Perched on top of Lookout Mountain in DeKalb County at about 1,736 feet, Mentone, Alabama (ZIP 35984) is a small mountain village of roughly 319 people strung along Alabama Highway 117, about ten minutes off Interstate 59 at Exit 231. It is a place of cabins, summer camps, art galleries and second homes, with DeSoto State Park and the 104-foot DeSoto Falls on the West Fork of the Little River just down County Road 89, and Cloudmont Ski and Golf Resort nearby. That mix creates a particular storage problem: a cabin remodel, a camp building project or a house being staged for sale cannot spare a spare room, and driving down the mountain to a storage facility wastes half a day. TriStateDumpIt solves it by delivering a 16-ft steel container right to your Mentone property for $175, billed every 28 days, loaded at ground level and locked with your own padlock. We deliver from our Bridgeport yard, so call ahead — units rotate through the fleet of ten — and tell us about narrow mountain lanes and steep drives so we plan the drop carefully.
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Our mobile storage unit is a 16-ft steel container that sits flat on the ground in Mentone — no steps, no lift, no ramp wrestling. It is weather-tight and lockable, built for mountain weather that can turn quickly up on the brow, and it holds roughly a couple of rooms of furniture, comparable to clearing a one-car garage. The rate is $175, billed every 28 days, and delivery and pickup are priced by distance from our Bridgeport yard rather than as a flat figure, so your quote reflects the actual run up the mountain.
Good fits around Mentone are easy to picture. Cabin and lodge owners along Highway 117 and County Road 89 use a container to hold furniture while floors are refinished or a kitchen is rebuilt. Summer camps getting buildings ready for the season stage mattresses, program gear and maintenance supplies on site instead of in a hallway. Folks selling a mountain home stage it uncluttered while the extra furniture stays steps away in the drive. A container also suits an estate settling on the mountain, where family members need time to sort a house without renting space down in Fort Payne or Valley Head.
Placement needs a reasonably level, firm spot — a gravel pad, a driveway apron or a level patch of yard. Mentone lots are often sloped, wooded and tight, so walk the spot before delivery, note low limbs and any gate or turn off Highway 117, and mention it when you book. Call ahead to reserve, because our ten units rotate and fall — Mentone's busiest season around the Fall Color Fest — is when demand peaks.
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A 16-ft mobile storage container in Mentone is $175, billed every 28 days, for as many cycles as you need it. Delivery and pickup are priced separately by distance from our Bridgeport yard up to Lookout Mountain, so call (256) 548-6021 for a quote on your exact address along Highway 117 or County Road 89.
Yes — Mentone is on our regular route, reached from Interstate 59 at Exit 231 and then up Alabama Highway 117. Mountain delivery does need planning: tell us about steep or gravel drives, tight turns near the brow, low-hanging limbs and soft ground after rain, and we will confirm a drop spot with solid footing before we roll.
Think in rooms, not measurements: a 16-ft container comfortably holds a couple of rooms of furniture — beds, dressers, sofas, tables and boxed belongings — roughly what you would clear out of a one-car garage. For a Mentone cabin kitchen or floor project, that is usually the whole contents of the rooms being worked on, kept right outside the door.
It needs level, firm ground: a gravel pad, a paved or gravel driveway, or a flattened yard spot all work. Many Mentone properties off County Road 89 slope toward the brow, so a spot that looks flat from the house may still tilt — check it, and if you are unsure, describe it when you call and we will talk through options before delivery.
Keep it cycle to cycle for as long as the project lasts — one 28-day cycle for a quick floor refinish, several cycles for a full cabin renovation or a slow estate sort. There is no need to unload and reload between cycles; just call us when the container is empty and you are ready for pickup.
Keep out fuel, propane, paint, solvents and other chemicals, plus perishable food and anything illegal. Those rules protect your belongings and the mountain watershed around the West Fork of the Little River. Furniture, tools, camp gear, boxed household goods, and equipment with fuel fully drained are all fine.
You do. You lock it with your own padlock, and only you have the key or combination. We deliver an empty, lockable steel container and pick it up when you are done — we do not keep access to your things while it sits at your cabin, camp or home.
The container is weather-tight steel, designed to shed rain and keep contents dry through Lookout Mountain storms and winter cold at Mentone's elevation. Load items off the floor if you are storing through a wet spell, leave a little air space around boxes, and everything should ride out the season in good shape.
Yes, and it is one of the most common Mentone uses. Mountain homes and cabins along the Lookout Mountain Parkway show better uncluttered. Move the extra furniture, out-of-season gear and boxes into the container in your drive, photograph and show a clean house, then reload or move the container's contents once the sale closes.
They do. Mentone's long-running summer camps, including camps that have operated here for generations, need somewhere for mattresses, sports gear, craft supplies and maintenance equipment between and during sessions. A container on site at a camp off Highway 117 keeps that gear dry, locked and close instead of scattered through cabins and program buildings.
That is an ideal short rental. Move the furniture from the rooms being refinished into the ground-level container — no carrying pieces up stairs or into a truck — let the floor crew work in empty rooms, then carry everything straight back in. One 28-day cycle covers most Mentone floor jobs.
Book on our order-by-date page or call (256) 548-6021. Tell us the delivery address, the drop spot you have in mind, and anything about the drive up from Highway 117 or County Road 89. Call ahead rather than last minute — we run ten units and they rotate, especially in fall foliage season.
Yes. From Mentone we also serve Valley Head at the foot of the mountain, properties around DeSoto State Park and Little River Canyon, and communities along the Lookout Mountain Parkway toward the Georgia line. If your address is a Mentone ZIP but sits outside the town limits, you are still on our mountain route.
Yes. Roll-off dumpsters serve Mentone remodels and cleanouts, and porta potties serve job sites, camp projects and outdoor events. You can add either to a storage booking or rent them separately — one call to (256) 548-6021 handles all three for a mountain project.
We deliver across Mentone and the surrounding Lookout Mountain top — along Alabama Highway 117 through the village, out County Road 89 toward DeSoto State Park and DeSoto Falls, and along the lanes serving cabins, camps and brow properties near the Georgia line. Delivery notes for the mountain: drives are often long, gravel and steep, gates and turns can be tight, and ground softens after heavy rain. Tell us about your specific approach when you book and we will plan around it. Below the mountain we also serve Valley Head and Hammondville, and east toward the state line the Parkway communities — if you are near Mentone, call to confirm your address.
Tearing out a cabin kitchen or clearing a Mentone estate? Our dumpster rental in Mentone offers 12-yard at $270, 16-yard at $325, 20-yard at $415 and 30-yard at $625, each with a 14-day rental; the smaller three include 2 tons, the 30-yard includes 4 tons, with $75 per ton overage and $10 per day extensions. Pair a dumpster for the debris with a storage container for what you keep. Mountain remodels, camp tear-outs and estate cleanouts around DeSoto State Park and the Highway 117 corridor are the usual Mentone jobs, and delivery runs up from the valley on our regular mountain route. Book at our order-by-date page.
For cabin builds, camp construction and outdoor gatherings around Mentone and DeSoto State Park, our porta potty rentals are $140, billed every 28 days. Units arrive clean, are serviced on schedule and are picked up when the job or event wraps up — a practical answer on mountain properties where the nearest restroom may be a camp building that is itself under renovation.
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