From the Official Douglas County, Colorado Website
Douglas County has announced the opening of its yard waste disposal site starting on April 6, 2024. Located at 1400 Caprice Drive in Castle Rock, this facility will serve the communities of Castle Pines, Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Parker, and Roxborough.
The site will open its gates every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through the end of October, weather permitting. For updates on closures due to inclement weather, residents are encouraged to call 303-663-6274.
Drop Off of acceptable items (described below) is FREE. You must make sure that your load is completely covered when you arrive for dropoff.
Your Load Must be Completely Covered and Consist of Only Separated Tree Limbs, Shrubs, Pinecones and Grass Clippings
Acceptable Items
Residents can drop off a variety of yard waste materials at no cost, including tree limbs, shrubs, pinecones, and grass clippings. It’s important to separate the slash materials such as tree limbs, pine needles, and brush from green yard waste like grass, sod, leaves, and weeds. This helps streamline the unloading process and ensures that materials are disposed of properly and safely in their designated areas.
The maximum acceptable length of all items is six feet – with a maximum diameter of one foot.
Unacceptable Items
Don’t bring anything besides the tree limbs, shrubs, pinecones and grass clipping mentioned earlier. Inorganic and many organic materials will NOT be accepted. The list of unacceptable materials that won’t be allowed includes (but isn’t limited to) the following.
- Appliances
- Compost
- Decorative wood chips
- Dirt
- Fencing
- Grass/hay
- Household trash/yard waste
- Leaves
- Lumber/pallets/railroad ties
- Pine cones
- Roots/stumps
- Weeds
- Yucca plants
Free Mulch
As part of the re-opening of the site for the season, residential homeowners will be able to load free wood chip mulch. Mulch has many positive properties for your landscaping including moisture retention, weed suppression, soil temperature regulation and fertilization properties (to name just a few).
Alternate Drop Off Site Near Deckers in Douglas County
In addition to the Castle Rock facility, there is an additional facility in Southwest Douglas County that operates year round and is specialized in the collection of limited small loads. This site is located at 7828 S. Colo. 67, approximately 2.5 miles north of Deckers, and is open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
As the season progresses, residents will also have the opportunity to collect free mulch from these locations, contributing to the sustainability and beauty of their landscapes.
