Pea Gravel for Pathways in Glyndon, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Glyndon, MN for contractors building pads and homeowners finishing a path or a bed. Both buyers usually start from the same material: Class 5.

The ground here decides how the rest of the order goes. Glyndon sits in Clay County on the flat bed of glacial Lake Agassiz, where deep silt and clay settled out in still water and usable sand and gravel sits on the beach ridges and river terraces instead.

Ground and Conditions in Glyndon

That lake sediment is weak and frost susceptible, so a thin base course fails early. It shifts under load, pumps when it is wet, and heaves as the frost comes out of it.

Silt and clay under a tight subgrade hold water. Rain and meltwater sit where they land across the Red River Valley and the northern lake plain because there is almost no fall to move it along.

The practical answer is a thicker compacted base than a sand or gravel subgrade would need, and a clean drainage layer where water has nowhere to go. Timing matters as much as the material.

Base, drive and paver work waits for the thaw and for the clay to dry out. Spring load limits go up on North zone roads from late March into May, and the building season is short at both ends.

Materials for Glyndon Projects

Granite fines are the material to start with for paths and walkways. Minnesota granite fines come from the Crushed Stone quarried in the St.

Cloud belt, and yards here also sell them as screenings or stone screenings.

They bed pavers and flagstone, pack into a firm surface under a garden path, and hold a patio base once they are compacted. For a finer, walkable path surface, Walkway Gravel does the same job at a small size.

Screenings are a bedding layer, not a structural fill, so the base under them still has to carry the load.

Under all of it, Class 5 is the base that carries the weight. It is also called Cl 5 or Class 5 aggregate base, and it goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and road base.

Class 2 is the next step up for a drive surface. It is a 3/4 inch crushed aggregate with fines, sold as Class 2 granite, buff limestone or red limestone.

Where a drive needs to bind and compact, Crusher Run leaves the fines in. Minnesota yards more often sell this by class or by a minus size than by the name crusher run.

For drainage, Drainage Rock is usually a 1 1/2 inch clear rock here, used in French drains, drywells, footing drains and downspout runs. Clear rock is the Minnesota way of saying washed with the fines taken out, as against Class 5, which keeps them.

Beds and borders take Minnesota River Rock, a round washed stone sold here as river rock or Mississippi river rock. It suits decorative beds, dry creek beds and rock mulch around foundations.

Delivery to Glyndon and the Surrounding Area

Order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator that helps you size the load before you check out.

Pick your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Glyndon sits in Clay County, and delivery covers the surrounding area including Moorhead, Dilworth, Barnesville, Hawley and Sabin.

Order Your Glyndon Load

Size your load with the calculator on the product page, then choose your quantity and a delivery date at checkout. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers Class 5, granite fines, clear rock and river rock across Glyndon and Clay County, and a truck tips it in one pile on site.