Bulk Gravel and Stone Delivery in Itasca County, MN
Minnesota Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Itasca County, MN to driveways, pads and building sites. Class 5 is the base course most Minnesota work starts from, and it is the material to know here.
It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and road base.
Delivery across Itasca County
You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.
Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load on site. Coverage runs to Grand Rapids, Cohasset, Nashwauk, Deer River, Bovey, Marcell, Bigfork, Warba, Max, Squaw Lake, Effie, Wirt, Goodland and Pengilly.
Materials delivered in Itasca County
Class 5 and Class 6 are the base classes and Class 1 and Class 2 are the surfacing classes.
County highway departments and cities write their own standards against the same class numbers. That is how base material is named and specified in Minnesota.
Class 5 carries the most weight for building work here. It is the standard base course for drives, parking areas, shed and garage pads and road base, and it is ordered by name.
Round stone and soil round out the list. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel, also called pea rock, suits walkways, play areas and drainage.
Minnesota River Rock covers decorative beds, borders and dry creek beds. For lawns and beds, Top Soil is what Minnesota calls black dirt, usually bought screened.
Ground conditions across Itasca County
Across the Iron Range, North Shore and the Superior Upland, the ground is thin, stony till over Precambrian bedrock. Rock sits at or close to the surface across much of this part of the state.
There is red sandy drift from the Superior and Rainy lobes and broad peat basins in the west. Where soil is shallow over ledge, an under-built base moves and pumps.
Water cannot soak into rock, so it runs off fast and gathers in the hollows and peat basins. Snowmelt is the heaviest flow of the year.
Frozen ground stops compaction from late autumn into April, and spring load limits run into mid-May on North zone roads. The working season here is the shortest in the state.
Winters are long and severe, and frost reaches rock in places. Shallow soil over ledge lifts slabs, posts and gravel drives every spring.
A footing depth of 5 feet is the figure the Minnesota Residential Code table sets for Zone I counties.
Choosing the right material
Class 5 is a compacted base for drives and pads. Class 2 is a tighter 3/4 inch crushed surfacing aggregate with fines, for drive surfacing and paver base.
For a drain, order clean stone. 3/4 Clear Rock is washed with the fines taken out, and Drainage Rock handles French drains and footing drains.
For a patio or path, Granite Fines bed pavers and flagstone. Walkway Gravel gives garden paths a finer surface that compacts.
Aitkin County shares this ground region: north central lakes, moraine and outwash country, the same till over bedrock. The ground is the same, so the base and drainage choices do not change.
Cass County sits on the same kind of ground but also carries the flat lake clay of the glacial Lake Aitkin basin. Clay holds water, so drainage matters more there than on rock.
Beltrami County spans more than one zone. Part of it is north central lakes, moraine and outwash country, and part is Red River Valley and the northern lake plain.
Order Class 5 and bulk aggregate in Itasca County
Class 5 is the base course to start with for drives, pads and road base in Itasca County. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone, sand and soil in bulk by the ton across the county.
Choose your material and quantity online and place your order when you are ready.