River Bend Outdoor Services

About River Bend Outdoor Services

The land east of Fairfield folds down toward a bend in the creek bottom, low ground that holds fog on an October morning and holds cold air just as stubbornly once winter sets in. River Bend Outdoor Services works that edge of town and the county roads running out past it, plowing the long driveways that wind down off the ridge toward the water. Cold air pools in a bottom like that well after the high ground has warmed, so a driveway near the creek can stay glazed with ice long after one up on the ridge has gone soft — the kind of detail a crew that works these particular roads learns to expect. Getting a driveway open from the road down to the house, salting the low spot where the ice never quite lets go, means a family out past the edge of town isn't stuck waiting on a thaw. Downtown rarely sees this stretch of Fairfield, but the driveways down in the bend need opening every bit as much as the ones on the square.