How to get rid of a mattress in Cañon City, 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 City of Cañon City runs no municipal trash collection and no bulky-item or large-item pickup of its own. The City's own Waste / Recyclables page describes the whole of the local service as two private companies a household contracts with directly: "Republic Services offers curbside pickup of recyclables every week for a fee" (645 McDaniel Blvd, 719-275-6955) and "Twin Enviro also offers curbside pickup of recyclables every other week or once a month for a fee" (719-372-6671), which supplies a 95-gallon tote for the recyclables. The page sets out hazardous waste, recycling and stormwater guidance and offers no City collection, no set-out day, no bulk allowance and no mattress route. The only thing the City itself runs for household bulk waste is the spring trash-voucher program (see co-l-canon-002), and there is no municipal service to schedule a mattress onto at any other time of year. Source
• Cañon City's Code Enforcement FAQs establish the rule a resident actually runs into: trash service is compelled by ordinance, not optional. The FAQ "Can I get a trash exemption for the current trash ordinance?" is answered "Yes, you may fill out an exemption form explaining your circumstances and submit this completed form to Code Enforcement. You will be notified of the approval or denial of your application within 10 business days after submittal." On enforcement generally, the City states that the Code Enforcement Officer investigates complaints and contacts violators, that abatement is expected "within 7 to 10 days, but can be extended depending on any unique circumstances", and that failure to comply leads to notices, citations, fines and potential property tax liens. Violations are reported via SeeClickFix or to the Code Enforcement Officer at 719.276.5600. Source Not confirmed: The number and text of the trash-service ordinance the exemption form is written against could not be read: Cañon City's code is on library.municode.com, which serves an empty shell to a fetcher and needed a browser that was not available in this pass.
• The City's Property Maintenance page states that "Title 8 of the Municipal Code covers nuisances and municipal code violations" and asks residents to comply with ordinances on "proper storage of equipment and personal property, disposing of trash and litter in a timely manner and generally, maintaining their property so that it does not become detrimental to the surrounding neighborhood". A mattress left on a curb, in a yard or beside an alley in Cañon City is therefore a Title 8 nuisance matter handled by Code Enforcement rather than something a City truck will collect. Source Not confirmed: The text and penalties of Title 8, Chapter 8.28 could not be read directly; Municode could not be driven in this pass.
• Not an option: Neither of the two reuse and scrap partners the City and County put their name to will take a mattress, which saves a wasted trip. The 2026 Clean-Up release states that "R.D. Recycling, located at 1501 High Street (719-641-0630), will accept appliances Monday through Saturday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm for free disposal" and will buy brass, aluminum and copper and car batteries at $3 each - appliances and metal only, no bedding. Junk Masters "will pick up scrap metal, appliances, vehicles, batteries, pipe, wire, machinery, etc., for free" but the release is explicit that "They will not accept TVs, wood, tires, furniture, paints or other household chemicals or trash", which excludes a mattress or a bed frame. Source Not confirmed: The Habitat for Humanity of Fremont County ReStore at 727 S 8th St, Cañon City publishes its own donation list at habitatfremontcounty.org, which refused every connection attempt in this pass (SSL handshake failure and HTTP 409), so its mattress policy is unverified.
• There is no mattress-specific recycler, take-back or collection site in Cañon City. The City's Waste / Recyclables page is the City's complete published account of what can be recycled locally and where, and it covers household hazardous waste, the two private curbside recycling subscriptions and stormwater protection only - no mattress program, no Bye Bye Mattress site and no mattress-recycling partner. Colorado has no statewide mattress recycling program, so nothing backstops that absence: in Cañon City a mattress is landfill waste, charged extra at the gate. Source

• 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