Class 5, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Lake County, MN

If you are pricing gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Lake County, MN, the first question is usually which material the job actually needs. Minnesota Rock Supply sells Class 5 and the rest of the aggregate line in bulk, ordered online and tipped on site.

Class 5 is the Minnesota base course. It is what a driveway, parking pad or shed base is built on here.

Delivery across Lake County

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you commit.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the address you give. That is the whole of it, so plan where the pile should land before the truck arrives.

Minnesota Rock Supply delivers across the county, including Two Harbors, Silver Bay, Finland and Isabella. Bulk loads go out on the date you select at checkout.

Materials delivered in Lake County

Match the material to the job. A drive, a patio, a drain and a garden bed each want something different, and the local names below are what to ask for.

Class 5 carries the most weight on a site here. It is a graded base aggregate with the fines left in, so it binds and compacts under a drive or a pad.

County highway departments and cities write their own standards against the same class numbers.

Class 2 is the surfacing class, a tighter 3/4 inch crushed aggregate with fines, sold as Class 2 granite or limestone. Granite fines bed pavers and flagstone.

Clear rock drains, and riprap armours a slope against ice and wave action.

Ground conditions across Lake 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 the northeast.

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, which is why drainage under a base matters as much as the base itself.

This is the shortest working season in the state. Frozen ground stops compaction from late autumn into April, and spring load limits run into mid-May on North zone roads, so timing a base build matters.

Long, severe winters lift shallow soil over ledge, and slabs, posts and gravel drives move every spring. The Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets 5 feet (60 inches) for its Zone I counties.

Choosing the right material

St. Louis County and Cook County share Lake County's ground region, the same thin stony till over Precambrian bedrock.

There is no ground difference to work around between them.

That means the base and drainage choice stays the same across all three: a compacting Class 5 base where a surface will sit on it, and clear rock where water needs to move.

Pick by job. A driveway gets Class 5 as the base with Driveway Gravel over it.

A patio gets Granite Fines for bedding. A drain gets Drainage Rock or 3/4 Clear Rock.

For a shoreline or a steep bank, RipRap is the armouring stone. For lawns and beds, Top Soil and Garden Soil finish the job.

Order Class 5 and aggregate in Lake County

Class 5 is the base course a drive, pad or road bed here is built on, and it is the material to start with. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone, sand and soil in bulk across Lake County.

Order online by the ton or yard and pick your delivery date at checkout.