Rotary Club of Mammoth Lakes

Our club has a semi-annual project, as part of our Community Service Avenue, to clean up a section of California Highway 203, which runs through the center of the Town of Mammoth Lakes as Main Street and then becomes that portion of Minaret Road from Main Street on up the mountain to the Main Lodge of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. The Adopt-a-Highway program was created by the California Caltran organization to help maintain the cleanliness of our California Highways.

In spring and fall, our club schedules a clean-up project after our luncheon meeting where volunteers get hard hats, bright colored vests and pickup sticks and picks up trash on our section of Highway 203/Minaret Road from the Scenic Drive junction up to an area above the Chair 4 parking lot on Minaret.  Mammoth Mountain Ski Area takes over maintaining the road from there on up to Main Lodge.

Its a fun event, gets us out in the great mountain air, and after about an hour we've done our job, leaving the bright orange bags of trash for Caltrans to pick up.