Metal Gates in Edina, MN
Ornamental ironwork, driveway gates, automatic operators and repairs for Edina properties — including the historic-district openings where the match matters as much as the gate.
St. Paul Elite Metal Gates is your local resource for metal gates, driveway gates, automatic gate operators and ornamental ironwork throughout Edina and Hennepin County. We work with experienced gate fabricators and installers who build for a climate that swings 120 degrees between July and January.
Edina is unusually well defined by its neighborhoods, and they are not interchangeable. Highlands, Indian Hills, Morningside, the Country Club District, Cahill Village, South Harriet Park, Interlachen, Rolling Green, Sunnyslope, White Oaks, Parkwood Knolls, Braemar Hills and the rest each carry their own street pattern, lot size and building era — and the right gate is different in most of them.
The city was founded in the 1860s as a farming and milling community, incorporated in 1888, and expanded hard as a car-centric suburb through the 1950s and 1960s after an earlier streetcar-suburb phase. Minnesota Highways 62 and 100 cut it into four quarters. Where a property sits in that grid changes both what the gate should look like and what it has to survive.
Custom Metal Gates in Edina, MN
Each service below has its own page with the full specification detail. These are the ones that come up most often on Edina properties, residential and commercial.
Custom Metal Gates
Built to the measured opening in steel, aluminum or true wrought iron, with the material and coating specified before the drawing.
Custom Metal Gates in EdinaDriveway Gates
Single and double leaves sized to the clear opening and the grade across it. Slide versus swing gets decided on site, not by preference.
Driveway Gates in EdinaAutomatic & Electric Gates
Operators matched to leaf weight and real cycle counts, with remotes, keypads, exit detection and battery backup.
Automatic & Electric Gates in EdinaWrought Iron Gates
Ornamental iron and forged detail, including an honest answer about which metal you are actually buying.
Wrought Iron Gates in EdinaSliding Gates
V-track and cantilever slide gates for driveways with no room to swing. Cantilever carries the leaf with no ground track to ice up.
Sliding Gates in EdinaSwing Gates
Manual or automatic, braced against the sag that takes down every long leaf built without a latch-side diagonal.
Swing Gates in EdinaPedestrian Gates
Front entry, side yard and garden walk gates, hung with the clearance to still swing over packed snow in February.
Pedestrian Gates in EdinaSecurity Gates
Specified against how gates actually get defeated: reach-through to the latch, climbing, and lifting the leaf off its hinges.
Security Gates in EdinaMetal Gate Repair
Sagging leaves, gates off track, seized rollers, bent frames and latches that will not catch. Diagnosis before parts.
Metal Gate Repair in EdinaGate Opener Installation
Slide and swing operators installed, wired and commissioned — including the power route, usually the biggest number on the quote.
Gate Opener Installation in EdinaGate Opener & Motor Repair
Most dead openers turn out to be a drifted limit, a blocked photo eye or a gate that simply got harder to move.
Gate Opener & Motor Repair in EdinaAccess Control Systems
Keypads, fobs, intercom and smartphone entry, built around how you revoke one person's access rather than how the pedestal looks.
Access Control Systems in EdinaCommercial Metal Gates
Entrance, yard and perimeter gates specified against cycle count rather than size, with approach setback so trucks are not left in traffic.
Commercial Metal Gates in EdinaCommercial Automatic Gates
High-cycle operators, vehicle detection and UL 325 safety systems sized on the peak hour, not the daily average.
Commercial Automatic Gates in EdinaCommercial Security Gates
Parking, warehouse and perimeter gates with credentials that can be revoked one person at a time. The perimeter gets walked first.
Commercial Security Gates in EdinaCommercial Gate Repair
Automatic gate, motor, track and hardware repair plus preventative maintenance tied to your real cycle count.
Commercial Gate Repair in EdinaIndustrial & Heavy-Duty Gates
Heavy slide and steel security gates engineered for truck loads and shift-change throughput, with a wear-item list at handover.
Industrial & Heavy-Duty Gates in Edina
Residential Metal Gates in Edina, MN
The Country Club District is on the National Register of Historic Places, as are the Baird and Grimes neighborhoods, and work visible from the public way in a district like that generally faces design review. That review looks at materials, profile and finish, which means those get settled before fabrication rather than after — a gate rejected on picket spacing or top-rail profile is a fabrication problem, not a paperwork one. Build the review into the schedule.
