*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up faster than anyone plans for. LoadUp keeps it simple in the Town That Refused to Die: book a quick pickup, see your real price upfront, and skip the hauling.
You check facility hours, call two hauling companies, leave a message nobody returns, then try to sort out what the town handles versus the county. A month later, the pile is still sitting in the garage.
The closest thing to a free municipal option is the town's annual cleanup day, when roll-offs show up for a single weekend. Dates move year to year, you still carry and load everything yourself, and some items get waved off at the container.
Most hauling companies working this corner of the Western Slope want eyes on the load first, so you book a visit before anyone says a number. Then the quote comes as a fraction of a truck, a measurement you cannot verify, and it can shift once loading starts.
Resale and reuse shops around the county keep firm standards and limited floor space: no stains, no tears, nothing missing a part. Few will climb your stairs for a sofa, hours in a town this size move with the season, and a receipt means hauling it there yourself.
A roll-off container ties up your driveway for days, needs a flat spot clear of the right of way, and arrives and leaves on the hauler's route schedule, not yours. For one room of furniture, you are renting a week of waiting and a neighborhood eyesore.
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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 Ridgway 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 Ridgway's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A sleeper sofa up a basement stairwell or a treadmill wedged into a detached garage takes practiced hands. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Ridgway after each job.
Curbside suits anything already waiting at the street or the top of a gravel drive, and your Loaders take it from there. Full-service is the call when the couch is still downstairs, the mattress sits in an upstairs bedroom, or the pile is stacked in an outbuilding, since your Loaders carry it all out for you.
| 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.
Around here, owning a truck is close to standard issue, so the drive was never the hard part. The hard part is wrestling a sleeper sofa up the basement stairs by yourself in mud season. Your Loaders take that on, and LoadUp likes showing up for people who already know how to do things themselves.
Most Ridgway cleanouts mix still usable furniture with things that are genuinely finished, so where each piece ends up matters. Your Loader reads condition at pickup and looks for a responsible outcome for anything serviceable.
Furniture and appliances that are clean, working, and ready to use again may be offered to a local reuse or resale option when one is available. For documentation, donate directly yourself first.
Items too worn to pass along often still hold value in parts: metal bed frames, box spring steel, appliance bodies, electronics. Your Loader separates what area processors accept, where local options allow.
Soaked mattresses, crushed sectionals, and water damaged cabinetry go to a permitted regional solid waste facility, since those sites sit outside town. Your Loaders carry the weight and make the drive.
Get disposal wrong in Ridgway and you can draw a Town citation or a rejected load at the Ouray County transfer station. Here is what applies locally.
Ridgway requires animal-resistant cans, containers and dumpsters town-wide after repeated complaints about bears and birds scattering garbage through streets and public spaces. Enforcement runs through administrative citations, beginning at $150 for a first violation.
Ridgway bills single-family homes, duplexes and buildings under eight units for curbside service whether they use it or not, and recycling is limited to one bin per household. Commercial properties and complexes of eight units or more arrange their own collection.
Colorado's Electronic Recycling Jobs Act has barred televisions, monitors, computers, printers, laptops, tablets and game consoles from landfills since 2013, because lead and similar metals can reach soil and groundwater. The county transfer and recycle station in Ridgway takes them.
Federal Clean Air Act rules require a certified technician to recover refrigerant from refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers before disposal or recycling. Venting it is illegal, so these units move separately from ordinary scrap metal.
Ouray County permits slash burning only after notifying dispatch under the commissioners' resolution, and never during a declared fire ban or on a Red Flag Warning day. Ridgway issues its own restrictions separately from the county.
Ouray County requires a demolition permit before a structure comes down, and Colorado air quality rules require asbestos inspection of older buildings before demolition or major renovation. The Ridgway transfer station runs limited Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon hours.
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(678) 884-4738Ridgway has no municipal bulk curbside program, so unscheduled junk left out can count as illegal dumping. Residents haul items to the Ouray County Transfer and Recycle Station at 111 Mall Road, open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday afternoons, or book a hauler for door pickup.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Ridgway starts at $75 for a single item, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee, and each additional item is a flat add-on, with your total confirmed before booking. The county transfer station charges about $5.25 per 32-gallon bag or $34 per cubic yard of loose trash.
Yes, same-day junk removal is open in most Ridgway zip codes when you book before noon, and next-day is widely available. Enter your address during booking to see live slots. The county transfer station only runs limited hours on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, so a scheduled pickup is often faster for a quick haul.
Refrigerators, freezers, and AC units need their Freon removed before disposal, which the transfer station won't do for you. Bruin Waste picks up old fridges for a fee around $100 at (970) 864-7531, or you can drop them at Tri-River Appliance in Montrose. LoadUp Loaders can also haul these with no tag required.
Loaders sort when possible and aim to donate usable items to partners like Goodwill, Salvation Army, and Habitat for Humanity, depending on acceptance. Electronics can be recycled, which the county station accepts at $0.55 per pound. Whatever can't be reused is taken to the proper facility to avoid the landfill when options allow.
You book online or by phone with an upfront price locked in before anyone arrives, so there's no in-person estimate. For curbside or driveway pickups you don't need to be home, just leave items out with access notes. Your Loader typically calls about 30 minutes before arrival on pickup day.
The main differences are pricing and booking. Traditional haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King charge by truckload and usually confirm the price only after an in-person look. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it before pickup. Local outfits like AAA Rousse also serve Ridgway, so it's worth comparing upfront quotes.
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