Baseline Landfill Ocala: Hours, Fees, and Recycling Drop-Off Options (A Practical Guide)

If you live in or around Ocala and you've got a truckload of junk, old furniture, yard debris, or a garage full of stuff you finally want gone, you basically have two paths. You can load it up and haul it to the Baseline Road landfill or one of Marion County's recycling drop-off centers yourself, or you can have someone like Bingo Pickup load it and haul it for you.

This guide walks through both. We'll cover where the county facilities are, the rough hours and fees you can expect (and exactly where to check the real, current numbers, since those change), what the recycling centers will and won't take, and how to decide when a self-haul makes sense versus when it's worth letting us do the heavy lifting. We're a local, one-truck operation based right here in Ocala, so we send people to the landfill all the time. No hard feelings if a DIY run is the right call for you.

The Baseline Road landfill (Davis / Baseline solid waste facility)

Marion County's main disposal site is the Baseline Landfill and Transfer Station, located off SE Baseline Road on the southeast side of Ocala (5601 SE 66th St). Locals call it a few different things, the Baseline landfill, the Davis facility, or just "the dump", but it's the central spot where the heavy, bulky, and large-volume loads go.

This is where you take the stuff that's too big or too much for a neighborhood recycling center: large furniture loads, construction and demolition debris, and anything beyond the per-day limits the smaller centers allow. The landfill charges disposal (tipping) fees, which are typically based on weight or load type, so you'll want to know roughly what you're hauling before you go.

• ✓Hours: Generally open Monday through Saturday during daytime hours (commonly around 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.), and closed Sunday. Holidays can change this.
• ✓Fees: Expect per-ton or per-load tipping fees, plus separate handling for tires, appliances with refrigerant, and certain other items.
• ✓Always confirm before you drive: Hours and fees get updated, so check the official Marion County Solid Waste page for current specifics. You can also call them at 352-671-8465.

County recycling and drop-off centers

Beyond the main landfill, Marion County runs around 18 recycling/drop-off centers spread across the county, so there's usually one a lot closer to you than the Baseline site. These are the everyday spots for household garbage, single-stream recycling, and smaller loads of the harder-to-toss stuff.

For Marion County residents in unincorporated areas, access to these centers is generally tied to the solid waste assessment you already pay on your tax bill, which is part of why they're so handy for routine drop-offs. The catch is that they have per-day limits (for example, yard waste is capped at a couple of cubic yards per resident per day), so a true cleanout can take several trips, or just won't fit.

• ✓Commonly accepted: household garbage, single-stream recycling (cardboard, paper, aluminum and tin cans, plastics), scrap metal and appliances, used motor oil and filters, batteries, yard waste (with a daily limit), and textiles.
• ✓Often NOT accepted or limited: glass (no longer taken at the centers), plus a list of excluded items like concrete, dirt, rock, and certain large/special-waste materials. Tires and appliances with refrigerant may have special handling.
• ✓Hours vary by location: some centers are open most days including Sunday; others run only a couple of days a week. Check the official Marion County recycling center hours and locations before you load up.

A quick note for City of Ocala residents

If your home is inside the City of Ocala limits, you've got curbside service the county areas don't. The city contracts curbside garbage, single-stream recycling, yard waste, and bulk pickup through its sanitation department (recycling goes in the tan cart, picked up on your garbage day). That means some bulky items you'd otherwise haul yourself may already be covered on a scheduled pickup day, so it's worth checking the City of Ocala Sanitation Services page first.

Here's the important part for everyone else: most of Marion County is NOT in the city. If you're in the unincorporated county, in one of the outlying communities, or anywhere without city service, there's usually no curbside bulk pickup and no curbside recycling at all. That's exactly the gap a self-haul, or a call to us, fills.

Self-haul vs. having Bingo pick it up

A DIY landfill run is a genuinely good option when the load is small, you own or can borrow a truck or trailer, the items are easy to lift, and you don't mind the time. If you've got a single mattress, a few bags, or a manageable pile of yard debris and a free morning, hauling it to a recycling center or the Baseline landfill yourself can be the cheapest path.

Where it gets old fast is the bigger, heavier, or more awkward jobs, the multi-trip cleanouts, the stuff too heavy to lift solo, the loads the per-day limits won't allow in one go, or the days you just don't have hours to spend at the scale house. That's where bringing in a crew pays off.

• ✓Self-haul is great when: you have a truck, the items are light and few, you have time, and you're under the daily limits.
• ✓Let us handle it when: it's heavy, bulky, multi-room, multi-trip, or you'd rather skip the loading, the lines, the fees, and the dump runs entirely.
• ✓No truck, no problem: with Bingo Pickup the labor, the truck, the disposal, and the responsible recycling are all included, we sort what can be recycled and route the rest correctly so it doesn't just get dumped.
• ✓Pricing you can see up front: we use photo-based pricing, so you send pics and get a real number, no surprise add-ons. Check out how pricing works before you book.

How Bingo makes it easy (and what we do)

We're a one-truck, exterior-only operation, which keeps things simple and keeps your costs down. Set the items out at the curb, in the driveway, in the garage, or anywhere outside, and our crew loads from there (we don't go inside the home). Then we haul everything to the right place, including the Baseline facility and the county recycling centers, so you never have to.

Booking takes about two minutes online: enter your address, pick your service, add a few photos, and choose a 2-hour arrival window any day of the week, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Your card is authorized when you book but only charged after the job is done, and same-day service is often available when the schedule allows.

• ✓Big cleanouts: garage, estate, foreclosure, or move-out, see cleanouts.
• ✓Recycling-focused hauls: we sort and route recyclables properly, recycling pickup.
• ✓Regular needs: if junk piles up often, Bingo Monthly keeps it handled on a schedule.

Serving Ocala, Gainesville, and North Central Florida

We're based in Ocala and cover all of Marion County, plus Alachua County and Gainesville, The Villages area, and the rest of North Central Florida within about 50 miles. Addresses past that range just get a small travel fee or a quick custom quote, so go ahead and ask. See your local service areas for details.

Whether you take a load to the Baseline landfill yourself or let us do the hauling, the goal is the same: get the junk gone without the headache. If you'd rather skip the dump run, book online in about two minutes or call us at 850-321-3047, and we'll take it from here.