Adopt a Highway

With National CleanUp Day approaching on Sept. 21, I want to express my thanks to our volunteers and sponsors who consistently pick up trash along our state highways. These volunteers have cleaned up 1,672 miles of Arizona highways. You are indeed making a difference in keeping our roads litter-free.

National Clean Up Day is a day set aside for individuals and organizations to work together in reducing litter in their communities.

Calling all Adopt a Highway volunteers!

National CleanUp Day is coming up on Saturday, Sept. 21. This is a day set aside for individuals and organizations to unite for the purpose of reducing litter in their communities in every part of the world.

Read how love often leads volunteers to Adopt a Highway.

One Adopt a Highway volunteer group has been picking up trash for 37 years. Learn more about why they continue to give back after all these years. 

State Route 89A in Dewey got busloads of support from volunteers at the Glendale Union High School District.

Some Adopt a Highway volunteers enjoy the mountains while clearing roadside litter near their cabins.

We love our longtime Adopt a Highway volunteers and hope others will find inspiration in what motivates them, like this group from the Chinle Navajo Land Department.

Adopting a highway can be a great way to honor a special person while also beautifying our state.

Mary Currie decided early on that it was important to walk the walk, so she organized employees in her part of ADOT to adopt a mile of US 60 northwest of the Valley.

For anyone passionate about keeping state highways clean, there's now a social media hashtag just for you.

To celebrate, we're sharing a note from ADOT to the many Adopt a Highway volunteers who help make Arizona a nicer, cleaner place.

It's National Volunteer Week, so we wanted to highlight some kudos one of our Adopt a Highway volunteers in Green Valley has received.

An easy-to-use interactive map now available on our Adopt a Highway website shows which stretches are in need of volunteers.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is making it easier than ever to help keep state highways litter-free by introducing an interactive map showing which Adopt a Highway segments are waiting for volunteers.

Now in its fourth year, one woman's dream of a one-day cleanup of all 45 miles of State Route 286 in southern Arizona is even closer to happening.

Most Adopt a Highway segments are 2 miles. But an upcoming volunteer cleanup along SR 286 in southern Arizona aims to tackle 45 miles.

Many of us are searching for the perfect gift on this Black Friday. Instead of naming a star for someone, how about being a start yourself by helping keep highways litter-free?

Over 400 groups statewide adopted their segments as a memorial or remembrance of a friend or family member close to them.

Walt and Nancy Einsele of Kirkland Junction have made State Route 89 near Wilhoit nicer for everyone using the highway.

Volunteer groups from around the state answered the invitation to participate in National CleanUp Day.