Bulk Aggregates for Pathways in West Helena, AR

Arkansas Rock Supply provides gravel and aggregate delivery in West Helena, AR for driveways, pads, drainage runs and garden paths. If you are building a walkway or a paver patio, the material under it decides how the surface holds up.

SB-2 base is the Arkansas name for the dense-graded crushed stone that carries most of that work. On the Crowley's Ridge side of Phillips County, the ground under your project is loess, and how you handle water matters as much as the stone.

Ground and Conditions in West Helena

Across the Crowley's Ridge, the ground is deep wind-blown loess over sand, gravel and clay. Loess is fertile and well drained, and it cuts cleanly when you dig it.

It also slumps and gullies wherever it is left bare. A cut bank or a drive edge that sits open through a wet spring will move.

Water behaves differently here than on the flat ground either side of the ridge. Loess takes rain readily until it saturates, then sheds it down steep cuts and hollows.

That is the failure a thin base shows first. Water reaches the subgrade, the stone loses its support, and the surface ruts or pumps under a tire.

The fix is a proper dense-graded base that locks up, plus a drainage path that carries water away from the edge.

Work runs all year here, with winter and spring rain the limit. A freshly cut loess slope wants armoring or planting before the next heavy rain rather than after it.

Materials for West Helena Projects

Paths and walkways are the job where fines and screenings earn their place. Screenings, also called limestone fines or crusher fines, are the Arkansas material for paver, flagstone and brick bedding, joint filling and a tight walking surface.

Screenings bind when they are compacted and watered, so a path surfaced with them stays firm underfoot instead of rolling under a shoe. Use Screenings to bed pavers and to finish a garden path or side yard.

Under that bedding you still need a structural base. SB-2 base is a dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller.

It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads and pipe bedding. When a written standard applies, the same material appears as Class 7 base, the name Arkansas cities and engineers write into street, sidewalk and parking specs.

Order it as SB-2 Base.

Where a path needs a finer, walkable surface than a drive, Walkway Gravel is the practical choice. For a looser decorative finish, 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel suits walkways, play areas, dog runs and drainage, and it comes rounded and washed out of river gravel deposits.

Drainage is the other half of a path that lasts. #57 Limestone is the washed size for French drains, foundation and pipe drainage and a clean top over a compacted base, with no fines to hold water.

Delivery to West Helena and the Surrounding Area

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 if you want to size the load before you commit.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site, so it helps to have the spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives. West Helena sits in Phillips County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Marvell, Elaine, Lexa, Poplar Grove and Helena.

Order Your Path and Base Materials

Size your load with the calculator on each product page, then order by the ton or the yard and pick your delivery date at checkout. Arkansas Rock Supply delivers SB-2 base, screenings, washed stone and sand across West Helena and Phillips County.

Place your order online and we will get a truck out to your site.