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Track and Athletic Surfaces in Lake Elmo

Track and Athletic Surfaces in Lake Elmo, Minnesota.

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

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About an hour and a half 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 Lake Elmo

Lake Elmo has Lake Elmo Elementary and Oak-Land Middle School inside the city, and Oak-Land has an approved expansion on Manning Avenue. There's no high school here: the city is split between three districts, 622, 832 and 834, and ISD 834's high school is over in Oak Park Heights. So the athletic pavement in Lake Elmo is elementary and middle school work, hard-surface play courts rather than a competition track. Court work is a summer job and the surface gets measured and laid out rather than eyeballed.

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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 Lake Elmo

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

Crack repair, seal and restripe

The usual maintenance cycle

Measured on site

  • Hot crack filling, surface seal, full relay of lines
  • The cycle most asphalt tracks want every few years

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 Lake Elmo

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.

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Questions We Get in Lake Elmo

What Lake Elmo calls us about, answered straight.

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How far is this from Eau Claire? Do you actually come out here?
About 75 miles and an hour and a half, straight out I-94. 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.
We're a single commercial building on the frontage. Is that too small to quote?
No. A small commercial lot gets walked and measured the same way a campus does, and you get quantities and a fixed number rather than a figure off a satellite picture.
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 Lake Elmo 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 Lake Elmo 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 Lake Elmo

Lake Elmo sits in Washington County with Highway 36 along its north edge and I-94 along the south, about 14,000 people and roughly 75 miles from Eau Claire. Much of the land inside the city limits is still farmland and the city keeps a rural look, so the commercial ground is in two places: the interstate frontage along Hudson Boulevard and Inwood, and the old village center on Lake Elmo Avenue. It's growing fast, and the city projects more than 21,000 people by 2040.

What commercial fabric there is clusters at the interstate. Lake Elmo Business Park is in the northeast quadrant of I-94 and Lake Elmo Avenue, offered as build-to-suit, lease or land, with frontage on a road carrying more than 80,000 vehicles a day. Inwood Commercial is a five-lot commercial subdivision finishing the Inwood master plan, and Bridgewater Village platted a bank and a preschool on Upper 40th Street. The medical center on Hudson Boulevard has an approved expansion, and a storage center on the same road runs drive-up units and outdoor vehicle parking.

The rest is the old village and the public land. Lake Elmo Avenue carries a short retail row rebuilt around a pizzeria, a creamery and a boutique. Lake Elmo Airport is a Metropolitan Airports Commission field with a fixed-base operator, aircraft maintenance, fueling and flight training, and it opened a new 3,500-foot runway. Three school districts split the city, 622, 832 and 834, with Lake Elmo Elementary and Oak-Land Middle School inside the limits. The city is also putting in new wells, connecting homes to city water and designing a treatment plant under the PFAS settlement, which means trenched and restored pavement in places.

Where we work in Lake Elmo

  • Hudson Boulevard North
  • Lake Elmo Avenue North
  • Lake Elmo Business Park
  • Inwood Commercial
  • Bridgewater Village

Around Lake Elmo: Lake Elmo Park Reserve, Lake Elmo Airport, The old village center on Lake Elmo Avenue, Royal Golf Club.

14,161 people, 2024 Census estimate.

MnDOT publishes frost and thaw depths for Washington County, and those readings are what set the spring load limits on the roads out here.

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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 Lake Elmo
  • 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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