Stone Dust for Pathways in Arlington, VT

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Arlington, VT the easy way: online, by the ton or the yard. Vermont Rock Supply drops staymat, stone dust, washed stone and screened loam at your site.

Thin stony till over slate and phyllite runs through the Taconic ridges here. That ground packs tight, drains slow and heaves in spring.

Ground and Conditions in Arlington

Start with the failure. A path or drive built on too little base shows it fast in this part of Vermont: ruts along the wheel tracks, soft spots after rain, and a surface that pumps when the ground under it stays wet.

Slate fragments in the fill compound the problem. They knit together and shed water slowly, so the water sits instead of leaving.

Across the Taconics and the Valley of Vermont, runoff comes off the slopes fast and crosses the valley floor. On the hill side of town, ground stays soft weeks longer than the valley floor through mud season.

The valley floor dries early and works long. Time your base work there and you gain weeks over the hill towns.

Frost heaving shows up in gravel drives every spring. Footing depth is set by the town, so confirm it with the town office before you pour.

Materials for Arlington Projects

Fines and screenings do the fine work on paths and walkways. Bed pavers, bluestone and flagstone on stone dust, and top a path with it so the surface binds and stays walkable.

Stone Dust, also called screenings or crusher dust, is the New England default under flatwork. It beds pavers, bluestone and flagstone, and it makes a dust-binding topping on a garden path.

Use Walkway Gravel where a path wants a finer, walkable surface than a drive. Use Driveway Gravel to resurface a drive or top a compacted base after mud season chews the running surface.

Staymat is the everyday Vermont word for road base. This is your dense graded crushed base, running from about 3/4 inch or 1 inch down to dust, and it locks up tight under a roller.

Driveways, parking pads and shed bases all start here.

Town road standards call for a crushed gravel surface course over a bank run subbase, and dense graded crushed stone is the spec name for a base graded from 3 inches down to fines. Both point back to the same Staymat.

Bank run gravel is gravel taken from a pit or bank and screened rather than crushed. It is the subbase, not a substitute for staymat.

For wet ground, Drain Rock handles curtain drains, footing drains, dry wells and downspout runs. Pea stone suits walkways and play areas, and River Rock carries roof and drive runoff in a dry creek bed.

Screened loam goes over stony till and heavy clay for lawns. In raised beds where loam alone sits too heavy, Garden Soil lightens the mix.

Delivery to Arlington and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

Choose a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Have the spot clear and reachable by a truck.

Arlington sits in Bennington County. Delivery reaches Bennington, Shaftsbury, Pownal, Dorset and Manchester Center as well.

Order Staymat, Stone Dust and More for Arlington

Point at the calculator on each product page and settle your quantity in tons or yards before you order. Round out the load with staymat, stone dust, drain rock or loam as the work needs.

Choose a delivery date at checkout and Vermont Rock Supply brings it to your site in Arlington, VT.