Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Bar Harbor, ME

Maine Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Bar Harbor, ME, and Type A gravel is the base most of that work starts from. It is the crushed gravel Maine pits and yards sell under the Type A letter, and it goes down under drives, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases.

Bar Harbor sits in Hancock County, on ground that is shallow soil over ledge in places and bog or peat in others. Both conditions change what you order before anything else does.

Delivery to Bar Harbor and the Surrounding Area

You 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 you check out.

Choose your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site in one pile. That is the whole of it: the load arrives loose and you move it from there.

Maine Rock Supply delivers in Hancock County, including Ellsworth, Bucksport, Blue Hill, Hancock and Orland.

Materials for Bar Harbor Projects

Start with fill and sub-base. Raising grade and building a pad under a structure means moving bulk material before any finished surface enters the picture.

Order by project type and the rest follows.

For raising grade and building pads

Bank run gravel comes out of the pit as it lies, unprocessed, and it is a filler course for bulk fill and rough subbase. It is not a finished driving surface, so plan a crushed course over it.

Where you need plain bulk fill, Fill Dirt works under a gravel course or behind a foundation.

Type A gravel is the compacted base that caps the fill.

Order it from Type A Gravel.

For a driveway

Driveway Gravel is the 3/4 inch crushed gravel Maine yards sell for the running surface on gravel drives and camp roads. Lay it over the Type A base.

See Driveway Gravel.

For a patio or walkway

Stone dust is the New England default under flatwork: paver, flagstone and patio bedding, and the setting bed under walkway stone. Order Stone Dust for that work.

For drainage

3/4 inch crushed stone sheds water rather than holding it, so it suits drainage trenches, drywells and pipe bedding. Around Bar Harbor, 3/4 inch washed stone and #57 stone are the same clean drainage size under different names.

Order 3/4" Crushed Stone or #57 Stone.

Ground and Conditions in Bar Harbor

The Downeast coast and blueberry barrens ground is coarse sandy and bouldery till over granite and volcanic bedrock, with ledge close to the surface in places. Marine clay sits in the lower valleys and peat and bog ground is extensive.

Under-built bases fail here for two opposite reasons. On ledge and bog, water sits on the surface and softens whatever you put down.

On the outwash barrens, water drains almost too fast and washes out unbound surfaces.

The erosion driver is the coast itself: some of the largest tides on the coast, with surge and wave action on exposed granite shoreline. Riprap armours shore and stream banks, culvert outlets and ditch checks, and Maine yards sell it in ranges such as 6 inch and 12 to 24 inch.

Order Riprap.

The working season is short. A late spring thaw near the water and fog and damp slow curing and compaction, so plan base and paver work for the middle of the season.

Winters are long and cold with heavy frost, held slightly in check near the water by fog and sea air. Frost heaving on gravel roads and camp drives every spring is normal here.

Frost depth on this ground commonly runs about 4 to 5 feet, deeper on the inland barrens than at the shore, and the local building official sets footing depth.

Questions from Bar Harbor Buyers

What is the best base under pavers in Bar Harbor?

Type A gravel. It is the compacted base for drives and pads, and stone dust beds the pavers above it.

On this ground, the base has to bridge soft peat or bog and stay put over ledge, so the fill and sub-base under the Type A matters as much as the Type A itself.

Do you supply contractors working in Bar Harbor?

Yes. Contractors order the same way everyone else does: online, with the quantity chosen by the ton or the yard, and a delivery date picked at checkout.

Bulk loads go to job sites in Bar Harbor and across Hancock County, including Ellsworth, Bucksport, Blue Hill, Hancock and Orland. Each product page has a calculator for sizing the load.

Order Type A Gravel and Base Material for Bar Harbor

Type A gravel is the base course this market builds on, and it is the material to start a driveway, pad or camp road with. Maine Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Bar Harbor and Hancock County.

Pick your material and quantity online and set a delivery date to get your order moving.