ADA Ramps & Compliance in Basehor, KS

An ADA ramp in Basehor passes when four numbers hold on the finished pour: the running slope at or under 1:12 max running slope, the cross slope under 1:48 max cross slope, the clear width at 36 inches or wider, and a level landing at each end. Those are the federal 2010 ADA Standards; a ramp on a public sidewalk or street corner also answers to PROWAG. None of it is guesswork — it is measured on the concrete, not assumed off the drawing.

Basehor is the newest commercial ground in Leavenworth County. The town has grown from a bedroom community into an upscale retail hub, and most of its retail — Basehor Town Center, Wolf Creek Marketplace, the outparcels filling the US-24/40 corridor — was poured from 2015 forward. That timing is the whole story here: the ramps going in now are a town’s first generation, and building them right while the pavement is young is far cheaper than retrofitting them later.

Basehor sits in the loess belt that runs down the Leavenworth corridor — wind-deposited silt that is firm and strong while it is dry and loses much of that strength the moment it saturates. On a fresh subbase, that matters: a landing compacted dry can settle if water gets in and softens the loess under it, and a settled landing is a non-compliant landing. So the ground work is half the job. We build up and compact the subgrade to the right moisture, pitch the surrounding grade to move water away from the ramp, and detail the grade break so runoff clears instead of pooling. Our storm drainage and soil guides go deeper on how this ground behaves.

Compliance is a whole route, not a single corner. A shopper or a parent has to get from an accessible stall, across the drive aisle, up the ramp, and to the door along a continuous 36-inch clear width, without hitting a step or an over-steep pitch anywhere — and the same is true at the Basehor-Linwood schools, where student and event parking turns over hard. We map the route end to end, from the stall stripe to the entrance, and build every transition on it to the standard. That lot-to-door thinking is the same on a sidewalk run or a curb and gutter line.

Leavenworth County winters put a ramp through repeated freeze-thaw and a season of de-icing salt, and both are hardest right at the grade break. We pour air-entrained 4,000 PSI concrete so the mix can take the freeze-thaw cycling, broom-finish the surface for grip when it is wet or iced, and saw-cut the joints to steer cracking away from the landings. Detailed for drainage and sealed against the salt, a Basehor ramp built this way holds its slope and its warnings for the long run. Ford Concrete is licensed, certified, and insured, and rates 4.9 on Google across 29 reviews for concrete work across the Kansas City metro.