22nd Annual Blackfoot River Cleanup at Johnsrud Park

The 22nd Annual Blackfoot River Cleanup invites all families and fishing and boating enthusiasts of Northwest Montana to Johnsrud Park to float, wade, fish, and feast while helping to purge our regional treasure of trash on July 26.

The Cleanup kicks off at 8:00 am Saturday, July 26 at Johnsrud Park, located just off of Highway 200, about 15 miles east of Missoula. Come for community camaraderie as we work together to savor one of Montana’s premier trout streams while safeguarding its health and beauty—and stay for the free, festive, and family-friendly feast! The Potomac’s Blackfoot Home and Community Club (BHCC) whose members, as tradition holds, will provide river cleanup volunteers with a community lunch at Johnsrud Park, available from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Started in 2004 by the Pfister family of Potomac, Montana, the annual Blackfoot River Cleanup—held almost every year thereafter, on the last Saturday of July—brings local families, fishing and boating enthusiasts, divers, and conservationists together to walk/wade/float one of the Blackfoot’s most stunning corridors, combing its banks for litter, while divers scour the river bottom for trash. The endeavor continues today thanks to the partnership between Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, the Bureau of Land Management Missoula Field Office, and Potomac’s Blackfoot Home and Community Club (BHCC).

For more information, please contact BHCC PR officer Katie O’Reilly at [email protected].