Knute Knudson Construction

About Knute Knudson Construction

The hills around Hiawatha were shaped by ice long before anyone plowed a road through them, and this crew has spent enough winters regrading driveways and lot approaches here to know every low spot where drifts pile deepest. Knute Knudson Construction runs the same equipment that grades foundations and cuts driveways in warmer months to push snow in January — blades and loaders built for moving earth turned to moving weather instead. Out past the Davis Memorial at Mount Hope Cemetery, the county roads roll white over the same glacial swells that gave this ground its shape, and a plowed lane through them looks almost deliberate, like a line drawn on purpose. Commercial lots get opened up to bare gravel before the morning traffic starts. Long rural driveways and church parking lots follow right behind, cleared the same way. There is a particular satisfaction in cutting a straight edge into a field of snow on land this old.