State pavement directory
Most of Utah's population, and most of its pavement, sits on the floor of an ancient lake. The valleys along the Wasatch Front were the bed of Lake Bonneville, which left behind fine silts and clays that hold water, heave with frost, and behave nothing like the coarse alluvium on the benches a mile uphill. That single geologic fact explains a surprising share of what goes wrong under parking lots between Ogden and Provo.
Around it, Utah stacks a wide range of conditions: heavy mountain snowfall and sustained deicing in the canyons and at the ski resorts, high desert temperature swings in the Uinta Basin, and genuine summer heat in the St. George area. This page lists pavement contractors serving Utah cities and covers what those differences mean for scope, seasonal timing, and the questions worth asking before signing.
Before you hire: The Pavement Directory does not guarantee contractor performance, pricing, licensing, insurance, or availability. Business information may be submitted by contractors or gathered from public sources and should be independently verified before hiring. Always confirm licensing, insurance, references, scope of work, and written contract terms.
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Clearfield, Utah
Paving contractor in Clearfield, UT serving the Western United States. They offer full service maintenance for airports, roads and parking lots including crack sealing, sealcoating, striping, and pavement rejuvenation and repair. Bonded and Insured.
Murray, Utah
Founded in 1981, Miller Paving operates as a family-owned and operated business with over 100 employees. The company specializes in asphalt paving for residential and commercial projects ranging from small driveways to large parking lots. Miller Paving also offers concrete work, excavation, hauling, hardscapes, grading, and roadbase recycling services.
Ogden, Utah
Advanced Paving and Construction is an asphalt and concrete paving contractor based in Ogden, Utah, operating since 1991. The company performs new asphalt construction, patching, crack sealing, seal coating and resurfacing for parking lots and roadways. It serves commercial, residential, government and municipal clients across numerous counties in Utah, Southern Idaho and Western Wyoming, and states it is fully licensed and insured.
Ogden, Utah
Asphalt Experts, LLC is an Ogden, Utah-based contractor providing asphalt paving, sealcoating, crack sealing, and repair services for residential, commercial, and HOA properties. The company also offers parking lot striping, concrete and bollard repairs, and an annual maintenance program. It serves clients across Weber, Davis, and Salt Lake County, including Park City, Utah.
Ogden, Utah
Asphalt Masters provides asphalt paving, patching, crack sealing, seal coating, parking lot striping, and concrete installation and repair services. The company serves both residential and commercial clients in Ogden, Utah and nearby areas of northern Utah, handling projects ranging from driveway repairs to large parking lot installations.
Ogden, Utah
Asphalt Revival is a family-owned contractor based in Ogden, Utah, offering sealcoating, crack repair, pothole repair, and parking lot striping services. The company works with commercial properties such as retail centers and parking lots as well as residential driveways, emphasizing ADA compliance and pedestrian safety in its striping work. No specific founding date, licensing, or association details are listed on the site.
Orem, Utah
Big Red Asphalt is a locally owned asphalt paving and maintenance company operating out of Orem, Utah, with over 20 years serving the Intermountain West. The company provides services including crack sealing, seal coating, slurry seal, asphalt overlay and paving, patching, striping, excavation and grading, and concrete work. They serve both residential and commercial property owners with job sites of varying size.
Ogden, Utah
Based in Ogden, Utah, Consolidated Paving & Concrete is a commercial and residential pavement contractor. Listed services include asphalt paving, concrete sitework, and striping & pavement markings. Reported service area: Utah, serving northern Utah, WY Uinta County, WY Rock Springs, WY Kemmerer, WY Green River. The listing reports 33 years in business.
Magna, Utah
The company offers services including new asphalt installation, sealcoating, crack and joint sealing, pothole repair, overlays, line striping, waterproofing, tennis court paving, and GAP mastic repair. The website states the company has completed over 500 projects and has been in business for 69 years. Gilsonite Company is fully licensed, bonded, and insured.
Woods Cross, Utah
Greene Concrete Cutting has operated for over 35 years from Woods Cross, Utah. The company serves general contractors and residential customers across the Wasatch Front and surrounding areas. Services include wall sawing, flat sawing, core drilling, wire sawing, curb sawing, joint sealing, soff cutting, concrete and asphalt demolition, and ground penetrating radar services. The company reports completing over 8,000 projects.
Ogden, Utah
Onsite Asphalt is a commercial and residential pavement contractor listed in Ogden, Utah. The listing covers asphalt paving.
