Order Crushed Base and Crushed Stone in Albany County, WY
Wyoming Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Albany County, WY. Start with crushed base.
Size your load with the calculator on each product page, then order by the ton or the yard.
Ground here runs high and cold, with alkaline lake-bed soils across the Laramie Basin and granite grus washed down off the ranges. That ground decides how a base course and a drainage layer go in.
Delivery across Albany County
Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips your load in one pile at the site you give.
Laramie, Rock River, Bosler, Buford, Garrett and Jelm are all inside the delivery area.
Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page carries a calculator for sizing the load. Bulk delivery is a full load tipped on site, so have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives.
Materials delivered in Albany County
Crushed base is the standard Wyoming base material. Those gradings are lettered J, GR, L, K and W, with Grading W the common one-inch-top-size base and Grading GR the 3/4 inch gradation.
It goes under driveways, shop and shed pads, parking areas and county-style lanes.
Pit run is unprocessed pit gravel, a separate pay item from crusher run in both spec books. It is for deep fill, raising grade and sub-base under a crushed base course, not for a finished driving surface.
Washed sand beds and levels under flatwork and pavers, and mason sand goes into brick and block work and paver joints. Wind River Rock and Large River Rock are rounded river-washed stone for decorative beds, borders and dry creek beds, the usual alternative to bark in a dry, windy climate.
Ground conditions across Albany County
The working season is short at this elevation. Work goes in from spring breakup to autumn, and wind plus altitude keep the ground frozen later than the calendar suggests, so timing a delivery matters as much as the material itself.
Snowmelt off the Snowy Range runs through late spring, and alkaline flats stay soft long after the surface looks dry. Thunderstorm runoff funnels down the draws.
Drainage stone and a clean drainage layer earn their place on ground like that.
Wind along the Interstate 80 corridor blows dust and drifts snow, and exposed ground scours where snow cover is stripped off. Gully cutting in shale and bank scour at spring high water are the erosion problems to plan around, which is where riprap and slope protection come in.
Frost drives deeper than snowfall alone would suggest. About 36 inches is the published figure in Laramie, with deeper footings usual at elevation, and the local building department sets footing depth.
Choosing the right material
Platte County sits on the High Plains, and its ground is different: silty, wind-laid soils over soft Tertiary sandstone, siltstone and Ogallala gravel, with shrink-swell clays where Cretaceous shale reaches the surface.
Shrink-swell clay moves under a base course, so a drainage layer and a clean crushed base matter more there than on Albany County's granite grus.
Carbon County shares Albany County's ground region, the Laramie Basin, Snowy Range and the southern basins. The ground is the same, so the material reasoning carries over unchanged.
On Albany County ground, pick by what the surface has to do. Crushed base carries a drive or a pad.
Washed rock and 3/4 inch crushed stone drain. Screenings bed pavers and pack down on paths.
Scoria handles paths and pads where sound natural aggregate is scarce.
Order crushed base and stone in Albany County
Wyoming Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, crushed stone, sand, topsoil and aggregates across Albany County, from Laramie and Rock River to Bosler, Buford, Garrett and Jelm. Size your load with the calculator, order by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.