state. It used to be the highest race in the...

I looked into moving there around 2015. Saint George has the highest cancer rate in the state. It used to be the highest race in the country due to the nuclear fallout from all the testing in the Nevada desert in the 40’s and 50’s. 

I would have assumed the highest cancer rate in the state because it also has the oldest population in the state?  But it’s nuclear fall out?

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peelout wrote:

super over crowded year round, amazing dirt bike riding in the cooler months, hotter than balls in the warmer months, great golfing, and super over crowded 

My Mom lived there for 16 years and I concur with Peely's assessment. Awesome to visit, but I wouldn't live there year round even if you gave me the Huntsman house in The Entrada at Snow Canyon (which is where she lived the last 10 years she was there).

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Thank you all very much 

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I used to live in Cedar City. Great place to live and ride. Great place to raise a family. I’m not a Mormon, but they’re good folks. 

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St George is full.  Better find somewhere else.  Wink

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TalinH112
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3/29/2023 6:03am
7I3N wrote:
St George is full.  Better find somewhere else. 

St George is full.  Better find somewhere else.  Wink

Used to say this about Montana, no one listened and now it’s more expensive to live here then it is to live in California. 

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3/29/2023 8:31am
7I3N wrote:
St George is full.  Better find somewhere else. 

St George is full.  Better find somewhere else.  Wink

TalinH112 wrote:

Used to say this about Montana, no one listened and now it’s more expensive to live here then it is to live in California. 

St George is a cool place to live. The riding is spectacular. The problem is that it’s become a vacation hot spot in recent years. The place is packed with tourists almost every weekend for one event or another. Red Bull Rampage, Ironman, St George Marathon, Senior Games, etc. Housing is expensive and good paying jobs are hard to find. And the local small town governments are corrupt AF.

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3/29/2023 8:32am
7I3N wrote:
St George is full.  Better find somewhere else. 

St George is full.  Better find somewhere else.  Wink

the funny part is that it actually is full and growing every day.

we used to race the old StGeorge MX track up where the airport is now.  seeing the growth down there is kind of sad, i mean i understand it's a popular place to live but holy shit it's just nuts. now when we go down to ride, we stay either in Hurricane or on the North end of Washington. downtown is nuts.  Santa Clara is a neat little old town.

also i heard a rumor that Warner Valley area is going to be the next area to be developed. if true, incredibly sad. love the riding out there.

 

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3/29/2023 8:39am
7I3N wrote:
St George is full.  Better find somewhere else. 

St George is full.  Better find somewhere else.  Wink

peelout wrote:
the funny part is that it actually is full and growing every day. we used to race the old StGeorge MX track up where the airport...

the funny part is that it actually is full and growing every day.

we used to race the old StGeorge MX track up where the airport is now.  seeing the growth down there is kind of sad, i mean i understand it's a popular place to live but holy shit it's just nuts. now when we go down to ride, we stay either in Hurricane or on the North end of Washington. downtown is nuts.  Santa Clara is a neat little old town.

also i heard a rumor that Warner Valley area is going to be the next area to be developed. if true, incredibly sad. love the riding out there.

 

The MX track isn’t out there anymore? How about the drag strip?

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3/29/2023 8:41am
7I3N wrote:
St George is full.  Better find somewhere else. 

St George is full.  Better find somewhere else.  Wink

peelout wrote:
the funny part is that it actually is full and growing every day. we used to race the old StGeorge MX track up where the airport...

the funny part is that it actually is full and growing every day.

we used to race the old StGeorge MX track up where the airport is now.  seeing the growth down there is kind of sad, i mean i understand it's a popular place to live but holy shit it's just nuts. now when we go down to ride, we stay either in Hurricane or on the North end of Washington. downtown is nuts.  Santa Clara is a neat little old town.

also i heard a rumor that Warner Valley area is going to be the next area to be developed. if true, incredibly sad. love the riding out there.

 

Muttly wrote:

The MX track isn’t out there anymore? How about the drag strip?

there's a track south of there, drag strip and MX track are an airport now. if you remember the old MX track up by the strip then you'd shit if you saw it now. that track was rad back in the day. we used to do some rock-climbing on the big slab face at the top of the hill before getting to the track. good times.

