Island Park, Idaho · 6,600 ft
Snow removal in
Sawtelle Meadows
Sawtelle Meadows takes both — heavy accumulation coming off the bench above and open-meadow drifting below it. Season totals here run well above the valley floor, and late-season snow storage becomes a real constraint on narrow drives.
annual snowfall
Getting in
How access works
in Sawtelle Meadows
Sawtelle Meadows sits below the Sawtelle bench off Sawtelle Peak Road, taking both bench accumulation from above and open-meadow wind across the flat.
Where it fails
It gets hit from two directions. Season totals run well above the valley floor because of what comes off the bench, and then the open meadow moves it around afterwards.
What we run here
Higher totals mean the loader earns its keep here. Blade work alone stops being enough by mid-season once banks are chest high on the narrower drives.
Where the snow goes
Late-season storage is the real constraint. On narrow drives we plan a blow-out point in the fall, because by February there is genuinely nowhere left to push.
What we do here
On the Sawtelle Meadows route
Every property in Sawtelle Meadows is walked and staked in the fall, then run on the same season subscription as the rest of the caldera — dispatched on accumulation at your plan's threshold, or on drift-forming wind whether or not anything new fell.
Cabins & second homes
Driveway, parking pad and a path to the door. Drift checks after every wind event, timestamped photo each visit.
Vacation rentals
Cleared ahead of your check-in window on every turnover day, sequenced by arrival time, with confirmation pushed to your property manager.
Shared lanes & private roads
Loader and rotary blower capacity for late-season snow storage, run as a route with one invoice for the road association.
Routes fill
before first snow.
Capacity in Sawtelle Meadows is finite and allocated in the order people sign. Thirty seconds now beats a phone call in January.
Sawtelle Meadows
Common questions
Yes. Sawtelle Meadows is inside our regular Island Park route — cabins, vacation rentals, shared lanes and private roads, all on season subscriptions.
Sawtelle Meadows sits at roughly 6,600 ft in open meadow beneath the Sawtelle bench, which we rate as high drift exposure. It gets hit from two directions. Season totals run well above the valley floor because of what comes off the bench, and then the open meadow moves it around afterwards.
Yes, noticeably. Sitting below the bench means it collects what comes off the higher ground on top of what falls on the meadow itself, and season totals run well above the valley floor.