Cedar Park Metal Gates is the Texas capital region's trusted expert for trackless cantilever driveway gates, specializing in counterbalanced frames, roller carriage assemblies, and rock-bored footings. We offer cantilever gates and rack-and-pinion operators for drives that wash out, slope or sit on limestone.
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Our team provides frame layout, tail sizing and carriage placement, delivering a gate that clears the ground for homes and a heavy-duty frame for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by 17 years in business and our 18-month workmanship warranty, we've completed over 1,483 projects, from a narrow lake lot entry to a wide acreage leaf.
From the footing layout to the final travel test, our team handles every detail. Serving drives in Lakeway, Leander, Georgetown and Cedar Park itself, we build each cantilever gate so no track sits on the ground to foul.
Ask for a free estimate, and we will measure the opening, size the counterbalance tail and price the frame before any steel is cut.
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Yvonne, Lime Creek Road, Volente
A lake lot whose drive falls toward the road and washes gravel across any track
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Yvonne has a lake lot in Volente whose drive falls toward the road and washes gravel across any track. We built a cantilever frame with a 10 ft tail, roller carriages on steel beams and footings rock-bored into the ledge. The 20 ft clear gate in hot-dip galvanized steel with charcoal powder coat was an estimated $7,100 to $9,400 and took an estimated 3 to 4 days. There is no track to foul, and the gate runs clean through storm runoff.
A cantilever gate hangs from two roller carriages and slides on its own frame, with a counterbalance tail behind the carriages that holds the leaf level in the air. No rail sits on the ground, so gravel, mud and grade do not stop it.
Yvonne's Lime Creek Road drive in Volente falls toward the road and washes gravel across any track. A lot with a slope or a rock ledge gives a ground track no level place to stay.
A complete trackless cantilever gate in Cedar Park is typically estimated at $6,200 to $9,800 per system, and the clear opening, the tail length and the footings move that number most. The longer frame costs more than a track slide gate, which sits lower in the table below. Cole in Leander paid an estimated $4,600 to $6,400 for two 8 ft leaves in tube steel with satin black powder coat, and Garrett in Round Rock paid an estimated $2,900 to $4,400 for an 18 ft leaf in galvanized steel with black powder coat.
Roller carriages and a counterbalance tail for sloped drives and heavy use
A leaf on a V-track where the drive is flat and has side room for the open gate
Two leaves on heavy hinges for a wide drive with level swing room behind the gate
Motor, photo eyes, edges and remotes fitted to a sound leaf
Pedestal or column entry device tied to a phone app and resident codes
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
| Job | Est. investment | Est. duration on site |
|---|---|---|
| Trackless cantilever gate | Est. $6,200 to $9,800 per complete system | Est. 2 to 4 days |
| Track slide gate with rack drive | Est. $1,700 to $4,800 per complete system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Double leaf swing entry with operators | Est. $4,200 to $7,800 per complete system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Operator added to an existing gate | Est. $1,900 to $3,700 per system | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Video intercom and keypad entry | Est. $750 to $4,300 per system | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
On site, a trackless cantilever is an estimated 2 to 4 days, against an estimated 2 to 3 days for a track slide gate with rack drive. A double leaf swing entry with operators is estimated at $4,200 to $7,800 and about 2 to 3 days, and adding a video intercom and keypad is estimated at $750 to $4,300 and about 4 to 8 hours. Footing depth on a ledge, tail length and finish can change any of these estimates, so the written quote you receive after we measure your opening sets the final price and the schedule.
The tail is the part of a cantilever gate owners forget, and it decides whether the gate fits. The table shows how the frame is sized.
| Part | What it does | What sets its size |
|---|---|---|
| Counterbalance tail | Holds the leaf level while it travels | Clear opening and leaf weight |
| Roller carriages | Carry the frame on steel beams | Leaf weight and daily cycles |
| Rock-bored footings | Hold the carriage posts plumb | Soil, ledge and frost-free depth |
| Rack-and-pinion drive | Moves the leaf | Leaf weight and travel length |
On a sloped or uneven drive the carriages are set to a level line, not to the ground, so the gate runs true even where the drive falls away. A sloped drive is shot with a level before any gate type is chosen, and the footing depth follows the ledge. Flat lots rarely need this, but a sloped lake drive like Yvonne's does. Hillside owners in Steiner Ranch and Lakeway also pick trackless frames over a track. Storm runoff passes under the frame instead of through a track, which is why cantilever gates suit lake and hill lots.
