Salem Transfer Station

Salem Transfer Station is the town transfer station in Salem, New Hampshire, used mostly by local residents dropping off household trash and recyclables. Many people from town bring smaller loads here instead of driving to a distant landfill, so it’s familiar to anyone doing seasonal cleanup or regular disposal runs.

There’s an entrance booth and a scale; expect to stop at the booth and then cross the scale with your vehicle so the load can be weighed. The main tipping area is a compact operation where trash is loaded and then trucked off-site, and recycling bins tend to sit off to one side. Lines form on weekends and during spring cleanup, so traffic can back up onto Shannon Road at peak times. The site looks like a working yard-piles, compactors, and trucks are common sights rather than landscaped grounds.