How to get rid of a mattress in Hayden, ID.

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.

• Hayden, Idaho collects nothing itself. Its FAQ on the City of Hayden, Idaho website (8930 N. Government Way, Hayden, ID 83835; Kootenai County) says: "The City of Hayden does not provide electricity, garbage, gas or water service" and lists Coeur d'Alene Garbage/Post Falls Sanitation at (208) 457-1820 and Waste Management as the garbage companies serving the Hayden area. A resident arranges collection with a company, and the city publishes no bulky-item pickup, no clean-up event and no mattress rule. Source Not confirmed: The FAQ does not say whether any hauler takes a mattress from the curb or at what price; no company page found names one. Not confirmed: Hayden, Colorado is a different city; every source here is the Idaho city's own website or Kootenai County's.
• Hayden's City Code Title 4 Chapter 1 (Nuisances) declares a nuisance any condition of premises that is "detrimental to the property of others", including "the keeping or the depositing on, or the scattering over the premises of" "Lumber, junk, trash, or debris" and "Abandoned, inoperable, discarded or unused objects or equipment such as automobiles, implements and/or equipment, or machinery and personal property of any kind which is no longer safely usable for the purposes for which it was manufactured, furniture, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, cans or containers." Section 4-1-3 sets the penalty: an owner, tenant or occupant who allows the nuisance to exist or fails to abate it is "guilty of an infraction" with "an infraction penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00)"; "Each day that a violation of this chapter exists may be charged as a separate infraction or misdemeanor violation", and a nuisance that is "an immediate hazard to the public health or which continues to exist after a finding of guilt or liability in two (2) or more prior infraction proceedings shall constitute a misdemeanor." Source Not confirmed: The chapter names discarded furniture but not a mattress or a box spring; a discarded mattress is not shown to be within it. Not confirmed: The chapter is the nuisance rule, not a dumping ordinance: no Hayden section on illegal dumping on public land or on a set-out window was found in the chapters read, and Hayden runs no collection to attach one to.
• Hayden residents use Kootenai County's Ramsey Avenue and Prairie Avenue transfer stations, and the county's own wording does not say a mattress is covered by its free allowance. Its FAQ lists "waste not covered under the residential solid waste fee": "Appliances, Carpet, Construction or Demolition Materials, Furniture, Household Hazardous Waste, Large Bulky Items, Roofing, Vehicle Batteries, Tires, Wood or Wood Products", adding "These wastes and others materials may be subject to additional charges." The fee schedule effective January 1, 2025 prices residential General Refuse "First 1,000 lbs. Free; Over 1,000 lbs. $76.70" per ton with no line for a mattress. Source Not confirmed: A mattress is not named in the county FAQ, the fee schedule or the handbook, so whether either station charges for one is not established; any statement that a mattress falls inside the 1,000 lb allowance is a reading of the general-refuse line, not a county statement.
• Not an option: Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho's ReStore is in Hayden, Idaho, at 176 W. Wyoming Ave., Hayden, ID 83835, open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday (yard closes at 4 p.m.; 208-762-4352 for a large-donation pickup), and states that it will not accept "used mattresses, items covered in pet hair, tires, older TVs, desktop computers or printers". Source

• The Almo roll-off station is a real, separate district facility and the "Oakley Transfer Station Accepts" heading printed above its accepted-items list is a mislabelled panel, not a sign that the Almo card belongs to Oakley. The district's own FY-27 customer pricing enumerates the Cassia County sites by name as "Albion Oakley Malta Almo", giving each one its own rate table, and Almo's table is not a copy of Oakley's: where Albion, Oakley and Malta each show "Mixed Municipal Solid Waste No Charge" in county and a "Wood Waste No Charge" row, Almo's table shows "Mixed Municipal Solid Waste $12.00/CY" in county and carries no wood waste row at all. That matches the accepted list under the Almo card on the locations page, which lists municipal solid waste, mixed construction, demolition waste, freon-containing white goods, tires, scrap metal and batteries and omits the "Clean green wood waste" that the Oakley card's list includes - the two lists differ in exactly the way the two price tables differ. The Almo card also carries its own address, 2480 Almo/Elba Rd, its own telephone number, 208-638-5565, and hours of Thursday through Saturday 8:30am-5:30pm, all distinct from the Oakley card at 985 S Worthington with 208-539-0342. The panel headings are demonstrably unreliable on this page: the Albion and Oakley cards are both labeled "ROLL-OFF STATION" while their headings read "Albion Transfer Station" and "Oakley Transfer Station". So the identity is right and the heading is wrong, and the list under the Almo card is Almo's list. Source
• What the district actually lists, in full, is fourteen facilities: one landfill, nine transfer stations and four roll-off stations. Milner Butte Landfill, 1050 W 400 S Burley, 208-432-9082, Mon-Sat 8:00am-4:30pm. Nine transfer stations: Twin Falls, 2186 Orchard Dr E Twin Falls, 208-734-3139, Mon-Sat 7:30am-5:00pm; Jerome County, 1178 Highway 25 Jerome, 208-825-4150, Mon-Sat 8:00am-5:30pm; Ohio Gulch, 110 Ohio Gulch Rd Hailey, 208-788-2351, Mon-Sat 8:00am-5:00pm; Minidoka County, 325 N 400 W Rupert, 208-438-5593, Mon-Sat 7:30am-5:00pm; Gooding County, 2743 Highway 46 Wendell, 208-536-2181, Mon-Sat 8:00am-5:30pm; Lincoln County, 120 N Highway 75 Shoshone, 208-731-8510, Mon-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm; West End, 4200 N 900 E Buhl, 208-543-4054, Mon-Sat 9:00am-5:00pm; Carey, 19299 US-20 Carey, 208-823-4308, Wed-Sat 8:00am-5:00pm; Hub Butte, 2900 N 2800 E Twin Falls, 208-734-5271, Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:00pm. Four roll-off stations: Oakley, 985 S Worthington Oakley, 208-539-0342; Albion, 760 S Highway 77 Albion, 208-673-6610; Malta, 2450 E 1760 S Malta, 208-645-2675; Almo, 2480 Almo/Elba Rd Almo, 208-638-5565. The FY-27 pricing schedule enumerates the same thirteen non-landfill sites independently, grouped by county - Twin Falls County: Twin Falls, Hub Butte, Buhl; Jerome; Blaine: Ohio Gulch, Carey; Minidoka; Gooding; Lincoln; Cassia: Albion, Oakley, Malta, Almo - plus Milner Butte. The whole site is thirty-six pages and holds no per-facility pages, so these two lists are the district's only enumerations and they agree exactly. Source
• District is a local-government unit for Blaine, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka and Twin Falls. Overview claims one landfill plus fourteen transfer stations; the linked directory contains fourteen total facility cards. Source
• Idaho DEQ says it does not directly regulate recycling facilities and links a 'Contact County Solid Waste Departments' document for local options. No mattress content. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on Idaho DEQ pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
• Every rate published by the Southern Idaho Solid Waste District - which is the disposal authority for Blaine, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka and Twin Falls counties - comes from its FY-27 customer pricing schedule, and that schedule takes effect on October 1, 2026. It is the only schedule the district publishes: the preceding year's rates are not on its site, so there is no earlier figure to quote and no way to compare the two. A reader who checks a district price before October 1, 2026 is reading the incoming rate rather than the one in force that day, and should expect the published figure to be what they are charged from that date onward. The rates themselves are recorded against each county's own facilities. Source