Earth Day Clean Up Challenge 2021

Challenge yourself to clean up trash at a local park, roadside, or streamside area in need. Share your before and after clean-up photos on Facebook and Instagram by tagging @mtntrue with the hashtag #MTEarthDayChallenge. The person in each of our four MountainTrue regions who collects the most trash in the photo shared with us will win a prize announced at 7 pm on 5/4. During this time we encourage you to collect trash individually, or with your household members.

Socially Distant Green River Spring Cleaning

Join MountainTrue's Green Riverkeeper and Liquidlogic Co-founder Shane Benedict for the 11th Annual Green River Spring Cleaning! For obvious reasons, we'll need to take additional precautions to keep everyone safe and healthy this year, including wearing masks in parking lots and anytime you can't maintain 6 feet of distance, avoiding paddling in large groups, and shuttling with household groups. Check in at Fishtop Access (2302 Green River Cove Rd, Saluda, NC 28773) between 10 AM and 4 PM on Saturday, April 10 to pick up trash bags and get your coupon for a free beer from Catawba Brewing!

Join a small group or navigate the river on your own, grab as much trash along the way as you can safely, and return it to the dumpster at Fishtop. Use the hashtags #greenriverspringcleaning or #greenrivercleanup and tag Green Riverkeeper and Shane Benedict in your social media posts with photos of your haul. We'll judge the entries and send prizes to the best, biggest, weirdest, and most trash finds. Show us what you got! Pre-register here and select which section you would like to paddle to be assigned to a small group leader.

Socially Distant Lake Adger Spring Cleaning

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WAS POSTPONED TO APRIL 17
Join MountainTrue's Green Riverkeeper for the Lake Adger Spring Cleaning! For obvious reasons, we'll need to take additional precautions to keep everyone safe and healthy this year, including wearing masks in parking lots and anytime you can't maintain 6 feet of distance. Head out on the lake at your convenience on Saturday, April 17, collect as much trash as you can, and deliver it to the NC Wildlife dump truck parked at Lake Adger Marina no later than 4:00 PM.

Use the hashtags #lakeadgerspringcleaning or #lakeadgercleanup and tag Green Riverkeeper in your social media posts with photos of your haul. We'll judge the entries and send prizes to the best, biggest, weirdest, and most trash finds. Show us what you got! Pre-register here so we can be in touch about coordinating efforts and get a coupon for a free beer from Hi-Wire brewing for participating!

Broad River Spring Sweep

Come join MountainTrue's Broad River Keeper David Caldwell as we clean up the Broad River! We will be working on one of our most popular and scenic sections, Lake Houser to Broad River Greenway which is about 5 miles of river. We would love YOUR help! Sign-ups are limited to the first 20 people, so don't miss your chance to sign up

Riverkeeper Beer Series River Clean Up with Wicked Weed

Join us for this year's Riverkeeper Beer Series! Come ready to float, clean up our river, and taste the release of the Riverkeeper Beer at the after-party. The clean-up will be on June 12th from 1-5 pm, ending at Wicked Weed for a celebratory beer. We will meet at the Pearson Bridge put in at 1 pm and take out in Woodfin. We'll put in on the river and pick up trash along the way. Then, we'll all head to Wicked Weed for some great beer!

Green River Big Sweep

Lake Adger Marina 4585 State Rd 1138, Mill Spring, NC

REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT. Help the Green RiverKeeper and MountainTrue keep the Green River Clean! 
This river clean up will be a 4-mile river paddle from Big Rock Access to the Lake Adger Public Marina. We will meet at Lake Adger and then shuttle to put in boats at the Big Rock Access. MountainTrue will provide gloves and trash bags. Please bring your boat, paddle, and lifejacket, water, snacks, sturdy water shoes (no flip-flops), and anything else you need to be comfortable on the river. We have kayaks (and paddles, PFDs, & helmets) available only if you reserve them in advance using our online registration form.

Annual Lake Chatuge Shoreline Cleanup

Towns County Swim Beach Pavillion US-76, Hiawassee, GA

Join with other lake-loving volunteers on Saturday, November 6th for MountainTrue’s annual Lake Chatuge shoreline cleanup. The event will kick off at 9am at the Towns County Swim Beach Pavilion across from the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds where volunteers will get their assigned cleanup locations and be given bags, gloves, and safety information. Coffee and grab-n-go breakfast snacks will be available, along with free t-shirts for the first 50 volunteers. After two hours of shoreline cleaning at the assigned site, volunteers will meet back the pavilion at 11:30 for prizes. Three prizes will be given on the day of the cleanup: Most Trash Collected by a Group, Most Creative Trash Photo, and Most Unique Trash Item Found. Enter to win by taking photos and sending them to callie@mountaintrue.org. A fourth gift certificate will be awarded the week after the cleanup: Most Engaging Social Media Post (#ChatugeCleanup).

Spring Cleaning on the Green near Saluda, NC 4/9/22

Join MountainTrue and Liquidlogic Co-founder Shane Benedict for the 12th Annual Green River Spring Cleaning! Check in at Fishtop Access (2302 Green River Cove Rd, Saluda, NC 28773) between 10 AM and 4 PM on Saturday, April 9 to pick up trash bags. To learn more and register for this event, click this link.

Free

Trash Trout River Cleanup near Boone, NC 4/22/22

Join the Watauga Riverkeeper and water team on Earth Day for a river cleanup on Winkler’s Creek near our trash trout. We will provide trash bags and waders for volunteers.

Free

June Microplastics Sampling in the High Country

Come help sample microplastics! Volunteers collect surface water samples at designated sampling sites the first week of every month to be analyzed at the lab by staff. Data collected from a brief 10-20 minute stream cleanup is submitted to staff.

Free