How to get rid of a mattress in Moab, 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 Moab and its neighbors.

• Not an option: The site most Moab residents think of as the dump will not take a mattress, and says so in print. The Moab Landfill 2026 Fee Schedule, effective September 2026, covers the Class IVb site at "1282 Sand Flats Road" at (435) 259-6314, open Monday through Friday 8AM to 4PM and Saturday 8AM to 12PM, with winter hours from November through March that close it on weekends. The sheet states that "This facility accepts construction & demolition debris, green/yard waste, concrete & asphalt, and other designated materials", sets a minimum fee of $5.00, and prices residential construction and demolition debris at $15.00 per cubic yard, concrete and asphalt at $20.00, green and yard waste at $10.00 and scrap metal free, with higher commercial rates alongside. It then prints a prohibited list: "PROHIBITED MATERIALS: Electronics, Cardboard, Household Trash/Garbage, Batteries, Hazardous Wastes, Liquids, Contaminated Soils, Asbestos-Containing Materials, Vehicles, Furniture, Animal Carcasses, Special Wastes, Freon-Containing Appliances." Furniture and household trash are both barred by name, so a mattress cannot be taken to the Moab Landfill. The sheet also records that uncovered loads are fined $20 per improperly tarped load under Utah state law H.B. 53, that all loads are subject to random inspection, and that staff may redirect customers to ensure materials are placed in the correct area — which in practice is the redirection a resident arriving with a mattress should expect, to the Canyonlands Transfer Station a few miles south on Highway 191. Source Not confirmed: The sheet bars "Furniture" and "Household Trash/Garbage" without naming mattresses, so the refusal is read from those two categories rather than from a mattress line. Not confirmed: The district does not publish a note on either sheet telling a resident who arrives at the landfill with a mattress to go to the transfer station instead; the redirection is only implied by the facility rules.
• The landfill where Grand County's household waste actually ends up is shut to the public. The Klondike Landfill 2026 Fee Schedule, effective January 2026, covers the Class I site on "Highway 191 (North of Airport)" at (435) 259-6314, open Monday through Friday 7AM to 2PM and closed on weekends, and states in its own line under the address: "This facility is closed to the public – franchised haulers only." Its rates are hauler rates charged by the ton: municipal solid waste $55.00, construction and demolition debris $65.00, concrete and asphalt $28.00, clean drill mud and cuttings $30.00, petroleum contaminated soils $55.00, industrial solid waste $65.00, non-friable asbestos-containing material $65.00, medium to large animal carcasses $60.00, biosolids $55.00, restaurant waste grease $55.00, and "Mattresses (Bulk Loads)" at $320.00 per ton. A special waste profile fee of $150.00 and a $150.00 minimum disposal charge for special waste apply, with after-hours access at $150.00 per hour. The mattress line is worth knowing for what it shows — the district handles mattresses in bulk at its Class I landfill and prices them well above ordinary municipal waste — but it is a rate charged to franchised haulers at a site a household may not enter, and no resident of Moab or anywhere else can use it or pay it. Source Not confirmed: The schedule does not say which haulers are franchised, so a resident cannot tell from it who may take a mattress there on their behalf. Not confirmed: It does not say whether the $320.00 per ton bulk mattress rate is reflected in the $15.00 per item charged to households at the Canyonlands Transfer Station, or whether the two are set independently. Not confirmed: No outcome is published: the sheet does not say whether mattresses taken in bulk loads are landfilled or sent for recovery.
