Drop off your logs, slash, and timber for FREE at one of our two Community Forestry Sort Yards.
Community Forestry Sort Yards
Hours & Location
Call 303-678-6368 for operational status of either sort yard. Closures may be announced depending on weather and staffing requirements.
Nederland Sort Yard
Open Wed–Sat 9am–5pm
May 4 – Oct. 22
Open Wednesday – Saturday
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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Due to weather, the Nederland Sort Yard will close at noon on Friday, May 20, and be closed on Saturday, May 21.
Meeker Park Sort Yard
Opens June 1
June 1 – Oct. 15
Open Wednesday – Saturday
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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The Meeker Park sort yard is scheduled to open for the season on June 1.
Instructions & Guidelines
This is a sort yard and you must separate your woody biomass into the correct areas.
New Users
All new users will be required to complete a short registration form before they can unload.
Contractors
All contractors will be required to complete a short registration form for each client’s property. Contractors will not be able to unload without the following information:
- First and last name
- Physical address of property (including county and zip code)
Hauling Guidelines
- Clean out your pickup or trailer before loading material. This helps keep trash and debris from mingling with material.
- All material must be securely tied down.
- Keep all types of material separate within the load. Each type of material is unloaded in a different location.
- Do not use heavy machinery to load material as this will often add rocks and dirt. Any load with rocks or dirt will be refused.
- We do not accept material transported by chip vans, semi side dump, send end dump, walking floor, or live floor trailers.
What Is Accepted
Logs & Chunk Wood
- Trim branches flush to the trunk.
- Logs must be free of limbs and end of logs must be squared.
- Smallest minimum diameter is 4 inches.
- All species accepted.
- Active Mountain Pine beetle wood is accepted but discouraged between July 15 – Sept. 15 (mass flight).
- You must stack wood in the correct pile according to log length.
- Chunk wood 16”-18”
- Logs 4′ 3″
- Logs 8′ 3″
- Logs 12′ 3″
- Logs 16′ 6″
Grass, Weeds, & Forbes
- All grasses, forbs, and noxious weeds must be put in a brown paper yard bag.
- Material can be green, brown, or wood stalk.
- Bags must be rolled up and placed upside down in the container.
- Please keep bags secured during transport so weeds seeds are not spread.
- Bags must not contain tape, string, or staples. Please remove any tape, string, or staples before placing in the container.
- Do not overfill bags.
- No broken bags.
- No dirt, rocks, or trash.
- This material goes to a compost facility.
Decayed Wood
- Down decayed conifer logs and branches without needles. Anything that has a needle goes to the conifer slash pile.
- All logs must be cut squared.
- No roots. If there is a reddish tint to the wood, it’s a root. If it has a tri pod look, it’s a root
- No old posts, dimensional lumber, or construction material.
- No grass mixed in with the material.
Conifer Slash Branches
- Green and brown conifer needle branches.
- Rounds with a small end diameter of 4” must go to the log deck.
- All Aspen, brush, and broad leaf material go to the broad leaf pile.
Broad Leaf Needless Branches
- Aspen, willows, brush, bushes, and all broad leaf trees.
- Roots must be removed.
- Branches with needles go in the conifer slash pile.
Pine Cones, Needles, & Leaves
- Pine needles and cones only.
- No grasses, forbs, or weeds.
- No rocks, dirt, trash or pet waste.
What Is Not Accepted
Loads and paper lawn bags with rocks, dirt, or metal will be refused.
This is a free service. Please help to keep it free by keeping your loads clean and free from the items listed below.
Logs with Branches
- Logs must have branches removed.
Loose Grass, Weeds, & Forbs
- Grasses, weeds, and forbs are only accepted if they are in a paper yard bag.
- Potted plants and food waste are not accepted.
Dimensional & Treated Lumber
- Rough cut, treated, and dimensional lumber are not accepted.
- Posts and fence materials are not accepted.
Root Balls
- No stumps, root balls, or any root parts.
Stumps
- If it looks like a tripod, it’s a root and will be refused.
Stumps
- All logs must be cut square.
Construction Waste
Rocks, Dirt, & Fireplace Ash
Trash
Free Materials
Wood for arts and crafts projects and compost-like material are available for free by completing the request form.
Sorry, we do not give out mulch, wood chips, logs, or firewood.
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