Elsewhere the constraint is topography and lot shape rather than approval. Indian Hills, Braemar Hills and Rolling Green sit on rolling ground with curving streets, and drives there routinely meet the street at an angle and fall across the opening at the same time. That is a two-post measurement and a bottom rail cut to the fall, decided in fabrication. Morningside and South Harriet Park are the opposite — older, tighter, closer to a street grid, and far more likely to want a walk gate in an existing fence line than a driveway gate at all.
Commercial Metal Gates in Edina, MN
Edina's commercial weight sits at 50th and France, at Southdale Center and at the Galleria, and the gate work those generate is back-of-house: loading courts, enclosure gates, staff lots and contractor access. Customers never see any of it, and it cycles constantly.
The specification questions are cycle count and failure mode. A gate that fails open on a loading court is a security exposure; one that fails closed on a staff lot before opening is a scheduling problem — and those two answers point at different hardware and different battery-backup decisions. Access credentials should be revocable one person at a time, which is a different question from whether the gate opens on a fob. Where the same part fails twice, that is a rating problem rather than bad luck, and it deserves a root cause rather than another replacement.
Driveway Gates in Edina, MN
Highways 62 and 100 divide the city, U.S. Route 169 runs north-south and Interstate 494 runs east-west across the bottom. Very little of Edina is far from one of them, and all four get salted through the whole winter. The bottom rail of a driveway gate is the lowest horizontal surface plow spray finds, and it is where every uncoated gate in this metro fails first.
So the coating decision comes before the color decision. Zinc-rich primer under powder coat handles a gate set well back on a quiet residential street. A duplex system — hot-dip galvanized first, then powder coated — is the answer where the apron meets an arterial, at 1.5 to 2.3 times the combined service life of the two coatings applied separately per the American Galvanizers Association. The order matters: the zinc stops the undercutting that peels paint off bare steel, while the topcoat slows the zinc's own consumption. Powder coat straight over mill scale looks identical on day one and starts failing at the first stone chip.
Automatic Gate Installation in Edina, MN
Automation on Edina's rolling-ground neighborhoods is a grade problem before it is a power problem. A swing operator has to move the leaf uphill through part of its travel on a sloped drive, and force settings tuned on level ground will either stall on the climb or slam on the descent. Travel limits get set with the gate loaded and soft start and soft stop get tuned properly, because that single adjustment is much of the difference between hardware that lasts and hardware that shakes itself apart.
The safety devices are a requirement, not an upsell, and they should be itemized on the estimate. ANSI/CAN/UL 325 calls for two independent entrapment-protection devices at each entrapment zone, and the operator's inherent reversing system counts as only one of them — so photo eyes and edge sensors go in at the closing edge and at the hinge pinch point and are proven by physically obstructing the gate. On a sloped drive, where a leaf carries real momentum downhill, that verification is the point of the standard rather than a formality.
Custom & Ornamental Metal Gates
This is one of the few cities in the metro where ornamental work is regularly a matching exercise rather than a design exercise. In the Country Club District and the other listed neighborhoods, a gate has to sit with houses of a specific period and, often, with existing masonry piers or an existing fence run. Matching means picket spacing, top-rail profile, finial pattern and joint style — close but not right reads as an error in a way a deliberately different design never does.
It is also where the wrought iron question deserves a straight answer. Almost everything sold as wrought iron in this metro is mild steel: strong per dollar, cleanly welded, repairable by any competent welder twenty years from now. True wrought iron has a fibrous slag structure and a hand-worked forge finish, and it earns its price on genuine restoration where a repair has to disappear into old ironwork. Forged scrollwork, hammered collars and mortise-and-collar joints instead of plain welds carry a longer lead time because the work is at a forge rather than a saw. Pay steel prices for steel.
Metal Gate Repair in Edina, MN
Edina has gates across a very wide age range, and the diagnostic order changes with the age. On older ironwork the first question is surface rust versus section loss: surface rust cleans up and recoats, while section loss means the steel has thinned in a structural member and a coating over it is paint on a failing part. On newer gates the first question is the footing.
Hennepin County is frost Zone II under Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 at a 42-inch minimum footing depth. A hinge post set short lifts every freeze-thaw cycle, and on a sloped Edina drive a post that has walked downhill takes the whole gate out of square. The diagnostic tells are consistent: a gate that binds every April and clears by July is describing frost movement, and a gate whose latch has been relocated more than once is describing a post that is still moving. In both cases, adjusting hardware treats the evidence rather than the cause.
Specified for a 42-Inch Frost Line and 365,000 Tons of Road Salt
A phone number and a truck in the driveway don't make a company. Here's what's actually different about how a gate gets specified for a job in Edina, MN.
