Concrete Sidewalks & Walkways in Smithville, MO

A Smithville walk is often a shared-use path, and that changes what it has to hold. The network runs from the downtown Community Oasis out to Smithville Lake and along the Little Platte Riverwalk, where a path is wider than a 5-foot walk and carries bikes, strollers, and chairs at once. A wide path still has to be an accessible route, which means the running slope can't tip past what a wheelchair can climb just because the path has room to wander toward the water.

That's a different problem from a plain city walk, and it's most of what we build here. Our sidewalks and walkways page lays out the method, and our ADA ramp work carries the crossings. Nearby we build the same walks in Kearney, Liberty, and Platte City.

Up on the higher ground, Smithville is booming along US-169 — the Community Oasis district, the Employment Overlay, and new blocks off Eagle Parkway going in fast. There the soil is Clay County's Haig silty clay, which holds moisture and moves with the seasons, so we rebuild on a compacted base below the 36-inch frost line and hold a cross slope that drains. On the new runs we set tie-in elevation flush at every drive and corner at the forms, so the route is legal from the first pour. The same crew pours the flatwork behind Smithville's commercial work — you can see that commercial concrete work — and KC-metro property owners rate Ford 4.9 stars across 29 reviews, with responsiveness the reason cited most.