Eliot lies along the Piscataqua where the tide runs hard past the shore and the Great Works River comes down through the woods to meet it. Fernandes & Sons Landscaping keeps the yards here mowed, trimmed and edged, beds mulched and maintained, with cleanups in spring and a full leaf haul once the oaks along Route 236 finally give up. When storms track up from the south, those same properties get plowed — drives opened, walkways and steps cleared, sand or salt wherever the ice wants to start. Winter this close to the coast is wet and heavy far more often than it is powdery, which is precisely why early and repeated passes count. Service runs through Eliot, Kittery, South Berwick, York and Berwick.