The Adopt-A-Highway Program
The Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway Program provides an avenue for individuals, organizations, or businesses to help maintain sections of roadside within California's State Highway System. Groups have the option to participate as volunteers or to hire a maintenance service provider to perform the work on their behalf.
The Adopt-A-Highway program, which began in 1989, has been one of the truly successful government-public partnerships of our time. Since 1989 more than 120,000 Californians have kept over 15, 000 shoulder-miles of roadside clean.
Participation can include one or more of the following activities:
- Removing litter (work frequency varies with location).
- Planting and establishing trees or wildflowers.
- Removing graffiti.
- Controlling vegetation.
Adoptions usually span a two-mile stretch of roadside and permits are issued for five-year periods. Groups may apply for additional, five year permits.
The Adopt-A-Highway Program is not a forum for advertising or public discourse.