3/8 Inch Crushed Rock for Pathways in Buffalo, WY

Wyoming Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Buffalo, WY, from crushed base for drives and pads to the fines and screenings that hold a path together. The working season here is short, so timing matters.

Work runs from spring breakup into autumn. Wet ground has to dry before it will compact, which pushes the spring start back further.

Ground and Conditions in Buffalo

Buffalo sits in Johnson County, in the Powder River Basin. The ground across the basin is bentonitic gumbo clay weathered off shale, and it sheds water rather than taking it in.

That clay is why a thin base fails here. A path or drive built on a shallow layer of stone punches through at the first wet spell, because the clay underneath swells and pumps.

Cloudbursts run hard off bare ground, and snowmelt sits on frozen subgrade. Wind across open basin ground cuts rills and gullies into exposed shale.

The fix is a compacted crushed base course over ground that has been dug out and replaced with granular fill. That is the same reason local foundation work over-excavates the clay before it builds.

Frost is deep in this part of Wyoming and chinook thaws can soften a surface in hours. Footing depth is set by the local building official, not by a number taken from another county.

Materials for Buffalo Projects

Fines and screenings do the quiet work on paths and walkways around Buffalo. Stone screenings, also called crusher fines or crusher dust, pack down into a surface that holds together when wind moves loose material around.

Use Stone Screenings for paver and flagstone bedding, and for packed pathway surfaces that need to stay put.

For a walkway or drive that needs a clean, hard surface, 3/8" Crushed Stone gives you fine drainage, trench bedding and a tight topping over a compacted base.

Scoria, called red rock or clinker here, is the burnt-coal clinker dug in the Powder River Basin. It works on paths, walkways, drives and pads where sound natural aggregate is scarce.

Under any of those surfaces, crushed base is the standard Wyoming base material. Yards sell it as crushed base, and crews talk about it by top size, as 3/4 minus.

Crushed Base goes under driveways, shop and shed pads, parking areas and county-style lanes. It compacts into the structural layer that keeps a path from sinking into the clay.

For surfacing a drive or a ranch lane, or topping a compacted base course, Driveway Gravel is the material to order.

Where a path sits over a deep fill or the grade has to come up before anything else goes down, Pit Run is unprocessed pit gravel for sub-base. It is not a finished driving surface.

Delivery to Buffalo and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you order.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. Have the spot clear and reachable, and know which material is going where before the truck arrives.

Wyoming Rock Supply delivers across Buffalo and Johnson County, including Kaycee. Everything is quoted for Wyoming only.

Order Gravel and Aggregate for Buffalo

Start with the calculator on the product page to size your load by the ton or the yard, then order online and choose a delivery date at checkout. Wyoming Rock Supply delivers crushed base, screenings and stone across Buffalo and Johnson County.