How to get rid of a mattress in Chino Valley, AZ.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Chino Valley and its neighbors.

• The landfill that actually buries Yavapai County's waste publishes no price a householder can act on. Gray Wolf Regional Landfill, which the county's own station list names as “Owned by Waste Management” with only “Call for information” beside it, is at “23355 East Highway 169 / Mile Post 11, Dewey, AZ 86327”. Waste Management's own facility page gives the hours as Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., closed Sunday, and describes it as a regional disposal facility serving Yavapai County and northern Arizona. The accepted-materials list is a commercial one — municipal solid waste, construction and demolition debris, non-friable asbestos, biosolids, industrial sludges, clean and contaminated soils and yard waste — and the page states the facility does not accept hazardous waste. What it does not carry is any rate card, any per-item or per-ton price, any minimum charge, and any statement that a member of the public may drive in with a household load. Mattresses are not mentioned at all. On this site's standard that is not a listable option: a phone number and a claim is not enough, and an unpublished fee is not a free one. For a resident of Dewey-Humboldt, Prescott Valley or Chino Valley the published answer remains a county transfer station at $10 a mattress. Source Not confirmed: Waste Management publishes no mattress fee, no per-ton rate and no minimum load charge for Gray Wolf Regional Landfill. Not confirmed: Whether Gray Wolf accepts residential self-haul at all, or only commercial and contracted loads, is not stated on its page. Not confirmed: The county's list gives the site's phone as 928-925-6249; no price was sought by phone, as this research does not contact operators.
• Not an option: The biggest reuse shop in western Yavapai County stopped taking mattresses this summer, and the refusal is printed. Prescott Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 1061 Commerce Drive, Prescott, AZ 86305, at 928-771-1777, is open Tuesday through Saturday 9am to 5pm with donations accepted Tuesday through Saturday 9:30am to 3:30pm. Its donation page opens “ALL DONATIONS MUST BE CLEAN, COMPLETE, AND IN USEABLE CONDITION”, and its “Items we DO NOT accept” list now begins with a dated heading: “WE WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT: (July 2026)” followed immediately by “Used mattresses, box springs, wood bed frames / head-boards / foot-boards”. The same list rules out “Clothing, shoes, bedding, linens”, so the whole bedroom-textile category is gone. The accepted list still takes “Furniture (no broken or missing pieces)” and “Upholstered furniture (no stains, odors, wear, tear, discolorations, pet hair, or patterns)” — a bed frame in metal is not named either way, but a wooden one is explicitly refused. This matters because the July 2026 change is recent enough that a resident may remember donating one here and waste the drive. Anyone in Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley or Dewey-Humboldt should treat the ReStore as closed to bedding and go to a county transfer station instead. The Verde Valley side of the county has a separate Habitat affiliate in Cottonwood, which does not list mattresses among the bed furniture it accepts either. Source Not confirmed: The ReStore does not say what a donor should do with a refused mattress, and names no alternative.
• Not an option: The Quad Cities' other large furniture charity refuses mattresses too, and it is the one that would otherwise have collected. Stepping Stones Thrift, 2651 N. Industrial Way (“Off Highway 69 at Mendecino Drive, Right on Lorna Lane”), Prescott Valley, AZ 86314, at 928.499.3206, open Tuesday through Saturday 9am to 5pm with donations taken 9am to 4pm, funds a 24/7 shelter and takes “furniture, home décor/housewares, working appliances, office supplies, tools, sporting goods, clothing, and accessories”. It runs a free home collection: “Stepping Stones Thrift Stores will pick up donations from your home throughout the Prescott – Prescott Valley – Chino Valley area”, booked at 928-759-0225 Monday through Thursday 9am to 4pm, with the warning that “During busy seasons, our trucks are often two weeks out to schedule a pick up”. But the list headed “Items we are unable to accept for thrift donation at any time” includes “Mattresses or Box springs” outright. The near misses are worth knowing: “Bed frames (basic metal adjustable frames/rails only); no headboards or large furniture-style frames” and “Mattress toppers (new only)” are taken “by store discretion/case by case basis”, and “Antique metal headboards” too. So the free truck that will come to a Prescott, Prescott Valley or Chino Valley door for a bed frame will not take the mattress off it, and “Our drivers have the final say in what they will be able to accept at the time of pick up.” Source Not confirmed: The page names stores “located in Prescott and Prescott Valley” but publishes an address only for the Prescott Valley store. Not confirmed: The refusal is absolute (“at any time”), so no condition of a mattress would be accepted.
