Bulk Aggregates for Pathways in Pride, LA

Louisiana Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Pride, LA. Most of the year works for a delivery here, but wet silt will not compact and it moves when it is wet, so timing matters.

Start with 610 limestone, the local base, and build your path or pad from there. Order online and a truck brings it to your site.

Ground and Conditions in Pride

Pride sits on the loess bluffs above the Mississippi. That ground is wind laid silt, deep and fine and easy to work, and it erodes faster than almost any other soil in the state.

A thin base course is the failure you see first. Silt takes water readily and then carries it, so water moving over a stripped face cuts a channel fast.

A drive built across a slope becomes that channel. Bare silt gullies the moment the cover comes off, and the fix is a base that binds and a surface that sheds water.

This is not the heavy clay problem the rest of Louisiana fights. Fine silt holds a steep face and then loses it, so a pad built up out of the wet ground needs material that compacts rather than settles.

Materials for Pride Projects

Paths and walkways here want fines and screenings. The crusher fines that pass the finest screen pack down underfoot and stay put on a slope.

Use Stone Screenings as a bedding and joint material under pavers and as a packing top for a garden path. For a finer walkway surface, 3/8" Crushed Stone beds pavers and tops a walk.

Walkway Gravel is the finer gravel that packs underfoot, for paths where you want a finished surface rather than loose stone. Where a path crosses wet ground, put a clean stone under it and keep the fines on top.

For a driveway or pad, 610 Limestone is the Louisiana base. Stone dust up to about two inches, so the fines bind it and it hardens as it is rolled.

It goes under drives, parking pads, shed pads and flatwork, and it is the compacted layer, not the surface.

For the clean sizes, #57 Limestone is the open graded stone at about 3/4 inch with no fines, and it is the usual choice for drainage and concrete work. Drain Rock is washed clean with the fines taken out, for French drains, foundation perimeter drains, drywells and downspout runs.

Crushed concrete is another base option. It is recycled Portland cement concrete, crushed and screened to a dense graded size with the fines left in, and Louisiana permits it as a Class II base course material.

For low ground, Select Fill raises a pad up out of the water. It compacts rather than settling, so it goes under a base course and not under a lawn.

Top Soil and Garden Soil cover the growing layer once the grade is right.

Delivery to Pride and the Surrounding Area

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, so decide which one you are buying before you check out. Each product page has a calculator to size the load.

Pride sits in East Baton Rouge Parish, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Baton Rouge, Zachary, Baker and Greenwell Springs. Pick a delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at your site. Have the spot clear and reachable so the truck can back in and dump without obstruction.

Order Your Path and Driveway Material

Figure your quantity first, then order online and pick a delivery date. If you are surfacing a path, the fines and screenings sizes are the ones to start with.

Louisiana Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Pride and East Baton Rouge Parish. Size the load and place your order when you are ready.