*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $85. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up quietly, then one day it's in the way. Book a pickup here in the Lodge, see your full price before you commit, and get it all gone.
You call the trash company and learn the can is the whole program. You leave messages with a hauler or two. One never calls back. Three weekends later, the junk still hasn't moved.
Weekly collection here is contracted out and built around one bear-proof cart. Anything set beside it isn't part of the deal and can bring a fine. There's no municipal bulk pickup program to call, so the heavy stuff just waits in the garage.
Most outfits serving this area want to see the load first, which means waiting for someone to drive out before you get a number. Then the quote arrives as some fraction of a truck, decided in your driveway, after everything is already loaded.
Secondhand shops run on limited floor space and change what they accept without much notice. Stained upholstery, older appliances, and most mattresses get turned away at the door. Even when an item qualifies, you're still loading it and hauling it there during open hours.
A roll-off gets dropped off, then sits for days while you fill it yourself. On a narrow street or an alley behind an older downtown house, placement gets complicated, and snow and plowing make it worse. That's a lot of container for one room.
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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.
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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 Red Lodge's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A sleeper sofa that has to come up basement stairs with a turn halfway, then out a narrow door: your Loaders are background-checked and rated by real locals in Red Lodge after each job.
Curbside fits when everything is already sitting outside, at the street, the driveway, or the alley side of the garage. Go full service when the load is still in a basement, a back bedroom, or an outbuilding on a county parcel, and your Loaders will carry it out from where it sits.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $85 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $80 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $95 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $85 |
| 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.
Getting rid of something bulky here usually means a trailer and most of a day pointed toward Billings and back. Add a driveway that holds snow into April and it gets old quick. Your Loaders live with the same winters and the same distances, and they like showing up for the neighbors who put up with both.
Most Red Lodge cleanouts mix things still worth using with things that are finished. Your Loader sorts by condition while loading, so usable pieces get a second look before anything heads toward a landfill.
Furniture, tools, and household goods in clean, working shape are worth saving. Your Loader can try a local donation outlet when one is open and accepting that item. For a receipt, drop it off yourself.
Broken metal furniture, appliances, and electronics are stripped of donation value but not of material value. Your Loader will look for a recycling or scrap option when local processing is available.
Water-damaged mattresses, rotted decking, and hot tubs past saving head to a permitted landfill or transfer station. Household trash from Red Lodge already leaves town for final disposal, so your Loader makes that haul instead of you.
Get these wrong in Red Lodge and Carbon County and a load can be refused at the gate, or the household can draw a city citation.
Red Lodge issues 96-gallon bear-resistant containers and collects weekly. Trash set alongside the cart is not collected and can bring a fine, since loose bags in bear country are exactly what the locking carts exist to prevent.
The city accepts yard waste at the curb only in roughly one container's worth, weighing no more than thirty-five pounds. Larger volumes from tree work, brush clearing or seasonal cleanouts have to leave town another way.
Montana allows open burning of clean, untreated wood and plant material only. A local fire authority permit is required, and burning garbage, plastics, treated lumber or demolition waste is prohibited statewide, so remodel debris cannot go on the pile.
Red Lodge trash goes to the Billings Regional Landfill, which charges a special fee to recover refrigerant from refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners. Units already evacuated must arrive with a certificate, and anything with cut lines is rejected outright.
Older Red Lodge homes often hide asbestos in siding, flooring and pipe wrap. The receiving landfill takes it by appointment only, pre-approved, double-bagged in six-mil plastic and taped, with paperwork presented at the scale house.
Wood, glass, sheetrock, concrete and asphalt are accepted as construction and demolition debris at the regional landfill, but they do not belong in a residential cart. Remodel loads are weighed and charged as disposal, not household service.
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(678) 884-4738Only what fits inside your cart. Red Lodge contracts a private hauler that issues 96-gallon bear-proof containers collected weekly, and placing anything beside the container is prohibited and can bring a fine. Bulky junk that doesn't fit needs a separate hauler or a trip to the transfer station.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Red Lodge starts at $85 for a single bulky item, and curbside or driveway pickups take $5 off. The first item covers the pickup fee, then each additional item is a flat add-on, so your full total is confirmed upfront before you book.
Yes, same-day pickup is often open in Red Lodge when you book before noon, and next-day is widely available across Carbon County. Enter your ZIP during booking to see live availability, since long rural drives around the Beartooths can affect scheduling in outlying areas.
Curbside yard waste is accepted, but only up to one container's worth and no heavier than 35 pounds, so bigger piles get left behind. Because carts are bear-proof and nothing can sit beside them, large or overflow junk has to go through a hauler or the transfer station instead.
Usable items are donated and recyclables are sorted out before anything reaches the landfill. Recycle Red Lodge diverted 282,130 pounds of material in 2023, and trash that can't be reused heads to the Billings Regional Landfill. LoadUp aims to donate or recycle whatever it can first.
For curbside or driveway pickups, no, you can leave items out with access notes. For in-home removal, someone should be present or provide entry instructions at booking. Your hauler typically calls about 30 minutes before arrival with an ETA.
Mainly the pricing model and booking flow. Full-service haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King quote by truckload after an in-person look, so your price firms up once they arrive. LoadUp prices per item online and locks the total before anyone shows up in Red Lodge.
You can use Recycle Red Lodge at 1220 North Haggin Ave, which runs on a $120 yearly residential membership or a $10 daily drop fee. It accepts paper, plastic, cardboard, glass, metal, and food waste, though bulky junk and appliances still need a hauler.
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