Tri-State Landscaping

About Tri-State Landscaping

Down on the valley floor in Bellevue, where Main Street runs flat and close enough to Lock and Dam No. 12 to feel the water working, snow off the river valley tends to arrive heavy and wet rather than dry and blowing the way it does farther inland. Tri-State Landscaping clears that low ground first after a storm — the sidewalks near the lock, the lots behind the shops that face straight across the river into Illinois — since standing water and slush pool there and refreeze hard overnight. The company's name fits the view from this stretch of bank about as well as it fits anywhere: Illinois is close enough to see plainly, and Wisconsin isn't far past it either. A cleared walk along the river in January means someone can still get down to watch the barges lock through without testing their footing first. It's a valley-floor route built entirely around a river that decides the weather here more than the sky does.