3/8 Inch Crushed Stone for Pathways in New Franken, WI

If you are building a walkway, a garden path or a paver patio, you want gravel and aggregate delivery in New Franken, WI that gets the fines right. Wisconsin Rock Supply stocks traffic bond for the base and 3/8 inch crushed stone for the surface.

This is clay country near Green Bay, so the ground stays wet late into spring. A path built on a thin layer of stone sinks and ruts fast.

Materials for New Franken Projects

A New Franken path stays firm underfoot because of the fines in it. You want a material that packs tight enough to walk on without raking it back into place every month. That is why screenings and small clear stone do most of the work here.

• Screenings, also called stone dust, are the standard bedding under pavers and the hard top dressing on a walkway. They pack down almost like concrete.
• 3/8" Crushed Stone gives you a fine drainage layer, pipe bedding and a topping over a compacted base.
• Walkway Gravel is blended for paths and garden walks that need a finer, walkable surface.
• Natural Pea Gravel works on play areas, dog runs and light walkways where you want loose stone, not a packed surface.
• 3/4" Traffic Bond is the base under all of it.

On soft or clay ground, start with breaker run as a coarse sub-base and cap it with traffic bond. Some yards label that dense base road gravel, but it is the same material.

Ground and Conditions in New Franken

The failure mode here is a thin base. Clay-rich till and old lake-bed clays drain slowly, so water ponds on flat ground and runs off to the ditch. Put a thin layer of stone on that and the path ruts the first wet spring.

Frost makes it worse. Wet clay over still-frozen ground cannot drain down at all, so it turns soft and a shallow base heaves. Frost depth runs 48 to 72 inches under pavement by late winter, which is why the base has to be deep, not just wide.

Plan around the season. Clay sites stay soft after the thaw and after heavy rain, so base and paver work goes best from late spring into fall, once the ground has drained. Class II state highways and posted county, town and village roads carry spring weight limits while frost comes out.

Delivery to New Franken and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick your quantity by the ton or the cubic yard. A yard of traffic bond and a yard of Natural Pea Gravel do not weigh the same, so weigh the job in the unit the material is sold in and let the calculator on the product page do the math.

Bulk delivery to a site in New Franken means the driver needs a clear spot to dump and a firm approach for a loaded truck. Mark the spot before the truck rolls. We also run loads in Brown County to Green Bay, De Pere, Suamico, Pulaski and Wrightstown.

Questions About Path and Base Material

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Have the dump spot cleared and marked, with no overhead wires or low branches in the way. The ground needs to be firm enough to carry a loaded truck, especially on clay that stayed soft after the thaw. If you are spreading behind the truck, have the base already graded so the load lands where it will be used.

What is the best base under pavers in New Franken?

Traffic bond, compacted in lifts, is the base most Wisconsin installers use under pavers. Over soft clay, put breaker run underneath first, then cap it with traffic bond and bed the pavers in screenings.

Build the Path Once, Build It Right

Figure your square footage, decide on base depth, and size the order by the ton or the yard before you call. The calculator on each product page does the conversion for traffic bond, screenings and 3/8 inch crushed stone. When the numbers are set, place your order for delivery in New Franken.