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peelout wrote:
there's a track south of there, drag strip and MX track are an airport now. if you remember the old MX track up by the strip...

there's a track south of there, drag strip and MX track are an airport now. if you remember the old MX track up by the strip then you'd shit if you saw it now. that track was rad back in the day. we used to do some rock-climbing on the big slab face at the top of the hill before getting to the track. good times.

That’s crazy. I remember the double double there. I was tripling in and singling out. Guy in front of me came out of the corner and quad’ed it. I said to myself, “Screw that he can win, I’m not doing that”!

Cedar City was one of the prettiest tracks I’d ever been to.

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3/29/2023 9:06am
7I3N wrote:
St George is full.  Better find somewhere else. 

St George is full.  Better find somewhere else.  Wink

peelout wrote:
the funny part is that it actually is full and growing every day. we used to race the old StGeorge MX track up where the airport...

the funny part is that it actually is full and growing every day.

we used to race the old StGeorge MX track up where the airport is now.  seeing the growth down there is kind of sad, i mean i understand it's a popular place to live but holy shit it's just nuts. now when we go down to ride, we stay either in Hurricane or on the North end of Washington. downtown is nuts.  Santa Clara is a neat little old town.

also i heard a rumor that Warner Valley area is going to be the next area to be developed. if true, incredibly sad. love the riding out there.

 

I used to live in the southeast part of St George. I could ride right out of my garage. Two blocks from my house was open desert. Now its all developed for miles around. I moved to Toquerville several years ago to get away from all the growth. Now the growth is overtaking Toquerville. Every time I go riding I find a new fence and no trespassing signs. Its fucked up.

 

The fight over Warner Valley has begun. ‘We will fight for it’: Off-road groups cram St. George meeting about proposed land swap

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peelout wrote:
the funny part is that it actually is full and growing every day. we used to race the old StGeorge MX track up where the airport...

the funny part is that it actually is full and growing every day.

we used to race the old StGeorge MX track up where the airport is now.  seeing the growth down there is kind of sad, i mean i understand it's a popular place to live but holy shit it's just nuts. now when we go down to ride, we stay either in Hurricane or on the North end of Washington. downtown is nuts.  Santa Clara is a neat little old town.

also i heard a rumor that Warner Valley area is going to be the next area to be developed. if true, incredibly sad. love the riding out there.

 

Muttly wrote:

The MX track isn’t out there anymore? How about the drag strip?

peelout wrote:
there's a track south of there, drag strip and MX track are an airport now. if you remember the old MX track up by the strip...

there's a track south of there, drag strip and MX track are an airport now. if you remember the old MX track up by the strip then you'd shit if you saw it now. that track was rad back in the day. we used to do some rock-climbing on the big slab face at the top of the hill before getting to the track. good times.

The SGMX track south of the new airport is gone.  Closest track now is Mesquite.

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Muttly wrote:

The MX track isn’t out there anymore? How about the drag strip?

peelout wrote:
there's a track south of there, drag strip and MX track are an airport now. if you remember the old MX track up by the strip...

there's a track south of there, drag strip and MX track are an airport now. if you remember the old MX track up by the strip then you'd shit if you saw it now. that track was rad back in the day. we used to do some rock-climbing on the big slab face at the top of the hill before getting to the track. good times.

7I3N wrote:

The SGMX track south of the new airport is gone.  Closest track now is Mesquite.

when did that happen?  i was just down there a few years ago for my nephew's state MTB race and it was still there?

Toquerville is rad, i like all the little off-shoots off the Twister and the bottom of the river is a good time too.  

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3/29/2023 10:08am
7I3N wrote:
St George is full.  Better find somewhere else. 

St George is full.  Better find somewhere else.  Wink

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peelout wrote:
there's a track south of there, drag strip and MX track are an airport now. if you remember the old MX track up by the strip...

there's a track south of there, drag strip and MX track are an airport now. if you remember the old MX track up by the strip then you'd shit if you saw it now. that track was rad back in the day. we used to do some rock-climbing on the big slab face at the top of the hill before getting to the track. good times.

7I3N wrote:

The SGMX track south of the new airport is gone.  Closest track now is Mesquite.

peelout wrote:
when did that happen?  i was just down there a few years ago for my nephew's state MTB race and it was still there? Toquerville is...

when did that happen?  i was just down there a few years ago for my nephew's state MTB race and it was still there?

Toquerville is rad, i like all the little off-shoots off the Twister and the bottom of the river is a good time too.  