• Grand County does have county-wide collection, run by a district rather than by the county, and it does not take mattresses. Canyonlands Solid Waste Authority's Grand County pricing sheet for 2026, issued from 2295 S HWY 191 Moab UT 84532, is headed "Commercial & Residential Trash Services 2026 - Grand County (Spanish & Moab Valley ONLY) [PER MONTH]" and prices cart service by the month: a county 65-gallon trash cart at $24 every other week or $27 once a week, a county 96-gallon cart at $27 every other week or $32 once a week, with additional carts billed at the base rate and every-other-week service unavailable for additional carts. A 96-gallon recycling cart is $16 every other week or $20 once a week. Commercial dumpsters from one to eight cubic yards are priced separately. The add-on charges are the ones that matter to anyone hoping for a bulky collection, and none of them is one: a "Reload Fee" of $15 per cart is "Assessed to Customers when cleanup or overflow occurs and District staff must reload the Cart", and a "Special Pickup (PU)" of $25 per cart is "Assessed when a Customer requests an off-route pickup for overflow or special event". Drive-in service is $20 and back-door service $15; an occurrence or trip fee of $15 per cart or $35 per dumpster covers delivery, change of service, removal or cleaning; a lost or damaged cart is $100. The district's companion rural sheet, covering "RURAL LOCATIONS (Castle Valley, N of Arches NP Entrance, & La Sal)", prices the same carts higher and carries the same add-ons. Nowhere in either sheet is there a bulky item collection, a large item pickup, a mattress line or an annual free collection: the district's residential service is carts, and anything that does not fit in a cart goes to the Canyonlands Transfer Station. Source Not confirmed: The Grand County sheet covers Spanish Valley and Moab Valley only and the rural sheet covers Castle Valley, north of the Arches National Park entrance and La Sal; between them the district does not say whether any part of the county has no service at all. Not confirmed: The district publishes no bulky item or mattress collection at any price, and does not say whether one can be arranged by calling; the $25 special pickup is defined as an off-route cart pickup for overflow or a special event, not as a bulky collection, and must not be read as one. Not confirmed: No free dump day, amnesty week or clean-up voucher is published by the district or by Grand County. Not confirmed: The sheets give monthly service prices without saying who bills the customer or whether service is mandatory for a Grand County household.
• Not an option: Moab's own thrift charity, the obvious place to offer a usable mattress in Grand County, refuses them in writing. WabiSabi's donations page sets its material donation hours as open Monday through Saturday for shopping from 10am to 6pm, with drop-off donations accepted Monday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm and nothing taken on Sunday, and asks donors with a large donation to call ahead at 435-259-3313. In capitals under those hours it states: "SORRY, WE DO NOT HAVE PICK UP SERVICES". The page explains that "there are some items we can never accept due to their safety regulations and quality conditions" because "The cost of proper disposal of these items would pull precious funds used to gift to our nonprofit partners and programs", and that "Management reserves the right to refuse any donation." Its "Cannot Accept List" reads: Large Furniture, Large Household Appliances, Safety Equipment (Helmets, Car Seats, Exercise equipment), Automobile Parts, Electronics 10+ years old, "Mattresses & Bedsprings", Chemicals (Motor oil, paint, stains), Food & Medications, Lightbulbs, Weapons, Items with missing parts, and anything soiled or stained "including pet urine or mouse droppings". Mattresses and bedsprings are named outright, so in Grand County the donation route is closed and the transfer station's $15 per item is the answer. Source Not confirmed: WabiSabi gives no onward suggestion for a usable mattress, and names no partner organization that takes one. Not confirmed: The page does not publish the store's street address; the address appears elsewhere on the site and in directories but was not confirmed from this page. Not confirmed: No other charity, furniture bank or reuse organization serving Grand County publishes a mattress policy that could be read.
• Grand County's waste is not run by the county at all, which is the single most useful thing to know before reading any of its rates. The district's own home page states that "The Solid Waste Special Service District (d/b/a Canyonlands Solid Waste Authority) was created in 1993 and manages solid waste and recycling services in Grand County, Utah and its surrounding communities", and that it "operates the Moab Landfill, Klondike Landfill, Community Recycle Center, and Canyonlands Transfer Station as well as providing curbside trash and recycling services." Its governance page adds that the district "is a Special Service District within the State of Utah that is governed by a seven person Administrative Control Board consisting of representatives from the Grand County Commission, Moab City Council, and five At-Large members that reside in Grand County." The district publishes a separate 2026 fee schedule for each of its four sites plus separate 2026 pricing sheets for Moab City, Grand County, San Juan County, rural locations and roll-off containers. Of the four sites, only one takes a mattress from a household: the Canyonlands Transfer Station. The Community Recycle Center at 1000 Sand Flats Road, whose own 2026 schedule covers cardboard, electronics at $0.50 a pound for residents, batteries, fluorescent bulbs, mercury-containing devices and smoke detectors, takes no bulky items at all. Source Not confirmed: The district's "Locations and Operating Hours" page is out of date and conflicts with its own 2026 fee schedules: it still prints a 2021 holiday schedule, describes a five-person rather than a seven-person control board, requires face coverings in the office, and gives different opening hours for the Moab Landfill and the Community Recycle Center than the 2026 schedules do. Hours here are taken from the 2026 schedules, and the older page should not be relied on. Not confirmed: The district does not publish a page that tells a resident which of its four sites takes which household item; that has to be assembled from four separate fee schedules. Not confirmed: Nothing the district publishes says whether it serves any part of San Juan County's or Grand County's outlying areas for drop-off purposes, only that it bills trash collection there.