Rifle, CO Emergency Mobile Kitchen Rentals and Dishwashing Trailers

A mobile kitchen trailer rental in Rifle is one of the quickest temporary commercial kitchen solutions: a fully equipped mobile kitchen on a pad, ready to connect to power and water. If the work spills into Silt, 6 miles from here, or into New Castle, a kitchen rented here can be planned around both sites.

Sizing starts with how many meals you serve. The 38ft Mobile Kitchen and 40ft Mobile Kitchen suit different kitchen volumes, and the 40ft Mobile Combo Kitchen adds capacity for larger operations; compare their equipment lists and power needs before you choose.

Rental customers in Rifle are commercial, institutional and public: municipal agencies, hospitals, hotels and golf clubs. Each has its own pressure points, from a municipal temporary kitchen during a remodel to keeping staff fed through a long project. Meeker (about 2,390 residents) and Basalt (about 4,001 residents) each have their own mix of hospitals, schools and plants, but the reasons they rent line up.

CMS lists 2 hospitals in Garfield County, 1 of them critical access: Grand River Hospital District and Valley View Hospital Association. Certified nursing care adds 4 homes and roughly 290 beds. Public schools here number 28, enrolling about 10,835 students, with Garfield School District No. Re-2, Roaring Fork School District No. Re-1 and Grand Valley School District No. 16 In The County Of Garfi among the larger districts (NCES).

• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: senior-nutrition and community meal programs that cannot pause
• Hospital Kitchen Rental and Temporary Kitchen Trailers: a planned kitchen renovation that removes the main production line for months
• Hotel and Resort Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: kitchen remodeling during or around peak season
• Golf Course and Country Club Kitchen Trailer Rentals: a need for cold storage during peak weekends

Rifle is the 52nd most populous of the 194 Colorado places this site covers, with an estimated 10,663 residents in 2024. The city spans roughly 7 square miles in Garfield County. Garfield County covers 2,947 square miles and has 6 places on this site, about 37,715 residents between them; the largest is Rifle. Population density is roughly 1,522 people per square mile. In a straight line, Rifle sits about 154 miles from Denver, the capital of Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.

Sources: OpenFEMA (retrieved October 30, 2026); NOAA Storm Events, NIFC fire perimeters, NOAA nClimDiv normals, CMS provider data, NCES school data and USASpending.gov (retrieved October 31, 2026). Public records for an area or a project, not damage reports or work we did.

A kitchen is only half of food service. A dishwashing trailer such as the 22 to 26ft Low-Temp Dishwashing Trailer (220V, single phase, 150A) handles trays, plates and pans so Rifle kitchens do not fall back on disposables. Glenwood Springs, 23 miles away, has the same problem when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.

Refrigeration is an emergency. When a walk-in cooler or freezer breaks down in Rifle, stock starts to warm immediately, so an emergency refrigerated trailer such as the 20ft Cooler Trailer, 32°F gives product somewhere cold to go. A walk-in that fails in Carbondale starts the same clock on the stock inside.

Climate normals for Garfield County run from an average January low of 15°F to an average July high of 80°F, with roughly 22 inches of precipitation yearly. With nights that cold, a kitchen trailer needs heated or insulated water lines, and a refrigerated trailer should not be asked to hold product warm against freezing air.

Moving the job to Palisade or Gypsum changes the pad and the paperwork; the list below stays the same.

• Health review: ask Garfield County environmental health or the local authority what a temporary kitchen needs to be approved.
• People: decide who meets the driver, who signs off the setup and who calls us if something changes.
• Timing: share your start date and rental period so the quote reflects the real schedule.

See the site planning guides for power, water, wastewater and placement detail.

Crews and facilities working around Rifle also look at the nearby places below. Distances are straight-line estimates between the places, not driving routes.

• Silt, CO: about 6 miles from Rifle, about 3,727 residents
• New Castle, CO: about 13 miles from Rifle, about 4,894 residents
• Parachute, CO: about 16 miles from Rifle, about 1,362 residents
• Glenwood Springs, CO: about 23 miles from Rifle, about 10,311 residents
• Carbondale, CO: about 31 miles from Rifle, about 6,758 residents
• Meeker, CO: about 36 miles from Rifle, about 2,390 residents

The nearest Colorado counties to Rifle are Rio Blanco County (38 miles), Delta County (47 miles) and Pitkin County (51 miles).

• Rio Blanco County: about 38 miles from Rifle, 5 FEMA declarations since records began, 2 hospitals listed by CMS
• Delta County: about 47 miles from Rifle, 7 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Pitkin County: about 51 miles from Rifle, 4 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS

Plan the kitchen first; everything else is sized around mobile kitchens in Rifle. Crews on a long or remote job can add remote workforce housing with multi-use crew support trailers, such as the Office, Sleeper, Shower and Restroom Trailer, or restroom trailer rentals, such as the Standalone Restroom Trailer. Each model page lists its equipment and power, and we quote them on request.