Footings Below the Frost Line
Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 puts Ramsey, Hennepin, Washington, Dakota and Anoka Counties in frost Zone II: 42 inches minimum. A post stopped short of that because the ground was frozen and nobody wanted to keep digging is a post that lifts, and a lifted post is a new gate rather than an adjustment.
Coating Specified Before Color
365,000 tons of road salt go down in the Twin Cities metro every year, and plow spray finds the bottom rail first. Hot-dip galvanized, or galvanized then powder coated, gets chosen against that exposure — the color chart comes after.
Safety Devices Tested by Obstruction
UL 325 and ASTM F2200 exist because automated gates injure people. Photo eyes and edge sensors get proven by physically blocking the gate at the closing edge and at the hinge pinch point before handover, not ticked off a list with the sensors still in the box.
Around Edina, MN
Cahill Settlement
The area around West 70th Street and Cahill Road preserves the city's pre-suburban settlement layer, and it is one of the few places in Edina where a gate might be sitting next to genuinely nineteenth-century context.
50th & France
The commercial district shared with Minneapolis, where shallow lots and shared alley access mean rear-of-building gates rarely have the arc for a swing leaf.
Highways 62 and 100
The two state highways split Edina into four quadrants, which is why neighborhood character — and therefore the right gate — changes so sharply from one part of the city to the next.
When This Isn’t the Right Call
- If your opening is under about eight feet, a single stock swing leaf will usually do the job for a fraction of a custom build. Measure the clear opening in Edina before you spend anything.
- If you want a wood gate, this is the wrong page. A cedar gate hung on steel hinge posts is a legitimate answer and a different trade.
- If it is one sagging hinge on a four-foot walk gate, 12.8 miles each way is a poor trade for you and for whoever drives it. Call somebody on your own block and keep this page for the driveway.
- If the budget stops at a chain-link rolling gate, buy the chain-link rolling gate. It is an honest piece of hardware, and a custom gate value-engineered down to nothing satisfies nobody.
- If the existing gate sags but the frame and posts are still sound, a repair is almost always the cheaper and better answer than a replacement. Ask for that answer before you ask for a quote on a new gate.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Do you serve Edina, MN?
- Yes. Edina is 12.8 miles west-southwest of St. Paul. Hennepin County is inside the service area along with Ramsey, Washington, Dakota and Anoka.
- Do I need approval for a gate in the Edina Country Club District?
- Very likely, and it should be settled before fabrication rather than after. The Country Club District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as are the Baird and Grimes neighborhoods, and work visible from the public way in a district like that generally faces design review of materials, profile and finish. Build that step into the timeline — a gate rejected on picket spacing is a fabrication cost, not an administrative one.
- How deep do gate posts have to go in Edina?
- 42 inches. Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 puts Hennepin County in frost Zone II, at a 3-1/2 foot minimum footing depth for frost protection — the same requirement as Ramsey, Washington, Dakota and Anoka. Northern Minnesota counties are held to 60 inches. A post stopped short of 42 heaves, and on a sloped drive it also walks.
- My driveway slopes. Does that change the gate?
- Yes, in three places. The leaf gets built to the fall rather than hung level, with the hinge post set to the high side and the bottom rail cut to match — measured at both posts, not once across the middle. If it is automated, the operator has to move the leaf uphill through part of its travel, so force settings and soft start and stop get tuned on the loaded gate. And a V-track slide gate at the low point of a sloped drive collects meltwater that refreezes, which usually points to a cantilever gate instead.
- What does an ornamental iron gate cost in Edina?
- Ornamental work is priced in fabrication hours, which is why it separates so far from a plain picket gate. As a baseline, HomeAdvisor's 2025 national data puts a manual driveway gate at $1,500 to $4,000 installed and an automatic one at $2,500 to $5,000, within an overall $750 to $11,000 range — national figures for the gate and hardware only, excluding 42-inch footings and any power run. Forged detail, collared joints and made-rather-than-bought finials sit above that, and matching existing historic ironwork sits above that again.
Learn More
- Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 — Footing Depth for Frost Protection — the state rule placing Ramsey, Hennepin, Washington, Dakota and Anoka Counties in Zone II at a 42-inch minimum footing depth
- American Galvanizers Association — Duplex Systems — the technical basis for the 1.5 to 2.3 times service-life figure for powder coat over hot-dip galvanizing
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency — Chloride and Winter Salt — the agency's own accounting of how much road salt goes down across the Twin Cities metro each winter, and where it ends up
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