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

An inforgraphic showing Adopt a Highway's 2023 by the numbers.
04/02/2024

Adopt a Highway: Why you should join our hosted cleanup

Volunteers filled more than 15,000 bags, with trash deposited onto roadways in 2023. That is about 103 tons of plastic water bottles, cigarette butts, beer cans, construction trash and other unsecured items lost or tossed from vehicles.
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A list of the new volunteer groups for Adopt a Highway since Novemeber 2023
03/15/2024

Adopt a Highway: Volunteers organize to help care for Arizona

The Arizona Department of Transportation welcomes 18 new Adopt a Highway volunteer groups into the program since Nov. 1, 2023.
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Five people dressed in orange vests volunteering to clean up the highway
02/06/2024

Adopt a Highway: ‘All the Way to the Border’ volunteers bag 2 tons of litter along SR 286

More than 100 volunteers turned out for the ninth annual “All the Way to the Border” highway cleanup on Saturday, Jan 27. All 45 miles of State Route 286 are adopted by residents, businesses and organizations between Three Points junction at State Route 86 and Sasabe at the Arizona-Mexico border.
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