Taos County, NM Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery
New Mexico Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Taos County, NM. If you are building a drive, a pad or a drain, start with base course, the material New Mexico calls road base.
Size the load on the calculator attached to each product page, then order by the ton or the yard.
Ground here runs from sandy clay alluvium with caliche in the Taos basin up into stony mountain soils on the Sangre de Cristo slopes. That ground decides how a base behaves long before the material does.
Materials delivered in Taos County
Order by the job. A driveway, a patio, a drain and a garden bed each pull a different material, and the local name on the yard ticket is the one to order by.
Base Course carries the most weight of any material here, and it is the one to get right first.
Section 303 allows crushed stone, crushed or screened gravel, caliche, sand and recycled asphalt or concrete pavement, and sets two gradation bands, Type I and Type II, both passing a 1 inch sieve. City specifications follow the same definition, for example Rio Rancho Section 310.
Order base course for driveways, parking pads and the base under a slab or shed. Caliche turns up in it as a genuine constituent of New Mexico base material, and it also turns up as the hard layer a crew has to break through before anything goes down.
For a patio or a garden path, crusher fines is the compacting surface. It is a screened fines product sold by color, not a graded base, so keep it to the top where it belongs.
Stone Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and fill the joints.
For drainage, drain rock handles French drains, dry wells and foundation drains, and 3/8" Crushed Stone works as a topping course over compacted base course and as pipe bedding.
Numbered sizes are specification language here because yards sell by inch size and color: #57 Stone and #67 Stone for drainage trenches and concrete aggregate, with #67 slightly smaller.
#4 Crushed Stone takes heavy drainage, construction entrances and rough arroyo crossings, and #8 Crushed Stone and #89 Crushed Stone handle fine drainage and narrow paver joints.
Decorative work runs on Natural Pea Gravel for walkways, dog runs and xeriscape ground cover, and on large river rock for dry creek beds and drainage swales. Fill Dirt raises grade and backfills before a base course lift goes down.
Garden Soil fills raised beds, which is how most gardeners here get around a caliche layer instead of digging through it. Washed Sand beds and levels flatwork, and driveway gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops compacted base course on a long rural approach.
Ground conditions across Taos County
Across the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez and the northern high country, the ground is Stone Screenings and stony mountain soils on the slopes, soft volcanic tuff and pumice on the Pajarito Plateau, and sandy clay alluvium with caliche in the basins below.
Taos sits in one of those basins, where the caliche layer is the practical limit on how a base performs.
Water that gets through sandy alluvium stops at the caliche and sits there. A drive or pad built over that ground needs depth and a drainage layer before it needs anything else.
Snowmelt off the high country comes first in spring, then monsoon cloudbursts run off steep slopes and shallow soil. Water arrives faster than Stone Screenings and tuff will take it once the surface has crusted.
Erosion follows the same pattern: steep slope runoff, arroyo and acequia bank scour after storms, and severe post fire runoff off burn scars. RipRap armors arroyo banks, culvert outlets and dry creek headers against flash flow, and large river rock does similar work in swales and dry creek beds.
The working season is short, roughly late spring through October. Frozen ground stops compaction all winter, and the high valleys thaw last, so timing a base course lift matters as much as the material in it.
Delivery across Taos County
Order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page carries a calculator, and you choose a delivery date at checkout.
Delivery covers Taos, Ranchos de Taos, Questa, Penasco, Vadito, Chamisal, El Prado, Trampas and Valdez. Rural approaches and long drives are part of the territory here, so have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives.
Bulk loads of base course, fill dirt and topsoil are the same order flow as a smaller load of mason sand or Natural Pea Gravel. Pick the material, pick the quantity, pick the date.
Choosing the right material
Rio Arriba County sits in the same North Central region, but its ground spans more than one zone. It takes in the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez and the northern high country along with the Colorado Plateau and San Juan Basin.
That difference shows up in what the ground does with water. On the high country side you are working over Stone Screenings, tuff and caliche, where runoff arrives fast and the surface crusts.
Within Taos County, match the material to the job. Base course for a drive, a pad or a slab base.
Order base course and gravel for Taos County
Base course is the material to start with on almost any job here, from a rural drive to a slab base over caliche ground. New Mexico Rock Supply delivers it across Taos County along with crusher fines, drain rock, rip rap, sand, topsoil and decorative rock.