Rose Hill Regional Transfer Station

Small regional transfer station in South Kingstown where residents drop off household trash to be compacted and hauled to the state's landfill. Locals use it when they don't want to make the longer drive to the central landfill, especially for carloads and pickup-truck runs.

A single-lane entrance with a staffed booth and a scale nearby is common at places like this, so be prepared to stop and be waved through. Vehicles pull up to a tipping area where attendants direct where to dump before trucks compact the load into larger trailers. The site looks industrial - concrete pads, big metal containers, and forklifts or compactors working in the background - and it can smell like a working transfer yard. Lines form on weekends and during spring cleanups, so expect some waiting if arriving then.