How to get rid of a mattress in Durango, 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.

• Browser current fall 2026 section restricts collection to branches and bagged leaves/pine needles/brush; no other waste. Eligible utility accounts pay cleanup service fee. Do not carry spring mattress acceptance into fall dates. Source Not confirmed: Future spring mattress dates not verified.
• Single-family city residences may schedule bulk service at $175 per 10-cubic-yard truckload; first/third Thursdays weather permitting, 24-hour notice. Suspended during spring/fall cleanups. Furniture listed, mattress not explicit. Source Not confirmed: Verify mattress-specific acceptance and condition rules; do not infer from furniture.
• La Plata ReStore requires staff approval, subject to inventory and space. General donations may be dropped off or scheduled for free pickup. Place goods outside at ground level or in garage; inside removal generally unavailable. Location 50 Design Center Road, Durango. Direct retrieval lists Wednesday-Saturday 9am-5pm and Sunday noon-5pm. Source Not confirmed: Mattress acceptance, conditions and outcome unknown; linked item-policy click failed Internal Error. Search retrieval instead lists Tuesday-Saturday 9am-5pm: hours version discrepancy pending. General free pickup cannot establish mattress service.
• The nearest drop-off to Durango itself is the Durango Transfer Station at 790 Tech Center Dr, Durango, CO 81301, phone 970-259-2915, open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., closed Sunday, hours subject to change. The City of Durango's own page is explicit that the city does not set its terms: "The transfer station is leased and operated by a private contractor, not the City of Durango", and it directs callers to the contractor "for questions regarding accepted materials, fees, and to confirm hours of operation". The page says the station accepts material "for disposal in our regional landfill, Bondad Landfill", and that it accepts "up to 8ft, single axel trailers with light debris". This matters for a Durango reader because the county's own transfer stations are both out of town — Bayfield Transfer Station is about halfway between Durango and Bayfield on CR 223, and Marvel Transfer Station is far to the south-west — whereas this one is inside the city. Source Not confirmed: No fee schedule of any kind is published for the Durango Transfer Station, and the city page states fees are the private contractor's to quote. Not confirmed: Whether the Durango Transfer Station accepts mattresses at all is not published; the page lists no accepted-materials detail beyond trailer size. Not confirmed: The private contractor operating the station is not named on the city's page. Not confirmed: Bondad Landfill (Transit Waste LLC, roughly 15 miles south-east of Durango) publishes no gate rates or mattress policy on an operator page that could be verified, so it is recorded here as context only, not as a listed option.

• 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