*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up quietly until it starts taking over the place. Book a pickup here in the Switzerland of America, see a real price before you confirm, and skip the heavy lifting.
You call the trash company, scroll a county page, leave messages with two haulers down valley. One wants to see it in person, one never calls back. Weeks pass and the pile has not moved.
Residential service here is built around a cart at the curb, not a sofa. Where city bulk pickup programs exist at all, they have to be requested ahead, come with a list of exclusions, and still leave the dragging to you.
Most haulers who will come this far up the highway want to eyeball the load first. So you wait on a visit, then hear a number based on how full a truck looks, with their rig already parked outside your place.
Reuse outlets worth the drive sit outside town, and they get to choose. A clean dresser might find a second home. A sagging mattress, a dead dryer, and half a deck rarely clear the bar, and the loading is still yours.
A rented dumpster needs somewhere to sit, and lots here are narrow with the alley doing most of the work. Expect to ask about placement on a tight street, live with it parked in view for days, and still fill it yourself.
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Most companies charge by truck space, and the price often changes on arrival. LoadUp charges by item, based on exactly what you're removing.
Across all options, not just ours: a real breakdown of what Ouray residents typically pay, so you know what's fair before you book.
Sofas, dressers, bed frames, tables, and more hauled away with ease.
Available in twin, full, queen, king, and California king sizes.
Covers refrigerators, washers, dryers, ovens, dishwashers, water heaters, and more.
Whole-property cleanouts for moves, estates, evictions, and renovations.
TVs, monitors, computers, printers, stereo equipment, and small electronics.
Includes treadmills, ellipticals, weight benches, stationary bikes, and home gym systems.
Add a single bulky item like a couch, dresser, or mattress to your booking.
Mixed everyday items including broken goods, old decor, and accumulated clutter.
Bagged trash, loose debris, and general household waste of all kinds.
Covers drywall, lumber, tile, fixtures, and mixed demolition scrap.
Includes branches, brush, grass clippings, leaves, and other organic yard waste.
Desks, chairs, filing cabinets, cubicle panels, and other office items included.
Moving boxes, shipping cartons, and leftover packing cardboard.
First item includes the pickup fee. Each additional item is a flat add-on. *See Ouray's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A sofa wedged in a steep cabin stairwell or an old freezer stuck in a one-car garage is routine work for your Loaders, who are background checked and rated by real locals in Ouray after each job.
If the load is already sitting in the driveway or stacked along the alley behind the house, curbside works fine and costs you nothing in lifting. Choose full service when the items are still inside a compact older home or a backyard shed, and your Loaders will bring everything out themselves.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $75 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $70 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $85 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $75 |
| Multi-item pickup | Bundle & save | Add-on items in the same pickup for less | from +$15 |
| Item add-on | Optional | Bundle with your junk pickup | from +$15 |
| Full cleanout | Volume discount | Entire room junk removal | Custom |
| Disassembly service | Optional add-on | Large or difficult-to-move items | Custom |
* Starting prices. Final price confirmed by ZIP code and pickup conditions. Volume discounts applied automatically.
Hauling a box spring up the Million Dollar Highway, no guardrail, cliff on one side, is nobody's idea of a Saturday, and the nearest place to drop it is a long way off anyway. Your Loaders handle the lifting and the drive, and they like showing up for the neighbors who make this town worth it.
Hauling distance shapes every load that leaves Ouray, so where an item ends up actually matters. Your Loaders sort what they pick up by condition, aiming at donation or recycling when local options allow.
Furniture and household goods still clean and intact may be passed along for reuse where options exist, more often in the Ridgway and Montrose corridor than in town. No paperwork is attached.
Items too worn for reuse can still break down into metal, wood, or cardboard, which your Loaders separate for recycling when possible. Distance from regional facilities limits what gets accepted.
Soaked mattresses, crushed furniture, and splintered deck boards rarely have a second life. Your Loaders carry those out of Ouray for disposal at a transfer station or landfill accepting that material.
Guess wrong here and a load gets refused at the gate or draws a county rubbish order, so learn how Ouray and Ouray County handle disposal.
Ouray contracts residential collection through a single hauler, with one 64 gallon trash cart and one 18 gallon recycling bin per household, set out by 7:00 am on Thursdays. The city runs no municipal bulk or large item pickup.
Ouray County's rubbish ordinance covers debris and uncontained trash on private property and calls for bear resistant containers where appropriate, including short term rentals. An owner who ignores a removal order can have the county clear the property and assess the costs.
The state's Electronic Recycling Jobs Act has kept televisions, monitors, computers, printers, tablets, DVD players, and game consoles out of Colorado landfills since July 2013, because their heavy metals can contaminate soil and groundwater. The county station recycles them by weight instead.
The Ouray County transfer and recycle station lists fridges among its prohibited materials. Federal rules require a certified technician to recover refrigerant from cooling appliances before disposal or scrapping, which is why these units travel a different path than other metal.
Construction and demolition material is handled at the county station as a separate volume based stream rather than in household carts. Paints, varnishes, flammable fuels, oil, batteries, and tires are refused there, and several are barred from Colorado landfills outright.
Branches, brush, and yard trimmings are accepted at the county station as green waste priced by the cubic yard, and there is no curbside yard waste route in Ouray. Keeping it unmixed avoids having the whole load counted as trash.
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(678) 884-4738No. The City of Ouray contracts residential service to Bruin Waste, with Thursday pickup and a single 64-gallon cart that won't hold furniture or large items. Bulky junk needs a separate haul, either a LoadUp pickup or a self-haul trip to the Ridgway transfer station.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Ouray starts at $75 for a single bulky item, and curbside pickups take $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee, each additional item is a flat add-on, and your total is confirmed before booking. The Ridgway transfer station charges about $34 per cubic yard for loose trash if you haul it yourself.
Same-day pickup is often open in Ouray when you book early, and next-day covers most of the area. Because Ouray sits in a remote box canyon in the San Juans, enter your zip during booking to confirm live availability for your exact address.
The Ouray County Transfer and Recycle Station in Ridgway won't accept refrigerators, tires, liquids, or hazardous waste like paint, oil, and batteries. It's open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday afternoons only. Loaders can haul most of these restricted items for you instead of a self-haul trip.
Loaders sort usable items and aim to donate or recycle whenever possible rather than send everything to the landfill. Ouray County runs single-stream recycling plus a transfer station that takes co-mingled plastics, metal, cardboard, and electronics, so recoverable material stays out of the dump when options allow.
For curbside or driveway pickups, no, just leave the junk accessible with notes added at booking. For in-home removal, someone should be present or provide access instructions. Your Loader usually calls about 30 minutes before arrival so you know they're on the way.
LoadUp locks in your price online before anyone arrives, while haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and College Hunks typically charge by truckload after an in-person estimate. LoadUp prices per item, so you know the total upfront instead of waiting for a quote once the truck is in your driveway.
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