Park City, Utah
The company specializes in asphalt paving, sealcoating, crack sealing, asphalt patching, parking lot striping, asphalt milling, grading, concrete, and drainage solutions. They serve residential homeowners, commercial businesses, property managers, HOAs, and municipalities. The company operates five locations across Utah and completes thousands of projects annually.
Riverton, Utah
Peckham Asphalt Paving, Inc. has been in business serving Utah since 1974. The company offers asphalt paving, asphalt repairs, parking lot striping, and sealcoating services for both commercial and residential customers. They provide free estimates and can handle repair jobs of various sizes, including pothole and crack repairs.
Ogden, Utah
Post Asphalt Paving & Construction is a family-owned business established in 1996. The company offers asphalt paving for parking lots, roads, driveways, and pathways, along with asphalt patching, maintenance, and overlay services. Additional services include excavation, grading, site preparation, utility installation, demolition, and trucking solutions.
Ogden, Utah
Precision Asphalt is a Utah-based paving and site services contractor that has operated for about a decade across the Wasatch Front, including Ogden, Layton, Salt Lake City, and Park City, with additional work extending into Idaho and Wyoming. The company offers asphalt paving, crack sealing, seal coating, slurry sealing, pothole repair, concrete work, line striping, excavation, grading, and snow removal. Its client list includes large commercial properties such as Costco, IKEA, and Home Depot, indicating a primary focus on commercial and retail sites.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Purser Paving is an asphalt services contractor based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with over 20 years of industry experience. The company performs paving, patching, crack sealing, sealcoating, and striping for both parking lots and residential driveways. It also offers grading and drainage work, including concrete waterways and drain box installation, to improve pavement longevity.
Salt Lake City, Utah
R & R Paving is a family-owned paving contractor based in the Salt Lake City area that has operated since 1951. The company installs, repairs, and maintains asphalt surfaces including driveways, parking lots, and blacktop, and offers services such as crack repair, sealcoating, and parking lot striping. It serves both residential and commercial properties throughout the Greater Wasatch Front and states it is fully licensed and insured, backing work with a one-year warranty on materials and craftsmanship.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Serrato's Asphalt is a family-owned contractor based in Salt Lake City, Utah, offering asphalt paving, sealcoating, crack repair, and striping services. The company states it has over 25 years of experience and highlights residential paving work in its project photos. It operates under a listed Utah contractor license and provides free estimates to prospective customers.
Salt Lake City, Utah
UTE Asphalt is a paving contractor based in Salt Lake City, Utah, offering asphalt paving, resurfacing, sealcoating, and pothole repair for residential driveways, commercial parking lots, and rural roadways. The company serves the Salt Lake City area and highlights durable, long-lasting pavement solutions for both commercial and residential clients.
Utah's valley pavement is built on lake-bed fines that heave and soften — and maintained through winters that keep salt on the surface for months.
Regional differences
Utah does not have one climate or one soil profile, and pavement that performs well in one part of the state can fail early a few hours away. These are the divisions that matter most when scoping paving, repair, or maintenance work.
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Field conditions
Pavement lifting into bumps and ridges through late winter, mostly settling back by summer, and leaving a crack pattern behind that reappears in the same footprint each year.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: A bump that returns in the identical spot every February is a subgrade and drainage problem. Resurfacing gives you a smooth lot that heaves in exactly the same place next winter.
Sidewalks, entry aprons, and dumpster pads losing their surface in thin flakes, joints opening, and edges spalling — worst where salted slush collects and refreezes overnight.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: Scaling with sound concrete beneath is often repairable. Deterioration reaching reinforcement, or creating a change in level on an accessible route, needs attention sooner than a normal maintenance cycle allows.
Concrete that softens, expands, or deteriorates from below rather than from surface wear, on sites where soil or groundwater carries elevated sulfate.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: If concrete on your Utah site is deteriorating from below rather than scaling at the surface, ask whether soil sulfate was tested before the mix was specified. It is a known regional consideration, not an exotic one.
Broken edges, damaged curbs and islands, gouged surfaces, and washed-out areas at mountain properties, appearing as a group each spring rather than gradually through the year.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: If the same features are damaged every spring, the layout and the snow plan need to change together — marking, detailing, and stockpile locations, not just repairs.
Wheel-path depressions and pushed-up ridges at stop bars, drive-through lanes, and delivery zones in the St. George area, most visible during the hottest weeks of summer.
Likely causes
Timing
Treat this as a planning aid, not a rule. Whether a given treatment can actually be placed on a given day depends on product requirements, surface and nighttime temperatures, the rain forecast, humidity, plant availability, the project specification, and the contractor’s means and methods.
