Baseline Landfill (Ocala Dump): Hours, Fees, and What You Can Bring

Baseline Landfill quick facts

If you search "Ocala dump" or "Ocala landfill," the place you are looking for is the Marion County Baseline Landfill and Transfer Station, run by Marion County Solid Waste on the southeast side of Ocala. Here is what you need before you load the truck, pulled straight from the county's own pages.

Item	Detail
Address	5601 SE 66th St., Ocala, FL 34480
Phone	352-671-8465
Transfer station (scale) hours	Monday–Saturday 7 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday closed
Baseline Recycling Center hours (same property)	Mon–Thu & Sat 7 a.m.–5 p.m.; Fri 7 a.m.–7 p.m.; Sun 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Minimum charge	$10
Flat rate, no trailer (excludes tire loads)	Cars $10; trucks, vans, SUVs $20
Scale fee, household/C&D/commercial waste	$3.25 per 100 lbs ($65 per ton)
Scale fee, yard waste	$2.40 per 100 lbs ($48 per ton)
Scale fee, appliances/metals	$3.25 per 100 lbs ($60 per ton, as listed by the county)

Sources: Marion County Solid Waste Hours & Locations and Recycling & Trash Disposal pages, read August 22, 2026. Rates have gone up several times in recent years (more on that below), so confirm by phone if you are hauling a big load.

One thing that confuses first-timers: there are two operations at the same address. The transfer station is the scale house where anyone can pay to dump. The Baseline Recycling Center is one of the county's 18 free drop-off centers for residents who pay the annual solid waste assessment, and it keeps different (longer) hours, including Sunday.

What Baseline Landfill accepts (and refuses)

Baseline takes the everyday stuff: household garbage, furniture, appliances and scrap metal, yard waste, agricultural waste, commercial waste, and construction and demolition (C&D) debris, all priced by weight on the scale. Tires are accepted with their own fee schedule. The Baseline Recycling Center side also takes electronics from residents.

The refusal list matters more than the acceptance list, because driving out with a load they will not take wastes a morning. According to the county's Hours & Locations page, Marion County Solid Waste no longer accepts the following at any facility:

• Abrasive grit
• Asbestos
• Boats
• Concrete
• Contaminated soil
• Deceased pets or livestock
• Dirt, rocks, and sod
• Power poles
• RVs and mobile homes
• Sludge

Concrete and dirt are the two to watch for, because they are exactly what a patio tear-out or pool deck demo produces. For those, the county points to privately run C&D facilities on FDOT's list of active C&D facilities in Marion County:

• Bayside Landfill, 4371 SE 73rd St., Ocala, 352-368-1890
• Cypress Acres Landfill, 7424 NE 33rd Court, Ocala, 352-629-3500
• Friends Recycling (formerly Ocala Recycling), 2350 NW 27th Ave., Ocala, 352-622-5800
• Southside Materials, 4980 SE 92nd Place, Ocala, 352-369-5411

Call before you go; these are private businesses with their own hours, pricing, and material rules. For a broader list of what is prohibited in any container, see what can't go in a dumpster.

Gate fees explained: how tonnage is charged

Baseline charges two ways, and which one applies depends on what you drive in.

Flat rate (no trailer)

If you pull in with a car, pickup, van, or SUV and no trailer, you can pay a flat rate instead of crossing the scale: $10 for a car, $20 for a truck, van, or SUV. Tire loads are excluded from the flat rate. For a single pickup bed of junk, that $20 is hard to beat.

Scale fees (trailers, box trucks, commercial vehicles)

Anything towing a trailer, any box truck, and any commercial waste vehicle goes over the scale and is billed by weight at the county's per-100-pound rates:

Material	Per 100 lbs	Per ton
Household garbage, furniture, agricultural, commercial, C&D waste	$3.25	$65
Yard waste (trees, leaves, limbs, grass)	$2.40	$48
Appliances / metals	$3.25	$60
Passenger & commercial tires (by weight)	$8.25	$165
Off-road / oversized tires	$14.00	$280
Latex paint from commercial contractors	$50.00	$1,000
Special handling	$5.50	$110

Tires can also be paid per piece: $3 each for small tires and $10 each for truck tires. The county notes that all loads must be secured per county ordinance, so tarp or strap your trailer.

