A cleared building lot showing exposed red clay after site preparation.

Snow Removal · Hendersonville

Snow Removal and Salting in Hendersonville, NC

Name: M&S Land Management
Address: Asheville, NC, US
Telephone: (828) 540-6856

Safe footing, clear lots.

Hendersonville is the Henderson County seat, half an hour south of Asheville down I-26, and a lot of this town walks. Downtown on Main Street, the churches, the retirement communities and the offices all need entrances and walks that are safe underfoot. Up toward Laurel Park the drives get steep. McKinley plows, salts and clears both, residential and commercial.

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Snow Removal · Hendersonville

Snow removal in Hendersonville

A Henderson County winter

Hendersonville sits at about 2,100 feet, lower than much of the ground around it, and its winters are mild by mountain standards. Most years bring a few snows and a few rounds of freezing rain, and the freezing rain does more harm than the snow. A glaze on a church walk or an office entrance is what puts people on the ground. Depth matters less here than whether the surface is treated before people step on it.

The ground around town is not all the same. The bottomland along Mud Creek is flat and open and clears quickly in the sun. The slopes west of downtown toward Laurel Park and Jump Off Rock are steep and wooded, and their shaded side holds ice long after town has melted. The orchard country east of town has long gravel lanes shared by houses, barns and farm trucks.

Who clears what in Hendersonville

The City of Hendersonville handles the streets it maintains, and NCDOT handles the state roads, such as US 64 and US 176, and most of the public roads out in the county. Both work the main routes first. A parking lot, a private road in a subdivision, a retirement community's internal drives and the walk from the lot to the front door are private property, and the owner or the association decides who clears them.

That gap is where most of the calls come from. An HOA wants the private road and the mailbox cluster cleared so residents can drive out. A church wants its lot and its steps safe on a Sunday morning after an overnight freeze. An office wants the lot open and the entrance treated for staff. Each one has a different set of priorities, and the contract is written around them.

Walks, steps and entrances

Nearly a third of the people in Hendersonville are over sixty-five, and in this town the walk from the car to the door matters as much as the lot. Snow is pushed back from the walks, the steps and the ramps, and salt or ice treatment goes on where people put their feet. The handrails, the curb cut at the entrance and the low spot where a downspout empties across the walk get the attention, because that is where ice forms first.

Melt is the other half of the job. Snow stacked uphill of a walk melts in the afternoon sun, runs across the concrete and freezes again by evening. Piles go downhill of the walks and away from the drains wherever the lot allows. Where it does not, the piles get loaded out. The snow removal page covers the full range of plowing, treatment and hauling.

Church lots, HOAs and offices

Commercial work around Hendersonville runs from the lots near Main Street to the offices and medical buildings along the main roads and the HOA communities on the edges of town. The tracked skid steer plows and stacks, and the dump truck hauls snow out when the piles start eating into parking. On a sloped church lot the drive lanes are plowed first, and the walks and the accessible spaces are treated in the same visit.

A seasonal contract settles all of this before the first storm. It lists what gets cleared, in what order, what is treated and when in a storm the visit happens. How those contracts are written is on the commercial snow contracts page. McKinley walks the lot first, so the contract fits the property you actually have, and the number is given on site.

Drives toward Laurel Park and Flat Rock

West of downtown the ground climbs steeply toward Laurel Park, and the houses there sit on cut pads with long drives up to them. South toward Flat Rock it is rolling and wooded. On those drives the trouble is a shaded turn or a short steep pitch that stays glazed for days. McKinley plows the drive and treats the pitches and the turns, and on gravel he keeps the blade high so the stone stays put.

East of town, the orchard lanes are long and often shared by a house, a barn and farm trucks. Those are plowed to the width the trucks need, with the turns at the barn left wide enough to swing, and stacked where the melt will run off the lane and not across it. Everything else McKinley does in town, from drives to drainage, is on the Hendersonville service area page.

Freshly laid and crowned gravel on a new driveway surface.

Main snow page

Snow Removal and Ice Control

Plowing, salting, hauling and walk clearing for homes, private roads and businesses around Asheville.

