Register – Trash Bash
Anytime from April 18-25
Choose from the sites listed or suggest another.
COMMUNITY CLEANUP
Clear Lakers are great at pitching in for their community!
Who: Everyone! Businesses, families, neighborhoods, friends, all ages (young children should have supervision)
What: Trash pick-up in our public and highly visible areas
Where: Choose from the listed sites or suggest another. We’ll add it to the map!
How: Just click on Register now! and select your site. But hurry, while your favorite spot is still available!
When: Any time from April 18-25. A dumpster will be at City Park on Saturday, April 18 and Sunday April 19. Your team registrant will be e-mailed the location of a dumpster if you clean up anytime between April 20-25.
Garbage Bags: Bags are available at the Chamber, 205 Main Ave.
Share: Take pictures of you and your group picking up trash and tag us (Clear Lake Earth Day) on your Facebook post!
COMMUNITY CLEANUP
Clear Lakers are great at pitching in for their community!
Who: Everyone! Businesses, families, neighborhoods, friends, all ages (young children should have supervision)
What: Trash pick-up in our public and highly visible areas
Where: Choose from the listed sites or suggest another. We’ll add it to the map!
How: Just click on Register now! and select your site. But hurry, while your favorite spot is still available! Or stop by the Lakeview Room in City Park on April 26 at the OutdoorFest.
When: Any time from April 21-25. Your team registrant will be e-mailed the location of a dumpster if you clean up anytime between April 21-25. A dumpster will be at City Park after 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 26.
Garbage Bags: Bags are available at the Chamber, 205 Main Ave.
Share: Take pictures of you and your group picking up trash and tag us (Clear Lake Earth Day) on your Facebook post!
Bodhi Ruggles and Christy Ehrle
Our 2025 Green Jacket Award Winners!
(To view locations and map below, click the blue icon to enhance the map and then click the green icons to register.)
Green Jacket Challenge
Augusta isn’t the only place to win the coveted “Green Jacket” in April. We have our own competition.
The winner is based on the following factors: number of years helping with the community cleanup; difficulty of cleanup site; number of volunteers. (Plus complex algorithm, shrouded in the tradition and mystery of the Masters,)
Winning teams have their name embroidered on the Green Jacket. Master’s Challenge Title Holders include:
- 2025 – Bodhi Ruggles and Christy Ehrle
- 2024 – Team One Vision
- 2023 – Pritchard Family Auto Stores
- 2022 – Hall Realty
- 2021 – Clear Lake Jaycees
- 2020 – Clear Lake Evening Lions
- 2019 – North Iowa touring Club, North Iowa Spin, Spin and Devo, and Wayne’s Ski and Cycle.
- 2017 – MBT Bank
- 2016 – CL Tel
- 2015 – Team VFW 4868
- 2014 – North 35th Street Neighborhood
- 2013 – Clear Lake Evening Lions
- 2012 – Clear Lake Church of Christ
- 2011 – Association for the Preservation of Clear Lake
- 2010 – Clear Lake Bank and Trust
Teams Participating This Year in 2026
- Adeline\’s Team
- Andrews Family
- Association for the Preservation of Clear Lake
- Barnes Family
- Bodhi, Grandma, Bapa
- Books on Tap
- Burns Family
- CLtel
- Chamber First Mates
- City of Ventura
- Clear Lake Evening Lions
- Clear Lake Girls Golf Team
- Clear Lake Jaycees
- Clear Lake Public Library
- Clear Lake Rotary Club
- Community Integration – One Vision
- Community Integration/One Vision
- FEDEX
- Girl Scout Troop 01521
- Hall Realty
- Jana & Joe
- Kim Ruter State Farm
- MBT Bank
- Prairie Ridge
- Team CLB&T
