Flintstone Gravel Pit prides itself on providing a variety of aggregate for construction projects around Grand County.

Fraser residents Nick and Caroline Waldow own Flintstone Gravel, located in Granby behind the airport. The couple bought Flintstone in winter 2021 from former owner Ted Pratt.

Pratt came up with the name Flintstone from a popular 1960s cartoon where cavemen Fred Flintstone and his friend Barney work in a gravel pit, using brontosauruses to break rock. At the Granby gravel pit, heavy equipment operators use modern machines, but a brontosaurus is the company’s logo.

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In 2023, community members asked for the Best Gravel Pit category to be added to the Best of Grand contest. Flintstone won first place in 2023 and again in 2024.

“It feels great to receive this recognition from our community. Very proud of all our Flintstone Gravel Pit team and partners for maintaining product, service and customer care quality,” Caroline Waldow said.

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She added that as a local, family-operated business, they understand the needs of both big and small customers. 

“We try our best to accommodate and supply the demand of all of our customer’s projects, with a one-to-one operation, to make sure we cover each customer’s individual needs,” she explained.

At Flintstone, workers use a variety of equipment to transform large rocks and unrefined dirt into products such as gravel, road base, coarse sand, crushed concrete and cobble.

The pit operates on about 50 acres of land leased by the Pickering family. At the pit, loaders deposit material such as rocks and dirt into crushers. Then the material is sent to different chutes, which direct it to screens that sift the material. The end result is piles of processed materials that are trucked to construction sites. The material is used for roads, homes, agriculture uses and more.

Caroline Waldow said the gravel pit’s success is thanks to its customers, team members and other partners.

“It’s definitely a combined effort. We couldn’t make it happen without everyone’s contribution and support,” she said.

Find complete Best of Grand results at BestOfGrandCo.com.