Dry River Tree Service

About Dry River Tree Service

The Dry River earns its name most summers, running down to gravel and stone while the corn stands green on both banks, and Dayton sits in that valley with Massanutten to the east and the Shenandoah ridges to the west. Dry River Tree Service works the farm lanes and town streets between them — removing trunks that have died back, trimming limbs off equipment sheds and porch roofs, pruning the old yard maples that shade half a lawn. Valley weather is honest about its intentions: wind funnels down off the ridges, and afterward the broken limbs get cleared and the brush comes out of the fields. Late winter is the season for the careful cuts, when everything is bare and the frame of a tree reads at a glance. Silver Lake going bright at the end of a working day is a fair way to finish one.