Midway Tree

About Midway Tree

Custer sits at the edge of granite country, and the road climbing toward the Needles gains elevation fast enough that a storm can drop rain in town and snow just a few miles up the highway. Midway Tree works that in-between ground, plowing driveways set on the rocky benches above Custer where the pine thins out and granite outcrops start to show through. The company's routes run from the flatter streets in town up into the switchbacks, clearing short, steep drives that a standard plow blade has to approach at an angle. Snow up in that granite country tends to crust hard overnight before a warmer afternoon softens it, so timing a plow run right matters more here than on level ground. By evening, the cleared drives sit like pale steps climbing the rock, visible from the highway below.