Adopt a Highway

One White Mountain community group has maintained 2 miles of State Route 277 for 15 years. 

We're answering kids' litter questions and featuring their Keep it Grand artwork. 

One Adopt a Highway segment near Show Low has one family traveling nearly 200 miles to honor a beloved sister.

Kids should know they too can participate in Adopt a Highway and help Keep it Grand.

PHOENIX – What do you get when 10,000 volunteers remove 107 tons of litter along state highways in a year? 

First, there’s a $500,000 savings in taxpayer funds that can be used for other Arizona Department of Transportation priorities. More importantly, though, is a determination to Keep It Grand by making Arizona’s highways more appealing for all.

That makes those who commit time and effort to ADOT’s Adopt a Highway program worthy of a big thank you from all Arizonans during National Volunteer Week, which lasts through April 25.

Take our trash quiz and learn more about how the Adopt a Highway program helps with litter in our state. 

Please have your kids encourage others to Keep it Grand using their creativity with chalk art. 

One Adopt a Highway group has found "one man's trash is another man's treasure" is sometimes true. 

We have a great way for you to celebrate Arizona on Statehood Day.

Show your love on Valentine's Day with Adopt a Highway. 

For five years Melissa Owen has worked toward her dream of cleaning all 45 miles of State Route 286. In 2020, 121 volunteers made her dream come true.

Adopt a Highway offers an opportunity to serve all year round. 

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. 

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 248 in the name of their environmental consulting company. They were in their 50s and often got their family involved, driving their Geo Metro up to clean their selected mile of highway. That's the family cleaning together in 1995 in the bottom photo. 

During the gift-giving season of the holidays, we have our own suggestion about what might be a meaningful present for you and your family.

When their son Manuel died, Sally and Nacho Ochoa adopted a mile of US 60 near Show Low in his memory. Though Nacho has also passed away, Sally continues to help keep that section beautiful.

A family cabin turned into four generations of love for the White Mountains and a desire to help keep State Route 473 clean.

Though Philip C. Brogdon has passed away, his family will continue to gather near Big Lake. But they are taking one more step to remember Philip and his love for "God's country." 

For 11 years the Jim Clark and his family have honored his parents by driving five hours to help clean up a stretch of State Route 473.