The nearest hospital to Duck Creek Village is Intermountain Cedar City Hospital, 31 road miles west on Highway 14 with a 24 hour emergency room and a Level IV trauma designation. Garfield Memorial in Panguitch sits 38 miles the other way with the same designation, and a Highway 14 closure flips which one is closer.
Where Is the Nearest Hospital to Duck Creek Village?
The nearest hospital to Duck Creek Village is Intermountain Cedar City Hospital, 31 road miles west on Highway 14 and about 45 to 50 minutes from the inn in fair weather. It runs a 24 hour emergency department and holds a Level IV trauma designation from the state. Garfield Memorial Hospital in Panguitch sits 38 miles the other direction with the same designation, and that near tie matters more than the seven mile gap suggests.
| The short answer | |
|---|---|
| Nearest emergency room | Intermountain Cedar City Hospital |
| Address | 1303 North Main Street, Cedar City |
| Road distance from the inn | 31.5 miles |
| Trauma designation | Level IV |
| Emergency number | 911 |
Duck Creek Village has no clinic, no pharmacy and no doctor. The federal provider registry lists two licensed healthcare providers in ZIP code 84762, and one of them is an ambulance service. The other is a registered dietitian. Kanab, 50 miles south, lists 125 providers and Panguitch lists 62. So the honest frame for a trip up here is a drive time question, and the answer moves depending on which road stays open.
The four emergency rooms within reach of the village
Road distances traced from the inn on 19 September 2026. Trauma levels come from the Utah Bureau of EMS trauma facility list dated 1 January 2025.
| Hospital | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Cedar City Hospital | 24 hour ER, Level IV trauma, 22 rooms |
| Garfield Memorial, Panguitch | 24 hour ER, Level IV trauma |
| Kane County Hospital, Kanab | 24 hour ER, 25 bed critical access |
| St. George Regional | Level II trauma, the nearest one |
Cedar City finished a 4,500 square foot emergency department expansion in March 2026, taking it from 13 treatment rooms to 22 and adding three for behavioral health. The department logged more than 21,000 visits in 2025, and Intermountain credits the new rooms with cutting average length of stay by more than 16 percent. For a mountain full of visitors through the summer, that capacity is the working difference between the two Level IV options.
Garfield Memorial in Panguitch holds the same trauma designation in a much smaller building. For a broken wrist off a trail or a deep cut in a cabin kitchen, either one does the job. For anything needing a specialist, both stabilize you and move you along, and the destination is St. George Regional, the nearest Level II trauma center at 82 miles.
Kane County Hospital in Kanab is the one your county paperwork points at, since Duck Creek Village sits in Kane County. It runs a 24 hour emergency room and 25 critical access beds. It does not appear on Utah’s trauma facility list at all. The village’s own community resource page hands out its number, which makes sense for county business and misleads at two in the morning, because Kanab stands 19 miles farther out than Cedar City.
Calling 911 from Duck Creek Village
| Who responds up here | |
|---|---|
| Fire and EMS | Cedar Mountain Fire Protection District |
| Station | Mammoth Creek Road, Duck Creek Village |
| Non emergency line | 435-682-3225 |
| District coverage | 94 square miles plus Long Valley |
| Air ambulance | AirLife Utah, Cedar City Regional Airport |
An ambulance does live in the village. Cedar Mountain Fire Protection District runs fire and emergency medical service out of Station 1 on Mammoth Creek Road, covers 94 square miles, and answers calls into Long Valley as well. The Utah State Fire Marshal’s department list carries the same address. Kane County EMS backs it up with about 60 basic and advanced EMTs spread across 6,000 square miles, including a base at Alton and Cedar Mountain.
Air Methods opened an AirLife Utah base at Cedar City Regional Airport in February 2023, flying an AS350 that handles high altitude and desert heat. From a trailhead out on the Markagunt, a helicopter often beats any road to a trauma center.
One wrinkle worth planning around: cell service on this mountain wanders by carrier and by tree. Read what each carrier does at 8,400 feet before you count on a bar of signal in an emergency, and find the landline in your room on the first night.
Highway 14 closures change the answer
Cedar City is closest by way of Highway 14 down Cedar Canyon, a road our post on the drive to Cedar City traces over a 9,905 foot summit before it drops 4,000 feet into town. Snow closes that canyon. A wreck in the canyon does the same.
With Highway 14 shut, the drive to Cedar City runs east to Long Valley Junction, north through Panguitch and back down I-15: 103 miles and about two hours. Panguitch then becomes the nearest emergency room by more than an hour, and it never needed the canyon in the first place. Check the live camera map before you commit to a direction in winter.
Thin air compounds all of this. The village stands at 8,507 feet, and our note on what that elevation changes covers the sleep and hydration side of it. Chest pain or breathlessness at this altitude deserves a lower threshold for calling 911 than the same symptoms would at sea level.
Care that falls short of an emergency
| The non emergency options | |
|---|---|
| Urgent care | Cedar City InstaCare, 962 Sage Drive |
| Pharmacies, Cedar City | Walgreens and Walmart |
| Pharmacy, Panguitch | Panguitch Drug Co |
| Poison control | 800-222-1222 |
| Providers in ZIP 84762 | One ambulance service, one dietitian |
Most medical trouble on a vacation stays small: an ear infection, a turned ankle, a prescription sitting on a kitchen counter at home. Cedar City InstaCare on Sage Drive takes walk in patients. Call ahead either way, because published hours for the urgent care drift between listing sites and this job could not confirm them at the source.
Pack the prescriptions you take. Refilling one from up here costs most of a day, and our guide to Cedar City covers what else to bundle into that trip so you make the drive one time.
Quick answers about medical care near Duck Creek Village
Is there a hospital in Duck Creek Village? No hospital stands in the village. Duck Creek Village has an ambulance service and a fire station on Mammoth Creek Road, and the nearest hospital is Intermountain Cedar City Hospital, 31 road miles west on Highway 14.
Is there a clinic or a pharmacy in Duck Creek Village? Neither one. The federal provider registry lists two licensed providers in ZIP 84762, an ambulance service and a dietitian. The nearest pharmacies stand in Panguitch and in Cedar City, each a drive of 45 minutes or more.
How long does an ambulance take to reach Duck Creek Village? Cedar Mountain Fire Protection District responds from a station inside the village, so the crew starts close by. Transport from the village to an emergency room adds 45 minutes or more on top of that.
Which hospital should I drive to from Duck Creek Village? Cedar City in fair weather, for the larger emergency department. Panguitch when Highway 14 shuts, or when your day already has you heading east toward Bryce Canyon.
Does Duck Creek Village have 911 service? Yes, and you should call 911 for anything serious. Cell coverage varies by carrier up here, so locate the landline in your room and keep 435-682-3225 handy for anything short of an emergency.
Planning a stay on the mountain? See our rooms and cabins, and ask the front desk anything about getting around up here.
Hero photograph: Movie Ranch Road, Duck Creek Village, by An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
