Brooking Landfill

Brooking Landfill is the regional landfill just off 30th Street that people from Brookings and surrounding counties use to drop off final refuse. It’s the place where trash gets buried rather than processed, so expect a large-scale site that handles residential and commercial loads. Many rural haulers and town pickup trucks come here rather than smaller transfer stations.

There’s a scale house near the entrance and trucks usually stop to be weighed on the way in and again on the way out, so plan for that extra stop. The site is open and spread out with dirt and gravel roads, berms of covered material, and heavy equipment in the distance moving the loads. Pull into the lane by the scale house, follow the signage or attendants pointing to the active dumping area, then back out to the scale when finished. Lines build up on weekends and during spring cleanup, so traffic can be slow at peak times.