Royal River Clean-Up Day

Wednesday, October 7th, 2026 | 9 am - Noon

Help clean up the Royal River!

The recent removal of the Bridge Street Dam and drought conditions create a unique opportunity to access and remove trash and debris along the Royal River. This cleanup will help restore the Royal River corridor and improve its condition for the community and wildlife.

We will be focusing on the shallow stretch of river under the Beth Condon Pathway and Route 1 overpass (circled in blue below), just upstream from Bridge Street in Yarmouth. We will be removing items including old bikes, traffic cones, pieces of rusty metal, and litter from the river and the riverbanks. If you have waders or come-along tool to pull items from the river, please bring it.

There's also plenty of invasive shrubby honeysuckle, bittersweet vines, and buckthorn growing along the riverbanks that we can spend time cutting back and hand-pulling. You don't have to get your shoes muddy if you don't want to.

Royal River Conservation Trust is teaming up with the Town of Yarmouth and the Royal River Alliance for this volunteer event. We’ll have shovels and metal rakes for digging out items stuck in the mud, hand saws and loppers for cutting invasive plants, trash bags, work gloves, and an empty truck bed to fill with trash and debris

This event will run from 9 am to noon. Feel free to head out early or stay the whole time!

Parking: We'll meet by the entrance to the Beth Condon Pathway (yellow star on the map below). The closest parking lot is at 10 Forest Falls Drive, Yarmouth. If that parking lot fills up, you can park in the parking lot across the street or in the Patriot Insurance Company lot.

Please RSVP if you plan to join us!