Dane County Sanitary Landfill

Dane County Sanitary Landfill is the county landfill out on US-12 in Madison at 7102 US-12. Locals, small contractors and commercial haulers bring trash here when it needs to be buried rather than recycled. Expect a working, no-frills facility where trucks and pickups mix and big earth piles are part of the view.

There’s an entrance booth and a scale - tipping fees are charged by weight, so vehicles get weighed and stopped as part of the process. Big roll-off trucks and tractor-trailers are common and the active tipping areas look like large dirt cells with heavy equipment moving material; it can be dusty and occasionally smelly. Pull into the booth lane, follow the site signage and traffic flow, then head to the scale and the tipping face; residential drops typically move faster than commercial loads. Weekends, especially during spring cleanup, tend to back up with lines.