Adopt or Sponsor a Highway

Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation (PennDOT) offers a variety of beautification programs to reduce litter from Pennsylvania's state-maintained roadways.

Adopt A Highway Program

Adopt A Highway is a program that is managed by PennDOT where volunteers beautify roadsides, two miles at a time, twice a year, for two years. PennDOT provides safety vests, bags, gloves and signage for volunteers to help remove litter from Pennsylvania's roadsides.

Benefits of Adopting a Highway

• PennDOT posts a sign with your/your group's name acknowledging your service.
• Groups who adopt a highway receive FREE gloves, vests, trash bags, and "litter crew ahead" signs all year round from PennDOT.
• Can conduct as many clean ups a year as you wish — but a minimum of twice a year on your timeframe.
• PennDOT will remove bags of collected trash after results are reported.
• Locating a road, registering an event, and reporting results are all simple.
• Achieve cleaner roads in your township and county in the state of Pennsylvania.

PennDOT Adopt a Highway Participants

Keep Chester County Beautiful would like to thank the following groups for their participation and dedication to keeping the county litter free.

Do you wish you didn't see litter on our roads? See about joining in with one of these organizations (or sign up your group) who have already adopted stretches of roadways in Chester County to help keep it looking beautiful!

• Coatesville 2nd Century Alliance
• ADAM HORNER FITNESS
• Afrisa
• ALL4 LLC
• ARM Group LLC
• Avon Grove High School Football Team
• AVON GROVE LIONS CLUB
• AXA
• Barclay Friends
• BOY SCOUT TROOP 16
• BOY SCOUT TROOP 20 / PACK 20
• BOY SCOUT TROOP 95 (2 locations)
• BOY SCOUTS TROOP 62
• Brad Pedrow
• BSA Troop 22
• Caliber Service Management
• Calvary Lutheran Church
• CarShop Chester Springs
• Charles River Laboratories
• Charlestown Township EAC
• CHESTER COUNTY CORVETTE CLUB (3 locations)
• CHESTER COUNTY ENGINEERS LOCAL 542
• Chester County Litter Lifters
• CHESTER COUNTY TRAIL CLUB (4 locations)
• CLEAN CONCEPTS CARPET CLEANING
• COATESVILLE ROTARY CLUB
• CONESTOGA COLLISION LLC
• COVENTRY LIONS CLUB
• Dan Maskarinec
• Delaware Valley Paving
• DHS-West National Honor Society
• Dr. Shri Nanasaheb Dharmadhikari Pratishthan (6 locations)
• EAST COVENTRY TOWNSHIP EMPLOYEES
• EASTTOWN DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
• ELDREDGE, INC.
• ELI'S WARRIORS (2 locations)
• EMPLOYEES & MGMT. OF NEUBER CONCRETE
• Employees of Johnson Matthey
• Eric Gallagher (2 locations)
• Eurofins PSS (2 locations)
• Fallricks Fudge
• Fellowship Farm
• Forget Me Not
• FRANKLIN SPORTSMAN'S ASSOCIATION
• GANNETT FLEMING, INC (2 locations)
• GHD
• GIRLING
• Great Valley Democrats
• GREEN VALLEYS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
• GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
• Helping Hands
• HENDERSON High School Environmental Club (2 locations)
• HIGHLAND ORCHARDS, INC.
• Hindu Swayam Sevak Sangh (HSS USA) Exton/Downingtown Chapter
• Holy Ascension Antiochan Orthodox Christian Church
• Howell Engineering, Surveying, and Environmental
• HSM of America
• HSS - HINDU VOLUNTEERS (2 locations)
• In Honor of Bianca Roberson Merge With Mercy
• ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF GREATER VALLEY FORGE
• IT Pros
• Jennersville YMCA
• JM Health Plans (2 locations)
• JOSEPH ROBINS
• J-S All Things Plumbing
• Judy Bennett
• Kennedy Home Inspections (3 locations)
• Kennett Square Family Dentistry
• KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 1333
• L0bster Systems
• Litter Lifters of West Vincent
• LuluBee Adventures
• MAIN LINE UNITARIAN CHURCH
• Manfredi Farms, LLC
• MARSHALLTON CONSERVATION TRUST
• MORINA FAMILY
• Mt. Pickering Masonic Lodge
• Nicol Baker & Family
• NORTHBROOK CANOE CO.
• Octorara FFA
• Optical On Point
• PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE AVONDALE
• PEOPLE WHO USE TRASH CANS
• PERNA & ABRACHT, LLC (2 locations)
• Pi Epsilon Alpha Sigma PEAS Incorporated (2 locations)
• RESIDENTS OF BRITTANY HILLS
• RIDGE FIRE COMPANY
• ROTARY CLUB OF CENTRAL CHESTER COUNTY
• Rotary Club of Kennett Square (2 locations)
• ROTARY CLUB OF POTTSTOWN
• Rotary Passport Club of West Chester
• Russellville Grange
• Ryan Strope
• RYAN TYLER STATE FARM AGENCY (3 locations)
• Sam Stanton LLC (2 locations)
• Save the Schuylkill
• SCHUYLKILL TOWNSHIP E A C (2 locations)
• SECCRA COMMUNITY LANDFILL (2 locations)
• Siena Gold Farm, LLC
• St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church (2 locations)
• St. Matthews United Methodist Church (2 locations)
• ST. PETER'S KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
• Stephanie Rarick
• Swayne Campbell Testa VFW Post 5467
• T.K.E. FRATERNITY at WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY
• The Bowers Family
• The Employees Association of SCI Phoenix
• The Job CentervTHE ROBIE CONTRACTING & LANDSCAPING CO.
• The Seidenberg Family
• The Shumates
• The Sidebottom Family (2 locations)
• Thomson Lodge No. 340
• THORNDALE ROTARY CLUB
• TREMBLAY FAMILY AND FRIENDS
• TROOP #4, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
• TWIN VALLEY ROTARY CLUB
• UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC.
• Uwchlan EAC
• Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5467
• VIRTUAL FARM CREATIVE
• Walls Family
• West Bradford Litter Lifters
• West Brandywine Township
• WEST CHESTER CYCLING CLUB
• West Pikeland Township EAC
• West Whiteland & West Pikeland Democrats
• Westtown EAC
• WESTTOWN GOSHEN ROTARY
• Wildflower Farm
• Your Friends on Grandview Circle
• Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Epsilon Omega Zeta Chapter

