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Track and Athletic Surfaces in Cottage Grove

Track and Athletic Surfaces in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.

Track and court resurfacing for schools in and around Cottage Grove, scheduled into the summer window.

4.7 from 21 Google reviews

About an hour and a half west of Eau Claire on I-94 and south on Highway 61. The estimate is free.

A resurfaced asphalt running track with crisp white lane lines, painted lane numbers and colored exchange markings, playing field beyond.
4.7 Google ratingFrom 21 reviews
Summer Work windowBetween seasons
Measured Lane stripingEvery lane the same width

Working in Cottage Grove

Park High School on 80th Street South is the South Washington County high school here, and it has an outdoor track that shows up as a meet venue plus tennis courts on site. The district runs about 19,360 students across 29 schools, so the buildings-and-grounds list it works through is long. Track and court work is a summer job, and the summer window is the one every district in the metro is trying to book. Lanes and exchange zones get measured rather than eyeballed, and anything that has opened up gets hot rubber at 400 degrees before a surface goes over it.

From our jobs

Job Photos

A resurfaced running track with fresh white lane lines, painted lane numbers and yellow exchange marks
Lane lines and numbers, back on after resurfacing
A resurfaced running track curve with white lane lines and colored relay exchange zone markers
Relay exchange zones, measured and marked

All job photos

What makes track work different

The surface work is the same trade. Clean it, fill what has opened up, seal it, and it lasts. What's different is everything downstream of the paint gun. Lane lines are set from a measured stagger so that every lane runs the same distance. Exchange zones and acceleration zones have defined lengths and have to be marked in the right colors to be read at speed. Get the layout wrong and you have a facility that looks finished and can't host a meet, which is a problem nobody notices until the day it matters.

What Decides the Price in Cottage Grove

These are ranges. Anything at this scale is walked and measured before it is quoted, because condition and layout move the number far more than square footage does.

Restripe only

Existing layout, surface sound

Measured on site

  • Lanes, exchange and acceleration zones, numbers
  • Layout taken from the existing measured stagger

Courts

Tennis, basketball, pickleball

Measured on site

  • Per court, depending on condition and color coating
  • Multiple courts on one visit come down per court

Public bodies usually need a bid they can put against a budget line, often a season ahead. Ask in the fall for work the following summer and you'll get a better number and a better slot.

How the Work Goes in Cottage Grove

Track work happens in the summer window between seasons.

Walk it, measure it, write it

Condition survey and a measured check of the existing layout before anything is quoted. If the stagger has drifted from an earlier restripe, that gets found now rather than after the paint is down.

Crack repair

Hot rubber at 400 degrees into anything that has opened up. On a track this matters more than on a lot, because a crack across a running lane is a trip hazard as well as a leak.

Clean and seal

The whole surface, edge to edge. This is the step that buys the years and it is the one that gets deferred, because a faded track still works.

Lay out the lines

Chalked from measurements, checked, then painted. Lanes, exchange and acceleration zones, start lines, and lane numbers.

Hand it back clean

Cured, swept, and ready for the season.

Questions We Get in Cottage Grove

What Cottage Grove calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
How far out is this for you?
Cottage Grove is about 84 miles from Eau Claire and roughly an hour and a half: I-94 west, then south on Highway 61. For commercial lots we come out. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.
When can track work be done?
Summer, between seasons. Sealer needs warm dry weather and a proper cure, and a track needs to be closed while that happens, so the window is roughly June through August in Cottage Grove and the surrounding area. Book in the winter for the following summer.
How often does an asphalt track need resealing?
Every three to five years for the seal, and crack filling as often as it needs it, which in Cottage Grove and the surrounding area is usually annually on an older track. Lines get relaid with the seal, because sealing over them removes them.
Can you restripe a track without resurfacing it?
Yes, and it is often the right call when the surface is sound and only the lines have faded. It buys a few years before the surface work is genuinely due. What it costs depends on the layout: lane count, whether the exchange zones and the field events are being reinstated, and whether the existing lines can be followed or have to be set out again.
Do you do tennis, basketball and pickleball courts?
Yes. Same trade, smaller and simpler layout. Multiple courts done on one visit cost less per court because the trip is already paid for.
Can you put track and court work out as a formal bid?
Yes. Written scope, measured quantities and a firm number, in whatever format your district needs it, and early enough to sit in next year's budget.

The Lots and Surfaces in Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove is in Washington County, about 43,000 people, served by US 61, US 10 and I-494. From Eau Claire it's about 84 miles and roughly an hour and a half, west on I-94 and then south on 61. The city puts its business park 11 miles off I-94 and a bit over six miles from I-494.

This is the industrial end of the corridor. The Cottage Grove Business Park is off Highway 61 at the Jamaica exit, four-lane frontage, lots divisible down to an acre and rail-served sites on the CP line, and the city's own list of firms out there runs from Airgas and United Rentals to Renewal by Andersen, Tradehome Shoes, the USPS and Up North Plastics. Werner Electric's headquarters and regional distribution center is on 95th Street South, a 122,000 square foot building on 20 acres that has since been expanded. 3M has run chemical operations here since 1947.

The newest ground is bigger still. Cottage Grove Logistics Park is a 253-acre site with nine industrial buildings planned, about 3.4 million square feet, with direct access to Highway 61, I-494 and I-94. Innovation Village is another 223 acres along 61, opened up by the 100th Street extension and a bridge over the CPKC railroad and aimed at logistics and distribution. The retail corridor is East Point Douglas Road South, with Cottage Grove Plaza and Gateway Center on it and a Walmart built on part of the old drive-in site; the rest of that ground is 73 developable commercial acres at Innovation Road. Three clinics serve the city, and the public campus is City Hall and public safety on Ravine Parkway with the HERO Center training campus and range next to it.

Where we work in Cottage Grove

  • Cottage Grove Business Park
  • Cottage Grove Logistics Park
  • Innovation Village
  • East Point Douglas Road South
  • Ravine Parkway South

Around Cottage Grove: Ravine Regional Park, The HERO Center on 85th Street South, Park Grove Library on Hemingway Avenue, River Oaks municipal golf course, Cottage Grove Plaza on East Point Douglas Road.

42,760 people, 2024 Census estimate.

The Mississippi valley outwash runs through here, sand and gravel that filled the valley and was later cut into flat terraces between 800 and 820 feet, and the valley widens near Cottage Grove. State building rules put the frost footing depth at 42 inches in Washington County.

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Tell us what it looks like and we'll come measure it. You get a written price before anything starts.

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  • Free on commercial lots and properties in Cottage Grove
  • A photo of the problem helps, and it can go in the message
  • Surfaces that are not ready yet get told so at the estimate

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