Landscaper in Highland Lakes, NJ

Highland Lakes is a private lake community high in the Vernon hills — steep roads, thick woods, and lots that climb instead of sprawl. Iron Oak Landscape Group is a family-run landscaping business now serving Highland Lakes, and we are honest about this terrain: it takes the right crew to mow a slope, work a rocky bed, and keep a mountain property looking sharp. We are that crew.

Mowing on hillsides is real work, and it shows when it is done wrong — scalped patches, missed edges, a lawn that fights you. Our mowing plans start at $65 a visit, and we mow these slopes with care: healthy cutting height, trimmed edges, everything blown clean. For cabins that sit empty between weekends, scheduled mowing means you always arrive to a property that looks kept.

Firewood for Mountain Winters

Up here, the woodpile matters. We deliver seasoned firewood to Highland Lakes: $350 for a full cord, $225 for a half cord, dumped where you want it. Stacking at $75 a cord gets it piled straight and tight, ready for the cold months. Order ahead of the season and skip the midwinter scramble.

Leaves and Spring Reset

The woods drop a heavy curtain every fall. Our leaf blowing and removal keeps it from matting into the lawn and burying the beds — single visits or repeat trips through November. Then spring cleanups, $200 to $450 depending on the property, clear winter's damage: branches, packed leaves, washed-out edges. We redefine the beds, haul it all off, and the yard is back.

Mulch at $100 per cubic yard installed holds those sloped beds together and looks sharp doing it. Shrub trimming keeps the mountain laurel and foundation plantings from swallowing the walkway. Topsoil delivery is available too, for thin rocky spots that need real soil before anything will grow.

Mountain-lake properties have quirks the flat towns never see, and we plan for them. We keep leaves and pine needles off the docks and shoreline steps where they turn slick, trim back the brush that closes in on narrow driveways, and watch the washout points where spring runoff cuts across the lawn — edging and mulch placed to hold, not just to look pretty. For seasonal cabins, we also do a close-out leaf clearing before the first hard freeze, so you never arrive in spring to a yard buried under six months of matted leaves.

We are family-run, based just across the Delaware in Pennsylvania — close enough to serve Highland Lakes all season. Residential and commercial. Call Iron Oak Landscape Group at (862) 391-8481 for a free estimate — straight pricing, work done right.