St. Louis Park splits the sidewalk two ways and the deadline two more, and it does not run an overnight parking ban at all. It also publishes some of the best housing numbers in the metro — a quarter of the stock was built in the 1950s. All of it bears on the quote.
The ranges below are what established Twin Cities operators publish for the metro. None of them publishes a St. Louis Park-specific price, and this site does not invent one. St. Louis Park falls inside these ranges for the reasons in the next section.
Sources are named Twin Cities operators' own published price pages, gathered September 2026. The metro-level breakdown, with the corner-lot mechanism explained.
Which sidewalk is yours decides the quote. The city clears 52-plus miles of community sidewalk after an inch of accumulation. Property owners clear the remaining 64 miles of neighborhood sidewalk under Sec. 24-342(b1) — residential within six hours of daylight remaining after snow stops, or by noon the following day, whichever is longer; commercial within four business hours or by the next business day, whichever is shorter. If your frontage is neighborhood sidewalk, it is in scope on a clock, at the metro’s published $25 to $60 a visit for walkway work. If it is community sidewalk, it is not.
Uniform 1950s lots, uniform driveways. Homes built in the 1950s make up 24 percent of the housing stock and the median year built for owner-occupied homes is 1954. A city of post-war lots has predictable two-car driveways, which puts a typical property toward the middle of the $600 to $750 tier and makes quoting from the address unusually reliable.
No overnight ban, but a 12-hour tow clock. Restrictions apply only when a snow emergency is declared — then vehicles must come off the street day or night, and a ticketed car still there 12 hours later is towed. Over 90 winter parking exemption streets allow parking through events and are cleared two to four days after the citywide pass. If you live on one, tell your operator: your street will have a late city plow and a late ridge.
The city publishes the split sidewalk deadlines but no fine and no clear-and-bill amount. It publishes no ticket or tow figure. On mailboxes: the city replaces or repairs boxes physically struck by the plow blade, wing or equipment, but states that boxes should be built to withstand snow rolling off a plow, so weight-of-snow damage is the owner’s.
Pushing snow back into an alley is against city ordinance, uncited; the statewide penalty for snow in a street applies under Minn. Stat. § 169.42, $400 minimum on a second offense.
The Minnesota DNR counts an average of 7.6 days a season with two inches or more at the Twin Cities station. At the published $75 to $100 a visit that is $570 to $760, against a $600 to $750 seasonal contract on the same property. In an average winter the two are the same money. St. Louis Park’s daylight-hours sidewalk clock is the reason a per-visit operator who arrives after dark has already cost you the deadline on a neighborhood walk. The full comparison.
No operator publishes a St. Louis Park rate. Established Twin Cities operators publish $600 to $750 a season for a suburban driveway and front walk and $45 to $100 a visit. St. Louis Park’s uniform 1950s lots keep most quotes in the middle of that tier, with frontage added where you front one of the 64 miles of owner-cleared sidewalk.
The city clears 52-plus miles of community sidewalk and owners clear 64 miles of neighborhood sidewalk. The city’s sidewalk maps show which is which; ask before you price a contract.
Under Sec. 24-342(b1): six hours of daylight remaining after the snow stops, or noon the following day, whichever is longer. Commercial property is on the tighter four-business-hour clock.
City rules on this page come from the city’s own published pages and are laid out in full on the St. Louis Park service-area page. Where the city publishes no rule, this page says so rather than borrowing a neighbor’s.
Address, driveway size, how much public sidewalk you front, and whether it is a corner. Four facts, and the range above becomes a quote.
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