Rate history

Gate rates have stepped up several times. Per Ocala-News coverage, the rate went from $42 to $45 per ton in October 2020 (cars $5, trucks $10 flat). On May 1, 2024 it rose to $60 per ton for solid waste including metal, with the flat rates doubling to $10 for cars and $20 for trucks, yard waste at $37.50 per ton, and car/small-truck tires at $150 per ton. The county page now lists $65 per ton for solid waste and $48 per ton for yard waste, so there has been at least one further increase since 2024. Sources: Ocala-News, May 1, 2024 and Ocala-News, Sept. 19, 2020.

Marion County recycling centers: the free alternative for small loads

Residents of unincorporated Marion County pay a $215 annual non-ad valorem solid waste assessment on their tax bill. That assessment buys free use of the county's 18 recycling centers, which is why many people never set foot on the Baseline scale. The county offers no curbside pickup, so the centers are the system for most households outside city limits.

Who has to pay at Baseline instead: residents of incorporated cities such as the City of Ocala, all businesses, and anyone bringing more than the center allowances. Commercial users may not use the recycling centers at all. If you live in a city or outside the county, you can buy a Non-Assessed Recycling Permit in person at 5601 SE 66th St.: $215 if you live in a Marion County municipality, $268.75 if you live outside the county, valid from October 1 and prorated after that.

Daily allowances at the centers

• Household garbage: up to 180 gallons per day (about six standard cans, twelve kitchen bags, six standard garbage bags, or three large leaf bags)
• Yard waste: 2 cubic yards per day; branches under 4 inches in diameter and under 4 feet long
• Tires: 5 passenger-sized per day, only at Canal, Davis, Dunnellon, Martel, Newton, and Scrambletown
• Furniture: only at Canal, Dunnellon, Davis, Martel, Newton, and Scrambletown (beds, box springs, couches, dressers, mattresses, mirrors, tables); no toilets, no C&D, no commercial furniture

Centers do not take C&D debris, concrete, brick, masonry, dirt, car parts, chain-link, pallets, ammunition, fireworks, asbestos, medical waste (sharps containers excepted), or any commercial waste. Expect to unload your own material, no scavenging, no commercial or wrapped vehicles or commercial tags, and bring proof of residency.

Hours

All centers except Baseline: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday 7 a.m.–5 p.m.; Friday 7 a.m.–7 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; closed Tuesday and Thursday. Hog Valley and Lake George: Wednesday and Saturday 8 a.m.–4 p.m., single-stream recycling and household garbage only.

Centers closest to Ocala

Center	Address	Notes
Baseline	5601 SE 66th St, Ocala 34480	Electronics; own hours (see top)
Canal	457 SE 110th St, Ocala 34480	Tires, furniture; nearest to Silver Springs Shores
Martel	296 SW 67th Ave Rd, Ocala 34474	Electronics, tires, furniture
Newton	1750 NW 100th St, Ocala 34475	Electronics, tires, furniture
Blitchton	13247 N Hwy 27, Ocala 34482	Garbage, recycling, yard waste
Dunnellon	4232 S US Hwy 41, Dunnellon 34432	Electronics, tires, furniture; nearest to Dunnellon and Marion Oaks
Florida Highlands	8390 SW 150th St, Dunnellon 34432	Garbage, recycling, yard waste
Scrambletown	15810 NE Hwy 314, Silver Springs 34488	Tires, furniture

The remaining centers serve the outlying communities: Hog Valley, Lake George, Davis and Forest Corners (Ocklawaha), Citra, Fort McCoy, Orange Lake, Orange Springs, Salt Springs, South Forest (Umatilla), Weirsdale, and Wright Road (Reddick). Note there is no county center named "Silver Springs Shores," "Marion Oaks," or "Belleview"; the table above shows the nearest one. Source: Materials Accepted at Recycling Centers. For donation and reuse options, see where to dump, recycle, or donate in Marion County.

Paint, electronics, and other odd items

Paint, solvents, pool chemicals, and old batteries do not belong in a roll-off dumpster, and they are not ordinary scale-house waste either. The one published allowance we can point to: per the county's May 2024 rate announcement, residents may drop off up to 5 gallons of paint per day at county facilities at no charge, while commercial contractors pay the $50 per 100 lbs latex paint fee at Baseline. For anything else in the hazardous category, call Solid Waste at 352-671-8465 and ask where it goes before you load it.

Electronics have their own channel. The county lists electronics recycling at the Baseline, Dunnellon, Forest Corners, Fort McCoy, Martel, Newton, and Weirsdale recycling centers, free for residents paying the assessment. The same center rules apply: no commercial or branded vehicles and no commercial loads. Check the county's Materials Accepted page for the current item list before you go.

