Billings Heights, MT
Asphalt paving in Billings Heights answers to Main Street. The state counts around 39,000 vehicles a day on that corridor, and for decades it was the one road in and out of the neighborhood. The city engineer put it plainly after the 2010 tornado: Main Street was the only way in or out. That changed in June 2024, when Skyway Drive opened, a five-mile arterial with a multi-use path tying Wicks Lane and Alkali Creek Road to Zimmerman Trail and Highway 3. The city expects it to pull about a fifth of the traffic off Highway 3 and take pressure off Main. For the shops, clinics and lots that front Main Street, none of that changes the daily reality. Customers turn in hard, delivery trucks cut the same corner every morning, and the pavement takes the hit.
Ostermiller Construction paves, repaves and patches asphalt across the Heights from Shepherd, a few minutes up Highway 312. Parking lots and storefronts along Main get the commercial treatment, and the residential side has its own page at asphalt driveways for Heights homes. The concrete work we do up here lives on our Billings Heights page, and the metro-wide service is under asphalt paving and repair for the Billings area. Estimates are free and happen at the surface, in person.
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A lot that fronts Main Street sees more turning traffic in a week than a side-street drive sees in a year. Turning tires twist the surface, and delivery trucks concentrate weight at the same entrance every day. We build thickness where that weight lands: a deeper compacted base and more mat at the approaches and drive lanes, with a lighter section where cars only park.
The new Skyway Drive route will move some through traffic off the bench over time, but Main Street stays the neighborhood's main street. If your lot is alligatored at the entrance and sound in the stalls, the fix is a rebuilt entrance, not a whole new lot. We will say which one you need after we look.
Parts of the Heights still run on old county road sections. Wicks Lane has stretches with no curb or gutter, and the city spent three construction seasons rebuilding the Wicks corridor's storm drainage because the old system could not keep up. Where there is no gutter, the pavement has to do the draining. We grade lots and drives so water leaves the mat and reaches the ditch or the inlet without ponding at the low corner.
Billings averages 57.4 inches of snow a year, and melt that sits on asphalt gets under asphalt. Every freeze pries the crack a little wider. Sealing cracks in the fall is the cheapest maintenance a Heights lot can buy, and a seal coat every few years keeps the surface tight against sun and melt.
The Heights sits inside Billings city limits, and the city's permit rules apply. A building permit is required for a parking lot. A driveway or sidewalk that sits entirely on private property and does not support a structure needs none. Where a project touches the curb, apron or public sidewalk, the city requires a separate permit, issues it only to licensed and bonded contractors, and wants 24 hours notice before that work starts.
At the estimate we map which parts of your project fall under which rule and build the permit step into the schedule. For a lot that needs a permit, the drawings and the application happen before the paver shows up. Call (406) 717-4103 to get it started.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Billings Heights and Yellowstone County.
(406) 717-4103From the first look at the job to the final walk-through, here is exactly how it goes.
We come see the actual job — the slab, the driveway, the lot, and the ground under it. What failed, why it failed, and what the fix really is. No blind quotes over the phone.
You get a free written quote with a real number and a real timeline. It says what's included — tear-out, haul-off, prep, materials — and it holds unless the scope changes.
The crew shows up when we said and does the job the way we quoted it — tear-out, base, forms, pour, pave, seal or stripe. Anything unexpected, you hear about it immediately, not on the invoice.
We walk the finished work together before we call it done. Clean lines, clean site, old material hauled off, and clear guidance on cure times and care. Done means you say it's done.
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