#57 Crushed Stone Delivery in St. George, UT

#57 Crushed Stone Delivery in St. George, UT

St. George sits at the southwest corner of Utah, high desert country where the ground is thin and rocky more often than it is soft. That kind of ground is exactly why a compacted base layer matters before a patio, shed pad or driveway goes in, and #57 crushed stone delivery in St. George, UT is built for that job. This grade runs three quarters of an inch to one inch, angular and gray, and it locks together under a roller or plate compactor in a way that rounded rock never will.

The city has grown well past a hundred thousand people, and new construction, remodels and landscaping keep pace with that growth. Whether you are pouring a slab, running a French drain or building up a base for a gravel road, the material moves by the ton here, not the yard, and every order is priced to a ZIP rather than a flat rate.

Where St. George Homeowners Put It to Work

The most common use is a compacted base under concrete, pavers or asphalt. Spread it in lifts, compact each lift, and you get a surface that does not shift or pump water up through the slab above it. It is also the standard fill inside a French drain trench, since the angular edges lock together and still let water pass through the voids.

• Base layer under driveways, patios, sheds and detached garages
• Backfill around foundations and retaining walls where drainage matters
• French drains and perimeter drain trenches
• Erosion control on slopes and washes around a rocky lot
• Fill under gravel driveways and rural access roads

Homeowners in this part of Utah also ask about pea gravel, river rock and topsoil are all sold by the ton in St. George. Mulch is the one material on that list priced by the cubic yard instead, so keep the two straight when you are pricing a project that uses both.

Pricing Notes for #57 Crushed Stone

Price drops as the order size climbs. Small loads, in the 3 to 7 ton range, run $180 a ton and typically ship in 1 to 2 business days with a delivery fee added. Step up to 8 to 14 tons and the price falls to $93 a ton with same or next day service, still carrying a smaller delivery fee. At 15 tons and above the rate settles at $68 a ton, and that is also the point where the delivery fee disappears entirely.

The exact number you will pay depends on how far the load has to travel once you enter your ZIP code, so treat $68 a ton as the bulk rate rather than a flat price for every order. Nothing here reflects a discount code or a promotional rate, just the standard tiered pricing that applies to every #57 crushed stone order.

Working Out How Much Stone to Order

Start with the footprint in square feet, decide on a depth in inches, and the math is length in feet times width in feet times depth in inches, divided by 324, which gives you cubic yards. Since #57 crushed stone weighs about 2,700 pounds per cubic yard, multiply that yardage by 1.35 to land on tons. A 10 by 20 foot driveway base at 4 inches deep works out to roughly 2.5 cubic yards, or about 3.4 tons once you convert.

If the math above is more than you want to do by hand, the crushed stone calculator takes your square footage and depth and returns a tonnage figure directly, no conversion required on your end.

Delivery and Lead Times

Lead time is tied to order size rather than the calendar. Smaller loads under 8 tons generally take a day or two to schedule, mid-size loads of 8 to 14 tons often go out same day or the next, and anything at 15 tons or more still ships fast while also qualifying for free delivery. Check delivery in St. George for the current windows tied to your address.

Trucks drop the load where the driveway or access point allows; steep or narrow lots in the hillier parts of the city sometimes need a conversation about placement before the truck arrives, so it helps to have that access point in mind when you order.

Ordering #57 Crushed Stone in St. George

Ordering starts with a ZIP code, which returns a delivered price built around your address rather than a generic zone rate. From there you pick a tonnage, a delivery window and check out. There is no yard to call and no quarry to coordinate with directly. For a wider look at pricing across the state, see #57 crushed stone in Utah, which covers every city carrying this grade.

If you are not sure how many tons a project needs, run the numbers through the calculator first. Ordering slightly more than the bare minimum is normal practice, since compaction settles the material and a shortfall mid job costs more in a second delivery than a small buffer would have.

About #57 Crushed Stone

#57 crushed stone is an angular, gray aggregate sized between three quarters of an inch and one inch, produced by crushing quarried stone and screening it to that range. The angular shape is the whole point: unlike rounded pea gravel or river rock, #57 stone locks together under compaction instead of rolling apart, which is why it is the standard choice for base layers, French drains and backfill where drainage and stability both matter.

A cubic yard of #57 crushed stone weighs roughly 2,700 pounds, which is on the heavier side for a stone this size and part of why it packs down into such a stable base. The open, angular structure leaves enough void space between the pieces for water to move through freely, so it drains well even while it compacts hard under a roller or plate compactor.

It is sold by the ton, not the cubic yard, so any project math needs to convert a footprint and depth into tonnage rather than stop at cubic yards. Contractors use it under slabs, driveways and retaining walls; homeowners use the same material for French drains, dry wells and the base layer under a paver patio. It is not a decorative topdressing grade, since the angular edges and gray tone are meant to be covered or buried rather than left exposed as a finished surface.

What #57 Crushed Stone costs in St. George

In the St. George market, #57 crushed stone is sold by the ton and priced at the gate before delivery is added on. Send your ZIP and load size and we will send back a same-hour quote with the truck rate and the per-ton figure spelled out. One ton covers about 80 sq ft at a 3 inch finished depth, so a 400 sq ft driveway pad runs roughly 5 tons.

How crews use #57 Crushed Stone in St. George

Crews working out of St. George tend to call for #57 crushed stone on a few repeat jobs each week. The first is driveway gravel, typically laid on rural drives and acreage projects with a base lift compacted before the finish course goes on. The second is drainage gravel, which lands here across longer driveways and outbuilding work and usually ships as a 4 to 8 ton order. Order size in St. George averages 4 to 8 tons for homeowner jobs and climbs into full-truck loads for contractor work.

Delivery day in St. George

On the day of the drop, the dispatcher pulls the closest yard, batches your ticket with other St. George stops, and sends a window the night before. Tandem-axle dumps need at least 12 ft of clear width and 14 ft overhead to set the bed; tri-axles need 14 ft of clearance on both counts and a level pad to tip safely. Standard lead time on this lane is 24-48h, with same-day windows held open for orders that hit the desk before 11 AM and clear payment.

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