• The Paulden event is not a one-time: Yavapai County rotates a free community clean-up around its outlying transfer stations several times a year, and the Public Works news feed shows the pattern over two fiscal years. Skull Valley Community Clean-Up, published September 10, 2025. Black Canyon City Community Clean-Up, published September 22, 2025, “at the Black Canyon City Transfer Station, 21000 E. Landfill Rd.” Camp Verde, published January 29, 2026: “open to Yavapai County residents for no charge on February 26, 27, 28 & March 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14, 2026 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. This program is for residential use only. No commercial dumping.” Congress, published February 24, 2026: “at the Congress Transfer Station (20994 W. Stanton Rd) ... open to Yavapai County residents for no charge on March 26th, 27th, 28th, & April 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 2026 from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.” Seligman, published March 18, 2026: “at the Seligman Transfer Station, 55799 N. Seligman Landfill Road ... open to Yavapai County residents for no charge on April 17th, 18th, 24th, and 25th, 2026 from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. No Commercial Dumping.” Mayer, published April 8, 2026: “at the Mayer Yard (next to the Mayer Transfer Station): 11130 S. Antelope Creek Rd., ¼ mile south of Mayer ... open to Yavapai County residents at no charge on May 7th, 8th, 9th, 14th, 15th, & 16th, 2026 8:00am - 4:00pm.” Paulden, published September 3, 2026, is the current one. Every notice uses the same eligibility phrase — “open to Yavapai County residents”, at no charge, residential only — so a resident of any Yavapai town who misses one has a reasonable chance of another within a few months at a different station. Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, Cottonwood and Sedona have never hosted one, because the county holds them only at its own stations. Source Not confirmed: The county publishes no calendar of forthcoming clean-ups; each is announced a few weeks ahead on the Public Works news feed, so a future date cannot be given. Not confirmed: None of the notices names mattresses or box springs on the accepted or refused list. Not confirmed: The Cleanup and Slash Events landing page on the county site is empty of content, and the FY25-26 event pages it used to link now return 404, so the news feed is the only current index.
• The county's printed clean-up flyer carries terms the web notices leave out, and the wording is the same each time the event moves. The 2026 Congress flyer reads: “Where: Congress Transfer Station, 20994 W. Stanton Rd, ¼ Mile East of Hwy 89. When: March 26, 27, 28, April 2, 3, & 4, 2026. The community clean-up is open to all Yavapai County residents to dispose of waste at no charge.” Accepted Items: “Bagged Trash ONLY, Tires, Auto Batteries, Furniture, Yard Trimmings, Household Appliances”. “ITEMS THAT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED: LOOSE TRASH WILL BE REFUSED; COMMERCIAL DUMPING; CARS OR DEAD ANIMALS; LIQUIDS OR HAZARDOUS MATERIAL; NI-CAD BATTERIES”. Then the two operational lines that matter to anyone driving out with a mattress in the back: “PLEASE BE PREPARED TO UNLOAD YOUR OWN VEHICLE” and “Transfer Station will remain open on Tuesdays with normal hours and fees.” The eligibility phrase on the flyer is the widest the county uses — “all Yavapai County residents” — with no mention of unincorporated areas, no ID requirement stated and no limit on loads per household. There is no staff to lift for you, and on the station's ordinary open days outside the event window the normal fee schedule applies again. Source Not confirmed: “Furniture” is accepted and mattresses are named nowhere on the flyer, in either list. Not confirmed: The flyer states no proof-of-residency requirement and no per-household limit; neither an allowance nor its absence is published.