Sponsor A Highway Program

While PennDOT's Adopt-A-Highway program uses volunteers to maintain adopted sections of roadways, Sponsor-A-Highway involves businesses contracting with one of two approved vendors to perform roadside litter removal. These vendors manage litter removal programs throughout the Commonwealth and have cleaned over one million miles of US highways and interstates. The PennDOT approved vendors are Adopt a Highway Litter Removal Service of America, Inc. and Adopt a Highway Maintenance Corporation.

Benefits of Sponsoring a Highway

• Business' name is displayed prominently as the road's sponsor on a sign along the roadway
• Helps to meet and convey corporate responsibility goals
• Businesses will help create a cleaner and healthier environment locally
• Sponsorship sends a message to the people traveling in their cars, that they care about the environment and their community
• Serves as a visible way to display goodwill toward a particular community
• Businesses will send a message to their employees that caring for the environment is a priority and can "Lead by Example"
• Ease of transaction — the company they hire will do all the work, including obtaining PennDOT approval for location of signs, sign installation, and litter clean ups
• Businesses will deal with the vendor directly, and the vendor will coordinate with PennDOT

Road and Area Adoption Program

Keep PA Beautiful's Road and Area Adoption Program is a program that allows for individuals and groups to "adopt" areas to help keep them clean and beautiful. This program that compliments both Adopt a Highway and Sponsor a Highway programming offered through the state. This program is available for most municipal roads, trails, waterways and even city blocks!

This program requires volunteers to clean their adopted space at least twice a year, report your results online within two weeks of completion & following the clean up guidelines of Keep PA Beautiful.

Find more information on the Road and Area Adoption Program.

Still have questions? Contact Stephanie Larson at slarson@keeppabeautiful.org or 724-836-4121 x104.

PennDOT's Customer Care Program

Did you see an item on a state road that should be removed? You can submit a "concern" through PennDOT's Customer Care website.