Chittenden County
Snow plowing in
Westford, Vermont
Snow plowing in Westford covers long residential drives, rural roads, farm access, and wooded properties.
Local operating question
What is different about a Westford stop?
Westford’s town plan describes Route 128 and Route 15, gravel roads, Class 4 roads with different maintenance levels, and a strongly rural road network. Ask who maintains the final approach and whether the requested route is year-round access. Long gravel drives need stakes at culverts, width changes, and drop-offs. So a trigger set for a sheltered driveway elsewhere in the service area can leave a Westford approach already refilled by the time a crew arrives. Confirm whether your road segment is town-maintained or Class 4, since that changes who is responsible for the base surface a private plow works on top of.
How snow affects a Westford lot
A typical Westford winter brings 85.9 inches of snow by the Essex Junction 1 N station, with 101 days of snow on the ground.
VT 15 and VT 128 are the state routes, and a driveway in Cloverdale, Brookside or Bowman Corners takes its bank from whichever road it meets.
A drive near Stewart Hill, at about 1,590 feet, collects more drift than a lot beside Westford Pond.
Meltwater near Westford Pond or the Browns River refreezes on ice days.
What Westford properties look like
Jericho, next to it, uses the same Essex Junction record but has more hill roads and more homes on private lanes. Open Westford stretches drift shut between visits. By the 2021 plan Westford has about 780 homes and roughly nine in ten are detached single-family, so nearly every request is a private drive. Westford had 2,062 people in 2020, the smallest town on this list, and it has no commercial strip. Almost every stop is a house on a rural road, many of them gravel. A contractor coming from Essex or Milton drives a long way for few stops, so a request that groups neighbors on one road is easier to place.
For a Westford drive, mark the gravel crown and the edges before the ground freezes, and write down the road it joins. A long open stretch needs a return-pass rule in the scope. Model the Westford lot in the snow-service planning range calculator.
| Condition | Near Westford | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall | 85.9 inches a year (Essex Junction 1 N) | NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nearest station) |
| New-snow days | 23.5 a year | Same source |
| Snow-cover days | 101 a year | Same source |
| Ice days | 56 a year | Same source |
| Numbered highways | VT 15 and VT 128 | US Census Bureau TIGER/Line map data |
| Named rivers | Browns River | USGS National Hydrography Dataset |
| Lakes and ponds | Westford Pond | USGS Geographic Names Information System |
| Named places | Cloverdale, Brookside and Bowman Corners | Same source |
| Highest summit | Stewart Hill, about 1,590 feet | USGS GNIS summit names; heights from the USGS 3D Elevation Program |
Parking bans and plowing rules in Westford
Westford's police announced the 2025 winter parking ban (WestfordCAT). Parking on town streets during or after a snowstorm is forbidden while plowing goes on, violators face a $25 fine and possible towing, and throwing or leaving snow in the road draws a $50 fine.
Snow plowing near Westford
Planning also covers Essex, Essex Junction, Jericho, Underhill and Hinesburg, and the service-area directory lists every town.
Straight answers
Questions to settle before the snow flies
What should a Westford plan know about winter parking and plowing?
Parking on town streets is forbidden during and after a snowstorm while plowing goes on, with a $25 fine and possible towing.
Where the price figures come from
Every dollar range on this page is taken from these published cost guides, read September 2026. They are planning ranges, not quotes.
- HomeBlue, Snow Removal Cost in Burlington, Vermont (published October 12, 2022): Burlington plowing runs $40 to $100 a visit by driveway size; snow blowing $51 to $77 an hour.
- HomeAdvisor, What Is the Cost of Snow Removal? (updated June 19, 2026): Seasonal contracts $200 to $700; sand and salt $20 to $40 a visit; commercial plowing $50 to $200 an hour; $51 to $203 a visit overall.
- Angi, How Much Does Snow Removal Cost? (updated April 6, 2026): Seasonal contracts $300 to $700; $51 to $203 a visit, averaging $126.
- HomeGuide, Snow Removal Cost (2026): Driveway up to 90 feet $30 to $70; steep or gravel $50 to $100 and up; salt $20 to $65 an application; sidewalk clearing $25 to $75 an hour.
- Housecall Pro, Snow Removal Price Guide 2026 (updated March 12, 2026): Seasonal contracts $350 to $600; on-site hauling $100 to $600 a visit; loader or skid-steer stacking $100 to $200 an hour.