Can I find a house with an RV garage near Herriman?

Yes, you can find a house with an RV garage near Herriman, and you should expect the search to be considerably narrower than you want it to be. RV bays are a small share of the housing stock here, and the ones that exist are spread unevenly.

The useful framing is that an RV garage is not a feature you add to your wish list. It is a filter that cuts the list down to a fraction, and once you accept that, the search gets easier rather than harder.

Where they actually turn up

Four patterns, in rough order of how often I see them.

Larger-lot and semi-rural pockets. Older parcels, horse property, anything with acreage behind it. These are where a deep detached shop or a third bay sized for a trailer is most common, because there was room to build it and no association telling anyone not to.

Newer builds where the option existed. Some builders in this market offered an RV bay as an upgrade. When they did, it tends to cluster, because one or two buyers in a phase took it and the rest did not. If you find one, ask which phase and whether others nearby took the same option.

Homes where an owner added it. A detached shop built after the fact. Check permits on these. An unpermitted structure is a problem you inherit, and it is a conversation with the city rather than a cosmetic issue.

Side-yard parking with a gate rather than a garage. Not what you asked for, and often the practical answer. It satisfies most people’s actual need, it is far more common, and it is much cheaper.

What to know about horse property in Herriman covers the first category, which overlaps heavily with the RV question.

What you give up to get one

This is the part buyers underestimate. An RV garage is a large amount of square footage devoted to storage, and that space came from somewhere.

In practice, a house with an RV bay at a given price usually has less finished living space, an older kitchen, a longer commute, or a less convenient location than a comparable house without one. Occasionally all four. That is not a reason to avoid it. It is the actual trade, and it is better to make it deliberately.

The other cost is time. If you need this specific feature, you are waiting for inventory rather than choosing from it. Buyers who are rigid about an RV bay and also rigid about price, school boundary and finish level generally do not buy anything.

Measure before you fall in love

A bay that technically exists and does not fit your rig is worse than no bay, because you paid for it.

Take the tape measure to the showing and get:

• Door height, which is the one that disqualifies most rigs. Measure the opening, not the wall.
• Door width.
• Interior depth, from the door to the back wall, and note anything protruding into it.
• Interior height at the lowest point, which may be a garage door track, a light, or a pipe rather than the ceiling.
• The approach. Can you actually swing a trailer into it from the street without a three-point turn across the neighbor’s lawn.

Write your rig’s length, height and width on your phone before you start touring. People consistently misremember their own trailer.

The things that are not the garage

Three more that decide whether the house works.

Power and hookups. A 30 or 50 amp outlet, a place to plug in, somewhere to dump. Most RV bays do not have these and adding them is an electrician and sometimes a plumber.

The HOA. A bay you can park in and an association that prohibits visible recreational vehicles is a contradiction that resolves badly. Read the recorded CC&Rs for that specific subdivision. Whether Herriman homes have HOAs is the place to start if you do not know.

The city rules on what you may store and where. Herriman regulates the number of accessory vehicles by lot size and bans street storage outright. What Herriman allows in a driveway goes through that properly, and it is worth reading before you assume the garage settles everything.

What I actually see

Clients fall for a house because it has the bay, then discover the rig does not fit, or the association forbids it, or the only way in is a turn they cannot make. All three are avoidable in a single showing with a tape measure.

The opposite pattern is just as common and more expensive. Buyers decide they must have an RV garage, search for months, reject perfectly good houses, and end up buying something further out than they wanted. For a lot of them a deep side yard with gate access and a paid storage unit for the winter would have been cheaper and faster. I would rather have that conversation early than watch someone spend a year on it.

New construction, if you are going that route

If you are building rather than buying resale, this becomes a specification question instead of a search problem, and it is far easier to solve.

Ask the builder three things early. Whether an RV bay is offered at all in that community, because many are not, and in some the association documents prohibit it regardless. What the actual door height is rather than the marketing description, since “RV bay” is not a standardized term and some are sized for a boat rather than a motorhome. And whether the lot you are being shown can physically take the approach, because a bay on a corner lot with a tight street radius still has to be driven into.

Get the answers in writing before you sign, not from a conversation in the design center. What to ask a builder in Herriman covers the broader list, and this belongs on it if a rig is part of your life.

Does it hold value

Reasonably well in this market, because a meaningful share of households here own something towable and the supply is limited. It will not return what it cost to build, the way most specialized space does not, but it narrows your buyer pool in a useful direction rather than a harmful one when you eventually sell.

The exception is an oversized detached shop on a small lot, which can read as overbuilt for the parcel and put off buyers who wanted a yard.

What to do next

Decide first whether you need an enclosed bay or just a legal place to park. That single question changes the size of your search by an order of magnitude, and most people have not actually asked it.

I am Kelsey Earl, a Realtor with Keller Williams South Valley and I can tell you which Herriman and Riverton pockets to even bother touring for this. Tell me what you tow and how often you use it and I will narrow it before you spend a Saturday driving.

Note: Availability of RV bays changes with inventory, and association rules are specific to each subdivision. Confirm both for any address you are serious about.