Estes Park Residential Recycling Center

Small, local recycling center serving Estes Park residents and visitors who need to keep recyclables out of the landfill. Locals drop off common items like paper, cardboard, glass, metal cans and many plastics; seasonal programs in Colorado often add electronics or bulky-item events at county sites. The site is used mostly by people with pickup loads, apartment dwellers with small loads, and anyone cleaning out the garage before ski season or summer visitors.

Drive into a modest lot with a staffed entrance booth and scale area typical of mountain recycling centers; there’s a place to pull up, get weighed, then move to the recycling bays. Bins for mixed paper and cardboard are usually grouped together and single-stream items are often separated into clearly labeled receptacles a short walk from the drive aisle. Weekends and spring cleanup times bring lines, so be prepared for a short wait and for having to unload at the container rather than having someone take things from a vehicle. Signage and painted lanes guide traffic flow, and most people bring things already flattened or boxed to speed the process.