Hughes Paving Company

About Hughes Paving Company

French Lick sits down in a fold of hills thick enough with hardwoods that winter light barely reaches some of its steepest driveways before noon, and those grades -- curling up from the valley floor toward homes tucked into the hillside -- are where Hughes Paving Company does its most careful work. A driveway here isn't a flat rectangle; it's a climb, and ice on a pitch like that has to come off before anyone tries to back down it. The crew plows and salts those hill drives first, then works down into the flatter streets near the old resort buildings where the historic hotel catches the first sun of the day on its roofline. Winter moves slowly through these hollows, holding cold air longer than the open country ever does, so a driveway cleared here has to stay that way. Hughes Paving Company serves French Lick and the surrounding Springs Valley towns, including West Baden Springs, Paoli, and Orleans.