Hunters Outdoor Services

About Hunters Outdoor Services

Frost still rims the inlets of Big Creek Lake when Hunters Outdoor Services starts its morning route through Woodward, plowing the driveways that back up to timber and the cabins that sit closer to the water than the highway does. The lake keeps its own kind of cold here — colder air pools in the low ground near the shoreline, and this crew has learned to expect ice on those approaches before it shows up anywhere else in Dallas County. Between the lake properties and the town's short residential streets, the work shifts from clearing long gravel lanes to tidy in-town drives without much of a gap between them. There's a kind of pride in getting a cabin road passable before the owners even know it snowed, in leaving nothing between a quiet weekend and the highway back to town. Hunters Outdoor Services covers Woodward and reaches toward Perry and Madrid, working the ground between Big Creek and the Raccoon River.