- Team Goll
- Team VFW 4868
Trash Bash Registration
Central
- N Lakeview Dr to 1st Ave N
- Public Access 8th Ave S
- Public Access 5th Avenue North
- Public Access 5th Avenue South
- Public Access 6th Avenue South
- Public Access 7th Avenue South
- Public Access 10th Avenue South
- Buddy Holly/N Shore Dr to Highway 18
- High School Tennis Courts
- Boat Ramp/Yacht Club
- Main Avenue N 20th to N 35th St
- Outdoor Recreation Complex
- Senior Citizen Center Building (Business Area) and the parking lot
- Triangle Park
- Baseball and Softball Fields at Lion’s Field
- Clear Creek Outdoor Classroom
- Clear Creek School
- 4th Ave S from S. 15th St to S. 8th Street
- Hwy 18 – South Side from I-35 to North 20th St
North
- Hwy 18 (South Side) North 9th Street W. to Four Winds Drive
- Hwy 18, Clark Rd to Mcintosh Rd
- Public Access Mars Hill Dr
- Public Access Beach Drive
- Public Access 813 N Shore Dr
- Four Winds Neighborhood
- Venetian Drive Neighborhood
- North Shore Drive from Venetian Canal to McIntosh Entrance
- Clark Road from Hwy 18 to North Shore Drive
- Dogwood Ave from 260th Street to Hwy 18
- Public Access Orchard Ct
- Hwy 18, North Side, Orchard Court to Clark Road
- Armour Pugh Park
- North Shore Drive (Harbourage) to Venetian Village on Lakeside
- North Shore Drive 2300,2400, 2500 (Lake Side)
- Country Club Heights Park
- Hwy 18 – North Side from I-35 to North 20th Street
- Hwy 18 from North 16th Street West to Fareway ( South Side)
- Hwy 18, North Side, N. 9th Street W. to Four Winds Dr.
- Hwy 18 from North 8th Street W. to North 9th Street W. (North Side)
- Sunset View School
- D.A.R. Park
- Hwy 18, North Side, from Buddy Holly to N. 9th Street W.
- MacGowan Park
- Hwy 18, South side of road, from N. 8th Street to Buddy Holly
- Hwy 18, North Side of road, from N. 8th Street to Buddy Holly
- Lion’s Field
- North 8th Street from Hwy 18 to Main Avenue
- Hwy 18, North Side from N. 20th Street to N. 8th Street
- High School
- Fieldstone park
Northeast
South
- Nature Conservancy/ Clausen Cove
- Public Access 17th Ave S
- Public Access 20th Ave S
- Boat Launch Bayside Near PM Park
- Public Access 13th Avenue South
- Public Access 14th Avenue South
- Public Access 15th Avenue South
- Public Access Behind 1513 South Shore Drive
- Public Access 16th Avenue South & South Shore Drive
- Public Access 18th Avenue South
- 235th Street from Cardinal to Balsam Avenue
- Woodford Island
- Pine Tree Park
- 12th Ave South from 24th Street to 27th Ave South
- Bike Trail from Main Ave to 4th Avenue South
- Farmer’s Beach Road/Cedar Ave
- Sisters’ Prairie Bike Trail
- South Shore Drive -State Park Entrance to Lekwa Marsh
- Clear Lake State Park and Beach Area
- Tourist Park
- From Outlet to South Lake View
- South 8th Street from Main Avenue to 6th Avenue South
- Hwy 18, South Side, from Buddy Holly to N. 9th Street W.
- Hwy 18, South Side from N. 20th Street to N. 8th Street
- 4th Avenue S. from S. 24th Street to S. 14th street (both sides)
- Bike Trail Indigo to Killdeer Avenue
- Bike Trail from Killdeer Avenue to Mallard Avenue
Ventura Sites
- Hwy 18, North Side, from McIntosh Road to Main Street Ventura/S-14
- Hwy 18, South Side from McIntosh Road to Main Street Ventura/ S-14
- McIntosh State Park
- Lynn Lorenzen Boat Ramp Access Park
- Ventura Cove Bike Trail
- North Shore Drive from Venetian Canal to McIntosh Entrance
- McIntosh Road from Hwy 18 to North Shore Drive
- 235th Street Ventura, IA
- 242nd St Ventura Heights
- Boat Launch Mcintosh Woods State Park
- Ventura Grade (Between lake and marsh)
- West Lake Park
- E Lake St, McIntosh to Lynne Lorenzen
