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.
Adopt a Highway Organizations
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!
- Adam Horner Fitness, Wayne PA
- All4 LLC, Kimberton, PA
- Alperin Family and Friends, Wayne, PA
- Ascot Homeowners Association, Elverson, PA
- Avon Grove Lions Club, Cochranville, PA
- Axa, Exton, PA
- Barclay Friends, West Chester, PA
- Bellafiore Landscape, West Chester, PA
- Boy Scout Troop 20 / Pack 20, Parkesburg, PA
- Boy Scout Troop 95, Pottstown, PA
- Brad Pedrow, Landenberg, PA
- Brickhouse Environmental, West Chester, PA
- Brooke Kissinger, Pottstown, PA
- BSA Troop 22, Chadds Ford, PA
- Catalent Micron Technologies, Malvern, PA
- Cattleman Guns, Honeybrook, PA
- Century 21 Pierce & Bar, Kennett Square, PA
- ChescoPops Orchestra, Atglen, PA
- Chester County Corvette Club, Lionville, PA
- Chester County Engineers Local 542, Fort Washington, PA
- Chester County Trail Club, Chesterbrook, PA
- Coatesville Rotatry Club, Coatesville, PA
- Conestoga Collission LLC, Berwyn, PA
- Connection Church, Pottstown, PA
- Coventry Lions Club, Elverson, PA
- Cub Scout Pack 136, Avondale, PA
- DHS-West National Honor Society, Downingtown, PA
- DiBiase Heating and Cooling Company, Downingtown, PA
- Dr. Shri Nanasaheb Dharmadhikari Pratisthan, Mechanicsburg, PA
- East Coventry Township Employees, Pottstown, PA
- Eldredge Inc, West Chester, PA
- Eli's Warriors, Oxford, PA
- Employee & Management of Neuber Concrete, Phoenixville, PA
- Employees of DemCrafters, Coatesville, PA
- Environmental Standards, Valley Forge, PA
- Exton Target, Exton, PA
- Fallricks Fudge, Phoenixville, PA
- Fellowship Farm, Chester Springs, PA
- Franklin Sportsman's Association, Landenberg, PA
- Friends of Farmer & Co., Unionville, PA
- GHD, Exton, PA
- Girling, Chester Springs, PA
- Green Valleys Watershed Association, Pottstown, PA
- Grove United Methodist Church, Exton, PA
- Guidewire Exton, West Chester, PA
- Highland Orchards, INC, West Chester, PA
- Hindu Swayam Sevak Sangh (HSS USA) Exton/Downingtown Chapter, Downington, PA
- HSM of America, Downingtown, PA
- HSS - Hindu Volunteers, Downingtown, PA
- In Honor of Bianca Roberson Merge With Mercy, West Chester, PA
- Islamic Society of Greater Valley Forge, Devon, PA
- IT Pros, West Chester, PA
- Jennersville YMCA, West Grove, PA
- Kennedy Home Inspections, Paoli, PA
- Litter Lifters of West Vincent, Chester Springs, PA
- LuluBee Adventures, West Chester, PA
- Manfredi Farms, LLC, Avondale, PA
- Octorara FFA, Atglen, PA
- Paoli Hospital Emergency Department, Glen Mills, PA
- Pennsylvania State Police Avondale, Avondale, PA
- People Who Use Trash Cans, Kennett Square, PA
- PERNA & ABRACHT, LLC, Kennett Square, PA
- Pillar to Post Home Inspectors Team Gertsen, Chester Springs, PA
- Residents of Brittany Hills, Avondale, PA
- Ronnie Carlucci Memorial, West Grove, PA
- Rotary Club of Kennett Square, Kennett Square, PA
- Rotary Passport Club of West Chester, West Chester, PA
- Sam Stanton LLC, Toughkenamon, PA
- SCHUYLKILL TOWNSHIP E A C, Phoenixville, PA
- Siena Gold Farm, LLC, Lincoln University, PA
- St. Matthews United Methodist Church, Paoli, PA
- St. Peter's Knights of Columbus, West Brandywine, PA
- Staff of Chester County Window Washing, West Chester, PA
- Stonegate, West Bradford, PA
- The Klinger Family, West Chester, PA
- Tremblay Family and Friends, Spring City, PA
- Triton Landscaping, Southeastern, PA
- Upland Country Day School Alumni Assoc., Kennett Square, PA
- Uwchlan EAC, Exton, PA
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5467, Kennett Square, PA
- Virtual Farm Creative, Phoenixville, PA
- West Chester Army Recruiting Station, West Chester, PA
- West Chester Cycling Club, East Fallowfield, PA
- West Pikeland Township EAC, Chester Springs, PA
- Westtown Goshen Rotary, West Chester, PA
- Wildflower Farm, Malvern, PA
- Willistown Malvern Democrats, Malvern, PA
- Your Friends on Grandview Circle, Honeybrook, PA
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
Sponsor a Highway Organizations
- AAA Northampton County
- Allure Window Treatments
- American Bread dba Panera Bread
- Amudipes Residential & Day
- Barbera's On The Boulevard
- Beverly Heating and Cooling
- BMES
- Brandy Wine Realty Team
- Budd Baer Subaru GM
- Budget Maintenance
- CalFrac Well Services Corporation
- Car Vision, The Really Useful information
- Civil & Environmental Consultants
- Coach Tomato Café
- Corporate Realty Partners
- Cosmetic Laser Centers
- Damon Michals Team
- Deiter Bros. Fuel Co.
- Don Juan Mexican Grill
- Donnelly Heating & Air
- Dowd Heating & Air conditioning Inc.# 02
- Encompass Health Corporation
- Faulkner Motors of Bethlehem
- FCI Multiple Service Corporation
- Ferra's Automotive
- Firstrust Bank
- Greater Pittsburggh Food Bank
- H & H Heating and Air
- Hall Media Solutions dba Penn State Health
- Harvest Hospitals
- IBW 654
- JM Oliver
- Lehighton Motors dba Lehighton Kia
- Len the Plumber
- Levin Furniture
- Mattioni Plumbing
- McLaughlin & Lauricella , P.C.
- McMahon Financial Advisors
- Molyneaux Home
- Mom's Organic Market
- Moore Energy
- MoreVent Heating, Cooling, Plumbing
- Oliver
- Pansini Law Group
- Penn State Health
- Philadelphia Mortgage Advisors
- Pocono Mountains VB
- Premier Orthopedics
- Pro Team Collision
- REDCON ENGINEERING LLC
- Ritner Steel
- Robindale Consulting c/o Rothman Institute
- Rosengarten & Sons Roofing
- Russel Kolins PI
- Safian & Rudolph Jewelers
- Scotts Fireplace Products
- Spotify
- The Barrist Firm
- The Gateway Engineers
- The Really Useful Information
- Unique indoor Treatments
- Wapner, Newman, Wigrizer, Brecher, & Miller
- Woltz & Wind Ford
- Zajac & Arias
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.
