Metro South Transfer Station

A working transfer station in Oregon City where local residents drop off household trash and lighter bulky stuff instead of driving out to a distant landfill. Neighbors, landscapers and anyone with a trunk or pickup will use it when hauling loads that don’t fit in curbside cans.

There’s a small entrance booth and a scale you cross early - vehicles stop there and then pull forward to the unloading area. Concrete bays and big compactors dominate the site, with trucks coming and going to haul the compacted load away. Recycling and bottle-return facilities in this part of Oregon often require some prep on the customer’s part, so expect to move between a few stations rather than a single drop-off point. Lines form on weekend mornings and during spring cleanup, so the place can feel busy and noisy with compactors running and loaders moving material.