Delaware joins the Worldwide Event - just a different date than usual for our Red Lion Road Adopt-A-Highway Amanda and Knobbie. This bi-annual event will be to clean-up our section of Red Lion Road (Route 71) from Route 896 to Howell School Road. It has been about 6 months since we have cleaned here, so we will need some dedicated people to help out and make a difference.
Again, this Fall, you get a cool CITO souvenir for your profile, so come out and make a difference!
We will be meeting at 9:00 am on Saturday, Sept 19 at Red Lion Rd (Route 71) and Route 896. There is a Adopt-A-Highway sign with "Delaware Geocachers" on it at our starting point. We will have a sign-in at that location. If we have enough people it should take us around 1 1/2 hours to complete this (We will end by 10:15 am with a group picture). Then you will have the rest of the day to cache!
We will split up into groups and each group will clean up a different section of road. The reference points are the different sections of the roadway. It is important when walking along highways to always walk on the right of way facing traffic. So each group will park at one location and walk up on one side of the road, and return to their car on the other side. Red Lion Road has shoulders wide enough to pull off safely and a few pull-outs farther off the road.
Please bring gloves, solid shoes or boots and a great attitude that you are making a difference. A handy trashpicker/grabber device is always good to save your back. Bugs may be active, even ticks.
We will have reflective vests, trash bags and release forms...and some donuts...as always since we've learned from Amanda and Knobbie!
A little over 2 years ago georeyna, a geocacher in Houston, TX asked a simple question - What could happen if geocachers around Texas came together on one day to make their communities cleaner? Based on that simple question, Texas Geocaching Association (TXGA) created an event named CITO Across Texas in conjunction with World Cleanup Day.
Geocachers throughout Texas held cleanup events on the third Saturday in September. Each event is locally organized, but together they became part of something much bigger. CITO Across Texas was born!
The results have been tremendous. During 2024 and 2025:
- More than 50 CITO events were held across Texas.
- More than 700 volunteers participated.
- Thousands of pounds of trash were removed from parks, trails, waterways, neighborhoods, and other public spaces.
In 2026, we want to take the next step and we are inviting the worldwide community of geocachers to help clean up our game board.