How to get rid of a mattress in Salida, 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.

• No collection of any kind could be confirmed for Salida, and the nearest published answer is a drive. Chaffee County's own landfill page states that "The Chaffee County Landfill is located off of Highway 285 approximately eleven miles north of Salida and 14 miles south of the Town of Buena Vista" and that "Many County residents contract with private haulers to pick up and dispose of household trash" - the county's own description of how household waste moves here, with no municipal service named. The page also sets the terms of a self-haul trip: since May 1, 2024 the landfill is closed to the general public on Wednesdays, and "The public is welcome to utilize the Landfill during regular business hours, which will be 8:00 am - 3:30 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays (closed Sundays, holidays, and Wednesdays)". A wind closure policy applies: the landfill "is required to pause operations and close the facility when conditions warrant it, including times of excessive winds", and "will not reopen on days of high wind-related closures". Payment is "Credit cards, Cash or local checks only". Source Not confirmed: The City of Salida's own website (cityofsalida.com) serves an automated bot challenge to every request, so no City page could be read. Whether Salida runs any bulky-item pickup, clean-up week or voucher of its own is therefore not established either way - this is an unread source, not a published 'no'. Not confirmed: Salida's municipal code is hosted on Municode, which could not be read, so set-out rules, illegal dumping penalties and any wrapping requirement are unverified. Not confirmed: Which private haulers serve addresses inside the Salida city limits, and whether any of them price a bulky item, is not published on the county page.
• The Chaffee County Landfill fee schedule, effective January 1, 2026, prices a mattress as its own line: "MATTRESSES AND BOX SPRINGS (per unit)" is $30.00, and the out-of-county column for that line reads "NO OUT-OF-COUNTY" - the landfill will not take a mattress generated outside Chaffee County at any price. A general minimum fee of "$20.00 in-County" applies, where "In-County is trash generated in Chaffee County"; loose trash is $64.00 a ton and compacted trash $62.00, with out-of-county trash at $245.00 a ton on a one-ton minimum. The landfill "accepts credit cards for charges of $10.00 or more" with a processing fee of $2.00 on charges up to $50.00. A "Dirty Dumper" fee of "$250 per ton (minimum)" applies, effective May 1, 2025, "for unsorted waste loads not in compliance with Landfill requirements". For a Salida resident this is the whole answer for a mattress: eleven miles north on US 285, $30 an item, in-county only. Source Not confirmed: The schedule does not say whether the $20.00 in-county minimum is absorbed by the $30.00 mattress charge or charged in addition to it. Not confirmed: The fee table sets no condition rule; whether a wet, soiled or infested mattress is refused, and whether a mattress at this price is recycled or buried, is not stated on the fee page.
• Not an option: Chaffee County Habitat for Humanity's ReStore will never take a bed. Its donation-details page lists "Mattresses and box springs" under Not Accepted with the note "WE NEVER TAKE THESE NEW OR USED", under a heading "Donations We Never Accept". The store also states that "All items must be in good, sellable condition. The ReStore reserves the right to refuse all donations deemed unsafe, broken, dirty, or not useable." Donations are taken not in Salida but up the valley: "Please bring your donated items to 27951 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO 81211; bring to the south entrance." For a Salida reader that is roughly a 25-mile drive to a place that will refuse the mattress on arrival. Source Not confirmed: The page does not name any alternative for a usable mattress, and no Salida shelter 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