King County Road Services - Adopt-A-Road Program

Learn about the Adopt-A-Road Program

Interested in helping to keep your community clean? Find out how to participate in this successful and rewarding volunteer litter control program.

• Read our Adopt-A-Road Program brochure (279KB .pdf)

Find a road to adopt

Use our new GIS-based Adopt-A-Road Map to view adopted and available routes in unincorporated King County.

Sign up

Complete an application form and send it to us using the contact information at the bottom of this page. Feel free to call or e-mail first to discuss road availability.

Once your adoption request is approved, you will receive an safety orientation video, sign a program agreement and fill out a recognition sign request form.

Organize your cleanup

1. Select a preferred date.

2. Call 206-296-3807 at least two weeks in advance to check availability of your preferred date and reserve your safety kit(s).

3. Each safety kit includes materials for up to ten people.

4. Pick up your safety kit(s) from a specified maintenance office location.

5. Review the Adopt-A-Road Safety Rules with your volunteers at or prior to the clean-up event.

6. Have all volunteers sign the Informed Consent/Release form. Volunteers under age 18 must also have a Minor Participation Permission form signed by a parent or guardian.

7. Return the safety kit(s) in good condition within two business days of your cleanup so that others may use them.

8. Mail or fax a Completion form and the signed Consent/Release form to the Adopt-A-Road office.

Forms and other information

• Application Form (31KB .pdf)
• Adopt-A-Road Agreement (36KB .pdf)
• Recognition Sign Request (66KB .pdf)
• Safety Rules (31KB .pdf)
• Volunteer Informed Consent/Release Form (31KB .pdf)
• Minor Participation Permission Form (31KB .pdf)
• Maintenance Office locations (30KB .pdf)
• Completion Form (34KB .pdf)
• Photo/Video Release Form (18KB .pdf)

Helpful links

Following are links to related Web sites that may be of interest:

• City of Seattle Adopt-A-Street Program
• Illegal Dumping Hotline
• Secure Your Load
• Washington State Department of Ecology's Litter Web site

Landscape Enhancement Program

King County's Landscape Enhancement Program is an opportunity for volunteers to improve the esthetics of King County by adopting a plot of land and improving it’s appearance through litter pickup, weeding and sometimes, planting new vegetation.

Contact us

To check on road availability, request safety kits or schedule a safety orientation, contact the Community Partnerships Assistant at 206-296-3807. For other program inquires contact Ruth Harvey, Program Manager, at 206-296-3477.

Adopt-A-Road Program
Road Services Division
King County Department of Transportation
201 S. Jackson St.
MS: KSC-TR-0313
Seattle, WA 98104-3856
Telephone: 206-296-6590
Facsimile: 206-296-0566
E-mail: Adopt.Roads@kingcounty.gov