2026 frio river clean-up event
In conjunction with the KIRB Annual Membership Celebration–September 12, 2026
Join us for our 4th annual Frio Trash Bash Event–this year coupled with the KIRB annual membership celebration! Join a team to clean a section of the Frio River on Saturday morning, September 12. Your team can start and stop at the time of your choice, then join KIRB at 5 pm at Frio Pecan Farm for a post-clean up party and Annual Membership Celebration. More info about the Annual Membership Celebration can be found here.
Steps:
- Build your team, name a captain, and select a river stretch from the listing below.
- Submit captain’s contact information and adopted river stretch to Patti.Berkstresser@gmail.com or 713-203-9549.
- Get “Up to You” trash bags at the Leakey Mercantile during the week prior.
- Print and Complete the waiver of Liability form for each person on your team. Bring your completed form to the party at 5pm.
- Clean your river section anytime on Saturday, 9/12. Don’t forget the crossings, sometimes they have the most trash!
- Volunteers will be eligible for prize drawings at the 5:00 social.
- Arrange for disposal of trash and recycling or bring bagged trash and recycling to after party at Frio Pecan Farm at 5:00 pm. Count your bags please so we can report our success!
- Celebrate a cleaner river/canyon with other participants! Dinner, beverages and dessert will be provided.
River Sections Available (please also clean up crossings where applicable!):
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- Twin Forks to Pecan Farm
- Pecan Farm to Flat Rock
- Flat Rock to Fulgham’s
- Fulgham’s to Towers
- Towers to Cavender’s
- Cavender’s to Crider’s East
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If you prefer, you can help clean our stretches of adopted highway on Highway 55 in Camp Wood or Highway 83 south of Leakey. Contact Patti if this is your preference.
***All team members must sign the liability waiver, located here. Print your waiver and bring it completed to the Frio Pecan Farm –this will be your door prize ticket.
river clean-ups
Got Bags? Need Bags?
Along with Uvalde County & Texas Hill Country River Region and Real County Hotel Occupancy Tax program, Real County’s KIRB delivers 100% biodegradable yellow mesh bags to over 20 business & camps along the Nueces and Frio Rivers. At the present time, people in Real County need to take the filled bags to a disposable site on the river or take them home to recycle. This is a successful way to help keep the land and rivers clean! Contact KIRB if you would like to host bags for give away, or if you would like to offer a dumpster for river goers to place their bags of litter in when they have helped clean up.
Yellow River Cleanup bags
These bright yellow bags are yours to take and use for all your adventures in the Frio River Canyon and Nueces River. We need Yellow Bag stations around town! Are you willing to host yellow bags and a can?
Highway Cleanup
KIRB sponsors two highways for clean up 4 times a year.
· Hwy 83 in Leakey, south of town
· Hwy 55 in Camp Wood, south of town
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