Riverside Outdoor Services

About Riverside Outdoor Services

Grafton folds itself around a bend of the Park River, and Riverside Outdoor Services works the streets closest to that curve, where the current freezes first and the cold seems to settle deepest. Near Leistikow Park the river goes still and white, and the footbridge that crosses it in summer stands nearly buried by January, a good marker for how much snow the season has stacked up. The crew clears driveways and walkways along those river-adjacent blocks with the same patience the water shows working its bends — steady, unhurried, one pass after another until the concrete shows again. Kids still cut across the cleared sidewalks to sled the riverbank hill behind the park, proof the work gets used the same day it's done. It's a small, particular corner of town, and the plowing suits it.