Eastern Iowa Landscapes

About Eastern Iowa Landscapes

Lake Macbride sits just far enough outside Solon that a cabin or a lake-view lot out there gets a different kind of winter than the houses back in town — ice forming thick and slow over the water while the wind off the open lake keeps drifting the same stretch of driveway shut two and three times in a week. Eastern Iowa Landscapes handles those lakeside properties alongside the ordinary in-town lots, switching from grooming the shoreline in summer to keeping the access roads open once the lake locks up for the season. A driveway that loops down toward the water needs plowing timed around the lake's own weather, which runs its own schedule apart from whatever Solon proper is getting. Getting a lakeside drive open before a weekend, so a cabin owner can actually get the car down to the water's edge, is a particular kind of win this crew has come to expect from that stretch of shoreline. By January the lake work and the lawn work have folded into the same job, each one teaching something about the other.