Adopt-A-Highway volunteers enjoy banner year cleaning up Cody-area highways

The view from Cody-area highways improved in 2018 as hundreds of Adopt-A-Highway volunteers cleaned their two-mile highway sections.

In it’s 29th year, Wyoming’s Adopt‑A‑Highway program has nearly 1,000 participating groups in Wyoming.

Cody-area groups include: First Presbyterian Church; Shoshone National Forest, Park County Democrats; Wapiti Women's Club; Cody VFW Post 2673 Auxiliary; Trout Creek Ranch; Rozanne and Doug Reachard; Bowhunters of Wyoming; Bighorn Climbers Coalition; Northern Inc.; Wells Fargo Bank Cody/Powell; Cody Masonic Bodies; Cody Newcomers; Dano Youth Camps; NWC Block and Bridle Club; Civil Air Patrol Cadet Squadron; Powell Girl Scouts; Park County Democratic Party; Powell LDS Youth; Cody Fed Ex Ground; South Fork Community Clicks 4-H Club; Sunlight Federal Credit Union; The Krenning Family; Best Westerns of Cody, Sunset Property; Rotary Club of Cody; Park County School District 6; Trinity Lutheran Church; Carl and Millie Krenning Family; Yellowstone Recovery Center; The Edmonds Family; Dexter Dearcorn Family; Rocket and Groot; Filkin and Shipp; Sunlight Landowners Association; Tom and Carol Wagner; Cody Country Snowmobile Association.

"We really appreciate the volunteers who work to clean up highways in Northwest Wyoming," said Roni Stott, Adopt-A-Highway coordinator for the Wyoming Department of Transportation in Cody. "These volunteers provide an invaluable service in helping to keep Wyoming beautiful. We really appreciate this volunteer service."

Volunteers providing this public service range from retired people to elementary school children. Groups represent fraternal, civic and social clubs, youth groups, employee and professional organizations, schools, churches, government agencies and families.

Signs identifying the groups are posted at each end of their adopted highway section, and WYDOT supplies safety brochures, orange vests and trash bags to the volunteers for each cleanup.

Anyone in Park, Fremont, Hot Springs, Washakie and Big Horn counties interested in adopting a highway section should contact WYDOT at (307) 568-3400.

For information about WYDOT's work, contact WYDOT public relations specialist Cody Beers at (307) 431-1803.