Should I buy near the Mountain View Corridor in Herriman?

Living near the Mountain View Corridor matters when buying in Herriman, and for most buyers it matters in a good way. Mountain View Corridor, SR-85, is the freeway running up the west side of the Salt Lake Valley, and the segment between Porter Rockwell Boulevard in Herriman and 2100 North in Lehi opened on December 20, 2025, about four months ahead of schedule, with two lanes each direction and a shared-use path. For a Herriman household commuting to Lehi, Saratoga Springs or anywhere on the west side of the valley, being a few minutes from an on-ramp changes the daily drive. The caveat is proximity: a house with the roadway behind the back fence is a different purchase than a house a mile from the interchange.

As a Realtor with Keller Williams South Valley I have watched Herriman’s map reorganize around this road. Here is what to weigh.

This is one instance of a broader issue — what is lot placement and why does it matter covers the rest of what you cannot renovate.

What the corridor does for a Herriman commute

Before the freeway segment opened, a Herriman driver headed to Lehi had a choice of Redwood Road, Bangerter to I-15 and over the Point of the Mountain, or the surface-street version of the corridor. All three funnel into the same chokepoints. The freeway segment gives west Herriman a direct run south into Utah County, and I covered the routes in what the commute from Herriman to Lehi is like. The short version is that the corridor moved the west side from the long way around to the short way.

Highland Park is the clearest case in the valley — Daybreak’s first village on the far side of the corridor, where the crossing shapes daily life.

It also matters for the other direction. Mountain View runs north through West Jordan, West Valley and toward the airport. A Herriman resident working on the west side of the valley, at the airport, or anywhere reached by SR-201 gets a freeway route that does not touch I-15 at all. For anyone at Camp Williams, the post sits along Redwood Road just south of the corridor’s Herriman end.

What is still under construction

The corridor is not finished. The freeway-to-freeway connection between Mountain View Corridor and I-15 at 2100 North in Lehi is a separate project: 14 new bridges, two pedestrian bridges, about two miles of shared-use path, a $621 million budget, construction begun March 18, 2026 and expected to continue through late 2028. Until it is done, the corridor’s south end still meets I-15 through interchanges and surface connections that carry construction traffic.

For a Herriman buyer that means two things. The Lehi commute gets better again in a couple of years when the connection opens. And a house near the south end of the corridor, or on the roads that feed it, lives with the construction until then. Neither is a reason not to buy; both are reasons to know what you are buying into.

Which Herriman neighborhoods this affects

Herriman spreads from the Oquirrh foothills on the west to the Riverton line on the east, and the corridor runs through the west-central part of it. Directionally:

Part of Herriman	Relationship to the corridor	What that means
West of the corridor, toward the foothills	Between the freeway and the mountains; on-ramps a few minutes east	Fast access; further from Bangerter and the east-side shopping
Along the corridor	Backs to or borders the right-of-way	Best access; noise and visibility are the question, house by house
East of the corridor, toward Riverton	Uses the corridor for south trips and Bangerter for the rest	Balanced; the most established part of the city
South end near Porter Rockwell	Closest to the freeway’s Herriman terminus and Camp Williams	Direct Utah County access; training-range noise is a separate question

The neighborhood-level detail is in the best neighborhoods in Herriman. The rule that survives every neighborhood: a house is “near the corridor” if you can be on it in under five minutes, and “on the corridor” if you can hear it. Those are different purchases.

The noise question, house by house

Freeway noise depends on distance, elevation, what is between you and the road, and wind. Sound walls help the houses immediately behind them and do less for houses further up a slope that look over the wall. New-construction neighborhoods along the corridor were built knowing the freeway was coming and often have berms, walls and orientation designed for it; older streets that happened to be near the alignment did not.

The way to know is to stand in the backyard at the times you would actually be there: a weekday morning, a weekday evening, a Saturday afternoon. Go with the windows open in the house too. Sellers disclose what they know about the property’s condition, but noise is your judgment, and it is one of the few things about a house you cannot inspect from the listing photos.

What it does for value, without a number

I do not quote value effects here because they are not measurable in a way that survives a year. What I can say from watching sales: houses with fast corridor access and no direct exposure to the roadway have been easy to sell to Lehi commuters, and that buyer pool is large and growing. Houses directly on the right-of-way sell too, and they sell to buyers who prioritized price or the floor plan and accepted the noise. The gap between those two positions is the market’s answer, and it is a reason to be specific about which one you are buying.

If you are weighing Herriman against a city closer to I-15 on the grounds of commute alone, Draper vs Herriman is that comparison directly, and the corridor is a large part of why Herriman’s answer has improved.

The honest caveat

The corridor helps west-side and Utah County commuters. It does not fix the downtown Salt Lake commute, which still runs through Bangerter to I-15 or up Mountain View to SR-201, and it does not change the fact that Herriman has no TRAX. A buyer working downtown who picks Herriman for the corridor has picked the wrong reason. And a buyer who wants absolute quiet should look at the foothill neighborhoods and confirm the wind direction, because the road is there now and it is not getting quieter.

What to do next

Two things worth factoring in before you decide: Herriman now has a hotel on the corridor side, and the Towne Center development is bringing retail and an auto mall to the same stretch.

Decide what the corridor is for you: a commute tool, a noise source, or both. Then look at houses with that in mind, and for any house within earshot, stand in the yard at the hour you would be home. If you want the neighborhoods sorted by corridor access and exposure before you start driving, the moving guide covers Herriman street by street and I am glad to mark up a map.

— Kelsey Earl, Realtor, Keller Williams South Valley