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At Prime Dumpster, we provide roll-off dumpster rentals in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and across the Pikes Peak foothills in sizes from 10 to 40 yards. This is a town of narrow canyon streets and century-old frame and stone houses, so most of the work here is careful remodeling, foundation repair and deck replacement rather than new construction, and the hard part is usually where the container can legally and safely sit.
Four things set the price: container size, what you load, how long it stays, and what the receiving site charges by weight. The sections below also cover the City's own roll-off dumpster permit, which is more specific than almost anything else in Colorado, and a night-hours rule that affects when a truck can come for your container.
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The prices below reflect average ranges for a standard five-day rental period. Your account manager will confirm tonnage, overage rates, and other project specifics during your free, custom quote.
| Size | Average Price Range | Approximate Dimensions | Common Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-Yard Dumpster | $399–$499 | 12' L × 8' W × 3.5' H | Concrete, brick, and heavy debris; small cleanouts; single-room remodels |
| 15-Yard Dumpster | $449–$569 | 16' L × 7.5' W × 4–5' H | Garage cleanouts, kitchen and bathroom remodels, small roof tear-offs |
| 20-Yard Dumpster | $499–$649 | 22' L × 7.5' W × 4.5' H | Whole-home cleanouts, multi-room renovations, flooring removal, roofing |
| 30-Yard Dumpster | $599–$799 | 22' L × 8' W × 6' H | Major renovations, new residential construction, large commercial projects |
| 40-Yard Dumpster | $699–$899 | 22–24' L × 8' W × 8' H | Commercial demolition, industrial cleanouts, large-scale construction |
Manitou Springs prices turn on access as much as on anything else.
The streets here are steep and narrow, and many houses sit above or below the road on a stair or a short shelf of a drive. A 20-yard container is the largest many addresses on the hillsides can take, and a 10-yard on a trailer sometimes reaches a spot a larger one cannot. Your account manager will talk through the approach before quoting a size, because a failed delivery costs everyone a day.
Weight is the next lever. Stone, old plaster and lath, and foundation concrete are the common heavy loads in this town, and they reach a container's weight limit long before they reach its walls.
Then the clock. The City sets a ninety-day maximum on a right-of-way permit for a roll-off container, with an extension route for a genuinely large project, so a long restoration is manageable but it has to be planned rather than assumed.
And last, the destination. The City treats where waste goes as a regulated choice, not a convenience, so the disposal side of your quote is tied to a specific permitted site rather than to whatever is closest.
Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 2 tons (4,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 50-70 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 3 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 3 tons (6,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 80-100 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 4.5 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 3 tons (6,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 110-130 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 6 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 4 tons (8,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 170-190 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 9 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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Perfect For:
Weight Limit: Up to 5 tons (10,000 lbs)
Bags of Trash: Approximately 230-250 large trash bags.
Truck Loads: Roughly 12 pickup truck loads.
*These are general estimates and can vary depending on the type of trash being disposed of and how tightly it’s packed.
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In a town built on a canyon floor, the honest answer starts with what fits. Prime Dumpster carries five sizes for Manitou Springs.
The 10-Yard Dumpster is the one that reaches the hard addresses. It is also the right size for dense material, so a stone wall, a concrete stoop or a plaster tear-out belongs in it.
The 15-Yard Dumpster fits a garage emptied properly or a bathroom taken to the studs, and it still works on most Manitou Springs drives without taking the whole thing.
The 20-Yard Dumpster is the practical ceiling for a lot of residential addresses in town. A kitchen and a bath, or flooring and trim from a whole small house, fit inside it comfortably.
The 30-Yard Dumpster suits a larger lot on the flatter ground toward the eastern edge of town, or a commercial job along Manitou Avenue, where volume rather than weight is the limit.
The 40-Yard Dumpster is for commercial interiors and structural demolition where there is room to set it. Prime Dumpster carries nothing larger, and on many streets here it simply will not fit.
Not sure which one your street can take? Send your account manager a photo of the approach and the parking situation and they will size it from that.
On private property, a container needs no City permit in Manitou Springs. Your own driveway, your own parking area or a fenced work area are all fine, and there is no size cap anywhere in the code. The phrase "cubic yard" does not appear once across the health, business, street and encroachment titles, and nothing there makes a City approval wait on a homeowners association sign-off.
The right-of-way is where Manitou Springs is unusually specific, and unusually helpful. The City's encroachment rules carry a named set of special regulations for roll-off dumpsters and similar objects. A container may be permitted in the public right-of-way only for as long as it is in active use in connection with construction, remodeling or any other project. The maximum permit term is ninety days, and the code allows an extension where the nature of the project warrants it, such as a large project or delays that are not the permit holder's fault. What it will not allow is a container used as a substitute for a long-term on-site storage or disposal arrangement.
Getting that permission is a real review rather than a form. The City weighs input from the police department, the fire department and the streets department, and looks at pedestrian and vehicle sightlines, safety and movement, the effect on parking availability, and the visual effect on nearby properties. The city administrator or a designee signs it off. A fee applies under the council's own schedule, and because that schedule sits outside the code we will not quote you a figure for it: call the City and get the current one.
One small mercy in the same chapter: an ordinary trash receptacle set next to the traveled lanes for collection on its scheduled pickup day is expressly outside the minor-encroachment licensing rule.
