New gravel driveways built with a real base, and tired ones regraded, crowned, and drained — so a Moultonborough driveway survives mud season and the next big storm instead of washing down the hill.
Distances are what set Moultonborough apart. Estate lots off Moultonborough Neck Road and the roads toward Castle in the Clouds routinely need driveways measured in hundreds of yards — effectively small private roads, with the ditching, culvert crossings, and gravel depth that implies. We build them in lifts of compacted bank-run with a crushed top course, and we size culverts for mountain runoff, because water coming off the Ossipees moves fast when it moves. On the Neck and along the big lake, shallow ledge and Shoreland Permit rules shape nearly every waterfront project; the 50-foot waterfront buffer’s tree-removal point system decides what clearing is even on the table. One more local reality: several of these long drives cross wet pockets that need NHDES wetlands sign-off before a bucket touches them. We walk the full alignment before quoting — every time.
Planning a long Moultonborough driveway? Have it built to handle a loaded concrete truck — roughly 70,000 pounds — even if you drive a pickup. A drive that only carries cars will rut and fail the week your foundation pours, and rebuilding a base under construction traffic costs far more than building it right once.
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.
