Land clearing, excavation, gravel driveways, and drainage for homes, camps, and lake lots across the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Free site walks, test pits before we quote, and flat pricing — no change-order surprises.
Building lots, view cuts, and reclaimed fields — trees down, stumps out (never buried), debris hauled, and the grade left ready for what's next.
Foundations, garage pads, additions, utility trenches, and finish grading — dug to spec, on schedule, with test pits before the quote so ledge never becomes a change order.
Gravel driveways built with a compacted base and a real crown — plus regrades, culverts, and washout rebuilds that make mud season boring.
French drains, curtain drains, swales, and regrading that give water a better place to go than your basement or your lawn.
A cleared lot isn't finished until the stumps are out, the debris is gone, and the ground is rough-graded and draining. That's the standard every job here ends at — not a push-pile at the treeline.
Nobody else around here publishes real numbers. We do — use the calculators to get an honest range for your project in about a minute, then send us the result for a firm flat quote.
Acres, density, terrain — get your clearing range.
Length and width — get yards of gravel and installed cost.
Based in the Lakes Region and working the shores of Winnipesaukee, Winnisquam, Squam, and Newfound — and the hill towns between:
Lakes Region dirt isn't generic dirt. It's granite ledge two feet down, sandy esker one lot over, and a wetland where the survey says lawn. We dig test pits before we quote, we know which town roads post in mud season, and we've cleared enough shoreland to keep your frontage legal.
Free site walks. Flat quotes. Dig Safe 811 on every job.
Heavily wooded Lakes Region lots run $3,000–$8,000 per acre to clear completely — trees, stumps, and debris hauled. Light brush and sapling ground costs far less. The exact number depends on density, terrain, and access, which is why every quote starts with a free site walk. Full numbers on our NH cost benchmarks page.
There's a decent chance there is — this is granite country. We dig test pits before quoting, so ledge is found with a shovel, not a change order. If ledge makes one corner expensive, sometimes shifting the project twenty feet saves thousands, and we'll tell you so.
Within 250 feet of a lake, NH's Shoreland Water Quality Protection Act limits cutting (a tree-point system in the first 50 feet) and requires permits for significant earth work. Plenty of projects are still very doable — they just need planning. We handle the shoreland side on every waterfront job.
Prime digging is May–November. Winter frost slows everything, and posted roads in March–April mud season stop loaded trucks entirely in many towns. Fall booking for spring work gets you first position on the schedule — and clearing can often run through winter when the ground is frozen solid.
What clearing really costs, how a gravel driveway should be built, the shoreland rules in plain English, and the surveyors, septic designers, and town offices you'll need along the way — read the guides or hit the local resource hub.
Tell us where the property is and what you’re trying to do. We’ll walk the site, talk it through, and give you a straight, flat quote.
