Queen City Transfer Station

Queen City Transfer Station is a municipal transfer station in Charlotte where local trash gets compacted and loaded onto larger trucks for transport to a landfill. Neighbors and small-haul drivers use it when a quick drop-off is easier than driving all the way to a landfill. The site is practical and busy-mostly the kind of place people go to when clearing out a garage or finishing a home project.

Drive up to an entrance booth where staff will direct traffic; there’s usually a scale to pass over, and vehicles stop twice if the site charges by weight. Pull-up lanes lead to large bays and compactors; seeing big roll-off containers and clamshell compactors is common. Recycling or drop-off containers tend to sit off to one side, with heavy equipment and trucks moving around the pad. Weekends and spring cleanup times are noticeably busier, so queues at the booth and waiting to unload are normal.