How to get rid of a mattress in Silverthorne, 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 Town of Silverthorne publishes no trash collection and no bulky-item service of its own. Its Sustainability page treats household waste purely as something residents divert or haul themselves: it points to "Summit County ... several free drop-off recycling centers, including one in Silverthorne, located at 0255 River Road, Silverthorne, CO 80498", stresses that "All items must be clean, sorted and placed in the correct bins at the Silverthorne Recycling Center", notes an additional glass-only station at the Willowbrook bus stop, and refers residents to the High Country Conservation Center for what is accepted. The town's stated goal is "to maximize reuse, recycling and reduction options to minimize the waste we create and send to the Summit County Landfill, so that it can remain open for many decades". The Town's own utilities are water and sewer only; the Public Works utilities and property-owner pages describe water meters, backflow devices, sanitary sewer service lines and storm drains, and never mention refuse collection. A mattress in Silverthorne is a private hauler's job or a drive to the county landfill. Source Not confirmed: No page on silverthorne.org states in words that the Town does not collect household trash, so this is an absence of any published program rather than a published refusal. Not confirmed: Silverthorne's town code is hosted on Municode and could not be read, so the reported 2022 ordinance restricting trash containers at the curb between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. to deter wildlife, and its penalties, are unverified against the code itself. Not confirmed: No Silverthorne clean-up week, dumpster day or bulky-item voucher was found; whether one exists is not established.
• Summit County's own landfill page draws the line that matters for a Silverthorne resident: "All Summit County recycling drop-off centers are open to the public 24/7 accepting cardboard, paper, plastics 1s & 2s, aluminum/tin cans, food scraps/organics, glass, and aseptic cartons" but "Drop-Off Centers DO NOT accept household hazardous waste, electronics, mattresses, scrap metal, tires, toilets, or any other types of trash. All of these materials must be taken to the SCRAP facility at 639 Landfill Road, Dillon, CO 80435." So the free recycling center on River Road in Silverthorne will turn a mattress away, and the mattress must go to the Summit County Resource Allocation Park, "located at 639 Landfill Road, two miles north of Keystone, Colorado, off U.S. Highway 6" and "the only one in Summit County". SCRAP is open Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., closed Sunday, with hand-unloading customers required in by 3:30 p.m. on weekdays and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday; "All landfill, recycling, household hazardous waste, and composting customers MUST stop on the scale", "All loads must be covered", and the gatehouse number is 970-668-4290. Holiday closures are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, with a noon close on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. Source Not confirmed: This page does not restate the terms of the county's free mattress recycling program, which is published separately and already recorded.
• SCRAP's 2026 tipping fee schedule contains no mattress line at all, which sets the price of everything the free mattress recycling program excludes - box springs, mechanical or adjustable beds, and soiled, stained or wet mattresses. Those go in as trash: "Minimum Car/Truck 0-300lbs $20.00" with a $20.00 minimum charge, and "Loose Trash $72.00/ton" above that, so a single rejected mattress or a box spring costs $20.00 rather than nothing. From January 1, 2026 "an additional $1.50/ton surcharge is applied to all trash/landfill items" under C.R.S. 25-16-104.5, rising to $1.74 a ton from July 1, 2026. Card payments carry "a $1.50 minimum and 2.95% convenience fee". Sorted construction and demolition waste is $85 a ton on a $35 minimum and unsorted $150 a ton, so a mattress must not be mixed into a remodel load. Source Not confirmed: The schedule does not name mattresses or box springs, so the $20.00 minimum is the published trash rate that would apply rather than a stated mattress price. Not confirmed: The schedule does not restate the acceptance criteria of the free mattress recycling program.
• Not an option: Summit Habitat for Humanity's ReStore is in Silverthorne itself, at 1291 Blue River Parkway, and it will not take a mattress. Its donate-used-furniture page accepts "Bedroom suites, headboards, dressers, bedside tables, bed frames, mountain themed bedding and decorative pillows, etc." but adds in the same line "(No mattresses please.)", and lists "Mattresses" again under "ITEMS WE CANNOT ACCEPT". Donation hours are "Tuesday Through Saturday, 11am-3pm" with the warning "PLEASE DO NOT DROP OFF ITEMS OUTSIDE OF THESE HOURS. We have limited space and it costs us money to dispose of items we cannot use", and "We are unable to accommodate pickups of donations at this time." A bed frame or headboard is welcome; the mattress on it is not. Source Not confirmed: No Summit County charity was found that does accept a usable mattress.

• 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