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Adopt a Highway
Blogs/News articles tagged as Adopt a Highway
May 9, 2025 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
April 28, 2025 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
More than 30 Adopt a Highway volunteers committed part of Earth Day to making a stretch of Salt River bed a nicer place.
April 22, 2025 | News/Press Release
Volunteers remove litter aplenty from Loop 202 right of way in Tempe
Thirty-one volunteers removed 49 large bags filled with litter, several shopping carts, three electric rental scooters, yards of metal pipe and much, much more during a special Earth Day Adopt a Highway event in Tempe. Join the fun at azdot.gov/adoptahighway.
April 7, 2025 | Blog Articles
By Steve Elliott / ADOT Communications
The author, an Adopt a Highway volunteer, shares some thoughts and observations at the end of his two-year permit to clean a mile of State Route 87 just north of Mesa.
January 24, 2025 | News/Press Release
Their work removed more than 10,000 bags of litter from state highways
Adopt a Highway volunteers helped keep our state grand in 2024 by removing 10,400 bags of litter while contributing 17,891 hours of labor worth $538,000. Feel free to join the fun.
December 18, 2024 | News/Press Release
Join hundreds of volunteer groups helping ADOT keep Arizona grand
ADOT's Adopt a Highway volunteer program has hundreds of miles of state highways available for adoption statewide. It’s a great way to give back by picking up roadside litter with friends, relatives and even kids 12 and older needing to meet school service requirements.
December 3, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Steve Elliott / ADOT Communications
I decided to get away from ESPN and work off Thanksgiving along my adopted mile of State Route 87, just north of the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway. Here's what I learned on a cool Saturday morning.
November 11, 2024 | Blog Articles
By: Mary Currie/ ADOT Communications
The Arizona Department of Transportation remembers veterans for their commitment to our great nation. We also honor those who currently serve.
The Wild West Detachment Marine Corps League expresses its continuing dedication by cleaning an adopted stretch of State Route 80 near Tombstone.
October 13, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Steve Elliott / ADOT Communications
In this week's episode of On the Road With ADOT, Adopt a Highway coordinator Mary Currie discusses what goes into adopting a mile or more of state highway and what volunteers are responsible for. More importantly, Mary explains how fulfilling it is to be part of making state highways more appealing for all.
September 24, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
ADOT volunteers uncovered some interesting and what some might call scary trash during Saturday’s National CleanUp Day event in Loop 202 right of way in Tempe.
Pre-Halloween chuckles resounded when a well-worn mask depicting a character from the 1996 horror film “Scream” reared its ugly head. That helped keep everyone motivated and on their toes.
May 26, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
Volunteer group leader Arturo Delgado wasted no time heading out for a first cleanup on his newly adopted mile, located on State Route 87 from milepost 222 to 224. The segment is near the western trailhead to Mount Ord (external link) and was Delgado’s choice for the adoption. He told me that it was because the area is near a heavily used trailhead and brake check area that can attract litter.
May 22, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
ADOT is celebrating 23 new and renewed Adopt a Highway volunteer groups this quarter.
April 22, 2024 | News/Press Release
Event on Earth Day calls attention to value of keeping highways grand
Volunteers with the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Adopt a Highway program make a difference throughout the year, but the combination of Arizona Volunteer Week and Earth Day provides even more reason to get involved.
April 2, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
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.
March 15, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
The Arizona Department of Transportation welcomes 18 new Adopt a Highway volunteer groups into the program since Nov. 1, 2023.
February 9, 2024 | News/Press Release
Litter cleaned from highways weighed as much as 653 NFL linemen
Nearly 9,000 of these dedicated individuals filled more than 15,000 bags with roadside litter, mainly outside of Arizona’s metropolitan areas. The value of this work: $674,000. Learn more at azdot.gov/adoptahighway.
February 6, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
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.
January 27, 2024 | News/Press Release
More than 100 volunteers help keep southern Arizona grand
More than 100 volunteers descended on State Route 286 in southern Arizona for a one-day pickup that lined the highway with blue bags filled with litter.
December 29, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
The Adopt a Highway event focuses on the area between Three Points junction at State Route 86, about 25 miles southwest of Tucson, and Sasabe at the Arizona/Mexico border.
December 15, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
Travelers tell us they prefer litter-free highways (go figure) and these are the groups who stepped up between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 to help reverse the ick factor.