Cedar City, Utah lies in the valley's center and east, at the foothills of the Hurricane Cliffs.

The valley's north and northwest terminus merges into the Mud Spring Wash–Rush Lake region at the southwest of the Black Mountains (Utah), (and the southeast perimeter of the Escalante Desert); a ridgeline extending southwest from the Black Mountains parallels the Hurricane Cliffs, and its terminus is at the north end of Cedar Valley (and Rush Lake).

Between the ridgeline, and Hurricane Cliffs, east, Interstate 15 traverses, (only about 1-mi wide,[4] adjacent the site of Summit).

At the valley's north-northwest terminus, Mud Spring Wash flows northwest into the Escalante Desert.

From the north, Utah State Route 130 (SR-130) travels due-south from Minersville through the Black Mountains, then a 10-mile (16 km) stretch through Long Hollow, an alluvial foothill section between two ridgelines of the Black Mountains, the foothills/alluvial fan area meeting the north terminus of Cedar Valley.