Long’s Landscaping

About Long’s Landscaping

Long Beach sits right against Lake Michigan, close enough that the snow here doesn't so much fall as blow in sideways off the water in long white bands, and Long's Landscaping times its plow runs around those squalls rather than the clock. Summer cottages tucked among the dunes go quiet after Labor Day, but their driveways still need clearing all winter for the handful of neighbors who stay through the lake-effect months. A crew that spends warm months shaping beach-grass borders and dune plantings knows this sandy ground doesn't hold a plow blade the way inland clay does, so the passes stay careful and low, closer to a sweep than a shove. Streets running down toward the shoreline ice first and worst, glazed by spray carried up off the breakers, and those get done before the cul-de-sacs set back from the water. When the wind finally lets up, the driveways along the dune ridge sit clear, waiting for cottage owners who won't see them again until spring.