Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Taos, NM

New Mexico Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Taos, NM for two kinds of buyers: contractors building drives and pads, and homeowners patching a long rural approach. Base course leads the work here, from full driveway builds down to a single load for a shed pad.

Below the town, the basin ground runs to sandy clay alluvium with caliche. What you put on top of that ground decides how the surface holds up.

Materials for Taos Projects

Base course is the compacted base for drives, parking pads and slab or shed bases. New Mexico calls it base course, and it is what a Taos crew means by a driveway base.

Base Course goes down first on a prepared grade. Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base on a long rural approach.

Crusher fines pack to a firm, walkable crust, which suits paths, patios and courtyards. The material is screened crushed rock fines and it is sold by color at New Mexico yards.

Crusher Fines is the usual choice for a xeriscape walkway or a dog run.

Washed stone and drainage rock handle water. Drain Rock goes into French drains, dry wells and foundation drains, and into splash runs below a canale or downspout.

RipRap armors arroyo banks, culvert outlets and slope faces where storm flow scours.

Numbered sizes read as specification language in New Mexico, because yards here sell by inch and color. #57 Stone and #67 Stone suit drainage trenches, while 3/4 Crushed Rock works for drive surfacing, drip strips and construction entrances.

Sand covers bedding and flatwork. Mason Sand serves block, brick and adobe work, stucco coats and paver joints.

Washed Sand is the bedding and leveling sand under slabs and flatwork.

Soil and fill finish the yard. Top Soil builds up lawns, tree wells and beds over thin alkaline ground.

Garden Soil fills raised beds, which is how most gardeners here get around a caliche layer instead of digging through it.

For decorative beds, Rio Grande River Rock and Large River Rock give you rounded cover for borders, dry arroyo landscaping and heavy erosion work.

Ground and Conditions in Taos

Water is the driver in this part of the state. Snowmelt comes off the high country in spring, then monsoon cloudbursts run off steep slopes and shallow soil.

Across the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez and the northern high country, water arrives faster than Stone Screenings and tuff will take it once the surface has crusted. Acequia ditches carry the overflow.

That shapes material choice. A drive over sandy clay alluvium and caliche needs to shed water at the edges, so a drainage layer or a stone drip strip does real work.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Steep slope runoff and arroyo bank scour after storms move material fast, and post fire runoff off burn scars in the Sangre de Cristo and the Santa Fe watershed adds volume.

Riprap and large river rock are the armor for those spots.

The working season is short, roughly late spring through October. Frozen ground stops compaction all winter and the high valleys thaw last.

Freezing is hard here. Taos sits in the highest air freezing index bands in the state, and the frost depth runs about 24 inches.

The local building official sets footing depth, so confirm it before you pour or build.

Delivery to Taos and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and tips in one pile. Have the drop area clear and reachable, with room for the truck to get in and out.

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator to help size the load.

Delivery covers Taos and Taos County, including Ranchos de Taos, Questa, Penasco, Vadito and Chamisal. Rural approaches and tight in-town lots both work, as long as the truck can reach the spot.

Order Base Course and Aggregate for Your Taos Project

New Mexico Rock Supply delivers base course, driveway gravel, crusher fines, drainage rock, sand and soil to Taos and Taos County. Contractors and homeowners order the same way, online, by the ton or the yard.

Size your load and place the order for your project.