Telluride Wastewater Treatment Plant RV Dump Station

The Telluride dump station is terrible. Only use it if necessary. No water on site to clean your tank or equipment. Not a pull through location so you have to back in and there is not much space for it due to lots of vehicles being parked there. It is also a bit expensive at $22 considering there is no water. Not available on weekends. If you need to dump and are traveling through either Montrose or Ouray, those offer better options.

We pulled in on a Sunday morning when the waste water treatment plant was closed. The dump station was open because it is located in the parking lot in front of the office of the Aninal Shelter which is attached and next to the waste water treatment office. There is a gate at the highway, but we never saw it closed or locked during our four days in Telluride. You have to move an 18” diameter lid to access the sewer dump. The lid has SEWER printed on it, and it’s made of aluminum so it’s not very heavy. I only shifted the lid far enough to get my sewer hose in. But be aware. THE OPENING IS BIG ENOUGH TO FALL INTO, SO REMAIN VIGILENT WHILE MOVING AROUND THE LID. Quite frankly, if you were to take the lid off entirely, you’d probably be better off in staying away from the open shaft.

For FREE, this is a great dump station. It is easy to access; it was when we were there. But you’d be best advised to park on the access road at its junction with a road leading left and down and walk up to scope out the turnaround room. There is a large concrete parking/storage area to the left as you pull up to the front of the office building. It was vacant when we were there, so we used it turn our truck and trailer around; our total length is nearly 50’. Backing up to the sewer manhole is easy from there. Just be sure not to back onto the sewer manhole cover. There is a fresh water hose on the exterior wall of the office building that we used for rinse water. We did NOT hook it up to our trailer to flush our trailer black tank so as to be respectful of a fresh water line. However we did connect a hose sprayer and spray out our tank through the toilet opening. But again, no one was there because the office was closed at 9am on Sunday morning. They might not look favorably on you using this hose to flush out your black tank even though you wouldn’t contaminate their line by doing so in the manner that we used it.

THANK YOU TELLURIDE FOR ALLOWING FREE RV DUMPING!!!