The City of Manitou Springs is at 606 Manitou Avenue, and that is the office to reach for both the encroachment permit and the construction permit itself. The City's own website would not serve us a current contact page, so we are not quoting a number here that we have not seen: your account manager will get the current one, find the right desk and tell you how much lead time the review needs.
Colorado's state health department publishes a prohibited list written for residential material. It covers lead-acid batteries, liquid wastes or wastes containing free liquids unless the receiving facility is specifically approved for them, used oil, waste tires unless due diligence establishes there is no other option, and waste electronic devices and computers.
A contractor load answers to that list and then to the receiving facility's own acceptance rules on top of it. The practical exclusions on any Manitou Springs container are hazardous material in every form, paint, solvents, fuel, pesticides, pool chemicals, part-used aerosols, asbestos and sharps.
Tires, electronics and appliances need to be named when you book so each one is routed properly instead of being pulled out of the load at the gate.
Manitou Springs adds a destination rule that is worth understanding. Operating a solid waste disposal site or facility inside the city requires a certificate of designation from the city council, and the City has adopted the state health department's minimum, operations, site and engineering standards by reference. In plain terms, where your debris ends up is a licensed decision, not a convenient one.
Raise anything unusual with your account manager before it goes in the container.
If the item you want to dispose of isn’t on this list, give us a call for more guidance or check out our guide of what you can throw in a dumpster.
*Approved items may vary by location. Always check your local laws and regulations to avoid any fines or additional fees.
Manitou Springs has no landfill of its own, and nothing inside the city may operate as a disposal site or facility without a certificate of designation from the city council. So your container leaves town for disposal, and the site it goes to is one that holds the right state permit.
We looked for a publicly operated landfill or transfer station serving this part of El Paso County and could not confirm one where both the owner and the operator are public bodies. Where we cannot confirm that, we do not present a site as a public facility, and we do not name a company-run site here as though it were one.
What we can be precise about is the rule that governs the choice. The City's own code makes the destination a permitted one, which means your load is weighed, classified and recorded at a site that answers to the state, and the per-ton figure at that gate flows into the disposal part of your invoice.
Your account manager confirms the receiving site for your address, its hours and its rate before the truck is dispatched, and will send you the weight ticket afterward if your project needs the paper trail.
Most Manitou Springs orders can be scheduled within one to two business days, with delivery arriving in a 24 to 48 hour window. A right-of-way placement needs more notice, because the City's review involves three departments before the permit is signed.
Five habits that keep a Manitou Springs delivery on track:
That night-hours rule is the one scheduling detail people are most often surprised by, and it applies to the collection truck rather than to the container. Your account manager works the swap into the daytime window.
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Prime Dumpster serves all of Manitou Springs, from the Manitou Avenue business blocks and the Ruxton Avenue incline neighborhoods up through Crystal Hills and the Pawnee and Crystal Park approaches, and east along the Highway 24 corridor. We handle the drop, the swap and the haul, and we size the container to the street rather than the other way round.
Tell us about your project and your zip code. We will work out what your street and your drive can take, tell you whether a right-of-way permit is in play, and give you a firm figure on the call.
Your Prime Dumpster account manager handles the details, from tonnage and overage rates to permit contacts and delivery timing, so you can focus on the work.
A Manitou Springs 10-yard container runs $399 to $499, and a 40-yard runs $699 to $899, over five days. Access and the weight of your load then move the total, and access matters more here than in most towns. Your account manager fixes the Manitou Springs tonnage allowance and the overage rate at the order.
In almost every case here, renting wins. Manitou Springs has no disposal site of its own, so self-hauling means repeated trips out of town in a pickup, a gate charge each visit, and loading by hand twice. One Manitou Springs container means one load and one haul out of town.
Yes. A three-seat couch takes roughly a fifth of a 10-yard container, so there is still room for a chair, a bed frame and several cartons. On the narrow streets here, the 10-yard is often the only size that fits, and for furniture it is usually enough.
Keep out hazardous material, liquids and free-liquid wastes, used oil, paint, solvents, fuel, pesticides, pool chemicals, lead-acid batteries and asbestos. Colorado also lists waste tires and electronic devices, and appliances must be named at booking so they are routed to the right place.
Manitou Springs starts with the 10-yard at $399 to $499. It is also the size most likely to reach a difficult address in this town. Whether it is cheapest overall depends on the load, because stone and concrete reach the weight ceiling fast and a dedicated heavy container beats overage charges.
A three-day rental generally matches the five-day figure, because the quote is built around the project rather than counted by the day. Weight on the scale is what shifts a Manitou Springs invoice. Settle the tonnage allowance and the per-ton overage rate with your account manager and the Manitou Springs figure holds.
Framing scrap, drywall, plaster, lath, roofing, flooring, cabinets, doors, windows, furniture, cardboard and general cleanout material are all fine in Manitou Springs. Clean stone, brick and concrete are acceptable too and often cost less in their own load. Anything doubtful goes to your account manager before the Manitou Springs container is loaded.
| Business Name: | Prime Dumpster |
| Address: | Manitou Springs, Colorado 80829 |
| Phone: | 983-203-3500 |
| Website: | https://primedumpster.com/ |
| Monday-Saturday | 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
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