Asphalt Driveway Installation and Repair in Denver, CO
New asphalt driveways, replacements, overlays and repairs for homes across Denver and the surrounding metro area. We handle the gravel-to-asphalt conversions, the twenty-year-old drives that have finally given up, and the cracked apron the city wants fixed. Written estimate, with the square footage and depth on it.
- Free written estimates
- Licensed and insured crews
- Hot-mix asphalt, compacted right
- Clean job sites
A driveway is the smallest asphalt job we do and the one people ask the most questions about, mostly about price. Asphalt Denver installs and repairs residential asphalt drives across Denver and the surrounding metro area, from a single-car strip behind a bungalow to a long rural approach.
Three jobs cover most of what people need. Putting asphalt where there is gravel or dirt now. Replacing a drive that has cracked through and is past patching. Or an overlay, where the base is fine and only the top two inches have gone, which costs a fraction of a replacement.
The cost questions have real answers, and they are further down this page. The short version: driveways are priced by the square foot, so measure your length by your width and you can sanity-check any quote you are given, ours included.
What the work covers
- New driveway installation over a compacted aggregate base
- Tear-out and full replacement of a failed drive, including haul-away
- Two inch overlays where the existing base is still sound
- Gravel and dirt driveway conversions, including grading and base build
- Widening, extra parking pads and turnaround areas
- Apron and curb cut work where the city permits it
- Crack sealing, pothole and edge repair on drives that are worth keeping
- Grading so water runs away from the garage and the house, not toward it
When you need it
- Cracks running the width of the drive, or a block pattern across it
- Water running toward the garage door or pooling at the low end
- Crumbling edges where the asphalt has no shoulder to lean on
- Potholes near the street where the plow catches the apron
- A gravel drive that washes out and needs regrading every spring
- A surface older than twenty years that has never been sealed
How the job is done
- 01
Measure and talk it through
We measure the drive, check the fall away from the house and the garage, and look at where water goes in a storm. You get the square footage, the proposed depth and a written price.
- 02
Remove or prepare
Old asphalt is broken out and hauled off, or milled two inches down if we are overlaying. On a gravel drive we strip the topsoil and organics out of the subgrade first.
- 03
Base
Aggregate base goes down and gets compacted, usually four to six inches for a residential drive. Soft or wet areas get dug out rather than paved over and hoped for.
- 04
Pave
Tack coat at every edge and against the garage slab and apron, then two to three inches of compacted hot-mix, placed by paver or by hand on tight sites, rolled while hot.
- 05
Edges and cleanup
Edges are shaped and backfilled so they have support, transitions to concrete are set flush, and we sweep and take the spoil with us.
- 06
Aftercare
Keep off it for 24 to 48 hours, avoid turning your wheels while stopped for a few weeks, and leave the first sealcoat until six to twelve months in.
Asphalt Driveway Installation and Repair in Denver
Denver driveways fail from the edges and from underneath. Edges go because a residential drive usually has nothing supporting the side, and the freeze-thaw cycle plus a plow blade takes the shoulder out. Underneath, water gets into the base through a crack, freezes overnight, expands, and lifts. Grading the drive so water leaves quickly does more for its life than an extra half inch of asphalt.
The apron is worth mentioning before you plan work. In Denver, building, rebuilding or repairing a driveway, curb cut, curb or gutter in the public right-of-way needs a permit from the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, and the work has to be done by a licensed contractor. Work entirely on your own property generally does not. Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada and the other metro cities each run their own permit process, so check with your city before assuming.
What it costs
As of 2026, HomeGuide puts an installed hot-mix asphalt driveway at $5 to $12 per square foot, which makes a 20 by 20 (400 square feet) roughly $2,000 to $4,800 and a 1,000 square foot drive $5,000 to $12,000, with many contractors carrying a $2,000 minimum. Resurfacing instead of replacing runs $1 to $3 per square foot. Tearing out the old surface adds $1 to $3. Those are national figures, not a Denver quote, and they move with depth, access and how much base work the site needs.
Why work with us
- Estimates give square footage and depth, so you can compare quotes on the same basis
- We will tell you when an overlay will do and a replacement is not needed yet
- Grading set so water runs away from the house and the garage
- Free written estimates, licensed and insured
- Spoil hauled away and the street swept before we leave
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Areas we cover for asphalt driveway installation and repair
Not listed? We cover Denver and the surrounding metro area. See every area we work in.
Asphalt Driveway Installation and Repair questions
How much does a 20x20 asphalt driveway cost?
A 20 by 20 drive is 400 square feet. At the $5 to $12 per square foot installed range published for 2026, that is roughly $2,000 to $4,800, and some contractors apply a minimum charge around $2,000 on small jobs. Site access, depth and removing an old surface move it within that band.
What is the cost per square foot of asphalt in Colorado?
We have not found a Denver-specific published figure we would stand behind. National guides put installed residential asphalt at $5 to $12 per square foot and large lots at $3 to $7 as of 2026. Material alone runs about $0.75 to $2.00 per square foot at 3 to 5 inches. A local estimate is free and beats an average.
How much would it cost to pave a 2,000 square foot driveway?
At $5 to $12 per square foot installed, roughly $10,000 to $24,000 as of 2026, before any tear-out of an existing surface. A drive that large is usually a rural or acreage approach, where haul distance from the plant and access for the paver matter as much as the square footage does.
How much is a ton of asphalt in Colorado?
National material pricing sat at $40 to $80 per ton in late 2025, plus $4 to $9 per ton for delivery within about 15 to 20 miles of a plant. We have not found a reliable Colorado-specific figure to quote. One ton covers roughly 30 to 80 square feet depending on depth, so a two-car drive takes about 10 to 18 tons.
How long does an asphalt driveway last in Denver?
Fifteen to thirty years is the usual range, and here it depends heavily on maintenance. Cracks sealed as they appear and a sealcoat every few years buys the top of that range. An unsealed drive with open cracks going into a Denver winter will find the bottom of it.
Asphalt or concrete for a Denver driveway?
Asphalt costs less up front, goes down in a day and flexes with ground movement, which matters on the clay soils here. It needs sealing every few years. Concrete lasts longer and needs less attention but costs more and cracks harder when the subgrade moves. Most drives in this metro are asphalt for that reason.
Get a free asphalt driveway installation and repair estimate
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