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(828) 540-6856

Call or text the address and what needs clearing: a lot, a drive, walks or all three. McKinley sets the route and the terms with you before the first snow.

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What it includes

What that covers

Church lots. Drive lanes plowed, walks and steps treated in the same visit.
HOA roads. Private subdivision roads and mailbox areas cleared.
Walks and entrances. Ramps, steps and doorways cleared and salted for foot traffic.
Office lots. Parking rows plowed and stacked, with piles hauled when needed.
Steep drives. Laurel Park and Flat Rock drives plowed and treated on the pitches.

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Hendersonville and nearby

Main snow page

Snow Removal and Ice Control

Plowing, salting, hauling and walk clearing for homes, private roads and businesses around Asheville.

See the page Snow service

Commercial Snow Contracts

Seasonal, per-push and per-event snow and ice contracts, walked and mapped before the first storm.

See the page Snow service

Salting and Ice Management

Pre-treating, salting and refreeze visits for ice storms, freezing rain and shaded mountain grades.

See the page Snow service

Sidewalk and Entrance Clearing

Walks, entrances, steps and ramps cleared and treated so people get from the car to the door safely.

See the page Snow service

Snow Hauling

Snow piles loaded out with the skid steer and dump truck when a tight mountain lot has nowhere to push.

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Hendersonville and the towns nearby

Hendersonville is the south end of the mountain run. North up US 25, the business lots and subdivisions between the airport and the county line are covered at snow removal in Fletcher. West on US 64, the wetter, steeper wooded ground of Transylvania County is covered at snow removal in Brevard. Flat Rock, East Flat Rock, Mills River and Etowah are on the same roads.

How a snow customer gets set up

Set up before the first storm.

You call

Call or text with the address, how steep the drive or road is and what needs clearing: lot, drive, walks or all of it.

McKinley walks it

He walks the property before the season, notes the grades, the shaded stretches and where the snow can go.

Terms in writing

Seasonal, per push or per event, the trigger, salt and walks are written down before anyone needs them.

Cleared when it falls

When the storm comes, the property is worked in the agreed order and treated where ice will form.

On the ground

The machines and the crew.

These are photographs from McKinley's actual jobs: the same equipment and the same crew that run the snow routes. See more recent work.

A finished driveway running through open pasture.

A gravel driveway cut into grade with a shaped stone ditch line running alongside it.

A dump truck placing a load of gravel on a new driveway base.

Questions about snow work

Questions people ask

Not seeing yours? Call (828) 540-6856 and ask McKinley, or read the guides.

Answers & guides

All guides

Does the city plow the private roads in my subdivision?

Usually not. The City of Hendersonville clears the streets it maintains and NCDOT clears state roads. A private subdivision road belongs to the owners or the HOA, and so does the job of clearing it. Many associations set up one seasonal contract for the whole road and the mailbox area, so nobody has to make calls during a storm.

Can you clear walks and steps as well as the parking lot?

Yes. Walks, steps, ramps and entrances are cleared and treated as part of the same visit. In Hendersonville that part often matters more than the lot, because a glazed walk is where people fall. The contract says which walks are included and whether they are treated every visit or only when ice forms.

Is freezing rain covered, or only snow?

Both. Around Hendersonville freezing rain is often the bigger problem than snow, and it needs treatment rather than plowing. A contract can cover salt and ice treatment on its own, for the days when there is nothing to plow but the lot and walks are glazed. You decide what is treated and how often.

Do you plow long orchard lanes and farm drives?

Yes. East of town many lanes serve a house, a barn and farm trucks. They are plowed to the width the trucks need, with the snow pushed off where the melt can drain away. On gravel the blade is kept high enough to leave the stone in place, and the steep or shaded pitches get treated.

How is the price for a church or office lot worked out?

McKinley walks the lot first. The size of the lot, the length of the walks, how steep the drive lanes are, where the snow can be stacked and how much treatment it needs all go into it. You get one number for what the contract covers, given on site, and the estimate is free.

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