Adopt a Highway

Adopt a Highway

About AAH

Nearly 23.7 billion pieces of litter are left on 8.3 million miles of roadways across the United States, resulting in an average of 2,855 pieces of litter per mile, or about 73 littered items for every person nationwide.

The Adopt a Highway program offers community members and businesses a chance to help keep our highways free and clean of litter.

We invite you to join us in making a positive impact by keeping Arizona beautiful.

Upcoming Volunteer Events

Click on the events below for information and to register: 

Adopt a Highway Programs

  • The Volunteer Program applies to individuals, families, churches, and other groups who apply for a two-year permit to clean up roadside litter on segments of roadway deemed safe for volunteers.
  • The Sponsor Program applies to individuals and businesses that contract with maintenance providers to clean up roadside litter for a fee. These highways include urban areas that experience a large volume of traffic and litter deemed unsafe for volunteers.

Become one of the thousands of dedicated volunteers keeping our highways clean and safe.

Adopt a Highway News

01/14/2020

Ways to serve on MLK Day of Service and beyond

Adopt a Highway offers an opportunity to serve all year round.
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12/30/2019

Consider adopting a highway in the new year

If you're looking to make a positive contribution, you might be considering adopting. We're not talking about a pet or a baby, but a highway.
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12/20/2019

Adopt a Highway: Volunteers have seen, cleaned it all

When Bodo and Marie Diehn bought their cabin site near Payson in 1988, they knew they wanted to keep the drive up State Route 87 as beautiful as when they first saw it. So the next year they joined the Adopt a Highway program, claiming mile...
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