If you have something unusual (a drum of unknown liquid, a large propane tank, fluorescent tubes by the case), the same phone call applies. The attendants would rather answer a question than turn you around at the gate.

Self-haul math: when a trip to the dump beats a dumpster, and when it doesn't

We rent dumpsters, so take this with that in mind, but the honest answer is that a lot of jobs are cheaper to self-haul. Here is how to decide.

When the dump run wins

One pickup bed of junk, no trailer, no heavy debris: $20 flat at Baseline plus an hour of your Saturday. Nothing we offer beats that. Same for bagged household overflow or a few bags of leaves, which go free at a recycling center if you pay the assessment. If your load fits in a truck bed, drive it.

When it stops making sense

Take a typical garage-and-shed cleanout: old furniture, a broken treadmill, scrap lumber, a few dozen boxes. Say it comes to roughly 10 cubic yards of material weighing around 1 ton. Self-haul with a small utility trailer, which holds a few cubic yards per load, looks like this:

• Several trailer trips to Baseline, each one over the scale
• Gate fee: 1 ton at $65 per ton = $65
• Trailer rental, fuel, and repeated round trips across Ocala (budget your own numbers; a day's trailer rental plus fuel is not nothing)
• Your time: loading, driving, unloading by hand, repeat, within the 7 a.m.–5 p.m. window, Monday through Saturday only

Compare: a 10-yard dumpster from The Junk Sharks Dumpster Rental is $349, which includes delivery, pickup, 1 ton of disposal, and a 10-day rental. You load it in the driveway at your own pace and never see the scale. The gap between $65 in gate fees and $349 is really the cost of the trailer, the fuel, and a full weekend, and for most people with a full garage that gap closes fast. Go past 1 ton of heavy material and the self-haul gate fee keeps climbing at $65 per ton anyway, while a larger box such as the 20-yard at $449 bundles 2 tons.

The break-even is roughly this: under a pickup-bed's worth, self-haul. Anywhere from a couple of trailer loads up, price both. Full renovation or roof debris, a dumpster, because Baseline's C&D rate applies by weight and you will be making many trips. We go deeper on this in dumpster rental vs. a dump run in Ocala and dumpster weight limits explained.

Tips before you drive out

• Check the day. The transfer station is closed Sunday. The Baseline Recycling Center is open Sunday 9 a.m.–5 p.m., but only for assessment-paying residents and only within the center allowances.
• Skip the trailer if you can. A trailer puts you on the scale. A loaded pickup bed with no trailer can take the $20 flat rate.
• Secure the load. The county states that all loads must be secured per county ordinance, so tarp or strap it before you leave the driveway.
• Separate yard waste. Clean yard waste is billed at $48 per ton instead of $65. Keep it a clean load, and ask the scale house how a mixed load will be billed before you tip it.
• Leave the concrete and dirt at home. They are refused at every county facility. Use one of the private C&D yards listed above.
• Bring proof of residency, and confirm payment. Recycling centers may ask for residency; the scale house collects payment at the window. Confirm accepted payment types at 352-671-8465.
• Tires go on their own ticket. Tire loads are excluded from the flat rate, and the centers only take five passenger tires per day at six locations.
• Know your permit situation for the driveway. Not a Baseline issue, but if you end up going the dumpster route and it sits on the street, see dumpster permits in Ocala and Marion County.

If you'd rather not haul it

The Junk Sharks Dumpster Rental is based at 2017 NE Jacksonville Rd, Ocala, FL 34470, on the north side of town, and we run roll-offs across Marion County seven days a week, 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Every rate below includes delivery, pickup, the listed disposal tonnage, and a 10-day rental. Extra days are a flat daily rate quoted when you book, and monthly pricing is available for longer projects.

Size	Dimensions	Tonnage included	Ocala rate
10 yard	10' long × 8' wide × 4.5' tall	1 ton	$349
15 yard	20' long × 8' wide × 3' tall	1.5 tons	$425
20 yard	20' long × 8' wide × 4.5' tall	2 tons	$449
30 yard	20' long × 8' wide × 6' tall	3 tons	$549
40 yard	22' long × 8' wide × 8' tall	4 tons	$695

Not sure which box? Our size guide walks through it by project, and the Ocala price page covers the full rate card. If a few heavy items are all that is standing between you and a clean garage, we also offer junk removal as a secondary option. Otherwise, call (352) 581-2576 or book a 10-yard online and we will drop it in the driveway; you load, we haul to the scale.