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Volunteer placing trash in ADOT bag
03/17/2026

Get involved: Join us for an Earth Day litter clean-up

Adopt a Highway volunteer groups and others are invited to help tidy up along state highways for Earth Day. Whether you are a seasoned volunteer or just looking to make a difference, your participation makes a measurable impact toward reducing roadside litter.
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Sprayer applies fog seal to highway.
03/15/2026

PODCAST: One key way that ADOT extends the life of highway pavement

This week’s episode of On the Road With ADOT features two of our many team members involved in preserving Arizona’s vast investment in state highways and the use of fog seals to extend pavement life.
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A digital message board on the highway encourages motorists to designate a driver.
03/14/2026

Don’t leave it up to luck: Designate a driver this St. Patrick’s Day

With St. Patrick’s Day around the corner, we want to take a moment and remind everyone to plan ahead so you get home safely after the festivities. If you’re out on state highways this weekend, you may notice some of our overhead message...
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Animals rescued by ADOT
10/26/2023

Throwback: Pets rescued on Arizona highways over the years

Editor's note: Updated December 2024 with additional rescues. Every so often, we get a call about a dog or cat that has made its way onto the freeway. Not only are these extremely dangerous situations for the animals, it also threatens the...
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Bridge trusses are constructed above a highway.
10/25/2023

Enhancing pedestrian and bicyclist connectivity in the region

When out on a leisurely walk, run or bicycle ride, we all want the piece of mind that we’ll have safe spaces to walk, run and ride our bikes in and ADOT gets that. That’s why one of the main goals of the Interstate 10 Broadway Curve...
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Compilation of historic image of Queen Creek Tunnel opening and current shots
10/23/2023

‘The most spectacular and expensive project of its kind ever attempted in Arizona’

“Let there no longer be any north, south, east or west in Arizona, but one glorious state tied together by ribbons of road.” With those words, spoken on May 16, 1953, Arizona Gov. J. Howard Pyle cut a ribbon to officially open the 1,217...
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Fall leaves in northern Arizona.
10/20/2023

Where to go on a road trip to see fall foliage in Arizona

Autumn can sometimes feel more like a state of mind than a season in parts of Arizona, but there are places where you can catch colorful scenes that really make it feel like fall. According to Visit Arizona, October is the best time to find...
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A man puts a sign in a machine.
10/19/2023

Throwback Thursday: ADOT Sign Shop stays consistent

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Take the ADOT sign shop, for example. The Sign Shop has been operating for decades and while advances in technology have delivered new machines that have sped up sign making, the overall...
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Screenshot from a traffic camera of the parade in 2019.
10/18/2023

National ‘Move Over’ Day 2023

If you’re driving on Phoenix-area freeways Saturday morning, you may see a procession of tow trucks and first responder vehicles, including ADOT’s Incident Response Unit trucks, as part of the Arizona Professional Towing & Recovery...
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Two people standing in front of an Adopt a Highway sign on State Route 86
10/17/2023

Adopt a Highway: On the Tohono O’odham Nation, the Quinns honor family and tradition

This is a story about a family of volunteers gathering to clean up litter along a state highway in Sells, Arizona. It’s the simple facts that bring this story to life. State Route 86 stretches a little over 118 miles from Why at the...
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A woman sits at a table, working on a computer.
10/13/2023

Survey says! AZMVDNow website is an ‘Extremely Easy’ way to conduct MVD business

If you have not been to AZMVDNow.gov lately, you are missing out on an easy, safe way to get your MVD business done. In fact, surveys of online users over the past seven months show the system keeps getting easier to use for many customers...
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Two clues from Jeopardy. The categories are on the left and read "Road" and "Same first and last letter geography," from top to bottom. On the right is a picture of the Stack annd a map between Kingman and Winslow from top to bottom.
10/12/2023

ADOT’s on Jeopardy!, baby

“Jeopardy!,” in its current iteration, has been on the air continuously since September 10, 1984. That includes close to 10,000 episodes spanning five decades. So it came as a surprise to us over here at ADOT that our state highways were...
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An interstate under construction.
10/11/2023

A new podcast episode takes you inside ADOT’s I-17 Improvement Project

ADOT recently marked one year of major construction for a project expanding capacity on 23 miles of Interstate 17 between Anthem Way and Sunset Point. So it seems an ideal time for our podcast, On the Road with ADOT, to catch up with Laura...
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