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

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 Denver and its neighbors.

• The fifth site Denver names, Waste Connections of Colorado's Jordan Road Transfer Station, is at 7120 South Jordan Road, Englewood, CO 80112 (Arapahoe County), phone 303-766-9219. The operator's page is unusually explicit about who may use it — "commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers" — and about what it takes, listing "Normal Household Garbage, Non-Hazardous Commercial Waste, Farm or Agricultural Waste" along with construction debris, yard waste and tree branches; an on-site household hazardous waste facility takes up to 15 gallons or 125 lbs at no charge. Published hours are Monday–Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., closed Sundays and major holidays, with the hazardous waste counter closed Wednesdays. Two rules matter for a mattress run: all loads must be covered or tarped, and uncovered loads are charged double; and salvaging or picking is forbidden on site. Waste Connections publishes no rate card, no minimum charge and no mattress fee here. The facility itself sits in Arapahoe County, so no facility record is created from the Denver county pass; it is recorded because Denver's own page sends south and south-west Denver residents to it. Source Not confirmed: No published gate rate, minimum charge or mattress fee. Not confirmed: The operator's page does not name mattresses specifically; acceptance rests on "Normal Household Garbage" and on Denver's own listing. Not confirmed: Whether the household hazardous waste free allowance requires Arapahoe County residency is not stated on this page.
• The Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site is the county's own landfill in everything but location, and this is the single most under-reported fact in Denver disposal: WM's facility factsheet gives "OWNERSHIP: City and County of Denver" and "OPERATOR: Waste Management Disposal Services of Colorado". Denver owns a 2,364-acre regional landfill sitting in Arapahoe County at 3500 South Gun Club Road, Aurora, CO 80018, phone 720-876-2624, permitted by the Arapahoe County Board of County Commissioners and open since 1990 with an expected closure year of 2158. Hours are Monday–Friday 6 a.m.–7:30 p.m., Saturday 7 a.m.–5 p.m., closed Sunday and major holidays. Municipal Solid Waste and Construction & Demolition debris are both on the acceptable list, which is what a mattress travels as; electronic waste, lead acid batteries, liquids and regulated hazardous waste are not accepted. Communities served are given as "Denver Metro and surrounding cities", with no residency test. The factsheet also describes a separate "Recycling Convenience Center" at the site taking "Electronic Waste, Scrap Metal, Single Stream Recycling, White Goods, Whole Tires" for drop-off — mattresses are not on that list, so a mattress brought here goes over the scale to the landfill, not to the recycling counter. No gate price of any kind appears on the factsheet, and Denver's ownership does not translate into a published resident discount. Source Not confirmed: No gate rate, minimum load charge or mattress fee is published on the factsheet. Not confirmed: Denver's ownership of the site produces no published discount or preference for Denver residents; whether one exists is not established. Not confirmed: The separate WM promotional page offers a 20% discount to non-contracted customers with code WM-2 to December 31, 2026, but against an unpublished base rate.
• Not an option: Denver does run exactly one citizen drop-off center of its own, and it will not take a mattress. The Cherry Creek Recycling and Compost Drop-off, 7400 Cherry Creek S Dr, Denver, CO 80231, is free and restricted in the county's own words to "Denver residents only; proof of residency required", with a cap of "2 visits allowed per resident, per day". Hours are Tuesday–Friday 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m., Saturday 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m., closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays. But the scope is narrow: "Only household recycling and compost material accepted", matching Denver's curbside recycling and compost streams, with yard debris limited to branches "no more than 4ft in length, 4in in diameter". The site also bars commercial vehicles, aftermarket truck bed side walls, box trucks, trailers, commercial or landscaping material, dirt, sod, paint and hazardous material. Mattresses, box springs and furniture are outside the accepted streams entirely. So the one free, residents-only, ID-checked county facility a Denver resident can drive to is not a mattress option — a wasted trip if they assume otherwise. Source
• Denver County runs no free dump day, amnesty week or voucher program that takes a mattress. Keep Denver Beautiful, the county program that would carry one if it existed, is built around volunteer neighborhood clean-ups, graffiti removal and litter education, and the only annual county-run collection events it names are "Free Tire Collection events". For bulky household items it does not offer an event at all — it points residents back to the nine-weekly Large Item Pickup and to 311 (720-913-1311). This is a finding rather than a gap: unlike most Front Range counties in this wave, which run a spring or autumn clean-up where a mattress goes free, Denver's answer is that the curbside program already covers it every nine weeks, so there is no amnesty layer on top. A resident who misses their nine-week slot waits for the next one or pays a private gate. Source Not confirmed: No dates are published for the free tire collection events, and tires are the only item named.
• Not an option: The reuse route most people try first across both of these counties is closed. Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, whose ReStores and pickup zone cover Denver County and Broomfield County alike, states on its donation page that it does "not accept non-working appliances, used batteries, electronics, fluorescent lighting, mattresses, or paint." Mattresses are named in the refusal list, so a donation run to a metro Denver ReStore — or a booked ReStore pickup — will not take one, in any condition, whether or not other furniture is going with it. Recorded as a refusal because it stops a wasted trip: ReStores accept sofas, tables, bed frames and headboards, which is exactly why people arrive with the mattress too. Source
• The one county-wide reuse option in Denver County that does take mattresses is Denver Rescue Mission, and only for near-new stock. Its give-items page prioritises like-new queen, double and twin mattresses and rejects king mattresses, box springs and frames outright. Anything with rips, stains, discolouration, pet hair or structural damage is refused. Furniture must go to the Ministry Outreach Center on weekdays 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. — not to the Crossing or the downtown facilities — and holiday closures apply. So a mattress in genuinely good condition has a home in Denver County; a tired one does not, and the box spring is refused even when the mattress is taken. This is a county-layer record of a metro-wide charity, separate from the Denver city-level research, because it is the only accepting donation outlet established for the county as a whole. Source Not confirmed: No drop-off appointment rule, weight or quantity limit is published for mattresses. Not confirmed: Whether the Mission collects from an address, and where it will travel to, is not established from this page.
• Denver County operates and contracts no mattress recycler, and the evidence is negative on both sides of the ledger. The county's own curbside route describes only collection, never recycling. The landfill Denver owns, DADS, does run a "Recycling Convenience Center" alongside the tipping face, but its drop-off list is "Electronic Waste, Scrap Metal, Single Stream Recycling, White Goods, Whole Tires" — mattresses are absent — and a 43.4-acre organics facility that handles landscape waste and food scraps, not bedding. So the one recycling counter the county controls will not take a mattress, and a mattress entering Denver's own landfill is buried. Colorado runs no statewide mattress recycling program to sit behind this, verified separately in this wave, so there is no state program to fall back on either. A Denver County resident who wants the mattress dismantled rather than buried must go to a private recycler outside the county — Spring Back Colorado in Commerce City is the nearest established one — and neither the county nor its landfill names one. Source Not confirmed: No county page names a mattress recycler, so the county's own recommended recycling route is unestablished rather than absent.