Order Class 5 and Crushed Stone in Cass County, MN
Minnesota Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Cass County, MN for contractors and homeowners alike. Some buyers are building a driveway from scratch, and some are topping up a drive that has already seen a few winters.
Class 5 is the base nearly everyone here starts with, and it is worth knowing why before you order. Around the lakes, the ground runs from sandy loam over gravel to peat and muck in the low spots.
Materials Delivered in Cass County
Class 5 is the standard Minnesota base course. It carries the fines that let it bind and compact, which is what a drive, parking pad, shed base or road base needs.
Minnesota yards sell it as Class 2 granite or as buff or red limestone, and it works as drive surfacing and paver base.
Washed stone behaves the other way. Clear rock is the Minnesota way of saying washed with the fines taken out, as against Class 5, which keeps them, so clear rock drains where Class 5 binds.
Delivery Across Cass County
Ordering happens online. You choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator on the product page, and pick a delivery date at checkout.
A dump truck then tips the load on site in one pile. Have the drop spot clear and reachable, with room for the truck to pull in and out without backing into soft ground.
Minnesota Rock Supply delivers to Walker, Pine River, Cass Lake, Pillager, Remer, Backus, Hackensack, Longville, Federal Dam, Bena and Outing, along with the surrounding townships.
Ground Conditions Across Cass County
Water drives most base problems in this part of the state. Outwash sand takes water fast, but the moraine till between the lakes does not, and lake and wetland margins sit close under the water table.
Snowmelt moves the most water of the year, which is when a drive built over tight ground shows it. Where water has nowhere to go, a clean drainage layer under or beside the base does the work that a fines-bearing material cannot.
Across the North central lakes, moraine and outwash country, shoreline takes a beating from wind, wave and boat wake, with bank cutting on the spring rise. Riprap armours those slopes against ice and runoff.
Base, drive and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late autumn. Spring load limits go up on North and North-Central zone roads from March into May, and frozen ground stops compaction through the winter.
Deep frost every winter hits hardest where a sandy surface sits over tight till or a high water table. The Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets a frost depth of 5 feet for its Zone I counties, and that figure is a footing depth, not a gravel base depth.
Choosing the Right Material
Ground varies across the region, so the base choice does too. Hubbard County shares this ground region, the same Wadena and Rainy lobe moraine, drumlin fields and outwash sand plains, so the same reasoning applies there.
Itasca County is different. Thin, stony till sits over Precambrian bedrock with rock at or close to the surface, so excavation is hard going and drainage is often shallow and fast.
Beltrami County spans more than one zone, taking in both this lake and moraine country and the Red River Valley and northern lake plain. That mix of ground means conditions change from one site to the next.
Order Gravel, Stone and Soil for Your Cass County Project
Class 5 for a new drive, clear rock for drainage, riprap for shoreline, or black dirt for a lawn, Minnesota Rock Supply delivers it across Cass County.
Contractors and homeowners order the same way: pick the material, size the load by the ton or yard with the calculator, choose a delivery date, and a truck tips it on site. Place your order online when your project is ready.