Rapid City Snow Removal

About Rapid City Snow Removal

Rapid Creek narrows down to a canyon on its way out of the hills, and the road that follows it through Cleghorn stays shadowed most of the day in winter, ice building up along the rock walls long after the open streets downtown have dried out. Rapid City Snow Removal treats that canyon stretch and the driveways branching off it as its own kind of route, since a plow blade that works fine on flat pavement can slide on the canyon's tighter curves. Evening runs are common here, after the day's traffic has packed the road down and before overnight cold locks it into ice. Salt goes down heavier on the shaded curves than anywhere else on the route. Driveways along the canyon get plowed to bare gravel or pavement, whichever is underneath, and walkways get cleared by hand where the grade is too steep for a truck. The route continues out past the canyon into the rest of Rapid City proper.