#57 Crushed Stone Delivery in Ventura, CA

Where #57 Crushed Stone Earns Its Keep in Ventura

Homeowners across Ventura order #57 crushed stone delivery for the same reasons contractors do: the angular pieces lock together once compacted, so the material holds its shape under a driveway or a parking pad instead of migrating downhill the way smoother rock can on this city's foothill lots. It works equally well in French drains and perimeter drainage lines, a detail that matters on properties built into the slopes between the coastline and the inland hills, where storm runoff needs somewhere controlled to go. Backfill around irrigation or drain pipe, a compacted base under sheds and gravel patios, and erosion control on cut slopes round out the common uses around town. Growers on the citrus and avocado ranches that ring the city also turn to the same stone for access roads and equipment pads that need to stay firm through a wet winter.

Ventura at a Glance

Ventura sits on the Pacific coast between Santa Barbara and the greater Los Angeles area, part of the Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and Ventura metro area, with about 110,000 residents spread across flat coastal blocks near the water and steeper neighborhoods climbing into the foothills. Oxnard is the closest city we also deliver to, about 13 miles down the coast, with Simi Valley roughly 28 miles inland and Thousand Oaks about 21 miles to the southeast. Mild, marine layer summers and wet winters mean drainage stone gets ordered here year round rather than in a single rainy season. Older neighborhoods closer to downtown sit on flatter ground near the river mouth. Newer development climbs into the surrounding hills, where soil conditions and drainage needs can shift from block to block.

Pricing by the Ton

, the same as it is for gravel and topsoil steps down as the order gets bigger:

Once an order reaches 15 tons the delivery fee drops off the invoice completely, which is the tier most driveway base and drainage jobs land in around here.

Working Out How Much You Need

Multiply length in feet by width in feet, then by depth in inches, and divide by 324. That gives cubic yards for the space you are filling. #57 crushed stone weighs close to 2,700 pounds per loose cubic yard, so multiply the cubic yard total by about 1.35 to arrive at tons, the unit it actually ships in. A French drain trench 40 feet long, a foot and a half wide and eight inches deep comes out to roughly 1.5 cubic yards, or about 2 tons once converted. A backyard drainage swale running the length of a standard residential lot, roughly 50 feet, at a foot wide and 6 inches deep comes to close to 0.9 cubic yards, or about 1.2 tons. For anything more complicated than a straight trench, the calculator will do the conversion for you.

Delivery Windows Around Ventura

Lead time follows order size. Three to seven tons ships in one to two business days. Eight to fourteen tons usually goes out same day or the next morning. Full fifteen ton loads are scheduled around route timing and how a truck accesses your delivery in Ventura address, which matters more on the hillside streets than it does down near the flats close to the water. Trucks generally route in along the 101 corridor, so timing can shift slightly around peak commute hours on a weekday delivery.

Ordering #57 Crushed Stone for Delivery

Enter the ZIP for your Ventura address online and the order form returns a delivered price built from the table above, adjustable as you change the tonnage. Confirm a delivery window at checkout once the total looks right. There is no separate call needed to confirm availability, since the same order form handles scheduling for both a small weekday drop and a full truckload order. For stone in other sizes and colors delivered elsewhere in the state, see #57 Crushed Stone in California.

About #57 Crushed Stone

The number 57 in #57 crushed stone refers to a standard gradation: angular stone screened to fall mostly between 3/4 inch and 1 inch, typically gray. Unlike rounded pea gravel or river rock, which are naturally worn smooth, this material is crushed from larger rock and keeps sharp, interlocking edges that grip against each other once compacted. That interlock is why contractors reach for it under driveways and parking pads, in French drains and perimeter drainage lines, as backfill around buried pipe, and as a base under sheds or gravel patios. Loose, it runs close to 2,700 pounds to the cubic yard, and it compacts to a firm, stable surface that still drains quickly because of the gaps between the angular pieces. It is a base material, not a finish: walked on directly, the sharp edges are uncomfortable, so most projects cap it with a finer surface material where people will actually stand or walk. A border of edging or a landscape timber keeps loose stone from working its way into grass or mulch beds nearby.

What #57 Crushed Stone costs in Ventura

In the Ventura 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 Ventura

Crews working out of Ventura tend to call for #57 crushed stone on a few repeat jobs each week. The first is driveway gravel, typically laid in tight urban lots and infill builds with a base lift compacted before the finish course goes on. The second is drainage gravel, which lands here in dense neighborhoods where curb access is short and usually ships as a 4 to 8 ton order. With a population around 109,831, Ventura pulls a mix of single-truck homeowner orders and contractor full-loads through the season.

Delivery day in Ventura

On the day of the drop, the dispatcher pulls the closest yard, batches your ticket with other Ventura 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 Mon-Sat, with same-day windows held open for orders that hit the desk before 11 AM and clear payment.

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