Pea Gravel for Pathways in Hernshaw, WV

West Virginia Rock Supply sells gravel and aggregate delivery in Hernshaw, WV, to contractors and homeowners working the same hillsides. Crusher run is the base a drive or pad here starts from, and screenings handle the paths and bed prep around it.

Hernshaw sits in Kanawha County, on ground where flat spots are scarce and much of what is flat is fill.

Ground and Conditions in Hernshaw

Across the Allegheny Plateau coalfields, steep hillsides of acid, stony residuum sit over sandstone, shale and coal measures. Deep colluvium collects in the hollows, and narrow alluvial strips run along the creek bottoms.

A thin base course shows its first failure at the edge, where the stone spreads outward instead of holding. On ground like this, the base has to be built up before any surface goes down.

Rain off long, steep slopes funnels into one creek and one road. A drive takes runoff gathered from well uphill, so culverts and ditches decide how the surface holds up.

This is the most landslide-prone ground in the state. Mine regolith is the most slide-prone material, and shale and siltstone are the most susceptible rock.

Saturated hillside fill will not compact, and it should not be built on until it drains.

Work runs most of the year here, held up by long wet spells rather than by cold. Frost depth is set by the county or municipal building official, so confirm the local figure before footing work.

Materials for Hernshaw Projects

Fines and screenings do the fine work on paths and walkways around Hernshaw, where a walkable surface matters more than load capacity. Screenings, also called stone dust or limestone screenings, bed pavers, flagstone and brick and fill the joints between them.

For a longer path or a side yard, Walkway Gravel gives a finer, walkable surface than a drive mix. Where you want a small rounded stone instead, 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel suits walkways, play areas and patio infill.

Crusher run is the everyday West Virginia base and drive material. It is crushed stone with the fines left in, so it locks up tight under a roller and holds a grade on a hillside drive.

Local quarries sell it by top size, 3/4 inch, 1-1/2 inch and coarser.

Class 1 base is the heavier base course under drives, parking pads, shop floors and slabs. Use it to build up when the subgrade is soft ground or old fill.

Class 1 is the coarser of the two crusher run classes West Virginia yards sell.

Class 2 base is the finer crusher run class. It gives a tighter surface than the coarse base, and it works as a top course over a Class 1 base.

• Crusher Run: base and drive material with the fines left in.
• Class 1 Base: heavier base course over soft ground or old fill.
• Stone Screenings: bedding pavers and flagstone, filling joints.
• #57 Limestone: drainage, French drains and pipe bedding.
• Walkway Gravel: paths, garden walks and side yards.

For drainage, #57 limestone is washed 1 inch clean stone, and West Virginia quarries list it that way. It goes in French drains, pipe bedding and downspout runs.

Drain Rock covers drywells and foundation drains.

Where a bank or culvert outlet needs armour, Riprap protects creek and hollow banks and channel work after a washout. Yards sell it by stone size and by weight class.

Delivery to Hernshaw and the Surrounding Area

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

A dump truck tips the load on site as one pile. Bulk delivery reaches Hernshaw and the rest of Kanawha County, including Charleston, South Charleston, St.

Albans, Dunbar and Nitro.

Order Gravel and Aggregate for Hernshaw

Size your load on the product page calculator, then pick your delivery date at checkout. West Virginia Rock Supply delivers crusher run, screenings and landscape rock across Hernshaw and Kanawha County.

Place your order online when you are ready.