Winters is in Yolo County, so the permit path is different from the rest of our service area. We are about 20 minutes north of Vacaville on Highway 505.
Vacaville Custom Metal & Electric Gates provides driveway gate installation in Winters, CA, and we are about 20 minutes north of Vacaville on Highway 505, so this is local work for us rather than a service area we drive out to occasionally. Winters is in Yolo County, so the permit path is different from the rest of our service area. You can see the full scope of what we build across our ten gate services.
Winters is the one city we serve that is not in Solano County, and it changes the paperwork before it changes anything else. Permits go through the City of Winters, and rural parcels outside the city line go to Yolo County rather than Solano. Physically, most gates here are agricultural: long approaches off Putah Creek Road or Highway 128, openings sized for harvest equipment, and frequently no power within hundreds of feet. Sitting at the foot of the Vaca Mountains also puts much of this area in wildland-urban interface, so emergency access requirements are part of the design.
Winters was founded in 1875 when the railroad crossed Putah Creek, and the downtown still runs on 19th-century brick. Around it sits some of the best agricultural land in the state: walnut and almond orchards, tomato fields and vineyards. Most of the gates we build here are not suburban driveway gates at all, they are ranch and orchard entrances on parcels measured in acres.
Winters sits at the foot of the Vaca Mountains where the valley heat meets the canyon wind coming down off Lake Berryessa and Highway 128. It is also genuine wildland-urban interface, which means Cal Fire access requirements are part of the gate design, not an afterthought.
Every Winters job covers the same scope as our driveway gate installation service, which includes:
See the full driveway gate installation specification, including our process, the options comparison and what drives the price.
Beyond residential work we also cover the agricultural processing operations on the edge of town, the orchard and vineyard properties along Putah Creek Road, and the downtown commercial block. Worth knowing: Winters is the one city we serve in Yolo County, not Solano, and the permit path is different, and that shapes what a gate here has to cope with. For facility-scale entrances see our commercial and industrial gate installation page.
Driveway Gate Installation is one of ten gate services we offer to Winters property owners. You can see them all together on our Winters service area page. Everything below is available to Winters property owners:
We also serve Vacaville, Fairfield, Suisun City, Dixon, Vallejo, Benicia and Winters, and you can explore every service area we cover. Get in touch to book a free measurement in Winters.
Clear opening width, grade change across the travel path, and distance to usable power. We take all three on site before quoting because those three numbers decide swing versus slide, single versus bi-parting, and mains versus solar. A quote given over the phone from a photograph is a guess, and the guess gets corrected at your expense on installation day.
UL 325 requires at least two independent entrapment protection devices for each entrapment zone in each direction of travel. The operator's own force sensing is one of them and cannot be the only one. We add photo eyes or safety edges and prove the reversal by physical obstruction in front of you at handover.
Gates over six feet generally need a building permit, front yard height limits are tighter than side and rear, and a gate facing a public right-of-way can require encroachment review. The requirements differ between Vacaville, Fairfield, Suisun City, Dixon, Vallejo and Benicia, and Winters is in Yolo County entirely. We establish which authority reviews your property before quoting, and handle the submittal.
Yes. Winters is in Yolo County, so the permit does not go through Solano County at all. The City of Winters reviews properties inside the city, and Yolo County handles rural parcels outside it. We confirm the jurisdiction before quoting.
No. Estimates are free and we come to you, which is about 20 minutes north of Vacaville on Highway 505. We measure the clear opening, the grade across the travel path and the distance to power, then quote against those numbers rather than over the phone.
Winters is in Yolo County, so the permit does not go through Solano County at all. The City of Winters reviews it, and rural parcels outside the city line go to Yolo County. In the wildland-urban interface we also design for emergency-vehicle access.
Winters and dixon are both agricultural, but winters adds canyon wind and wildfire access rules, which usually means we can normally offer you a choice of times rather than a single slot weeks out. Call us and we will tell you honestly what the current lead time looks like.
Free on-site estimate across Winters and Yolo County.
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