Buy Driveway Gravel in Inver Grove Heights, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Inver Grove Heights, MN for two kinds of buyers: contractors building drives, pads and lots, and homeowners patching a drive or dressing a bed. Class 5 is the Minnesota base course most of those jobs start from.

If you are weighing options rather than reordering a known material, the trade-offs are worth a minute. Base work, surfacing, drainage and bedding each want a different stone, and picking the wrong one shows up as a rutted or shifting surface later.

Materials for Inver Grove Heights Projects

Start with the base course. Class 5 gravel, also called Class 5 aggregate base, is the standard Minnesota base for driveways, parking pads and shed or garage floors.

The fines it carries let it bind and compact, which is why it goes down first and stays under whatever surfaces the drive.

Class 2 is the next step up in finish. It is a tighter crushed quarry rock sold as Class 2 granite, buff limestone or red limestone, and it works as drive surfacing or paver base where a 3/4 inch minus material with fines is what you want.

Where a drive needs the fines left in to bind hard, crusher run does that work. Minnesota yards tend to sell it by class or by a minus size rather than by the name.

Washed stone is the other half of the picture. Clear rock, meaning 3/4 inch washed rock with the fines taken out, is what you use for drainage beds, trench backfill and construction entrances.

Drainage rock, usually a 1 1/2 inch clear stone, goes into French drains, drywells and downspout runs. Rounded stone from the river covers decorative work instead.

Ground and Conditions in Inver Grove Heights

Water is the thing to plan around here. Across the Twin Cities metro the ground varies inside a short drive, and sandy ground north of the rivers takes water fast while till in the southern and western suburbs drains slowly.

Hard surfaces push runoff toward whatever is downhill.

Inver Grove Heights sits in Dakota County, in the Twin Cities metro, where bluff and ravine erosion above the Mississippi is a real driver. Gully cutting on graded lots and streambank scour after heavy rain go with it.

A drainage layer that moves water away from a base is doing more than a thicker base would.

The working season is the longest in the state, running from the spring thaw into late autumn. Spring load limits go up on Metro zone roads in early March and come off in mid-April, which affects heavy hauling schedules.

Winter brings repeated freeze and thaw, and heaved drives, walks and slabs wherever a clay loam subgrade holds water under a thin base. Frost depth for the Zone II counties is 3 feet 6 inches, the figure the Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets.

That is a footing depth set by the building official, not a target for a gravel base.

Delivery to Inver Grove Heights and the Surrounding Area

Ordering happens online. You pick the material, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

You choose a delivery date at checkout.

Bulk material arrives on a dump truck that tips the load in one pile on site. Have the drop area clear and reachable, with room for the truck to get in and out, and keep vehicles and equipment out of the way.

The pile lands where the truck can safely tip it.

Minnesota Rock Supply delivers across Dakota County, including Lakeville, Burnsville, Rosemount, Farmington and Hastings as well as Inver Grove Heights.

Questions About Ordering in Inver Grove Heights

Do you supply contractors working in Inver Grove Heights?

Yes. Minnesota Rock Supply serves both contractors and homeowners here, and the ordering is the same either way.

Contractors building drives, pads, lots or drainage on a graded site order base and washed stone by the ton or yard and choose a delivery date at checkout. Homeowners topping a drive or bedding a path order the same way.

Do you deliver Class 5 to Inver Grove Heights, MN?

Yes. Class 5 gravel is delivered to Inver Grove Heights and across Dakota County, alongside the other base, washed stone, sand and soil materials.

Order online, choose your quantity by the ton or yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips the load on site when it arrives.

Order Base and Surfacing Material for Your Inver Grove Heights Project

Drives, parking pads, shed and garage bases, drainage runs and decorative beds all come down to picking the right stone for the job. Class 5 carries base work, Class 2 finishes it, and clear rock handles anything that has to move water.

Order online when you know what the site needs.