How to get rid of a mattress in Fountain, 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 Fountain's own answer to bulky waste is not a collection but an annual Landfill Voucher Program, and mattresses are excluded from it. The city page states the Fall 2026 program runs October 1 through October 31; participants "must live in the City of Fountain, not just receive a City of Fountain utility bill"; one voucher per address; vouchers are picked up on the first floor of City Hall, 116 S. Main Street, 8am-5pm Monday through Friday. A voucher is good for "a free load that is approximately the size of the bed of a pickup", and "if the load is larger, an additional fee could apply". The page then states: "Paints, liquids, chemicals, tires, batteries, electronics, mattresses, and box springs are NOT included in the free dropoff program." All loads must be covered when transported. The drop-off is the Waste Connections landfill at 10525 Squirrel Creek Road, with landfill drop-off hours given as Monday through Friday 9am-5pm and Saturdays 7am-12pm. There is no city curbside trash service and no municipal bulky-item or large-item pickup anywhere on the city site. Source Not confirmed: The page excludes mattresses and box springs from the free voucher but does not say whether the landfill will take one at all outside the program, or at what price. Not confirmed: The landfill hours the city publishes (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 7am-12pm) do not match the 8am-3pm Monday-Saturday hours Waste Connections publishes for the same site; which is current is unresolved. Not confirmed: No spring or second voucher round is published, so whether the program runs more than once a year is unstated.
• Fountain is one of the Front Range cities that runs no municipal trash service at all, so there is no city collection to book a mattress onto. The city's own utility page states that "Established in 1919, City of Fountain Utilities is proud to provide water and electric services to approximately 48,000 people in and around the Fountain area" — water and electric only, no solid waste utility. The city site's Residents menu lists ADA Compliance, Fountain Municipal Transit, Fountain Utilities, Jimmy's Camp, My Fountain, Office of Emergency Management, Parks & Recreation, Senior Services and Streets, with no trash, refuse, sanitation or solid waste department. Residents contract individually with a private hauler. Source Not confirmed: The absence of a city collection is read from the utility page's scope and the site's own department menu; the city never states in so many words that it runs no trash service. Not confirmed: Whether Fountain licenses private haulers, and whether any license condition obliges them to offer bulky-item pickup, is not published on the city site.
• Re-check of the Fountain Landfill page that a September 2026 pass flagged as template-contaminated. The Waste Connections page for Fountain Landfill, 10525 Squirrel Creek Rd, Fountain CO 80817, 719-382-9661, now publishes hours of "8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday – Saturday – Closed Sundays and all major holidays" and an accepted-materials list of normal household garbage, non-hazardous commercial waste, farm or agricultural waste, municipal solid waste, construction debris, concrete and asphalt, yard waste, tree branches, non-putrescible dry waste, clean fill soil, non-hazardous industrial waste, waste water treatment plant sludge, contaminated soil and treated lumber, plus tires, white goods and batteries. Household hazardous waste goes to an on-site facility, maximum 15 gallons or 125 lbs at no charge. "ALL loads must be covered/tarped and/or secured... Uncovered/unsecured loads will be charged double, no exceptions." Salvaging or picking is not allowed. The mattress-bearing item list and the $86.25 mattress/box-spring fee previously seen in a site-wide template block are no longer on this page, and no mattress fee is published for Fountain. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are neither named as accepted nor named as refused on the current page, so acceptance at the gate is not established. Not confirmed: No mattress or box-spring price is published for this site; the earlier $86.25 figure came from a block written for another Waste Connections landfill and must not be carried forward.

• 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