Crushed rock will be more stable and move less than gravel.

Gravel typically IS crushed stone. You are just delving into semantics to get any more complicated than that :-)) And really anything with sharp - not rounded - edges will work. I live in a semi-rural location on a private road and gravel/crushed rock of approximately the same size is used to pave the road, the drive and parking pads. Been in place for more than 25 years with only infrequent refreshing so I'd say it works fine!!

ETA: this is not an area that needs snow plowing or scraping in winter. That could make a difference in how successful this material is.

When you buy stone, gravel is usually not the same as crushed stone. Gravel will be smooth stones that move around quite a bit, while crushed stone will be rough shaped and less likely to move. You can choose different sizes for each of them. The crushed #57 stone will stay in place much better, especially if you have them dump stone dust on top of it to fill in the spaces.

Bruce

Like I said, this is more a case of semantics than anything else :-) And it may be regional. Here - other than pea gravel - ALL gravel is crushed rock. Anything that has a smooth or rounded surface is referred to as 'rock'.

As long as you choose a product that has sharp, jagged edges - whatever the call it - it will work.

Where I am, gravel is any more or less small rock, but it is not necessarily crushed. It can be rounded river gravel, etc.

The material of choice for drives is "crusher run" as it packs down tight and firm. #57 is more for drainage. or where for some reason, you'd need air pockets in the installed gravel.

Also look at chip-seal drive as an option. Cheaper than asphalt, less maintenance than gravel.

I live in the southeast and snowfall happens maybe once per year. I wanted to avoid crusher run because of the dust. Also, in regards to concrete or asphalt for the entire driveway, its $140 per yard and we would rather put our money somewhere else. We have a large concrete pad but will use stone for most of the length. The look of the #57 wash stone was what I was going for--a larger version of the pea gravel. Thanks for all the responses

If you don’t want limestone, then look into crushed asphalt. Various sizes of smooth rocks are going to move around too much for your driveway. We have river rock for our Cabin driveway and I hate driving on it (DH wants it though). We are doing crushed asphalt (not acing it) on our 1/4 mile long driveway.

I would find some #57 and drive on it before you committed to it. I think you're going to find that it is substantially more squishy and unpleasant to drive on than crusher run. (There's a reason pea gravel makes a horrible walking surface.)

Chip Seal where the rock is embedded into the asphalt surface. It's a great look.

we have a 6000 sq foot driveway and have always had #57 gravel and no complaints. Hate asphalt, too hot and prefer to spend money on something other than our driveway so we stick with gravel, rural area so its appropriate.

In our area there is a product called knit pack that is stone crushed in flat, angular pieces, as opposed to more rounded gravel, mixed with some stone dust. It knits together, stays in place and is much less dusty than pure stone dust. We have it on all the roads/paths on our farm. Unlike gravel, it is easy on the horses feet and good to ride on. I can’t say it doesn’t stick to tires or shoes, but it isn’t bad once it knits together. Not too bad with the snowplow either. It does need to be refreshed and dragged periodically. My father-in-law lived in the SE near the ocean and he had a very long and flat driveway of crushed oyster shells that was gorgeous. It didn’t stick or track badly and also had to be replenished and dragged periodically. I never asked, but I assume it was a re-cycled material from an oyster/shell fish processing plant.

We have crushed granite (it's the pink color one) and it sticks to the tires and tracks into the house. I think that we were better off staying with 1/4 inch chat.

Frankly, gravel or crushed stone or whatever one calls it is, imho, far superior to asphalt or concrete in that it will drain water. Asphalt and concrete just add more impermeable surface to a planet already with too much paving. We have one and I love the way it looks. Ours is not even 200'.

We have "3/4 down" for our 100' driveway. Basically crushed limestone of 3/4" diameter and smaller pieces, with 'dust' so that within a year or two it packs down hard. Only have to top it up if it gets REALLY wet to the point everything in your yard is soggy and rutted, or if the weeds break through (though you could do landscape fabric undernearth.

We have #57 white stone it has turned a dark color due to the lack of sun on it and weeds will come thru no matte what you put down under the stone. in fact we are now looking to put black top over the stone.