Adopt-A-Road Program

Keep Carroll Beautiful’s Adopt-A-Road Program (AAR) organizes and manages volunteer activities that focus on removing litter from Carroll County roads. AAR volunteers can be individuals, families, social, civic, or community groups, and businesses. Each group visits a 1-mile section of an assigned road at least FOUR times per year. Jump to more info.

Ready to join the AAR Program? Give us a call at 678-321-4816 or send us a message with a few details about your group and the road you would like to tend to.

Sign up for AAR

After the cleanup

Let us know how many volunteers participated,
how many bags of trash were picked up,
and how much time did it take to clean up your road?

Submit a Report

How to participate in AAR

The AAR Program is modeled after the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway program. To participate, interested parties will have to review the Adopt-A-Road agreement. If the adoption process does not seem right for you or your group, please consider volunteering as you are able and help other Adopt-A-Road groups or individuals. You may also consider volunteering in the Adopt-A-Trail Program focused on cleaning a mile of the Carrollton GreenBelt Trail.

We hope that you will consider volunteering with us and look forward to hearing from you! If you have any questions, please call our office at 678-321-4816 or email us at info at KeepCarrollBeautiful.org.

If you are interested in adopting a mile you need to:

  • Choose your mile or pick one from the sections suggested by KCB staff.
  • Recruit participants 12 years or older. (For groups with children under 12 years old, we suggest looking into Adopt-A-Trail program.)
  • Review and sign the Adopt-A-Road agreement.
  • Review and sign parental consent forms and release of liability forms provided by Keep Carroll Beautiful.
  • Schedule at least 4 clean-ups per year.
  • Monitor your mile between clean-ups.
  • Report clean up results to Keep Carroll Beautiful. Please take and share pictures!

Keep Carroll Beautiful provides AAR volunteers with:

  • Signage on the mile adopted by the volunteers that includes the name and/or logo of the adopting group.
  • Help with the scheduling of the quarterly clean-up events.
  • Annual recognition for the volunteer group.
  • Supplies!
    • High visibility safety vests
    • Trash bags
    • Gloves
    • Litter pickup sticks
  • Keep Carroll Beautiful will schedule a pickup for the bags of trash collected during cleanups.

Funding for the Adopt A Road Program

2023 BRACE Grant

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division and Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation awarded $5,000 in BRACE Grant to Keep Carroll Beautiful to furnish much-needed safety vests, warning signs, and cleaning supplies for the Carroll County Adopt-A-Road program. The purpose of the BRACE Grant Program is to reduce litter, blight, and illegal dumping on public property and encourage code enforcement efforts. Funded through the Solid Waste Trust Fund (SWTF), the grant program is designed to provide assistance to Georgia communities to address these challenges.

Learn more about BRACE

2019 CEMC Foundation Grant

Thanks to the Operation Round Up Impact Grant Award in May 2019, Keep Carroll Beautiful was able to restock the much-needed cleanup supplies. The Adopt-A-Road volunteers will enjoy new trash bag holders and utilize longer pickup sticks, as requested by our taller volunteers. With the addition of new pickup sticks, getting parts to repair the current sticks, purchasing rubber and work gloves, and stocking up on trash bags, our Adopt-A-Road Program can ensure safer and more comfortable work conditions for our dedicated groups.

Sign up for Operation Round Up
CEMC Foundation Logo

You can help improve our community by signing up for Operation Round Up with Carroll Electric Membership Cooperative. “Operation Round Up lets Carroll EMC Members volunteer to have their electric bills rounded up to the next highest whole dollar, with the extra change dedicated to charitable causes. Though a donation of less than a dollar may not sound like much, this “small change” given on a regular basis amounts to big support for our local communities. It’s an easy way to show you care.”

Active AAR Groups

Rotary Club of Carrollton

Carrollton Civic Woman’s Club

Alpha Kappa Alpha

College Girls Rock

Flowers Baking Company

Lambda Theta Alpha

Lambda Theta Phi

Carrollton Jr. Woman’s Club

Women of Diversity

Chi Phi Fraternity

Carrollton Beta Club

Tanner IT Department

African-American Male Initiative

Jerry & Susan Frith

Southwire Project Gift