Crushed Stone Near Me

Buying crushed stone locally

Crushed stone is rock that a quarry blasted, crushed, and screened into a set size range. It costs $20 to $40 per ton in 2026, weighs 1.35 to 1.55 tons per cubic yard, and is the base under nearly every road, driveway, slab, and patio in the country. The important difference from "gravel" in the natural sense is shape: crushed stone is angular, so the pieces lock together, while natural river gravel is rounded and rolls. Almost everything sold as gravel at a quarry is crushed stone. ## Crushed Stone Sizes and What Each One Does Sizes follow the ASTM C33 sieve table. Smaller number, bigger stone. | Size | Piece size | Main use | |---|---|---| | #1 / #2 | 2.5 to 4 inches | Erosion control, culvert outlets, heavy base | | #3 | 1.5 to 2.5 inches | Railroad ballast, deep driveway base, drainage beds | | [#4](/gravel/types/4-stone) | 1 to 1.5 inches | Driveway base, retaining wall backfill, dry wells | | [#57](/gravel/types/57-gravel) | 3/4 to 1 inch | Driveways, French drains, concrete, pipe bedding | | [#8](/gravel/types/8-gravel) | 3/8 to 1/2 inch | Driveway top layer, walkways, asphalt | | [#89](/gravel/types/89-stone) | 3/8 inch and smaller | Patios, paths, pipe bedding | | #10 / [stone dust](/gravel/types/stone-dust) | Under 1/4 inch | Paver base, leveling, path surface | | [Crusher run](/gravel/types/crusher-run) | 3/4 or 1.5 inch minus | Packed base and driveway surface | "Clean" or "washed" sizes have the fines removed and drain. "Minus" or "dense grade" products keep the fines and pack. Pick clean stone for drainage and packed stone for anything you drive or walk on. ## Limestone, Granite, Basalt, and Trap Rock Crushed stone takes on the character of the local rock. Crushed limestone (Midwest, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania) is softer, cheaper, and packs tighter as edges wear. Crushed granite (Georgia, Carolinas, Virginia, New England) is harder, stays sharp, and drains longer. Basalt and trap rock (Pacific Northwest, New Jersey) are the hardest and heaviest. All three work for base and drainage. Price tracks distance to the quarry more than rock type, so buy whatever is local. ## What Crushed Stone Is Used For - **Driveways.** The standard build is 4 inches of #3 or #4, then 3 to 4 inches of #57, then 2 inches of #8 or crusher run. On firm ground, 4 to 6 inches of crusher run alone. - **Slab and foundation base.** A 4-inch layer of #57 under concrete stops moisture wicking and spreads loads. - **Drainage.** #57 or #4 in French drains, dry wells, and behind walls. - **Paver base.** 4 to 6 inches of compacted crusher run under 1 inch of stone dust or sand. - **Roads and parking.** Crusher run or dense grade aggregate compacted in lifts. - **Concrete and asphalt.** #57 in concrete, #8 and #89 in asphalt mixes. - **Landscaping.** Smaller sizes as path surfaces and ground cover in gray tones, though rounded pea gravel and river rock look softer. ## Crushed Stone Versus Gravel In everyday speech they are the same thing. Technically, gravel is naturally rounded stone from rivers and pits, and crushed stone is quarried and crushed. The angular pieces of crushed stone interlock, which is why base layers, driveways, and anything that has to carry weight use crushed stone. Rounded gravel like [pea gravel](/gravel/types/pea-gravel) and [river rock](/gravel/types/river-rock) is for looks and for places where people walk barefoot. Read [gravel vs crushed stone](/gravel/types/compare/crushed-stone-vs-pea-gravel) for the side by side. ## How Much Crushed Stone to Order One ton covers about 80 square feet at 3 inches and 60 square feet at 4 inches. Clean stone compacts 5 to 10 percent, crusher run about 15 percent, so add that to the loose volume. A 12 x 40 ft driveway with a 4-inch layer needs 9 to 10 tons. A 10-ton single-axle truckload costs $200 to $400 before delivery, which is $50 to $150 within 10 to 15 miles. ## What to Avoid Do not order "crushed stone" without a size. You may get #3 when you needed #57, and 2-inch rock is miserable to rake. Do not use clean stone as a finished driveway surface on soft ground; it sinks. Do not use crusher run or any minus product inside a drain. And keep crushed stone out of play areas and away from bare feet. The edges are sharp. Yards also call it Crushed Rock or Crushed Aggregate. GoodGravel lists 131 suppliers that stock crushed stone across 43 states. 51 of them deliver and 32 are pits or quarries that sell straight from the stockpile.

Expect crushed stone to run $20 to $40 per ton at the yard, or $25 to $55 per cubic yard. A 10 ton load is $200 to $400 before delivery. Available at every quarry and most landscape yards. Always specify the sieve size (#57, #4, crusher run, and so on) when ordering. Quarry delivery minimums are usually 5 to 10 tons. Pits sit at the low end of that range and landscape yards at the high end, since the yard bought it from a pit and trucked it in.

Crushed Stone works well for driveway base and middle layers, slab and foundation base, drainage (clean sizes), and paver base (crusher run). Skip it for play areas and barefoot zones and decorative beds where a soft look is wanted. The upside: angular pieces interlock and carry weight and cheapest bulk material at $20 to $40 per ton. The catch: sharp edges, hard on bare feet and tires in big sizes.

Crushed stone is sold by sieve size, from stone dust and #10 screenings (under 1/4 inch) through #8 (3/8 to 1/2 inch), #57 (3/4 to 1 inch), #4 (1 to 1.5 inches), #3 (1.5 to 2.5 inches), and #1 or #2 (2.5 to 4 inches). Every size is angular with fractured faces. Color follows the quarry: gray or blue-gray limestone, gray to pink granite, dark basalt, or tan sandstone and limestone in the South. One cubic yard of crushed stone weighs about 1.45 tons. A 3 inch layer over 500 square feet takes 4.6 cubic yards, which is close to 6.7 tons. Add 10 percent for settling and the odd low spot.

Press the location button at the top of the page and the list sorts by distance from you. Call the closest yard and ask for crushed stone by name and by size. Ask if it is washed or still has fines in it, because that changes how it drains and how it packs. If the nearest yard is out, the next one is usually within 20 miles when you are near a city.

Under 2 tons, pickup with your own truck or a trailer is the cheaper route. A half ton pickup takes about a third of a yard per trip. Above 5 tons, delivery starts to pay for itself because the fee spreads over more stone. Either way, get the total price for your exact tonnage from two yards and compare those totals, not the price per ton.

Read more about the material on the crushed stone guide.