• Yavapai County collects nothing from anybody's curb, and its own description of the Solid Waste Division is the evidence. The division page states: “The Solid Waste Division operates under the Public Works Department. In compliance with all federal and state regulations, the Solid Waste Division is responsible for the operation of 8 waste transfer stations, 2 tire yards, trash patrol in the county right of way, adopt-a-road program, community cleanups, free slash, and post-closure county landfills.” That list is the whole remit: eight drop-off sites, two tire yards, litter patrol on county roads, the adopt-a-road program, the rotating free community clean-ups, the seasonal free slash drop-off, and closed landfills under monitoring. There is no household collection, no bulky-item or large-item pickup, no appointment service, no voucher and no subsidized haul — for unincorporated residents or for anyone else. The county's Public Works brochure says the same in its Solid Waste section: “The Solid Waste Division operates eight transfer stations and two tire yards within Yavapai County”, and then lists only those ten sites. A Yavapai County resident with a mattress therefore has no county program that will come and take it; the county's answer is self-haul to a transfer station at $10, or a private hauler of their own choosing. Source Not confirmed: The county does not publish a page stating in so many words that it provides no residential collection; this finding rests on the division's own complete statement of what it is responsible for, in which no collection service appears. Not confirmed: Whether any Yavapai County ordinance requires unincorporated households to hold a private collection contract is not established here.
• The county's free community clean-up is running at Paulden as this was checked, and it is open to the whole county, not just to the host town. The notice, published September 3, 2026: “The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors, working with the Public Works Department, is pleased to announce a community clean-up in Paulden. The clean-up will be at the Paulden Transfer Station, 23750 N. Marblehead Avenue. The clean-up will be open to Yavapai County residents at no charge on September 17th, 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th, 26th, and October 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2026, from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. The Paulden Transfer Station will remain open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with normal hours and fees.” The terms: “Accepted items: Household appliances, BAGGED household trash, automotive batteries, unmounted tires, furniture, and yard trimmings.” “Items that will NOT be accepted: Loose trash will be refused, liquids, hazardous materials, cars, Ni Cad batteries and dead animals.” “This program is for residential use only; commercial loads will not be accepted.” The eligibility wording is worth reading closely: it is “Yavapai County residents”, with no restriction to unincorporated areas and no restriction to Paulden, so a Prescott, Chino Valley or Cottonwood resident is inside the stated eligibility — although Paulden is a long drive from most of them. The county gives (928) 771-3183 for more information. A resident with a mattress should note what the accepted list does and does not say: “furniture” is accepted and a mattress is not named on either list, so whether a mattress is free on these days is not something the county has published. Source Not confirmed: The accepted list names “furniture” but not mattresses or box springs, and the refused list does not name them either, so whether a mattress is taken free at a community clean-up is not established. The $10.00 per-item fee is what the county publishes for a mattress. Not confirmed: No per-household or per-vehicle load limit is published for the clean-up. Not confirmed: The notice does not say whether proof of Yavapai County residency is checked at the gate.
• Not an option: The county's other free program will not take a mattress, and says so by naming garbage. The 2026 Free Slash Drop-Off Program ran “April 1, 2026, through June 1, 2026” at seven of the eight county transfer stations — “Black Canyon City, Camp Verde, Congress, Mayer, Paulden, Seligman, and Skull Valley” — during normal operating hours. “This program is for residential use only. Commercial loads will not be accepted.” “Only the following items will be accepted: brush, branches, grass, leaves and yard trimmings. All slash must be removed from plastic bags.” “Items that will NOT be accepted are: lumber, stumps, roots, cactus, metal, and garbage.” A mattress falls on the wrong side of that list in every reading of it, and the program is in any case a spring wildfire-mitigation measure rather than a bulky-waste amnesty. The county has run it annually — the 2025 round was March 20 to June 15, 2025 on the same terms — so it will very likely return in spring 2027, and it will still be no use for bedding. Source Not confirmed: Bagdad is the one county transfer station not named in the free slash program, and the county does not say why.