Adopt-A-Highway Volunteers Keep U.P. Highways Clean

The second of three annual roadside clean-up efforts in the state is taking place through Sunday, July 20. Volunteers will be picking up trash along roadsides each day.

Several new groups have volunteered to help keep Upper Peninsula highway roadsides clean as part of the Michigan Department of Transportation's (MDOT) Adopt-A-Highway program. Recently enrolled volunteers participating in the program along US-2 in Mackinac County include Honest Injuns Tourist Trap, R.A.M. Building Company, Richard A. McNeil, a group in memory of Ronald Powers, and a group in memory of April Gouza.

Signs recognizing their efforts will be installed soon, MDOT reported.

Currently, 1,173 miles of state highways in the U.P. are being cared for by 515 volunteer groups across 15 counties.