Zero inches. Four-foot drift.
The snow that closes your driveway already fell — days ago, somewhere upwind. All the wind has to do is move it. That is why cabins get found buried on bluebird mornings.
Island Park, Idaho · 83429
Island Park Snow Removal We plow when the wind blows — not just when it snows.
Island Park takes over twelve feet of snow a year — the snowiest town in Idaho. But the driveway that strands your guests usually closes on a clear night with a west wind, when nothing fell at all. Our routes dispatch on drift, not just accumulation.
Licensed & insured
Local iron, local crews
Photo proof every visit
Operated by McCloud Services LLC
12FT+
Average annual snowfall
Snowiest town in Idaho
Snowiest town in Idaho
838
Active vacation rentals
in the Island Park market
in the Island Park market
7MO
October through May
the season you plan for
the season you plan for
0
Calls you have to make
when it storms
when it storms
The part nobody prices for
Snowfall is predictable.
The wind is not.
Most of Island Park is open meadow and sagebrush flat with an unbroken run at the weather. A storm you can plan around. A sustained west wind under a clear sky is what actually closes the road into your place — and a contract that triggers on inches of new snow will never dispatch for it.
Zero inches fell that night.Clear sky, a west wind, and a drift across the only way in. Your guests are the ones who find out — from the end of your lane, with a loaded truck.
Nobody is there to notice.
Island Park cabins sit empty for weeks. The first report you get is a phone call from someone stopped at the end of your lane with a loaded truck and no way in.
A 4 p.m. plow misses a 3 p.m. check-in.
Cleared eventually is not the same as cleared in time. For a rental, one missed arrival costs the night, the cleaning, the refund, and a review that outlives the winter.
Free · 30 seconds · no phone number
What is your cabin's
drift risk?
Four questions about your terrain, your access, and who is actually there in January. You get a risk score, the specific reasons behind it, and the plan that matches — before anyone calls you.
The system
Three things happen
before it ever snows.
01
We map the property in the fall
Driveway, turnaround, where a truck can actually pivot, propane tank, septic lids, water shutoff, the drift line off your treeline, and where the snow gets stored so it is not a wall by February. Staked and marked before first snow — so a driver who has never been there works it correctly at 3 a.m.
02
We watch snowfall and wind
Routes trigger on accumulation at your plan's threshold — or on a wind event capable of drifting your access shut, whether or not anything new fell. You are not the alarm system. You do not call us, and you do not check a webcam at midnight.
03
We prove it, every single visit
A timestamped photo of your cleared drive lands in your inbox — and your property manager's — before your guest ever reaches the turn. From Salt Lake, from Boise, from anywhere, you can see the ground.
Season subscriptions
Priced in the fall.
Not in a panic.
Billed monthly across the winter season. No per-push surprise invoices after a big week, no bidding against your neighbour at 6 a.m. Cancel before the season starts, any time.
Cabin
Private cabins and second homes
$189/ month
- Dispatch at 4″ accumulation
- Drift check after every wind event
- Driveway and parking pad cleared
- Path shovelled to the door
- Cleared by 5 p.m. on service days
- Fall property mapping and staking
- Timestamped photo after every visit
Rental
Short-term rentals with real check-in times
$329/ month
- Dispatch at 2″ accumulation
- Cleared before check-in, every turnover day
- Route sequenced to your booking calendar
- Everything in Cabin
- Ice melt on steps and walkways
- Roof-edge shed and doorway dug clear
- Propane tank and meter kept accessible
- Photo proof pushed to you and your manager
Portfolio
Managers, HOAs and private roads
Route pricing
- Private roads and subdivision loops
- One route, one contact, one invoice
- Properties sequenced by check-in time
- Loader and rotary blower for deep-season storage
- 24/7 dispatch line
- Monthly service report per address
- Net-30 invoicing
Add-ons available on any plan: roof snow removal · ice dam clearing · emergency dig-out · sanding · cabin winterization
Receipts
You are four hours away.
You should still be able
to see the ground.
Every visit ends the same way: a photo, stamped with the time it was taken, from the same angle each time so you can compare week to week. It is the difference between being told the drive is open and knowing it is.
Drive & pad cleared
Wind event · 0″ new snow · 04:12
Photo sent to owner + PM
Same angle as last visit · 04:19
Guest arrives 15:00
Cleared 10 hrs 48 min ahead
For property managers
Twenty cabins.
One route.
One phone number.
You are not managing snow. You are managing the twelve minutes between a guest calling you from the highway and a refund. We sequence your whole book into a single route ordered by check-in time, push the photo confirmations straight to your team, and send you one invoice.
- Per-door pricing that gets better as the book grows
- Turnover-day priority, sequenced by check-in
- Monthly per-address service report for owner statements
- Net-30, one invoice, no per-push reconciliation
Free tool · updated all winter
The Island Park
Snow Report
Current base depth, season total against average, wind and drift outlook, and which roads are being maintained to which turn. Built for people who need to know whether they can get in this weekend — customer or not.
2 ft
4 ft
6 ft
4'8"
Sample base depth
Island Park · 6,300 ft
Sample data
Island Park · 6,300 ft
Straight answers
Questions people
actually ask
Depending on the station and the year, roughly 150 to 210 inches — over twelve feet — which makes Island Park the snowiest town in Idaho. First measurable snow usually lands in October and the last is often recorded in May. That is a seven-month problem, not a January one.
Because it is the failure mode nobody prices for. Much of Island Park is open flat with nothing to slow the weather down. A clear night with sustained wind can move already-fallen snow into a four-foot drift across your access with zero new accumulation. A contract that only triggers on new snowfall will not send anyone. Ours does.
That is the most common situation here, and it is exactly when a subscription beats calling around. An empty cabin does not report a drift, and the operators worth hiring are already committed to season contracts by the time you need one. Booking in the fall is what buys you a place in the route.
On the Rental plan, yes — your property is sequenced in the route so the drive and parking are open before your check-in window on every turnover day, with a timestamped photo sent to you and your property manager.
Yes, under the Portfolio plan. Shared lanes, road associations and HOA loops get loader and rotary blower capacity for late-season snow storage — the point in February when a plow truck alone has nowhere left to put it — plus a monthly service report for the board.
Call the dispatch line and we make it right. The photo log exists precisely so this is never a disagreement about what happened — you can see every visit, and so can we.
Island Park Snow Removal Co. is operated by McCloud Services LLC out of 3402 N Hwy 20 in Island Park — a licensed local contractor already running excavation, utilities and heavy equipment across Island Park and West Yellowstone. The iron and the operators are here year-round, not trucked in for storms.
Get on the route
Routes are built
in the fall.
Capacity is finite and it is allocated before the first storm, in the order people sign. Tell us where you are and how you use the place — you will get a firm season price back, not a range and not a callback in March.
(208) 223-2382Dispatch & new service
3402 N Hwy 20Island Park, ID 83429