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Track and Athletic Surfaces in Hudson

Track and Athletic Surfaces in Hudson, Wisconsin.

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

4.7 from 21 Google reviews

About an hour west of Eau Claire on I-94. 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 Hudson

Hudson High School is on Vine Street with about 1,700 students, and it runs boys' and girls' track and field and boys' and girls' tennis. UW-River Falls has a satellite campus in the city as well. Track and court surfaces are summer work, because they need the pavement warm and dry and the season over. What a district gets out of the off-season is a written scope with quantities on it, in a form a board can act on.

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

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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 Hudson

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 Hudson

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 Hudson

What Hudson calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
We're in Hudson. Is that outside what you cover?
No. It's about 66 miles straight out I-94, right around an hour, and for commercial lots we come. 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 Hudson 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 Hudson 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 Hudson

Hudson is the county seat of St. Croix County, a city of about 15,000 on the St. Croix River where I-94 crosses into Minnesota. It's about 66 miles west of Eau Claire, right around an hour. The interstate gives the city four ways in: Exit 2 at Carmichael Road, both WIS 35 interchanges, and the US 12 and County U exit. The city is inside the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, and it's the last Wisconsin exit before the bridge.

Two things sit on Carmichael Road, the retail and the county. Exit 2 puts a Home Depot right at the interchange, with Prairie View Center, a multi-tenant retail and office property, up at Vine Street, and the St. Croix County Government Center and Courthouse is on the same road and has been expanded. Hudson Hospital and Clinic is a 25-bed critical access hospital on Stageline Road off that same exit, with two more buildings on the campus. Hudson High School is on Vine Street with about 1,700 students, and UW-River Falls runs a satellite campus in town.

The industry is out at Hanley Road and WI 35. St. Croix Business Park started there in the mid-nineties and markets large parcels for employment centers and distribution warehouses, and it holds a 640,000 square foot distribution center on about 64 acres at the corner of WI 35 and Hanley Road. Phillips-Medisize has its North American headquarters here, in a 180,000 square foot plant on the old St. Croix Meadows site. The older industrial pavement is on Industrial Street, about a mile off the interstate.

Where we work in Hudson

  • The Carmichael Road corridor
  • St. Croix Business Park
  • Hanley Road
  • Industrial Street
  • Stageline Road

Around Hudson: The I-94 crossing over the St. Croix River, St. Croix County Government Center on Carmichael Road, The Phipps Center for the Arts, The Octagon House Museum, The site of the original Little Free Library.

15,031 people, 2024 Census estimate.

The glacial deposits under St. Croix County run from nothing at all where bedrock comes up to more than 450 feet in the buried valleys, with 5 to 150 feet the usual. They get deeper toward the west end of the county, which is the end Hudson is on.

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  • Surfaces that are not ready yet get told so at the estimate

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