Pad prep and quarry-direct material for the historic crossroads community that was once Douglas County’s first seat of government.
Franktown predates almost everything else in this part of Colorado. It was Douglas County’s first county seat from 1861 to 1863, before the railroad made the old Cherry Creek trail obsolete and the seat moved to Castle Rock. Site prep and landscape materials delivery in Franktown today serves a community that’s stayed rural and unincorporated ever since, more acreage and ranch properties than subdivisions.
The town takes its name from James Frank Gardner, who had a squatter’s house along the popular Cherry Creek route to Denver. A few miles south, the Castlewood Dam was built in 1890 to irrigate 30,000 acres of farmland, until it collapsed in 1933 and sent a billion-gallon flood downstream toward Denver. The dam’s remains sit today inside Castlewood Canyon State Park, and evidence found in nearby Franktown Cave shows people have used this land for more than 8,000 years.
That kind of history sits on genuinely rural ground, and pad prep or material delivery out here still means working acreage lots and ranch properties, not a modern subdivision grid.
Pads for barns and shops on Franktown’s rural acreage lots.
Sub-base and footing work for new construction.
Fill compacted in lifts for Franktown’s ranch and farmland soil.
Topsoil and fill delivered across spread-out rural properties.
Base material for long driveways and ranch access roads.
River rock and stone for a historic rural property.
Want the full catalog? See our dedicated pages for site prep and landscape materials. Need a driveway too? See road building & driveways. Bigger dig on the property? See excavation & grading.
Properties here run bigger and more rural than a typical Douglas County suburb. We bring equipment sized for that scale.
Our super tandem trucks haul 25 to 30 tons a load, keeping cost per ton down even on Franktown’s larger parcels.
This soil has supported ranching and farming for well over a century. We compact and grade it the same way, with respect for what’s actually there.
Franktown’s unincorporated, spread-out layout doesn’t slow us down. We know this stretch of county well.
Outbuilding pads and material delivery for Franktown’s larger rural parcels.
Yard and pad work for in-town and nearby residential lots.
Pad prep for new construction on acreage properties.
Quarry-direct pricing on larger rural orders.
Site work for the community’s shared-access or agricultural projects.
Evidence from Franktown Cave shows people have used this land for more than 8,000 years, and ranching and farming have shaped it for well over a century since. We grade and compact it the same way, carefully, rather than treating it like a blank subdivision lot.
Just south of town, the Castlewood Canyon State Park preserves the remains of the old dam and the canyon it once held back, a reminder of how much water and grading shape this land. We plan drainage on every Franktown property with that same history in mind.
Castle Rock and Parker have grown fast in recent decades, but Franktown has held onto its acreage character. That keeps genuine ranch-scale site work steady, even as the rest of Douglas County builds out.
Tell us about the property and the access. We walk the site, give you a straight number, and bring equipment sized for it.
