What is the new bridge being built in St. George?

The bridge people are asking about is the George Washington Boulevard bridge. It continues George Washington Boulevard across the Virgin River to Crosby Way, connecting St. George and Washington City. St. George began the work in February 2026 and expects it finished around July 2027, with the usual caveat that the schedule is subject to weather and other circumstances (City of St. George, public works project page).

The city’s stated purpose is to improve regional connectivity between St. George and Washington, and to reduce existing and future delays at key intersections. News coverage has put the bridge itself at about $23.5 million, with the bridge, its connecting road and utilities together at roughly $35 million, funded by the city largely through sales tax (St. George News; ABC4, 2026). Coverage has also described it as the longest bridge in St. George once complete.

Why this one is different from the other construction

This matters, because there are several large projects running at once here and they get blended together in conversation.

The I-15 widening between Bluff Street and St. George Boulevard and the SR-18 and Bluff Street rebuild are UDOT projects on a longer timeline. The Northern Corridor is a separate and genuinely contested question. How long the road construction in St. George will last covers those three and their dates.

The George Washington Boulevard bridge is not one of them. It is a St. George city project, paid for with city money, on a shorter schedule, and it solves a different problem. The others are about moving traffic through the valley. This one is about connecting two sides of the river that are close in a straight line and not currently well connected on the ground.

That distinction is the practical part. If you are weighing a purchase and someone tells you construction here runs through 2028, that is true of the freeway work and not of this.

What it actually changes

The river is the reason this project exists. St. George and Washington City sit next to each other, and the crossings between them concentrate traffic onto a small number of routes. Adding a crossing spreads that out.

For a resident, the effects are ordinary and real:

• Another way across. Fewer trips funneled onto the existing crossings, which is where the delay is.
• Washington City becomes more reachable from the George Washington Boulevard side, and the reverse.
• Less dependence on I-15 for local trips. A short hop between the two cities that currently uses the freeway may not need to.
• Changed local traffic patterns near both ends. New connections reroute neighborhood traffic, and that is not always in your favor.

I am not going to give you drive times. They vary by hour, they will change when the bridge opens, and a number like that is exactly the thing that rots. What I will say is that the people this helps most are the ones already making the St. George to Washington City trip regularly, and they know which crossings back up.

If you are buying near either end

Here is the part I would actually spend your attention on.

A new road connection is good for access and mixed for quiet. Those are the same fact seen from two directions, and which one you care about depends on the house.

What to check	Why
Which street your house actually feeds onto	A quiet street near a new connection can become a through route
What sits between you and the alignment	A row of houses or a rise changes everything about noise
Whether you are in the construction zone now	Crosby Way already has lane restrictions and a reduced speed limit during the work
Evening and night conditions	Go stand there after dark. Lighting and traffic noise read differently
Your real trip	Drive from the driveway to where you actually go, at the hour you go

The city has noted traffic modifications during construction, including Crosby Way running one lane southbound and two lanes northbound with a reduced speed limit. If you are touring houses in that pocket right now, you are seeing the construction version of the neighborhood, not the finished one. That cuts both ways: it may be quieter later, and the access you are being sold does not exist yet.

The thing I would caution you about

Do not pay today for a road that opens in 2027.

I have watched buyers in this county price in a planned project as though it were finished, and that is how people overpay for a house. A bridge under construction is worth something to a long-term owner and nothing to someone who needs to sell in eighteen months. If a seller or an agent is using the bridge to justify the price, the right response is to buy the house on what it is today and treat the bridge as upside.

The honest version of the resale question: nobody can tell you what this does to values, and anyone who gives you a percentage is making it up. What is reasonable to say is that improved connectivity between two growing cities is a durable positive over a long hold, and that construction years are a drag in the short term. Both are true at once.

Who this is genuinely useful for

Worth factoring in if:

• You are deciding between St. George and Washington City and access between them matters to your week. St. George compared with Washington City is the broader comparison.
• You work on one side of the river and want to live on the other.
• You are shopping the Washington City neighborhoods on this side, in which case what Coral Canyon is like and what Green Springs is like are the two to read.
• You are planning to hold a house for a decade or more.

Not worth factoring in if you are buying on the far west or south side of St. George, where this will not change your routine, or if your horizon is short enough that the construction period is most of your ownership.

How to check it for yourself rather than taking my word

St. George publishes its public works projects, including this one, with current status and traffic impacts. That page is the authoritative source and it is more current than any article, including this one. Check it before you tour that area, and call the city if a specific street matters to you.

I am Kelsey Earl, a Realtor with Keller Williams South Valley, and for anything involving a road alignment I would rather send you to the city than hand you my summary. Project schedules move, and the city is the one that moves them.

For the wider picture of how traffic actually behaves here day to day rather than project by project, what traffic is like in St. George is the honest read.

What to do next

If you are shopping near either end of this bridge, go drive both ends and stand on the street in the evening before you decide anything. The construction is visible now, and what you see is a reasonable preview of the next several months rather than of the finished road.

If you are earlier than that and still choosing between the cities, the relocation guide lays out how Washington County fits together.

And if you have a specific address in mind and want a plain read on whether this project helps it, hurts it, or does neither, get in touch and I will tell you what I actually think.