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Keep Carter County Beautiful TDOT Adopt-A-Highway Milligan Highway Summer Cleanup June 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Keep America Beautiful, Keep Tennessee Beautiful and Keep Carter County Beautiful partner for the Greatest American Cleanup June 28, 2025

Keep Carter County Beautiful 2025 Events

Keep Carter County Beautiful (KCCB) is working harder than ever to keep our county the natural wonder it is. Keeping our community beautiful takes effort. Thanks to our many volunteers and their countless hours of support we are improving our community every day. After the hurricane flooding of 2024 we have plenty of work to do. We need all the volunteers we can get. Please come back to this page often to see the upcoming events. Let’s make 2025 our best year ever for volunteering. We would love to see a large turnout at every event.

If you have an event you would like Keep Carter County Beautiful to assist you with, please let us know.

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June2025

Keep Carter County Beautiful Summer Milligan Adopt-A-Highway CleanupSeveral times a year we walk Milligan Highway from Highway 321 to Okolona Rd and remove trash. This is a Tennessee Department of Transportation sponsored event. Each volunteer will need to sign a waiver and watch the safety video (below on this page). Milligan Highway is one of the roads entering Carter County and we like to make sure visitors and residents can enjoy the scenic drive. Come out and help out the community. We will meet at Happy Valley Elementary School at 10am.

A flyer and map are shown above.

10:00 AMMeet at Happy Valley Elementary School on Milligan Highway. Map shown above.

June2025

Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Bluegrass FestivalKCCB will be providing manpower to assist Elizabethton Parks and Recreation. We will provide assistance at the festival information booth, setup recycle bins, pick up trash during the festival and collect/sort the recycled materials.

1:00 PM until 9:00 PMCovered Bridge Park

May/June2025

Great American Cleanup of the Tweetsie TrailEach year we partner with Keep America Beautiful and Keep Tennessee Beautiful on the Great American Cleanup. We will be walking the Tweetsie Trail from Lions Field to The Coffee Company. We normally split into groups so multiple sections of trail can be done at the same time. The trail is relatively flat, and the cleanup is a great opportunity to get out and enjoy a spring day and help out our community. Please join us on May 10, 2025, at Lions Field.

A Flyer and map are posted above for this event.

10:00 AMWe will meet at Lions Field

June

June2025

Keep Carter County / Keep America Beautiful Road IndexingEach year in May and June Keep Carter County Beautiful performs our Keep America Beautiful Road Indexing. The amount of litter on the roads in each voting district is documented. This data is transmitted to Keep America Beautiful for review and inclusion in national data and litter studies. The same roads are indexed each year by the same KCCB Board members so that we maintain consistency in the indexing data. If you would like a copy of the indexing, please contact us.

TBD by Board MemberAll 8 Voting Districts in Carter County

TBD

June2025

Elizabethton Parks and Recreation – Recreation Center BeautificationPlease join us in beautifying the Elizabethton Parks & Recreation Tetrick Center at Sycamore Shoals. We will be planting, trees, shrubs, flowers and mulching. Bring shovels and garden tools. KCCB will provide water for those that do not bring their own. Gloves will also be available.

TBDSycamore Shoals

July2025

Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Fourth of July CelebrationJoin Keep Carter County Beautiful and Elizabethton Parks and Recreation for the 2025 Fourth of July Celebration. We could use a hand at the Parks & Recreation Information Booth at the Entrance to Covered Bridge Park. We also put out Recycle Bins and perform several rounds of trash pickup. Help out your community and stick around for the fireworks. Details to be posted later.

TBDCovered Bridge Park

August2025

Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Rocking on the DoeKCCB will be providing manpower to assist Elizabethton Parks and Recreation. We will provide assistance at the festival information booth, setup recycle bins, pick up trash during the festival and collect/sort the recycled materials.

TBDCovered Bridge Park

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September2025

Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Covered Bridge DaysKCCB will be providing manpower to assist Elizabethton Parks and Recreation. We will provide assistance at the festival information booth, setup recycle bins, pick up trash during the festival and collecting/sort the recycled materials.

TBDCovered Bridge Park

TBD

October2025

KCCB and Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Tree PlantingThis years tree planting will be in the fall. Please join KCCB and Elizabethton Parks & Recreation planting trees at Riverside Park, Cats Island Park and the Tweetsie Trail.

TBDMeet at Riverside Park

Keep Carter County Beautiful 2025 Proposed Events

2025 KCCB Proposed Events	Date
KCCB Monthly Board Meetings / Planning Meeting, Financial discussions	Usually 4th Wednesday of the month
Milligan Highway TDOT Adopt-A-Highway Cleanups	4 Events Throughout 2025
Elizabethton High School Environmental Studies Wildflower Packets	2025 Complete
Elizabethton Parks and Recreation / KCCB Wildflower Planting	May 6-7 5:30 PM
Elizabethton Parks and Recreation landscaping project	May/June 2025
Carter County Wayfinding Sign Installation	Throughout 2025
Carter County Stormwater Management Cleanup Events	Throughout 2025
Elizabethton Stormwater Management Events	Throughout 2025
Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Event Information Booth, Recycling collection and Litter Pickup	Summer and Fall 2025
Carter County Parks and Recreation park cleanups and beautification	Throughout 2025
Highway 321 TDOT Cleanup	Fall 2025
Tweetsie Trail Extension Cleanup along Highway 19E	2025
Dump site cleanups throughout Carter County (sites to be identified)	2025
Blevins Road Litter Pickup	Fall 2025
Annual tree planting (will take place in fall of 2025 this year)	Fall 2025
Tennessee Department of Transportation / Keep Tennessee Beautiful “No Trash November“	November 2025