How To Keep People From Turning Around in Your Driveway
If you live by an intersection of a well-traveled road or a business like I do, then you know what it’s like to have cars constantly turning around in your driveway and sometimes damaging your property. A few years ago, I had my gravel driveway and busted old concrete sidewalks replaced with new poured concrete, a beautiful sight it was! That was until I had what looked like regular traffic constantly driving up and down my driveway, missing the edges and driving through my lawn, running over Solar Lights, and leaving black marks from tight turns and aggressive acceleration. Most people would use my entire driveway to turn around vs. the end by the road, it became a safety concern as well as the property damage adding up. On average there were about 10 turn arounds each day at all times of the day/ night.
Solutions:
Everyone suggests adding a gate but for me that wasn’t practical or economical, so that idea went to the wayside immediately. I knew there had to be an easier way to reduce the amount of traffic without making life more difficult for myself and not emptying my wallet. Below are a few suggestions that worked for me.
- Add some landscaping such as grassy plants or allow the grass to grow a little higher where the road meets your driveway. The idea behind this is to “camouflage” where your driveway begins so by the time someone sees where your driveway begins they will be going too fast and will find another place to turn around. Once my grass grew around the edges of the driveway the amount of traffic decreased by 70%, thank goodness. You can even add a Corner Picket Fence like this one and plant some flowers to hide where the driveway meets the road.
- Add these Rubber Driveway Spikes wherever you would like to stop traffic from going. Beware that putting these too close to the road might reduce the number of packages that will be delivered, these Rubber Spikes look very real but are completely safe to drive over. I use these where my driveway and oversized sidewalk connect, I lost three Solar Lights and a lot of grass due to people using my sidewalk to turn around. A lot of people have had excellent success like I have with these, here is a quote from a happy user. “Cars constantly used our driveway to turn around. I put a sign out that says “Private driveway no turn around”. People totally ignored it. I bought two of these & it’s been 100% effective. No more people pulling in at all. Friends who we already told they are fake were still hesitant to drive over them. Just watched a truck the other day slow down to turn around, and once he saw the spikes continued down the road. One minute later I see him driving down the road in the opposite direction.” – Satisfied customer-
- Portable Fence, this Fence is excellent if you have kids or pets playing in the driveway and you want to quickly block off driveways, garages, parking spots, and entranceways. This can be used anywhere and can be placed in your vehicle to be used at other locations as well.
- Driveway Markers, these are more for keeping people from driving off your driveway and running over decorations and damaging the lawn. These are neat because the integral spring protects both markers and vehicle from damage if struck. Each 40" post will stand tall while its reflective tape “lights” the way at night. Forget about trimming as each comes with its own flush mounted ground socket allowing easy marker removal permitting you to mow right over it.
There are more ways to limit cars from turning around and some work better than others depending on your location. Right now, I’m down to about one car turning around per day, and no more property damage. If you have any tips or ideas feel free to leave it in the comment section below.