What Is the Closest Airport to Duck Creek Village, Utah?

Cedar City Regional Airport (CDC) is the closest airport to Duck Creek Village, 31 miles west, a 45 to 60 minute drive on Highway 14. Delta serves it from Salt Lake City and from no other city. St. George Regional (SGU) sits 86 miles out with six nonstop destinations on three airlines. Las Vegas is 211 miles away and carries the widest choice of fares.

Distances come from routing each airport terminal to the inn door. Drive times match the ranges we publish on our getting here page.

Cedar City Regional wins on distance alone

CDC sits on Aviation Way at the north end of Cedar City, a few minutes off I-15. From the rental counter to the village takes 45 minutes in summer and a full hour behind a trailer. Two rental brands work the terminal, Avis/Budget and Enterprise.

The route map is the catch. SkyWest flies the single commercial route out of CDC as Delta Connection, and it goes to Salt Lake City. The federal Essential Air Service program subsidizes that flight. So for anyone who does not start in northern Utah, reaching the closest airport to Duck Creek means two flights and a connection in SLC, with the second leg a 1 hour 17 minute hop in a regional jet.

The terminal also keeps small-airport hours. Commercial doors open at 8:00 am, and the rental counters follow the flight schedule rather than your arrival plans.

Then the last 30 miles do the real work. Highway 14 climbs out of Cedar Canyon, crests a shade under 10,000 feet near milepost 17, and settles onto the plateau at the village. We broke that climb down in the thirty miles up from Cedar City.

St. George Regional carries the most flights

SGU replaced the old mesa-top field in January 2011 and has grown hard since. It moved 431,607 passengers in 2025. Three airlines work it: American Eagle to Dallas/Fort Worth and Phoenix, Delta Connection to Salt Lake City, and United Express to Denver and Los Angeles, plus a seasonal Chicago run.

That combination makes SGU the practical answer for most travelers. You trade 55 extra miles of driving against a real shot at a nonstop from your home city, five rental brands inside the terminal (Enterprise, National, Alamo, Budget and Hertz), and a building that stays open from 3:00 am to 1:00 am.

The drive north on I-15 to Cedar City runs about an hour, then Highway 14 east takes another 45 minutes. Call the whole thing an hour and 45 minutes with a stop for groceries in Cedar City, because the village has no full-size store.

Las Vegas trades road time for cheap fares

Harry Reid International sits 211 miles from the village, three and a half to four hours behind the wheel. Nothing in the region beats it on fare or schedule breadth, and plenty of our guests pair a few nights on the Strip with a week in the pines. Read our take on making the drive up from Las Vegas before you book a late flight into LAS.

Salt Lake City is the other big-airport option, 285 miles and about five hours out. It becomes the sensible pick when a Delta hub fare beats everything else, or when you want to see the state on the way down. We covered both routes in the run down from Salt Lake City.

From November into May, check road conditions before you commit to an arrival time from any of these airports. Highway 14 is a plowed state highway, and it still closes for storms.

Every airport here sits below the village

Duck Creek Village stands at 8,507 feet. Every field that serves it sits lower, so the final leg of each route is a climb. Your body notices on night one, and we covered that in what 8,507 feet does to a first night.

Bryce Canyon Airport is the odd one out among the public fields. It sits 46 miles east at 7,590 feet, and Garfield County keeps a 7,395 foot paved runway there that handles jets. No airline serves it. Charter operators and general aviation use it, so treat it as a landing spot for a private aircraft and stop measuring it on the map. Three private strips sit closer and higher still, and they are covered below.

Picked your airport? Have a look at rooms and cabins at the inn and match the dates to your flight.

Three private strips sit within 8 miles

Ask whether Duck Creek Village has an airport and the honest answer has two halves. No airline lands here, and that part does not change. But the FAA registers three private airstrips inside 8 miles of the village, all of them higher than every public field in the region.

All three are private use, and all three require permission before you land. That is the FAA designation, not a formality, and none of them is a way to arrive without arranging it first. Each one belongs to the subdivision or landowner around it: High Meadow Ranch is privately held, Strawberry Valley Estates belongs to Strawberry Valley Airport LLC, and Swains Creek belongs to the Swains Creek Pines Lot Owners Association. Current phone numbers for each are published in the FAA record.

For pilots, the numbers that matter are not the runway lengths.

Swains Creek has the longest runway of the three at 5,600 feet, and the FAA record carries a note worth reading twice: take off to the north and land to the south because of the runway gradient. It also lists 150 foot trees 100 feet left of the extended centerline. High Meadow Ranch has 80 foot trees 500 feet off the runway. Strawberry Valley is unattended outside the summer season and is grass, which at 8,141 feet is a different proposition after rain than it looks on a chart.

Density altitude is the real subject here. A field at 8,141 feet on a warm afternoon performs like somewhere far higher, and takeoff distances on turf at that elevation are not the numbers in the book for sea level. Pilots know this. It is the reason these are strips for people who already fly the area rather than a shortcut for a visitor.

Quick answers about flying to Duck Creek

What is the closest airport to Duck Creek Village?

Cedar City Regional (CDC), 31 miles west, a 45 to 60 minute drive on Highway 14. Its single commercial route goes to Salt Lake City.

Which airport should I choose?

St. George (SGU) suits most travelers. Six nonstop destinations, three airlines, five rental brands in the terminal, and a drive under two hours.

Can I reach Duck Creek Village without a car?

Rent one. No airline, bus line or scheduled shuttle serves the village on a timetable, and private car services from Cedar City or St. George run by arrangement rather than on a posted schedule.

Is there an airport in Duck Creek Village?

No commercial airport, but there is a runway. High Meadow Ranch Airport (2UT2) sits 1 mile north of the village with a 2,071 foot turf strip, and two more private strips lie within 8 miles. All three are private use and require permission before landing. The nearest public field is Bryce Canyon Airport, 46 miles east, which takes charter and general aviation and no scheduled airline.

How long is the drive from Las Vegas to Duck Creek Village?

211 miles, three and a half to four hours without stops, north on I-15 and then east on Highway 14.