Oleson Landscape & Design

About Oleson Landscape & Design

West Lake Okoboji locks up under ice most winters, and the boardwalk past the old amusement park that was packed with families every July goes still enough to hear your own boots on the snow. Oleson Landscape & Design works the driveways and walkways of the homes and cottages that ring the lake, clearing paths for the handful of year-round neighbors who watch the ice fishing shanties go up where the water skiers were pulling wakes months before. A driveway cleared down to the gravel or blacktop on a property that spends most of its year waiting for summer says someone's still looking after the place even in January. The Iowa Great Lakes region gets its own weather off that much open water, lake-effect bands that can drop snow on Arnolds Park while Spirit Lake a few miles off stays dry. Getting a walkway shoveled before the ice underneath bonds to the pavers is the whole trick of it, done quietly while the amusement park rides sit dark for the season.