Coral Canyon sits in the foothills north of I-15 in Washington City, wrapped around the Coral Canyon Golf Course. The community is one of the headline golf-anchored master-plans of the post-2000 Washington County buildout — a Keith Foster-designed eighteen-hole course (2003) running through the residential parcels, with single-family and townhome product oriented toward the fairways and the Pine Valley Mountain views. Coral Canyon is now a settled neighborhood at near build-out and is one of the architectural signatures of how Washington City grew through the 2000s and 2010s.
A golf-course master-plan from the early 2000s
The Coral Canyon master-plan was begun in the early 2000s as one of the first large golf-anchored residential developments in Washington City. Keith Foster, an architect best known for his renovation work on classic American courses (Southern Hills, Colonial), designed the Coral Canyon course as an integrated piece of the residential master-plan. The course opened in 2003; the surrounding residential parcels filled in steadily through the 2000s and 2010s. The community sits at the foothill bench above the I-15 corridor with views toward the Pine Valley Mountain massif and the broader Washington County basin.
The Coral Canyon Golf Course
The Coral Canyon course is one of the most-played public-access courses in Washington County. The Foster design uses the foothills topography to produce significant elevation change between holes and routes the front and back nines through different sections of the residential community. The course has hosted regional amateur tournaments and is part of the Greater Zion golf marketing footprint. Yardage runs to roughly 6,800 from the championship tees; par is 72.
Residential character
The residential parcels around the course are primarily single-family stucco-and-tile homes typical of the early-2000s Washington County design vocabulary, with a mix of patio homes and larger custom homes on the higher-elevation parcels. The community is family-and-school oriented rather than age-restricted (in contrast to Sun River) and is inside the Washington City school zone. The community trail system connects to the broader Washington City open-space network and the foothills BLM ground above.
What the neighborhood is for
Coral Canyon is a settled golf-anchored neighborhood that defines how Washington City built out in the post-2000 era. The community has been at or near full build-out for several years, and the neighborhood character is now mature. The course is the working center; the residential character is integrated; the foothill setting provides the visual identity. It is one of three golf-anchored residential communities in Washington City (with Green Spring and Sienna Hills' adjacent foothill ground) and the one most associated with the post-2000 Washington County master-plan template.