How to get rid of a mattress in Breckenridge, CO.

Companies that come to your home and carry the mattress out, so you need no vehicle. The prices below are starting prices unless stated — stairs, box springs and extra items add to them.

Most charities will not take a used mattress. These are the ones we checked, including the ones that say no.

• The Salvation Army (satruck.org): accepted-items list includes 'Mattresses' and beds; also says local ordinances and need vary by location and to call 1-800-SA-TRUCK to confirm what a local center accepts. Source
• Doesn’t take mattresses. Habitat for Humanity national ReStore guide: 'Mattresses and box springs are not accepted.' Source

Policies vary by branch. Call before you carry one over — we asked each of the big three directly: Goodwill, the Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity.

What we established about this city in particular — including where it runs nothing of its own and residents have to look elsewhere.

• The Town of Breckenridge collects no household waste and says so plainly on its Public Utilities page: "For household Waste and Recycling Collection Services please contact Timberline Disposal, Waste Management, Summit VIP or Garbage Gurus." Every other utility is listed the same way - water through the Town's own Water Division, sewer through the Upper Blue Sanitation District, gas and electricity through Xcel - and refuse is simply handed to four private haulers. The only town-provided containers are for litter: "The Town of Breckenridge provides trash & recycling barrels for small items around the core of town. It is illegal to dispose of household or commercial trash in these barrels", cross-referenced to title 5, chapter 2 of the Town Code. For disposal itself the page sends residents outside the town: "For information on Recycling, Composting, Landfill, Hazardous & Electronic Waste please contact the High Country Conservation Center or Summit County Resource Allocation Park." There is no town bulky-item pickup, no clean-up week and no mattress program run by Breckenridge; a mattress is a hauler's charge or a drive to SCRAP in Dillon. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say whether any of the four named haulers will take a mattress, or what they charge for one. Not confirmed: No Breckenridge clean-up day, dumpster day or bulky-item voucher is published anywhere on the Town site.
• Breckenridge prices fly-tipping a mattress precisely. Town Code 5-2-2 defines LITTER as "All 'rubbish' as defined in section 5-2-1 ... all 'garbage' ... and all waste material, refuse, debris, or other foreign substances", and 5-2-1 defines RUBBISH to include "abandoned or unsafe household furnishings or appliances" - a dumped mattress is litter by the code's own words. "Any person who deposits, throws, or leaves any litter on any public or private property or in any waters commits the offense of littering", and the definition of public or private property expressly includes "any privately owned real property or building" as well as rights-of-way, parks and trails, so leaving a mattress beside someone else's dumpster is caught. The penalty is mandatory: "a mandatory fine of not less than twenty dollars ($20.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) upon a first conviction; ... not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) upon a second conviction; and ... not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) upon a third or subsequent conviction", with the court able to suspend part of it in exchange for at least eight hours of litter pickup on a first conviction. Where litter is dumped from a vehicle, "the operator of said motor vehicle is presumed to have caused or permitted the litter to be so thrown". It is an affirmative defense that the place is "an area designated by law for the disposal of such material" and the person is authorized to use it, or that the person is the owner or tenant in lawful possession or has the owner's written consent. Offenses in this chapter are strict liability (5-2-8) and any violation is declared a nuisance (5-2-9); under 5-2-4 "No person in charge of real property shall permit or allow the accumulation of rubbish upon such property", and 5-2-7 lets the Director order removal on 10 to 20 days' notice and, failing that, do the work and assess the cost against the property with 5% for inspection and a 10% collection penalty, collected as a lien with real estate taxes. The Code is current through Ord. 7, Series 2026. Source Not confirmed: The chapter sets no set-out window, wrapping requirement or bagging rule for a mattress left for a private hauler; those are the hauler's terms, not the Town's. Not confirmed: Chapter 5-2 does not address apartment or HOA restrictions; Title 5, Chapter 6 on trash enclosures was not reviewed.
• The barrels on Main Street are not an option, and the Town can prove who used them. Town Code 5-2-6 makes it an offense where "Any person who deposits, throws, or leaves any household trash or business trash in a public trash receptacle commits the offense of misuse of public trash receptacle", defining a public trash receptacle as "an outdoor container owned and maintained by the town ... designed and intended to be used for the accumulation of garbage generated by the public while walking" and household trash as garbage and trash "that originates from a property devoted to a residential use ... or an accommodation unit ... regardless of whether located within or outside the corporate limits of the town" - so a visitor or short-term rental guest is caught as squarely as a resident. "If a person's personally identifying information is found on any household trash or business trash found in a public trash receptacle, there is a rebuttable presumption that such person committed a violation." The fines match the littering scale: not less than $20.00 nor more than $500.00 on a first conviction, $50.00 to $1,000.00 on a second, and $100.00 to $1,000.00 on a third or subsequent conviction. Source Not confirmed: The section does not address dumpsters owned by private properties, HOAs or lodges.
• For a Breckenridge resident the only place in the county that takes a mattress is the Summit County Resource Allocation Park, "located at 639 Landfill Road, two miles north of Keystone, Colorado, off U.S. Highway 6" in Dillon - roughly a 20 to 25 minute drive down the Blue River valley and the county's only landfill. Summit County's landfill page is explicit that the free unstaffed recycling drop-offs are no substitute: they take cardboard, paper, plastics 1s and 2s, cans, food scraps, glass and cartons 24/7, but "Drop-Off Centers DO NOT accept household hazardous waste, electronics, mattresses, scrap metal, tires, toilets, or any other types of trash. All of these materials must be taken to the SCRAP facility at 639 Landfill Road, Dillon, CO 80435." SCRAP is open Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., closed Sunday and on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas; anyone hand-unloading must be in by 3:30 p.m. on a weekday or 11:30 a.m. on a Saturday, all customers "MUST stop on the scale", all loads must be covered, and the gatehouse is 970-668-4290. Source Not confirmed: The terms of the county's free mattress recycling program are published separately from this page and are already recorded.
• Not an option: The nearest ReStore, Summit Habitat for Humanity at 1291 Blue River Parkway in Silverthorne, will not take a mattress from a Breckenridge donor. Its donate-used-furniture page accepts "Bedroom suites, headboards, dressers, bedside tables, bed frames, mountain themed bedding and decorative pillows, etc. (No mattresses please.)" and lists "Mattresses" under "ITEMS WE CANNOT ACCEPT". Donation hours are "Tuesday Through Saturday, 11am-3pm", items must not be left outside those hours, and "We are unable to accommodate pickups of donations at this time" - so there is no charity collection from Breckenridge either. Source Not confirmed: No Breckenridge charity or thrift shop was found publishing a mattress donation policy.

• Resources page still labels its rate link 2023 Gate Rate Sheet, while the separate Disposal Rates page links a PDF explicitly titled 2026. Preserve the link-label discrepancy rather than interpreting every resource as current. Source
• CDPHE list of residential materials prohibited from Colorado solid waste sites: lead-acid batteries, free liquids, used oil, waste tires, electronic devices/computers. Mattresses not listed. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on CDPHE pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source