Montana Landfills, Transfer Stations & Dumps
Where to dump in Montana, city by city and county by county, with the real hours, fees and permit rules from each operator's own pages. The finder shows 89 landfills, transfer stations and container sites from the state Department of Environmental Quality's list and county pages; the places below are checked by hand.
Montana cities and counties
- Billings1
- Flathead County (Kalispell)10
- Missoula2
- Bozeman2
- Helena1
- Great Falls9
- Lake County (Polson)8
- Lincoln County (Libby)3
- Miles City1
- Laurel2
- Butte1
- Sanders County (Thompson Falls)7
- Livingston2
- Richland County (Sidney)1
- Glendive1
- Beaverhead County (Dillon)1
- Stillwater County (Columbus)7
- Deer Lodge1
- Jefferson County6
How disposal works in Montana
In much of Montana your dump is already paid for: a solid waste assessment on your property taxes covers household trash at the county landfill or container sites. That's how Flathead, Lincoln, Lake, Richland, Beaverhead and Jefferson counties work, Park County hands out tags, and Miles City uses a hang tag. Helena gives permit holders 3,000 pounds a year, and Billings takes small loads from city residents free.
Where you pay at the scale, rates run from $27 a ton at Gallatin Solid Waste's Logan Landfill and in Butte to $35.15 in Billings, $36.78 in Flathead County, $64.75 at the Helena Transfer Station and $104.94 in Livingston. Rural areas lean on container and green box sites for bagged household trash, while furniture, appliances, tires and construction debris go to the landfill, often for a fee. Missoula and Great Falls landfills are privately run, and their gate rates aren't posted.
We're writing Montana up place by place: 19 are live, and our guide to what it costs to dump in Montana puts their rates side by side. The finder covers the licensed sites on the state's list plus county container sites.