Highway Department

Mission Statement

The mission of the Highway Department is to reconstruct and maintain the County Trunk Highway System. We also provide maintenance services for the State Trunk Highways within Oconto County on a contract basis with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The Department also provides repair, maintenance, blacktopping, gravel, reconstruction, snow removal, and bridge replacement services to the Townships, Cities, and Villages within the County.

The Highway Department's program responsibility is to maintain the County and State Trunk Highway System for safety and convenience of people traveling through the County. The Highway Department provides general, winter, and roadside maintenance for State and County Trunk Highways and parks throughout the County. General maintenance includes: patching, crack filling and seal coating of pavement, shoulder maintenance and vegetation control, bridge and culvert maintenance, litter pickup, guard rail installation and maintenance, signing, pavement marking and traffic control. Winter maintenance includes: plowing State and County Trunk highways, shoveling of bridges, and application of salt to State and County Trunk highways and bridges. Roadside maintenance includes: cleaning and maintaining the buildings and grounds at each park facility. In addition, the department provides road construction, pavement resurfacing (blacktopping), bridge repair, culvert repair and installation and gravel crushing. All the above-mentioned services are available to Towns, Cities, and Villages upon request. To effectively perform these activities, storage maintenance and repair facilities are operated at Mountain, Oconto, Sampson, and Suring locations. Planning and administration are also functions of the department.

Wisconsin DOT

Highway Committee


County Salt Supply - Posted 1/8/26

We would like to clarify the status of our salt supply, as there have been rumors regarding its availability. The county is not out of salt; however, we do have low quantities in certain locations while we await deliveries from the dock. We are receiving deliveries today; however, we cannot confirm the quantity they will deliver, as many other counties are also requesting salt, and the dock is working to fulfill these demands to keep counties operating. The fulfillment of these orders is contingent upon deliveries from the docks, which depend on the availability of trucks to deliver.

Thank you for your understanding.

Smyth Road Bridge Project

Request For Bids

2026 BUILDING ENVELOPE IMPROVEMENTS
MOUNTAIN SHOP BLDG.
OCONTO COUNTY

Oconto County is hereby requesting bids for roof replacement at the Mountain
Shop Building. A mandatory pre-bid conference has been scheduled for 10 a.m. on
January 7, 2026 at the Mountain Shop, located at 14068 Old 32 in Mountain,
Wisconsin. Copies of Drawings and other Bidding documents may be obtained by
emailing your request to Jeremy Ballard at The Garland Company (jballard@garlandco.com). 

Sealed bids must be received by Oconto County prior to 2:00 p.m. January 21,
2026, in the Office of the County Clerk, located at 301 Washington Street, in Oconto
Wisconsin 54153. Bids will be opened publicly and read aloud at 2:05pm in room 2023.
Mark Bid envelope to: 1) identify project, 2) identify bidder, and 3) “SEALED BID”. Bid
envelope not properly marked or sealed may be cause for rejection. Award, if any, will
be made as soon as possible thereafter.

No bid shall be received unless accompanied by a certified check or a bid bond
equal to 5 percent of the bid, payable to Oconto County Treasurer, as a guarantee that
if the bid is accepted, the bidder will execute and file the proper contract and
performance bond within 10 days from the date the lowest responsible bidder’s bid is
accepted. If the bidder fails to file such contract and performance bond within the time
set by the County, the check or bid bond shall be forfeited to the County as liquidated
damages.

Oconto County reserves the right to reject any and all quotations and the right to
disregard any and all nonconforming quotes. The County shall award the work to the
firm based upon their quotation which will best serve the interests of Oconto County.

Oconto County

Reporting a Damaged Mailbox

ATV / UTV Route Request

  1. Oconto County Road Map (PDF)
  2. Application Form (PDF)
  3. Ordinance - Chapter 27 - All Terrain Vehicles (PDF)

Permits

  1. County Building Transport Permit (PDF)
  2. County Driveway Permit (PDF)
  3. County Exceed Posted Weight Limit Permit (PDF)
  4. County Single Trip Oversize-Overweight Vehicle Permit (PDF)
  5. County Utility Accommodation Policy (PDF)
  6. County Utility Permit (PDF)
  7. County White Arrowboard Sign Application (PDF)
  8. State Right Of Way Permits (PDF)
  9. State Single Trip Oversize-Overweight Vehicle Permit (PDF)
  10. Work in Right-of-Way Permit (PDF)