Bitterroot River Clean Up

2024 bitterroot river clean up is
Saturday, august 10

There’s no better way to close out our summer River season than to join this grand river stewardship event. Pick your site, sign up in the form below, and clean up your section at anytime on August 10!

Each year, community volunteers rally to clean thousands of pounds of trash from our Bitterroot River. Volunteers sign up to cover walking or floating sections of the river from Sula and Painted Rocks to the confluence at the Clark Fork in Missoula.

Sign up for your section today!

Keep scrolling to find the sign up form!

How it Works

STEP 1 – Sign Up:

Use the map to decide which stretch you would like to clean. Click on the sign up link under each specific site to fill out our volunteer sign-up form. Filling out this form helps us keep track of our total participation and impact!

STEP 2 – Get Ready:

Gloves and trash bags will be available for pickup at the Water Partnership Office – 162 S 2nd St., Hamilton. Available two weeks leading up to event. Feel free you use your own trash bags.

STEP 3 – Get out there & Clean up!

Cleaning Up

Visit your river site anytime on Saturday, August 10 & get to cleaning! If you’d rather clean up on Thursday or Friday before the community event, that’s OK, too.

Enter our Best Trash Contest

Take pictures of yourself or your companions as you clean up – share them with us! And, be sure to take photos of the silliest or gnarliest trash you find. Submit those photos by text or email to win our prized ‘BEST TRASH’ award and cool Water Partnership Swag. Please submit your photos by Sunday, August 10.

Trash Drop Off

LARGE TRASH/LOADS: Must be dropped off at Hamilton’s Kiwanis River Park. Here you will find a 10-yard dumpster. Volunteers will be there to help.
SMALL TRASH/SINGLE BAGS: Can be disposed of at your home dumpster. If you want your trash included in our total weight collected, leave it at our large dumpster at Kiwanis Park.

STEP 4 – CELEBRATE!

We invite all River enthusiasts and volunteers to join us at Naps Bar and Grill in Hamilton, Montana from 5-8 pm. Volunteers get their first celebratory refreshment free.

CHOOSE YOUR SITE

Use this map to find a floating or walking section, click the site you’d like, and then use the sign up LINK under each site name to claim your spot!
Or, click on this link to sign up for your site.

You are responsible for your own transportation for both walking sites and floating sections. If your favorite float or walking site is not listed, please let us know and we will add it! Claimed sites are in grey.