SGMX shut down a few years ago.  It was on leased land and the land owner got paranoid about liability.

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AJ565 wrote:
I looked into moving there around 2015. Saint George has the highest cancer rate in the state. It used to be the highest race in the...

I looked into moving there around 2015. Saint George has the highest cancer rate in the state. It used to be the highest race in the country due to the nuclear fallout from all the testing in the Nevada desert in the 40’s and 50’s. 

Titan1 wrote:

I would have assumed the highest cancer rate in the state because it also has the oldest population in the state?  But it’s nuclear fall out?

The age part might be part of why the rate dropped from highest in the country as people die off from around that were around back then. I got sucked into a worm hole when I started reading about it. You can Google Utah nuclear fallout and find a ton of articles and information about it. A quick search pulled up the government website that had a lot of info, but obviously leaves out the health effects from it. 
 

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Dang man, too bad Belgrade got overrun, that's an awesome area.  I saw an article awhile back about how they expect the Bozeman Valley to be like Salt Lake City in the next 20 years.  Wild.

At least you can ride year 'round in St. George.

 

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Dang man, too bad Belgrade got overrun, that's an awesome area.  I saw an article awhile back about how they expect the Bozeman Valley to be...

Dang man, too bad Belgrade got overrun, that's an awesome area.  I saw an article awhile back about how they expect the Bozeman Valley to be like Salt Lake City in the next 20 years.  Wild.

At least you can ride year 'round in St. George.

 

Yeah that a definite positive, I’ll tell you they are well on their way. Between here and Big Sky there’s Billions of dollars being invested in this valley. 

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Well my family and I made it to Utah about 3 weeks ago, I just picked up a 23’ XC-F 450 so if anyone down here wants to ride I’m up for new moto buds! 

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TalinH112 wrote:
Well my family and I made it to Utah about 3 weeks ago, I just picked up a 23’ XC-F 450 so if anyone down here...

Well my family and I made it to Utah about 3 weeks ago, I just picked up a 23’ XC-F 450 so if anyone down here wants to ride I’m up for new moto buds! 

Welcome!  I think I can formally say that now that I've been here for months.   Lol

Everyone else on this thread has been here much longer, but I can say that it is everything I'd hoped for when I mlved here.  Not much moto, but plenty of off-road. I picked up a 450xc-w recently.   Debating selling my MC450. 

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Well my family and I made it to Utah about 3 weeks ago, I just picked up a 23’ XC-F 450 so if anyone down here...

Well my family and I made it to Utah about 3 weeks ago, I just picked up a 23’ XC-F 450 so if anyone down here wants to ride I’m up for new moto buds! 

freeh wrote:
Welcome!  I think I can formally say that now that I've been here for months.   Lol Everyone else on this thread has been here much longer...

Welcome!  I think I can formally say that now that I've been here for months.   Lol

Everyone else on this thread has been here much longer, but I can say that it is everything I'd hoped for when I mlved here.  Not much moto, but plenty of off-road. I picked up a 450xc-w recently.   Debating selling my MC450. 

Going to break it in tomorrow in Warner Valley, message me if you’d like to come! 

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TalinH112 wrote:

Going to break it in tomorrow in Warner Valley, message me if you’d like to come! 

I should have mentioned,  I am in SLC.  I meant welcome to Utah in general.   Hope you had a good ride!

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TalinH112 wrote:

Going to break it in tomorrow in Warner Valley, message me if you’d like to come! 

You'll meet folks out there riding.  Just watch out for the side by sides.  Damn things are everywhere.

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TalinH112 wrote:

Going to break it in tomorrow in Warner Valley, message me if you’d like to come! 

7I3N wrote:

You'll meet folks out there riding.  Just watch out for the side by sides.  Damn things are everywhere.

Noticed this yesterday, no issues with them except their trail etiquette is lacking! Haha 

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8/13/2023 11:17am
TalinH112 wrote:

Going to break it in tomorrow in Warner Valley, message me if you’d like to come! 

7I3N wrote:

You'll meet folks out there riding.  Just watch out for the side by sides.  Damn things are everywhere.

TalinH112 wrote:

Noticed this yesterday, no issues with them except their trail etiquette is lacking! Haha 

Fasst Company is located in Washington. Bunch of good dudes there that I’m sure wouldn’t mind showin you around.

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