A cantilever gate has a long moving frame, so entrapment protection matters at the tail as well as the leading edge. Before we leave, we trip each photo eye and edge on the finished cantilever until it reverses, with the tail checked as closely as the leading edge. A Round Rock cantilever needs a city-approved Knox key switch plus an acceptance test, and a Lakeway one needs a key switch for Travis County ESD #6 (confirm current text with the city). For a Cedar Park address, we ask the fire department with jurisdiction and write its answer on your quote.
Hot-dip galvanized steel suits a cantilever frame because the finish protects the tail and carriages. Our steel gate material comparison explains galvanizing against powder coat, and a flat drive with a short apron may suit a ground track sliding gate at lower cost.
We size the tail, bore the footings and set the carriages ourselves, so the crew that measures your drive is the crew that sets the frame. In 17 years and over 1,483 projects, the 18-month workmanship warranty has covered welds, carriages, footings and gate travel on every cantilever gate.
We install cantilever gates across a 40-mile radius, with jobs in Lakeway, Leander and Georgetown, and the full list is on our service area page. Lakeway and Steiner Ranch hillsides typically take 2 to 4 days for a trackless frame, while Leander and Cedar Park single swing alternatives typically take 1 to 2 days. Round Rock and Georgetown flat lots may suit a track slide leaf, typically 2 to 3 days. Limestone under Volente and West Lake Hills lots means rock bits go on the truck for the carriage footings. Rollingwood and Shady Hollow owners should expect a city or fire check before the frame is ordered. The Hills adds association approval first. Garrett's flat Forest Creek drive suited a ground track instead, and Lorna's 26 ft opening on Chisholm Trail Road in Round Rock took a heavy cantilever for box trucks. Renata's 14 ft opening on Redbud Trail suited two arched swing leaves, an estimated $5,600 to $7,600, so not every West Lake Hills lot needs a cantilever. Maribel's 16 ft opening in Rough Hollow stayed a swing pair between limestone columns, an estimated $6,400 to $7,900. Jerome's 16 ft gate on Andice Road acreage stayed a single swing leaf, an estimated $3,400 to $4,700, for trailers on horse property. Gina's Airport Road yard in Georgetown got 320 lf of anti-climb panels in sections, the kind of perimeter a cantilever often closes. Hollis's 16 ft leaf on a corner lot in Buttercup Creek cost an estimated $3,100 to $4,300, which shows what a simple swing saves over a trackless frame. Desmond's association in Travisso kept traffic moving by building two gate pairs one lane at a time, the same staging we use on a working yard's cantilever.
A cantilever gate often pairs with gate access control and intercoms for visitors, a solar gate operator where power is far away, or a motor retrofit for a gate you already own.
A trackless cantilever system is estimated at $6,200 to $9,800, and the tail length and carriage footings are what move it; your written quote sets the final figure.
A cantilever gate usually occupies the drive for an estimated 2 to 4 days, with exact dates written into your quote; Yvonne's Volente gate was an estimated 3 to 4 days.
The tail runs about half the clear opening again behind the carriages, which meant a 10 ft tail for Yvonne's 20 ft gate in Volente.
Yes, the carriages are set to a level line, so the frame runs true where the drive falls away.
No, the frame rides on roller carriages, so there is no rail on the ground to foul with gravel or mud.
Yes, fitting an operator to a gate you already own is estimated at $1,900 to $3,700.
Ask for a free estimate, and we will measure the opening, size the tail and write a quote that names every part of the frame.
Start to finish
An estimator walks the opening, reads the grade and marks where the leaf or the slide run has to clear.
Steel gets cut only after you sign off on a scaled drawing that names the tube, the coating and the opener.
Our Cedar Park welders build it, the steel goes for galvanizing and powder coat, and it ships finished.
Posts cure, the leaf goes up, the opener gets wired, and you watch each photo eye and edge stop the gate.
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