Minnesota Landfills & Transfer Stations
Where to dump in Minnesota — county by county, with the real hours, fees and residency rules from each county's own pages. 185 sites statewide from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's permit records: county landfills and transfer stations, demolition landfills, and drop-off centers.
Minnesota counties
How disposal works in Minnesota
In Minnesota, counties run most of the public dumps: county landfills in places like Crow Wing, Rice, Kandiyohi, Morrison and Steele counties, and transfer stations in Becker, Carlton and Itasca counties. They charge by the bag, the cubic yard or the ton: $5.25 a bag in Crow Wing County, $35 a pickup load in Rice County, $87 a ton in Morrison County.
The Twin Cities work differently. Hennepin County's drop-off facilities take hazardous waste, appliances and tires but not garbage, so trash goes to the City of Minneapolis's transfer station (for city customers) or a private transfer station such as Dakota Area Transfer in Rosemount. Appliances, tires and electronics are handled separately everywhere, for a fee.
We're writing Minnesota up county by county — 11 are live, and our guide to what it costs to dump in Minnesota puts their rates side by side. The finder covers the state's permitted public sites.