*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up faster than you ever deal with it. Book a pickup in T-ride, see a real price before you confirm, and get it gone without a trip down valley.
You start with a few phone calls. The town points you to the county, two haulers never call back, the third wants to see it first, and a whole season turns over with the junk still sitting there.
The town's large-item option is closer to an annual spring collection event than a standing municipal pickup schedule, and what gets accepted shifts year to year. You still lift the old appliance into a truck yourself and hope your timing lines up with that one weekend.
Most haulers want to see the job before quoting it, which means waiting on a truck to come up the spur just to look. Then you are priced by how full the bed ends up, a number nobody can confirm until the loading is done.
Reuse here runs on condition. The Free Box handles small, clean, carry-it-yourself stuff, and thrift intake up and down the valley changes with the season. A stained box spring or a dead treadmill gets turned down, and nobody is driving over to collect it.
A roll-off has to go somewhere, and in the historic district that usually means a permit conversation about the right-of-way, an alley you share with three neighbors, and a container sitting there for days. For one room of remodel debris, that is a lot of process.
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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 Telluride 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 Telluride's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A stair-access condo with no truck parking at the door means your Loaders handle every step at altitude. They are background-checked and rated by real locals in Telluride after each job.
Curbside works when everything is already out at the street, a driveway, or an alley staging spot and you do not need anyone inside. Choose full-service when your Loaders need to bring a hot tub off a deck, clear a basement, or walk debris down from an upper-floor unit with no elevator.
| 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.
The gondola is free, it runs late, and it will not take your dead chest freezer. Nothing leaves this valley by accident, and at 8,750 feet one flight of stairs counts as cardio. Your Loaders do that carry, and showing up for people in this town is the part they like most.
Getting bulky items out of Telluride is the hard part, but where they land matters too. Your Loaders judge each piece by condition and pursue donation or recycling when local options allow, disposal when they do not.
Clean, working goods such as a spare dresser or an unused treadmill give your Loader somewhere else to try: a local reuse outlet, when one is open and taking that category. Arrange documented giving yourself.
Items too broken to pass along, like bent metal frames or a dead appliance, are sometimes handled separately from general debris. Your Loader takes that route when a program is open and accepting the material.
Water-damaged or structurally spent bulky items head to a permitted disposal site, which from Telluride means a drive down the valley. Your Loaders handle the carry-out and sweep the area before leaving.
Leave junk out loose here and you invite bears and a municipal fine, so Telluride and San Miguel County disposal rules deserve a close read.
Telluride sits in black bear habitat, so any container holding refuse attractive to wildlife must be an approved wildlife-resistant cart or stored locked inside a building or enclosure. A first offense carries a $250 fine and a second $500.
Oversized items do not ride along with the normal route. Households billed for trash through the town can arrange a special pickup for some large items, and the annual Big Spring Clean event targets hard-to-dispose goods.
Colorado's Electronic Recycling Jobs Act bans televisions, monitors, computers, printers, laptops, tablets, DVD players, stereos and game consoles from landfill disposal because of the lead and mercury inside. They belong at a recycler or collection event.
San Miguel County's Broad Canyon Landfill takes appliances only when they are Freon free. Federal rules require a certified technician to recover refrigerant from refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers before the unit is scrapped or buried.
Town code requires every construction site to keep refuse attractive to wildlife in a wildlife-resistant container or enclosure. Remodel and demolition debris is also outside curbside service and travels by roll-off or hauled load to a county facility.
The town's collection contract includes gathering yard waste from residences for composting. Code directs tree trimmings and clippings into refuse containers on pickup days, and residents are actively encouraged to compost rather than treat green waste as trash.
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(678) 884-4738Telluride has no municipal bulk curbside program, so oversized junk left at the curb won't be collected by the town. Bear rules also apply here, with trash containers going out by 7:30 a.m. on collection day and coming in by 7:30 p.m., never the night before. For bulky items, haul to the county transfer station in Norwood or book a hauler.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Telluride starts at $75 for a single bulky item, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item covers the pickup fee for labor and transport, and each added item is a flat add-on, so your full price is confirmed before you book. The San Miguel County Transfer Station in Norwood charges per load if you self-haul instead.
Availability depends on local Loader schedules, so enter your Telluride zip during booking to see the earliest open date. Mountain access, snow season, and the drive up the box canyon can affect timing, so booking a day or two ahead is smart in winter. Your Loader calls before arrival.
Household hazardous waste like paint, chemicals, and Freon appliances can't go in regular trash or most haul loads. Telluride's annual Spring Clean Up, run with EcoAction Partners, accepts hazardous waste in town on a set Saturday only. Ace Hardware takes paint, bulbs, and batteries, and Telluride Tire handles tires, oil, and antifreeze year round.
Loaders sort usable items first and aim to keep them out of the landfill whenever possible. Furniture and household goods can go to groups like Telluride Angel Baskets or the Salvation Army thrift store, books to the Wilkinson Public Library, and recyclables through San Miguel County's program. Whatever's left goes to proper disposal.
Booking is done online with upfront pricing, no in-person estimate needed. Pick your items, choose curbside or in-home pickup, and lock your date. For curbside, leave items out with access notes and you don't need to be home. For in-home jobs, someone should be present or provide entry details, and your Loader calls about 30 minutes ahead.
The main difference is pricing and booking. National haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King price by truckload and usually quote on site, so your cost isn't set until the truck arrives. Local crews like Bruin Waste Management and AAA Rousse also serve the area. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before anyone shows up.
Yes, LoadUp serves Mountain Village, the Gondola District, and Telluride's West End along with the rest of San Miguel County. Second-home and short-term rental cleanouts between seasons are common here, and multi-item jobs are priced with a flat add-on per item so you know the total before booking.
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