OLYMPIC VALLEY · SINCE 1965
Private and association road sealcoating in Olympic Valley.
The valley road runs flat to the base area, which makes access simple even when the surrounding terrain is not. Robert E. Sutton Co. works out of Truckee, licensed in California and Nevada, and private road sealcoating is one of the three things we do. Call (530) 587-4161.
What the work involves
Association road networks get assessed segment by segment, then sealed on a rotation so no single season carries the whole cost and no stretch of road goes a decade bare. Crack sealing runs across the whole network annually underneath that rotation.
Why it matters at this elevation
Asphalt is rock held together by an oil binder, and that binder is what weather attacks first. Sun dries it out, water works at it, and a dried out binder lets the surface ravel apart grain by grain. Sealer takes that punishment so the binder underneath stays flexible longer.
Pavement in this range spends a long stretch under snow and then a long stretch cycling between melt and overnight refreeze. The refreeze does the damage. Water that ran into a crack at two in the afternoon is ice by nine at night, and ice takes up more room than the water did.
How the job runs
A typical job runs clean, crack seal, coat, then cure. Cure time is the part owners underestimate. Vehicles stay off at least a day, longer if the pavement is shaded or the nights are cool, and turning a wheel while parked on a young coating will scuff it.
Olympic Valley pavement specifically
Resort base pavement carries surges: day lots, service yards, and the lodging and residential drives spread along the valley floor. Big lots like these are usually done in sections so the operation keeps running through the work.
Olympic Valley — home of Palisades Tahoe and the 1960 Winter Games — funnels serious traffic up a single valley road all winter.
For a coating to be worth applying here, the surface underneath has to be sound and the cracks have to be closed first. We check both before quoting a seal.
Olympic Valley sits at roughly 6,200 feet, and the pavement around it behaves accordingly. More on the area on our Olympic Valley service area page. We work the same corridor through Agate Bay, Alpine Meadows, Alpine Peaks, and the pavement guides go deeper on the physics if you want it.
Questions
Will private road sealcoating fix pavement that is already breaking up?
No, and we will say so plainly. Surface work protects sound pavement. If an area has failed down into the base it needs repair or replacement, which is paving work, and we do not pave. We will tell you which areas are which.
How often should this be repeated in Olympic Valley?
Crack work is close to annual up here because every winter opens something new. Surface and striping work runs on a cycle measured in a few years, shorter on plowed and heavily used pavement.
Is there a minimum job size?
No. Driveways are a large share of what we do and small jobs get grouped efficiently on the schedule. The thing that makes a small job hard is calling in late August, not the size of it.
Get private road sealcoating scoped
Call (530) 587-4161 or send a request. We reply within one business day and we will tell you straight what your pavement needs and what it does not.