Work often suited to this window
Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Track where plowed snow is stockpiled and where the meltwater goes; those paths concentrate freeze-thaw and salt exposure and show damage first.
Regional exception: St. George and the southern corner often have workable conditions through much of the winter, which is not true of Park City or the Uinta Basin.
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Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Separate cracks that need sealing from areas that flex under a slow vehicle; the second group needs base repair rather than an overlay.
Work often suited to this window
Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Inspect drive aisles, delivery zones, and turning areas during the hottest hours, when rutting and shoving are visible in the surface.
Regional exception: At mountain properties, summer is the entire construction season rather than a heat problem to work around.
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Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Confirm every crack is sealed and every drainage structure is clear before freeze-up; anything open in November takes on water and salt all winter.
Verification
Utah requires construction contractors to be licensed through the Division of Professional Licensing, and paving and site work fall within that requirement. Licensure involves demonstrating qualifying experience, meeting insurance and bonding requirements, and holding a license in a classification appropriate to the work being performed.
The classification is the part worth checking. Utah issues contractor licenses in classifications describing the scope of work permitted, and a valid license in an unrelated classification does not authorize paving work. The state's license verification lookup shows the classification along with the license status, so confirming that the classification actually covers the work in your proposal takes very little time and is a more meaningful check than confirming the license simply exists.
Two related items are worth confirming alongside the license. The first is that the licensed entity is the same legal entity named on your contract and on the insurance certificate — related-but-different businesses are a recurring source of exposure. The second is workers' compensation coverage, verified with the carrier rather than assumed from a certificate handed over at the bid walk.
Municipal licensing and permitting sit on top of state licensure. Utah cities require their own business licenses and permits for work performed within their boundaries, and requirements differ across the Wasatch Front municipalities. Public work carries separate bonding and prequalification rules.
A Utah license establishes classification, experience qualification, and insurance at the time of issue. It does not establish that a contractor has built a section that survives frost heave in lake-bed silts, specified concrete for a sulfate-bearing site, or managed snow operations at elevation.
Ask for a certificate of insurance sent directly from the carrier or agent rather than a copy forwarded by the contractor, confirm the general liability and workers’ compensation coverage is active on the dates of your work, and ask to be named as certificate holder so you are notified if the policy lapses.
Licensing requirements can turn on project value, scope of work, property location, and whether the job is public or private. City and county rules may add registration, permitting, or bonding requirements beyond anything required at the state level. Verify current requirements with the agency directly before contracting.
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Permitting
Utah Division of Water Quality (Utah DEQ)
Utah administers construction stormwater permitting through the Division of Water Quality under the state's UPDES program rather than through EPA directly. Construction disturbing above a threshold area generally requires permit coverage together with a stormwater pollution prevention plan and erosion and sediment controls suited to the site. Municipalities along the Wasatch Front also operate their own stormwater programs and typically handle local plan review and inspection.
Two Utah-specific factors shape what reviewers care about. The first is snowmelt: much of the runoff a Wasatch Front or mountain site handles arrives as a slow, sustained spring melt rather than as a storm event, and it carries a winter's worth of accumulated salt, sand, and sediment with it. Where snow is stockpiled, and where that stockpile drains to, is a legitimate design question rather than an operational detail. The second is intensity in the south, where monsoon storms produce flash runoff that ordinary conveyance capacity does not handle.
Local grading, drainage, and dust control requirements frequently govern more of a project than the state permit does. Along the Wasatch Front, dust and air quality during inversion season attract particular attention, and municipal requirements for construction dust control are routine rather than exceptional. Establish what applies at your address before design.
Utah municipalities administer stormwater, grading, and dust control review locally and apply requirements beyond state minimums. Confirm with the city or county before design.
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Plain English
| Term | What it means on a Utah project |
|---|---|
| Untreated base course (UTBC) | The compacted crushed aggregate layer beneath asphalt, referenced routinely on Utah projects. In frost-susceptible valley soils, its thickness and cleanliness matter more to pavement life than the surface course does. |
| Granular borrow | Imported granular material placed below the base to provide drainage and frost protection. On lake-bed silts, the depth of clean granular material is often the most consequential number on the section detail. |
| Sulfate-resistant cement | Cement types formulated to resist deterioration where soil or groundwater carries elevated sulfate. Whether it is warranted on a Utah site is a soil testing question worth answering before the concrete is specified. |
| Frost depth | How far freezing penetrates the ground in a typical winter. It differs sharply between the St. George area, the Wasatch Front valleys, and the mountain communities, and it should influence base thickness rather than being carried over from another project. |
| Proof rolling | Driving a loaded truck over the prepared subgrade and watching for deflection before base is placed. On fine-grained Utah valley soils it is the most direct way to identify ground that is too wet or too soft to build on. |
| Collapsible soil | Soil that holds an open structure while dry and settles when first wetted. It occurs in parts of Utah and is a reason to keep water away from beneath pavement and to test rather than assume. |
State transportation specifications can provide useful regional terminology and material references, but they do not automatically govern private parking-lot or driveway projects unless incorporated into the contract or required by the applicable jurisdiction.
