Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Newry, ME

Maine Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Newry, ME for two kinds of buyers: contractors grading camp roads and driveways, and homeowners building beds, lawns and pads. Type A gravel is the base course most of that work starts from, and it is the material Maine pits and yards sell under that letter.

You order online by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator on each product page, and a dump truck tips it on site. The sections below cover material choices, the ground you are working on, and how delivery works here.

Materials for Newry Projects

Grading and bed prep come first on most lots in this part of Oxford County. That means soil and fill before stone: screened loam for a lawn that has to knit, garden soil where plain loam is too lean, and fill dirt to raise a grade before anything goes on top.

Soil, Fill and Bed Prep

Top Soil, which Maine yards call screened loam, is the finish grade for seeding and lawn repair. Unscreened loam is the rougher grade for filling low spots where you are not seeding right away.

Garden Soil is a blended product for raised beds and vegetable plots. Plain screened loam alone is too lean for heavy feeding, so the blend carries the organic content that planting beds want.

Fill Dirt, also called common borrow, is bulk fill for backfill and raising grade. It goes under a gravel course, not on top of one, and it is the material that gets a low corner of a lot up to the level you want.

Base and Driveway Gravel

Type A Gravel is the Maine base course. It is crushed gravel with fines that bind and compact, which is why it carries driveways, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases.

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

Driveway Gravel is the 3/4 inch crushed gravel Maine yards sell as the running surface on a gravel drive. It goes on last, over the base.

Washed Stone, Sand and Decorative

3/4" Crushed Stone is a clean washed stone for drainage trenches, drywells and pipe bedding. It sheds water rather than holding it, which is the opposite of what a fines-bearing base does.

Stone Dust, also called screenings, is the setting bed under pavers, flagstone and patio work. It is the New England default under flatwork.

Mason Sand goes into mortar, brick and block work. Washed Sand is the concrete and paver bedding sand, and it also beds pipe.

For beds and borders, Shredded Mulch is what Maine yards call bark mulch. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel, or pea stone, suits walkways, dog runs and play areas.

Ground and Conditions in Newry

Start with water and where it goes. Across the Western mountains and foothills, steep slopes concentrate snowmelt and rain into fast runoff, and thin soil over ledge cannot absorb it.

Valley floors below take what the hills shed.

That shapes two things on a Newry lot. First, the soil itself: thin stony till over hard bedrock on the slopes, with ledge outcropping widely, and deeper sandy till and boulder ground on the lower hills.

Second, drainage. A wet subgrade will not hold a base, so a clean washed stone layer under the gravel course gives water somewhere to go.

Drain Rock is the underdrain material for foundation and curtain drains.

Erosion follows the same water. Steep-slope runoff cuts drives and ditches, and culvert outlets and stream crossings scour after snowmelt and heavy rain.

Riprap armours those spots and ditch checks, sold in ranges such as 6 inch and 12 to 24 inch.

The working season is short here, the shortest outside Aroostook County. Late mud season at elevation and early hard frost in the fall leave a narrow window for base, driveway and paver work, so timing matters as much as material choice.

Frost is the other factor. This zone sees the hardest freeze and thaw cycling in southern Maine, with deep frost on high ground and a late thaw, and steep gravel drives heave and rut as the frost comes out.

Frost depth runs about 5 feet or more on high ground and in the valley towns, and the local building official sets footing depth.

Delivery to Newry and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and is tipped in one pile where the truck can reach. Have the drop area clear and reachable, with room for the truck to pull in and out.

Everything is ordered online. You pick the material, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and select a delivery date at checkout.

Each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load.

Newry sits in Oxford County, and delivery covers the surrounding towns, including Rumford, Norway, Oxford, Fryeburg and Mexico. If your site is on a camp road or a steep drive, plan where the pile lands before the truck arrives.

Order Gravel, Soil and Stone for Your Newry Project

Maine Rock Supply delivers Type A gravel, crushed stone, sand, screened loam and fill across Newry and Oxford County. For grading a camp road, bedding a patio, or building up a lawn, the material is ordered online by the ton or yard and tipped on site.

Place your order when you are ready.