New gravel driveways built with a real base, and tired ones regraded, crowned, and drained — so a Belmont driveway survives mud season and the next big storm instead of washing down the hill.
Belmont is a working town, and most of what we dig here is practical: a garage pad and its frost-depth footings, a daylight-basement cut for a new build, a driveway widened so two cars actually pass. The low ground near the Tioga River holds water — some of those village-area soils are slow-draining, and a French drain or regrade to move roof and surface water away from the foundation is one of our most common Belmont calls. Along the Winnisquam shore off Route 3, lots are older and tighter than the big-lake towns, and anything within 250 feet of the water still runs through the state Shoreland rules even on a modest project. Four-foot frost is the design number for every footing in town. Plenty of do-it-yourself gravel drives here just need a proper base and crown to end the annual pothole ritual — a one-day fix done right.
Adding a garage in Belmont? Get the pad elevation right relative to your driveway and your neighbor’s runoff before pouring — a slab set even a few inches low collects everyone’s water forever. We shoot grades with a laser and set the pad to shed, not receive. Concrete is permanent; check the grade twice.
A driveway that lasts is a structure: geotextile where soils are soft, a compacted bank-run gravel base, and a crushed-gravel or stone surface crowned so water runs off the sides instead of down the middle. Culverts go where water crosses, ditches where it runs alongside. Skip any of those and you buy the same driveway again every few years — that’s the washboard, potholed, washed-out driveway we get called to fix.
We build new driveways, rebuild failing ones, and do the annual regrade-and-crown that keeps a camp road drivable through mud season.
New gravel driveways typically run $15–$30 per linear foot built right (base + surface + crowning); regrading and topping an existing driveway costs a fraction of that. Culverts and ditching quoted per site. Flat quote after a quick look.
Built properly — compacted bank-run base, crushed gravel surface, crowned — figure $15 to $30 per linear foot for a standard 12-foot-wide driveway, more on steep or soft ground. A cheap spread-and-go driveway costs less up front and every year after.
Water is running down it instead of off it. The fix is shape and drainage: crown the surface, ditch the uphill side, and put a culvert where water crosses. Once water has somewhere to go, the gravel stays where you paid for it.
Yes — washboard and potholes are symptoms of a thin or uncrowned surface. We regrade to pull material back where it belongs, re-crown, and compact. If the base has failed we'll tell you honestly and price a rebuild of just the failed section.
Free site walks, test pits before quotes, flat pricing, and a crew that knows Lakes Region ground.
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.
