How to get rid of a mattress in Ephraim, UT.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Ephraim and its neighbors.

• Sanpete County operates no collection of its own, and the co-op's notice says who does instead. The April 1, 2025 notice explains that household waste delivered to the landfill from a waste carrier who collected it from a 90 gallon black garbage can is paid for by a per-household landfill fee collected by a city, town or Rocky Mountain Power, and that "If you live in the county and receive your household garbage service through White's Sanitation or North Sanpete Disposal that is picked up from the 90 gal. garbage cans and do not currently pay the household fee, we are going to ask your carrier to add the 'Landfill Fee' to your garbage service". Household garbage in unincorporated Sanpete County is therefore collected by private carriers under their own arrangements, not by a county program, and neither the county nor the co-op offers a bulky item pickup a resident could book. The notice is equally clear about what will not fit the can: large household items that cannot fit in the 90 gallon cans, which it defines as upholstered furniture and mattresses, are dealt with at the landfill rather than at the curb. A household in Ephraim with a mattress and no truck has no county or co-op collection to call. Source Not confirmed: Neither the county nor the co-op publishes contact details, rates or service areas for White's Sanitation or North Sanpete Disposal, so what either carrier charges and whether either will take a mattress is not established. Not confirmed: Whether Ephraim runs a bulky item collection of its own is a city question and was not researched here. Not confirmed: The notice does not say whether the household landfill fee entitles a resident to any collection at all, or only to the free acceptance of large items at the landfill gate.
• Not an option: No donation outlet serving Sanpete County was established as taking a used mattress. Deseret Industries, the regional thrift and donation chain whose nearest stores serve central Utah, lists "Beds, mattresses, foundations" on its own donate page among the items it does not accept, alongside large appliances, tires, titled vehicles and trailers, pianos and organs, and broken items, noting that the list "is not comprehensive but includes many of the items that DI does not accept". It also runs no pickup: donations are taken only at the drive-thru during donation hours, with no appointment needed. For a Sanpete household this makes the co-op's free acceptance of mattresses at White Hills, for residents who pay the household landfill fee, the only no-cost route the county's own sources establish. Source Not confirmed: No Deseret Industries store was established inside Sanpete County from a primary source; the donate page carries chain-wide policy and lists no addresses. Not confirmed: No furniture bank, shelter or reuse store in Sanpete County was established as accepting a used mattress, and the absence was not confirmed by any organization's own page.
• Sources disagree: Two Sanpete sources disagree about whether the Chester landfill will take a mattress, and a reader living north of Ephraim, for whom Chester is much the nearer site, should know it before loading a truck. Sanpete County's landfill page lists "Bedding, Mattresses, Sofas, Recliners, Furniture of any kind" among the items Chester prohibits, together with household waste generally, because Chester is a Class IV construction and demolition site. The Sanpete Sanitary Landfill Cooperative's own notice of changes starting April 1, 2025 says the opposite for fee-paying households: large household items that cannot fit in the 90 gallon cans, defined there as upholstered furniture and mattresses, "will be accepted free at White Hills and at Chester", provided that at Chester they are separated and placed in the dumpster for transport to White Hills. The two documents cannot both describe the gate as it works today. Until the co-op or the county reconciles them, White Hills, about 4.5 miles east of Gunnison, is the site a Sanpete mattress should be taken to, and it is the only one recorded as taking one here. Source Not confirmed: Neither document is dated against the other in a way that settles which is current: the county's landfill page carries no revision date, and the co-op notice is dated March 13, 2025 for changes starting April 1, 2025. Not confirmed: Neither source says whether the Chester scale house would turn a mattress away or accept it into the transfer dumpster, so a reader cannot be told what would happen on arrival. Not confirmed: Whether the co-op's free acceptance at Chester applies to a household that does not pay the household landfill fee is not addressed by either document.