LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Adopt-A-Highway volunteers will fan out across the state beginning Saturday cleaning up highway roadsides as part of Michigan’s second of three scheduled pickups this year.
The summer clean-up effort runs July 11-19.
The program began in Michigan in 1990. As of last year, about 2,600 groups have adopted more than 6,000 miles of state highway through the program. An estimated 19,000 participants collected almost 40,000 bags of trash from roadsides during the three annual pickup periods in 2025.
State officials say volunteers include members of civic groups, businesses and families. Crew members have to be at least 12 years old and each group must include at least three people. Groups are asked to adopt a section of highway for at least two years.
Adopt-A-Highway signs bearing group names are posted along the stretches of adopted highway.
When working in the highway right of way, volunteers wear high-visibility, yellow-green safety vests required by federal regulations. MDOT provides free vests and trash bags, and arranges to haul away the trash.
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