Los Reales Landfill

Los Reales Landfill is the big county landfill on S Craycroft that takes the final buried loads for Tucson and surrounding areas. Locals, contractors, and haulers use it when transfer stations and smaller sites aren't an option. It's a large open site with the regular scale-house setup and commercial traffic alongside residential cars.

Drive up to the entrance booth and you’ll line up at a scale - charges are typically calculated by weight so expect to stop on the way out as well. The site looks like large earthen cells and spread-out tipping areas under the desert sun, with heavy trucks coming and going. There’s a scale house or booth where deliveries are logged before heading to the active cell. Weekends and seasonal cleanups can build a line, and the whole place feels very much like a working landfill rather than a tidy transfer station.