More definitions are in the pavement glossary.
Property types
A season of plowing, abrasives, and snowmelt on steep ground, compressed into a construction window of a few weeks between the ski season and the summer season.
The I-15 corridor from Ogden through Utah County concentrates trailer traffic on sections often specified before actual loading patterns were known, which shows first at entrances and aprons.
Uinta Basin yards and access areas take loads far beyond ordinary commercial traffic, on remote sites where plant access and water for compaction shape what is feasible.
Salt Lake and Utah County campuses combine constant occupancy, accessible routes that cannot be interrupted, and heavy winter salt exposure on the walks and aprons that matter most.
St. George area lots age under solar exposure rather than under traffic, which makes surface protection and crack sealing the main levers in a reserve plan.
Before you sign
Yes. Utah requires construction contractors to be licensed through the Division of Professional Licensing, and paving and site work fall within that requirement. The more useful check is the classification on the license rather than its existence — Utah issues licenses in classifications describing the scope of work permitted, and a current license in an unrelated classification does not authorize paving. The state's verification lookup shows both the status and the classification, and confirming the licensed entity matches the entity on your contract is worth the extra minute.
That is frost heave, and it recurs because the cause is below the pavement. Most Wasatch Front valley floors sit on fine-grained sediments left by ancient Lake Bonneville. Those soils hold water, and when freezing penetrates, ice lenses form and lift the pavement above them. In spring they thaw and the surface mostly settles back, leaving cracks behind. Because the mechanism is in the subgrade, resurfacing produces a smooth lot that heaves in the same footprint the following winter. Replacing frost-susceptible material with clean granular material and draining it is the durable answer.
Deicing salt does not chemically attack sound, properly air-entrained concrete, but it dramatically increases how often the surface freezes and thaws while saturated, and that is what produces scaling. The most vulnerable concrete is young concrete salted during its first winter, concrete finished in a way that left a weak surface layer, and any area where salted slush pools and refreezes. Keeping drainage moving and avoiding deicers on new concrete through its first season helps more than most owners expect.
It is a known regional consideration rather than an exotic one. Where soil or groundwater carries elevated sulfate, concrete that was not designed for that exposure can deteriorate from below rather than simply wearing at the surface. The practical response is testing before the concrete is specified, and using a cement type and mix suited to the exposure that is actually present. If concrete on your site is failing from underneath, asking whether soil sulfate was ever tested is a reasonable first question.
Much shorter than along the Wasatch Front, and often shorter than owners plan for. At Park City, Heber, and canyon elevations, the ground is frozen or saturated with snowmelt for a large part of the year, and the reliable working window is measured in weeks rather than months. It also books out early, because every property at that elevation is competing for the same window. A project that misses its slot can wait a full year, which makes scheduling — not price — the binding constraint on many mountain jobs.
Usually because the layout and the snow plan were never designed together. Plow blades catch raised islands, curb ends, drainage structures, and pavement edges that are invisible under snow, and the same features get hit every season. Abrasives wear the surface through the winter, and stockpiled snow saturates the ground beneath it for weeks. The fix is a combination of marking, detailing those features to survive contact, and agreeing where snow will be pushed and stored before the first storm — not repairing the same curb every May.
Yes, because the dominant stress is different. In St. George and the southern corner, the controlling factors are high summer surface temperatures and solar exposure, which push mix and binder selection and make surface protection valuable. Along the Wasatch Front, the controlling factors are freeze-thaw cycling, frost-susceptible lake-bed subgrade, and months of deicing. A section and maintenance plan that works well in one is not the right plan for the other, even though both are in Utah.
There is no fixed date, and the answer differs enormously by elevation. What actually decides whether a given day works is the specific product's requirements, the surface and overnight temperatures, humidity, the rain or snow forecast, plant availability, and the specification. St. George can often work well into the winter. A canyon property may lose the window in early autumn. Ask the contractor what conditions their product needs, and what happens to the schedule if the weather does not cooperate.
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